Making-of ...
I work with nano reef tanks a lot, and once in a while I need a contrasting experience. This is when I usually need to visit a good friend in Long Island, New York: Joe Yaiullo. The reason: He has a reef tank with 80,000 liters of volume – definitely not suited to what you call "nano reef tank". It is filled with aquarium grown corals and inhabits an enormous amount of colorful reef fish. I remember that once he called his tank "my baby and my mistress". I really can understand him. Joe is founder and curator of the Atlantis Marine World, a wonderful public aquarium.
My first dive in this tank was in 2006, six years after the tank had been set up. This was when my son Benny took the picture you see above. In 2012 I had a chance to return to this tank in order to take underwater photographs for Joe. Those pictures were the reason for him to take the risk of letting someone go inside the tank. Normally this is strictly prohibited and he is the only one that regularly does maintenance work in this tank. He told me he can find his way
through the extremly narrow path between the corals even with closed eyes. I found it as well, but with a lot of awareness trying hard not to brake any of the corals. Believe me: There is no space for a belly...
Please find a gallery of my recent Long Island dive below. Click on the first picture to get a slide show with short captions below the pics.
