Jimbo662 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 I watched this on KLRU last night. Very cool concept but as you see near the end maintenance is going to be a PITA!!!! http://www.pbs.org/program/impossible-builds/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Haha, I like that the Persian Gulf is warmer and saltier than corals are used to. I wonder how successful this will be in the long run. Seems to be a lot of silt in the water too from the video... I guess all the sands constantly blowing into the Gulf causes that. I imagine without constant care they would eventually die out in these areas that don't naturally have corals growing. Also, I wonder if they'll just have servants clean the windows to keep them clean, or just have giant mag floats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 That's not silt...the guy mentioned it's nutrients! My first thought was silt also. HA I can see the maid with a mag float the size of a book cleaning those windows! also crazy was the idea of electrifying the frames to help the corals grow faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sascha D. Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Haha did you see the Mono Sebae at 53:43? What's the little guy doing out there! I agree with you, the maintenance will be horrible. I guess if you can afford it, then you can afford the maintenance crews cleaning glass, scraping barnacles, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vernon Saunders Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Would be awesome to stay there for a week though, am I right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 4 hours ago, Jimbo662 said: That's not silt...the guy mentioned it's nutrients! My first thought was silt also. HA I can see the maid with a mag float the size of a book cleaning those windows! also crazy was the idea of electrifying the frames to help the corals grow faster. Haha you see at 25:50 you see them waving off a cloud of silt from a coral and a few seconds later they show piles of sand right off the shore. Pretty sure that's not just "nutrients", but whatever is blowing off those sand piles when it's windy. I imagine they'll be cleaning off a lot of the corals daily until construction in that area dies down and less sand and silt is introduced regularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 I'm also curious how they intend to grow coral when the wind they want to put the coral in front of is directly under the deck. There's the suspended hammock hole for light to come through, but it has to be perfectly situated to allow sun to penetrate through the hole, and it will only get directly light for a few hours each day. I just don't see corals growing there successfully long term. Maybe they'll eventually put some underwater LED strips under the deck to light the corals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 when they first started talking about it I kind of assumed they were going to use fake corals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sierra Bravo Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 I skipped around the video so I may have missed it, but I didn't see anything about supplemental lighting to help the corals look better. The colonies they were growing on the aqua farm didn't look all that impressive. "Artist's impression" on the concept art compared to reality is like looking at a picture of World Wide Coral's display tank and then taking a glance at mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 They didn't mention lighting at all and I agree I didn't think they looked very healthy. Probably the warmer water... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timfish Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Pretty expensive house boat, or maybe house barge is a better word. ☺ There's plenty of corals endemic to the Persian Gulf so I don't see why they made an issue of salinity and temp unless they chose to source corals from the Indo-pacific. And Bali Aquarium is mariculturing corals as deep as 70' so they should find something that will like those locations. Even with selecting corals that will like the conditions they're creating with just sunlight everything is going to look brownish with subdued colors. Hate to drop the algae magnet needed for something that thick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dogfish Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 We need to make some money selling them Big Blue Lights from Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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