Today’s reef tanks are a far cry from the natural reefs we (used to) try to replicate with more attention being paid to the arrangement of the rocks before the tank is even filled, than how the living animals will look once they are placed on the rocks and allowed to be grown out. In a time when it seems like the vast majority of reef aquariums are trending towards a common instagram有能力的radioactive fluorescence, it’s a breath of fresh air to see a saltwater aquarium from a completely different perspective.
We welcome diversity and experimentation, and we love seeing how creative some reef aquarists have become but many of you will agree that far too many saltwater aquariums are guided by the sole principle of ‘if it ain’t NEON it shouldn’t be on“。值得庆幸的是，偶尔我们会看到那种盐水水族馆的展示，使我们摆脱了社交媒体使我们许多人对礁石水族馆爱好感到的麻木。
水族馆设计小组不仅仅是一家商店，而且比水族馆服务公司还重要，它将ADG描述为以哲学为导向的水族馆创造者群体，对所有类型的水族馆水上的宗教奉献。在他们的休斯顿水族馆画廊中，我们遇到了几个“盐水珊瑚水族馆”，这些水族馆在我们体内移动了很长时间。
The first of these is 20 gallon all in one tank with the most magnificent display of bubble tip anemones in their long tentacled form that we’ve ever seen. This cube-shaped aquarium is filled with the most innocuous strain of jade green葡萄球菌四元that take up almost the entire volume of the aquarium from side to side and front to back, but not top to bottom. What ties this saltwater aquariumpresentation在一起是美丽的粉红色橙色尖端，它们在水流中跳舞，就像烟花一样，在黑暗的岩石和海葵中互相互动。
许多其他礁会被诱使将一吨小丑鱼包装到泡沫尖塔的殖民地中，肯定有tentacular房地产可用，但是代表ADG创作的一件事是克制，为此，他们只添加了一小片三重奏野生粉红色的臭鼬小丑鱼，两亲perideraion. The only other fish inhabitant of this anemone cube reef display is a helfrich’s firefish leftover from the previous iteration of this particular aquarium.
Some more details about the tank include about 20 to 25 pounds of Cornerstone rock, a Platinum DC Slim Wave pump, and is lighted by an AI Prime LED running a balanced, blueish spectrum somewhere around 50% intensity for nine hours a day. Although you can barely tell, there are about seven anemones total in this tank which were acquired from a tank reset performed by ADG and the only other inhabitants are four smallHeliofungia fralinae带有吸引人的橙色装饰的板珊瑚。
This minimalist style aquarium aquascape hearkens back to the most minimal aquascape of them all, our very ownEcoreef零仅由一个小的优雅珊瑚组成。实际上，当我们第一次看到这个坦克时，我们无法立即分辨我们是在看一群海葵还是一个非常大的，长满的秀丽隐杆线虫以其吸引人的彩色触手技巧而闻名。
We’re not surprised that this minimal style aquascape was created by the ADG scaping team but we just wish they would do more, like a lot more of it because the saltwater aquarium hobby desperately needs this kind of artistic injection into the aquascapes that inspire us. Thankfully we have one more, larger reef aquascape that we plan on sharing with you and this more ambitiouscoral-scapewe will be much more relatable to reef aquarists that are looking for an easy and elegant reef scape to be inspired by.
