My tank glows!
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i know sand does i used to live on an island and on a drak night you could watch some one walk down the beach just from green foot prints and my dirt bikes rooster tail was wickedTom500;2666459; said:
Ummm since when did sand glow? While its highly possible i just have never seen it, and if there really is glowing sand im sure there hundreds of pics all over the net you guys can put up (yet i found none), i live on the beach in Aus and have seen beaches in other parts of the world including the east coast of the US and Hawaii and have never seen glowing sand. Its just an illusion with the moon shining off white sand.
Yes some corals ect glow but you can clearly see the individual thing glowing it not gonna make the sand glow.
Yes some corals ect glow but you can clearly see the individual thing glowing it not gonna make the sand glow.
maybe he lives close to a nuclear plant.... either way, there are many that don't believe that sand glows. Is it at all possible that throughout your FO tank you put something in there that was glow in the dark and broke down from the salt.
i'm trying to help. i know nothing about SW tanks but i know what i seen, in sand on the beach. Phosporus glowsfishman646;2674451; said:
Put a pic up and ppl might be more helpfull. Otherwise there isnt an answer to give as your tank would be a first in the world. There simply isnt glowing sand anywhere.
So again you sure you cant see some sort of worms on the sand glowing?
Or some glowing coral ect hidden begind the rocks making the sand light up abit?
Bit more research on phosphorus buddy. Its not free in nature, it has to be extracted fom other minerals. If it was all over a sandy beach it would of been burned up 1000's of years ago not just sitting there waiting for you to ride over.
So again you sure you cant see some sort of worms on the sand glowing?
Or some glowing coral ect hidden begind the rocks making the sand light up abit?
invisyblegypsey;2675059; said:
Bit more research on phosphorus buddy. Its not free in nature, it has to be extracted fom other minerals. If it was all over a sandy beach it would of been burned up 1000's of years ago not just sitting there waiting for you to ride over.
If you have ever ridden in a boat on salt water at night, you have seen the phosphorescent trail caused by the mechanical stirring of the water by the propellor. I have seen such phosphorescent wakes from aircraft as well - you see a large glowing green triangle that is brightest right around the stern of the boat.
On two occasions - one a warm tropical night on the South Pacific island of Guam, and once on Nantucket (a Northern island wrapped in the warm waters of the Gulf Stream) I have also seen such glows in the surf. I believe these are caused by phosphorescent plankton.
I find it entirely believable that a colony of such plankton could get established in a tropical saltwater tank in the sand substrate. I believe such will be very hard to photograph, because I have only observed these faint green glows on moonless nights.
On two occasions - one a warm tropical night on the South Pacific island of Guam, and once on Nantucket (a Northern island wrapped in the warm waters of the Gulf Stream) I have also seen such glows in the surf. I believe these are caused by phosphorescent plankton.
I find it entirely believable that a colony of such plankton could get established in a tropical saltwater tank in the sand substrate. I believe such will be very hard to photograph, because I have only observed these faint green glows on moonless nights.
yes I have to agree this is near impossible for you to catch on camera, due to the fact that our eyes can pickup much more faint light then a camera. I would lay off this guy, its quite possible, and you have to be there to see it type idea.
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