While it may sound like the perverted thoughts of a flasher, it really has to do with reefkeeping. The reefkeeping hobby often leads to new related hobbies. For some it's diving, for me its photography. Photographing the reef creatures in the confines of a tank...
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LED Lighting Tests: Orphek LEDs, Ecoray, and HALO MX80
By Sanjay Joshi The offering of LEDs for the reef aquarium market continue to grow. It seems like almost every week a new lighting fixture is being introduced or being improved. The sales claims and the media hype often makes it difficult for aquarists to properly...
LEDs on a 500 Gallon Reef
It's been 2 years now since I started the LED experiment on my 500G reef. I replaced my 3 400W Metal Halides with EcoTech Marine 8 Radion G2 pro LEDs and I have been quite satisfied with the change. No more chillers turning on in the summer, although I do have to...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi: The Man Behind the Photons
This past July, Reefs Magazine editors Jonathan Hale and Randy Donowitz had the opportunity to sit down with Sanjay Joshi at his home and office in State College Pennsylvania. Known throughout the hobby via his numerous articles, lectures and Reef Lighting Guide...
The Odd Couple (A. percula “Onyx” x A. ocellaris “Darwin”)
By Sanjay Joshi Even after nearly 17 years of reef keeping, the hobby still never gets old. There is always something new, or untried that grabs my attention and provides a well needed distraction and challenge from the “been there done that” sense that eventually...
Photographing Fluorescence in Aquarium Corals
By Sanjay Joshi [wonderplugin_slider id="2"] Every reef hobbyist is awed by the magic of coral fluorescence where spectacular colors mysteriously appear and transform the corals into fluorescent green, yellow and red colors when they are subjected to actinic/blue...
Courtship and Possible Spawning of the Candy Basslet (Liopropoma carmabi)
By Sanjay Joshi The Candy Basslet (Liopropoma carmabi) has long been one of my favorite fish ever since I saw one in my friend Greg Schiemer’s tank several years ago. Greg also wrote a nice article about these fish in Advanced Aquarist...
Macro Photography for Coral Reef Aquariums
By Sanjay Joshi Macro, or close up pictures of coral provide incredible images with intricate patterns, color and texture that cannot be seen easily with the naked eye. Who among us has not been awed by the sheer beauty that can be seen when the picture magnifies...
Anatomy of a Disaster: Part I
By Sanjay Joshi Last year turned out to be a very trying time for my 500G Reef. The tank has been setup and running since late 2006, and over the years has run trouble free for the most part other than a few minor glitches here and there, mostly related to travel and...
Anatomy of a Disaster II
By Sanjay Joshi In an earlier article I described my battles with the RTN (Rapid Tissue Necrosis) issues that led to the devastation of about 1/3rd of my Acropora. However all was not lost, there were still several colonies that survived and by August 2013 the tank...