Not of the same reef, but from the northern Keys in 1987: see "Reefs of the Past, Dry Rocks" and "Reefs of the Past: Grecian Rocks" on my channel.

Thanks John! Yes, all the large parrots are doing their job, even without urchins. Fire coral is almost completely gone. Many dead gorg skeletons in deeper water. GBSs are taking over for now....

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Yes, we didn't quite catch it at full display, but definitely got the idea!

Oops..I mean octagon shape.

Yes, you can keep 2+ males if they can get away from each other -- in this tank, they escape behind the central column. But more bettas is better because it diffuses the fighting across many fish. They are SO much happier than living in tiny bowls.

Thank you! Olympus OM-1 in a Nauticam housing with Kraken solar flare lights and a wide-angle lens.

But remember, this video is 7 years old, and Red Sea reefs have changed! See some of my more recent videos from the Red Sea to get a better idea of what reefs look like more recently.

Yes, see the video description for location -- these are all sites that are regularly dived by the Volivoli dive boats, so if you go to the Volivoli Resort you should see these reefs. Note the date of the video -- subsequent bleaching from this summer's warm water could have occurred.

Sadly, the corals were only healthy in a few places -- the Maldives have sustained multiple bleaching events in the past decade, resulting in substantial degradation in living hard coral cover.

Thanks! Olympus OM1, fish eye lens, nauticam housing, Kraken lights.

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Yes, as long as you have multiple bettas and they have places to hide or escape from each other, they are a lot of fun together. And, yes, these tanks need a very stable floor!

It was hard to tell the original color because there were many layers of primer as well as finish coats and black was among them. But I prefer black for cast iron over Charleston green or other colors (white is the worst).

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Also Barbados.

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Yes, I've been using the OM-D EM1 for years, just moved up to the OM-1. If you use video lights (and who doesn't?) the backscatter criticism doesn't apply -- I get great color saturation with Olympus cameras at all depths. Just look at the videos on my channel.

Olympus OMD EM1 in Nauticam housing with Kraken video lights.

Was it Joan Bogart? She has collected and sold several of these tanks and is an expert in decorative cast iron pieces. Search her name and you can find her antique store online.

@@PawlikLab No, it was in a small “antique emporium” in Nyack, NY which is no longer there. The tank needed the motor replaced and all the glass panels as well. Aside from it being mostly disassembled all the parts were there even the boy with the umbrella which was amazing. There was another place further upstate in Hudson, NY that sold mainly antique aquariums & bird cages. I did purchase a few pieces from him; 1 Victorian and 1 Art Nouveau tank and several amazing cages, he had great things, all fully restored. That was more like 23 years ago and Hudson has become totally gentrified since then. The days of finding great things anywhere remotely near NYC are over! I will check out Joan Bogart, thx!

Thanks for asking -- I'm not on X, so please feel free to post the link anywhere you like!!

Thanks for the comments - there is no commercial diving on the Saudi side; we were there with special research permission, and I expect things have not gotten better as seawater temperatures have only increased. As for the Florida Keys, this past summer has devastated all the restoration efforts of the past decade - very few corals have survived.

Hi @scubaguy5389 - much of this video compares 2017 (vibrant reefs) with 2023 (degraded). Also, this might be of interest - "After mass coral die-off, Florida scientists rethink plan to save ailing reefs" - Four years ago, NOAA unveiled a $100 million coral rescue moonshot. "Mission: Iconic Reefs" would re-plant half a million hand-reared coral colonies over 2 decades. But in 2023, a record-breaking underwater heat wave swept the Caribbean and southern Florida, and killed most of the transplanted colonies.

Florida’s reef faced many damaging events before because of the climate change, but due to the scientific research that used to be occurred frequently in US, they could know the reasons, but eventually no one can control the global warming

By the way, I did a survey in the northern and the southern parts of the Egyptian Red Sea in November 2023 and I found many coral colonies have been recovered in the north more than the south, I did the survey before bleaching, through, and after. I think this happened as the reef experiences high temperatures

Yes, recreational, less than 100 ft, mostly about 40-60 ft.

That is a parrotfish, probably bullethead, but I'm not sure.

@@PawlikLab Ah, I didn't know there were different kinds. I will keep in mind that you might read/answer these as I'm use to posting as a kind of wondering out loud. Lol. Thank you for sharing your time and interests.

Thanks very much!! I have a great deal of fun with this aquarium. I appreciate your kind comments.

Yes, they should -- the "ring-tank" effect allows circular flow that is more natural for fishes than the static water of rectangular tanks.

Not sure I'd do it again -- pricey -- but totally worth it the first time!