Dez' Tank Journal

[asylumdown]

Siiiiiigh. Your tank reminds me of why I do this.


Your tank is like porn. Reef porn.

[Sebae again]

What size is that clam? Any top down pics of it ? Love the size of those corals!

[Dez]

Originally Posted by lastlight

i really love the nice big colonies and the negative space as well. it's nice to be able to see all the way through the tank!

Thanks Brett, I went crazy quite a few months back and gave away a ton of colonies and just got sick of the top heavy look and the corals shading corals below....etc.. And I remembered that I planned to have a valley in the middle but corals just grew to cover the valley, so I got rid of that too. I've been liking the negative space too.

[asylumdown]

It actually looks like you've swam out to a reef in the pacific somewhere, dropped a glass box on top of a section of it, and brought that home. Larger but fewer corals looks more natural somehow. I feel like the dozens of small colonies that younger tanks are made up of (including mine) is akin to reef bonsai, as though you're looking at the reef from 40 feet away in miniature.

I love this look.

[waynemah]

This tank is even more epic in person. It's astonishing to see the size of the colonies, clams and rose bubble tip. As Asylumdown says, "reef porn".

[Dez]

Originally Posted by Sebae again

What size is that clam? Any top down pics of it ? Love the size of those corals!

It's probably about a foot. I got it when it was only about 4". I'm scared of top down pics now because 2 weeks ago my phone lost the battle with salt water.....but if you flip a few pages back in this thread, there is a top down pic of the clam taken quite a few months back. It is a bit blurry though.

[Dez]

Originally Posted by waynemah

This tank is even more epic in person. It's astonishing to see the size of the colonies, clams and rose bubble tip. As Asylumdown says, "reef porn".

I'm sad to say that up close it is even less epic as I've had cyano in think tank for about 2 years. I gave up on the cyano after my last scuba dive trip to Cozumel and saw red cyano covering the bottom of the ocean floor but the corals still thriving. Lets just say I'm going for the "natural" look. Haha.

[Dez]

Just a pic of a frag I mounted on the glass a few years ago. This is Snappy's deep purple valida.

[daplatapus]

That looks cool. How'd you get it to stick to the glass?

[craigwmiller]

Very nice! I'm sooooo itchin' to get going on my build, and hopefully I will get growth so good