Japanese Tanks-General Reef Topics - Page 2-3reef Forums

Pucci · 12-15-2002, 09:07 AM

Wow!!

I guess the grass is aways greener on the other side. Even though we have nice tanks here in the US., believe me I paid a small fortune to get japanese frags. Since there is no corals imported from Japan I wonder if they are able to get corals from the same islands that we get, or are they only able to get corals from their own region???

Matt Rogers · 12-15-2002, 02:40 PM

Nice tank Pucci!

I got another one of that open top tank, thanks to bravemore for the link and check out this Japanese guy's Web site, my hat is off to him:

http://reefaqua.com/diary/0206/020608-9.jpg

http://reefaqua.com/diary/0206/bldiary0206.html

Matt Rogers · 12-15-2002, 02:50 PM

Check out his lights!

_{Left Side}

_{Right Side}

Quote:

The lighting currently used for my tank is as follows.
3x 250watt Metal Halide Lamp(doubled ended bulb) with magnetic ballast,it's Kelvin rating is 20K-25K,made in Japanese lump maker. This light looks pale blue. This commercial reflector is used for the lighting of the outer wall of a building and magnetic ballast is standard type.
2x 250watt Metal Halide Lamps with magnetic ballast, it's Kelvin rating is 14K. This bulb was made in German. Light of this bulb looks pale,too.

3x 150watt Metal Halide Lamps with electrical ballast. This bulb is a screw formula type. A lens is a wide angle and has become half reflective mirror type. A mirror is designed to pass only required wavelength, UV and infrared rays also emit it back.
I use 2x blue light type and 1x red light type.

50watt & 75watt standard hallogen lamps made by 'USIO' are also used. Because of follows,with the lighting of only high kelvin rating metal halide lamps a tank looks blue too much and slight UV is required to get rich color of coral.

When metal hallide lamps tuned off at night, I use standard (not VHO) fluorescent light.
I used two type of fluorescent light bulbs, RB37 and BB450.
RB37 is fluorescent light which is 650nm-690nm peak enhanced and its light looks purple.
BB450 is fluorescent light which is 420nm-470nm peak enhanced amd its light looks deep blue.
There are two formula of bulb, straight type 20w-40w and ball type 27w.
I use 2x BB450 20watt,2x RB37 20watt,3x BB450 27w(pendant type reflector) and 1x RB37 27watt bulb.

http://reefaqua.com/diary/0206/bldiary0206.html

This guy is my hero!! * [smiley=wacky.gif]

Matt Rogers · 12-15-2002, 03:55 PM

THIS is the best.

It measures 44"x40"x22" (167-gal) and is from our folks overseas at C.P. Farm:

http://www.3reef.com/fish/sitepics/cpfarm.jpg
[smiley=crazy.gif]

http://www.cpfarm.com

Pucci · 12-16-2002, 04:45 PM

Outstanding!!!

Here I'm trying to combine 10K and 20k to get better color in my corals.
Thanks for sharing these pics, reef keeping just got even better for me by looking at these set ups.

Craig Manoukian · 12-16-2002, 07:48 PM

Matt,

You da man. *Very beutiful work. *Can't wait to get by your place and see your stuff for myself.

karlas · 12-17-2002, 04:28 AM

OMG

gotta love it

thegrasshopper · 12-20-2002, 02:22 AM

how much do u reckon it would cost to fully set up one of them beauties ???
i reckon they look sweet

Matt Rogers · 12-21-2002, 05:37 AM

I reckon you don't have the coin to take their approach. Look at this guys equipment:

Pucci · 12-21-2002, 08:37 AM

What exatly is this set up for?? is that for one tank or he has more than one tank hooked up to it????