by Tidal Gardens | Aug 19, 2017 | Reef, Tanks, Video
Welcome back to Tidal Gardens. Today, we are taking a look at this amazing aquarium by Rico’s Reef Tank. This SPS dominated reef is a 300-gallon mainland deep dimension tank. Special thanks to Rico for having me over and showing me his tank. He’s a fellow youtuber so go check out his channel if you want to know more about this setup. Music: Tracks: “The Complex” Artist: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License Terms: Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Video: Camera Gear List on Amazon - http://amzn.to/2tvsODd Canon C200 Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS macro Canon EF MP-E 65mm f/2.8 macro Sigma Art 18-35mm f/1.8 Free Fly Movi Pro Stabilizer Copyright Information: This video was shot and edited by Tidal Gardens. Tidal Gardens owns all intellectual property rights to this content. by Barry Brown | Aug 18, 2017 | Invertebrates, Reef, Science
Good morning readers, sorry for the lack of blogs but I have more or less run out of fish and creatures from our Statia 2017 Expedition and have been working on a bunch of coral reef photos from the reefs of St. Eustatius that I will begin posting. Above is my last two deep-sea hermit crabs that were found and collected below 700 feet! For a size reference the top crab is around two inches wide while the bottom hermit is much smaller and both have the glowing blue-eyes which blow me away!! The larger crab had small little anemones all over his shell which are almost impossible to see from these tiny web sized photos. The shell he or she was in looked like it was covered in sand and the anemones were just living under it or stuck to it, you can’t even see the original shell anymore, he may have been hauling that around for awhile by Barry Brown | Aug 6, 2017 | Fish, Reef, Science
Good morning out there, while in St. Eustatius I had a major meltdown one evening when I went to download my 64gb CF card with all the days or weeks photos and found out the card was not working or corrupt, meaning everything I had shot including the above shots were lost until now. I tried onboard the ship to download a rescue pro service from Sandisk and was able to get a few shots off the card but not many. So last week I took the card to a friend who has the latest in card rescue technologies and was able to save 61gb of lost photos, for those of you who don’t know, that’s an insane amount of images! So here’s a few more shots of the new Derilissus sp. or Clingfish that was found by the Smithsonian Institution and Substation Curacao off the coast of St by ReefBum | Aug 5, 2017 | Corals, Reef, Science
One of my favorite corals of all time is the Acropora Lokani. This deepwater beauty has sturdy main branches that run horizontal with thin, small branches that shoot up. It is a smooth skin SPS with polyps at the end of its branches. The more popular pieces have a nice purple or blue coloration but you will also see them with a cream or brown color. One of the more sought after Lokani’s is the “20,000 Leagues Lokani”, which picked up it’s deepwater nickname from the famous novel and film, ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’. The colony I had in my 225g tank was a maricultured piece I bought sight unseen from an online retailer. It was sold to me as a Purple Monster but it turned by Tidal Gardens | Jul 30, 2017 | DIY, Reef, Tanks, Video
That was my Top 5 Reef Aquarium Plumbing Mistakes a.k.a. Plumbing Pet Peeves. What are some of the mistakes you've seen in the past with your reef tank or someone else's saltwater aquarium? Video: Camera Gear List on Amazon - http://amzn.to/2tvsODd Canon C100 Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS macro Canon EF MP-E 65mm f/2.8 macro Sigma Art 18-35mm f/1.8 Free Fly Movi Pro Stabilizer by Josh Saul | Jul 24, 2017 | Conservation, Reef, Video
Check out Netflix’s documentary Chasing Coral. It is an important film covering a very serious threat to the natural coral reefs around the world, that being coral bleaching as a result of global climate change. I thought Chasing Coral was equal parts stunningly beautiful and heartbreakingly terrible to see. If you have seen Chasing Coral, what did you think of the film? What are your thoughts about the future of coral reefs? Do you have some reasons for optimism? Let’s have that discussion below! Video: Camera Gear List on Amazon - http://amzn.to/2tvsODd Canon C100 Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS macro Canon EF MP-E 65mm f/2.8 macro Sigma Art 18-35mm f/1.8 Free Fly Movi Pro Stabilizer
