Dez' Tank Journal

kien · #1 05-01-2013, 02:59 AM

Nice ! Those shelves are new? And did you paint that wall an accent colour? I may need you to pan out a bit for a full room shot LOL.

reefermadness · #2 05-01-2013, 03:17 AM

Looks awesome like that.....nice big colonies.

fishoholic · #3 05-01-2013, 03:20 AM

Beautiful as always

nice to see its still going strong

mseepman · #4 05-01-2013, 03:23 AM

Wow! No surprise that its looking so good. Awesome clam there.

Dez · #5 05-01-2013, 04:12 AM

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Originally Posted by kien

Nice ! Those shelves are new? And did you paint that wall an accent colour? I may need you to pan out a bit for a full room shot LOL.

Haha, yes the shelves are new"ish". I probably put them up a year ago. I came home and my wife had painted that accent colour, so then I got off my butt and added the shelves for her. I'll take a pic sometime during the day as night time cell phone pics suck.

lastlight · #6 05-01-2013, 04:52 AM

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!

asylumdown · #7 05-01-2013, 05:16 AM

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

Your tank is like porn. Reef porn.

Sebae again · #8 05-01-2013, 05:28 AM

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

Dez · #9 05-01-2013, 05:34 AM

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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 · #10 05-01-2013, 06:39 AM

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.