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Great work and gorgeous reef!
Beautiful! I think I'm going to use one of them for my laptop background!
Thanks!! Great to hear this.Just amazing! I agree with keeping the back clean!
I am certainly not complaining... and don't worry, the US version has our main priority.Wow! Awesome tank. AND you got to design an LED fixture for Philips!! Not bad at all.
Please make your next goal getting those fixtures released in NA!
Beautiful tank! I agree, it looks much deeper with the back glass clean.
Looks great. I agree with clean.
Love your thread and great story! Keep up the good work, and keep posting, you have a beautiful aquarium.
I have black glass too and hate cleaning it, but when its clean i love it so much. Great tank, great corals, great pictures.
Yes, correct.Beautiful tank, corals, fish, and photos!
Is that huge trumpet coral the same one from your 180 gallon?
A small video and some pictures from my tank (last September).
I could not resist Two cute young Paracanthurus hepatus.
I played around with my camera settings and tried some different lighting techniques.
I made over 1000 pictures and these are worth sharing
Some pictures from above:
I like this one very much!!
And a picture from above with an additional indirect flash
Some detail shots of my fish (macro lens and additional flash from above)
Hoplolatilus purpureus
Pseudanthias squamipinnis (male)
Pentapodus emeryii
Hi, my name is Luc Vogels and besides being the lead design engineer of the Philips CoralCare LED lighting system, I am also a fanatic reefer with approx. 10 years of experience. In this thread, I want to share my aquatic experience from start to present, as well as the plans I have for my tank in the future!
In the past years, I only blogged on a Dutch marine aquarium forum (zeewaterforum.info). I will summarize my aquarium journals in a few upcoming posts.
It all started in 2007 when I was only 17 years old.
After some years of experience with freshwater aquaria I decided to take my aquatic hobby to a new level: A 60 Liters marinewater nano (financed by newspaper rounds) became the new challenge!
I had the nano tank for about 2 years. It was lots of fun and I learned a lot about the hobby. The ecosystem of a nano tank is very vulnerable and the slightest mistake results in an imbalanced system. This tank taught me to be patient and to always overthink before making changes to the system! Being this enthusiastic about the hobby, it didn't take long before the entire tank was packed with corals.
2009... time for an upgrade.
At that time I was living in my parents’ attic, so expanding was a challenge.
Not only space, but also weight was a problem.
After weeks of nagging and complaining I persuaded my parents to allow me to upgrade my tank.
With a steel beam construction bolted to the walls we were able to place a 180gallon tank in my bedroom. The aquarium was partly hanging from the wall to spread the weight over the floor and walls. The construction was EXACTLY located above my parents’ bedroom... guess how good they slept the night after I filled up the tank.
Looking back on this (7 years ago) I still can’t believe they agreed to this J.
After three years, I moved out of the house and found my own place.
This was a great excuse to upgrade to a new tank!
A small sneak peak:
In the upcoming days, I will share a detailed build of this tank (which is still my current tank)!
Some more recent pictures of the tank (November Last year)
And (on popular request) a (smartphone)shot of the tank without its top covers (so the Coralcare fixtures are visible)
In the past months I was (and currently still am) busy construction a aquarium room in the garage.
The filtration system (currently under the aquarium) will move to the garage.
I am also adding a 220x75x40 frag tank to the system.
I will share some details and pictures in the upcoming weeks .