If you saw ourrave “review” of Joe Yauillo’s magnificent mini-ocean他昨天打电话给礁石坦克，或者亲自见过坦克，并想知道“它是如何制作的？”，那么您将热爱这个多部分分期付款，我们可以浏览礁石建筑的这一胜利的主要方面。
大多数礁石将对这样的石质珊瑚统治的20,000加仑礁坦克的第一个问题，正是要保持和生长如此豪华的石质珊瑚架需要多少照明。简单而简单的答案是，大约需要25,000瓦的照明才能将20,000加仑的点亮到“可比”的浅水礁。
更有趣的答案是，如何在储罐上分布25,000瓦的光线，几乎每种照明技术都以某种方式或其他方式在此坦克上使用。当然，您希望像这样的礁石坦克上有1,000瓦金属卤化物，但也有400W卤化物的烟雾，它们都扮演着不同的角色。
One of the things thatmakes Joe Y. a “real reefer”尽管他的坦克的大小和规模大小，但他仍然像家庭水族馆的爱好者一样接近它，除了他使用的一切都更大，而且他使用了更多。例如，1,000瓦的卤化物在日光和蓝卤化物灯之间均匀分配。同时，400W金属卤化物中的大多数似乎都采用了更熟悉的品牌和灯的颜色。
The size and color of the lights used on the crown jewel of the Long Island Aquarium is only half the story, we are particularly impressed by Joe’s installation of a bank of 400w halide pendants along the front of the tank. This row of high intensity discharge lighting is angled towards the face of the reef so that visitors can have the best possible view of beautiful and colorful corals.
现在，仅仅因为乔回去了，就不会使他成为老式的坚定者。最近，20K礁先生已经开始尝试一些LED照明吊坠的较大形式。当我们访问时，我们有机会观察和评估Maxspect 300W和500W多领(not multichip) pendants can hang with the brightest of conventional halide lighting technology. We also spied a new Orphek Atlantik Pendant delivering 240w of lighting power in a wholly different way from the MaxSpect version, and we’ll follow up with a closer look at each of these.
As a final coup-de-grace, the moonlight on this huge of a reef tank is an old blue 400w metal halide that goes off last, and which we’ve used to observe and document some abundant twilight captive spawning of reef aquarium fish, like that one time we caught ascopas tang spawning with a yellow tangwhile a purple tang was trying its best to break it up.
Check back soon for our overview of the flow and filtration of this massive reef aquarium display.
