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With the sign material covering up the lights, the tank looks so pretty during the actinic period. However, my camera really doesn't do it justice, unfortunately. Here's a hint of what I see each morning before the metal halides turn on. The colors are crisper, and less vivid than these depict.

This staghorn coral grows new tips that are blue, and they almost glow under actinics.

A few hours later, the tank is lit with 10,000K MH along with the VHO actinics. This is the view for a few hours.

The Flame Angel is active and moving, but not a willing subject for my lens.

The Mystery wrasse is out all the time.

Spock follows me around like a puppy.

Here's that same coral under 10,000K lighting. With this spectrum the tips aren't as blue, and when I look down from above the branches are green rather than what seems to be brown in this picture.

I spotted a tiny clam that has been living on the rockwork for a long time.

What a cutie, wouldn't you agree?