185 Gallon Reef Project

[dlopes]

Hello,

Here are some photos of my project since the very begining (a few months ago) until today! Hope you all enjoy it...

Main Display:


175 x 50 x 60 (cm)

Glass - 15 mm

Gallons - 140

Overflow - Dry Column with 2 exits (50 mm) and 2 entrances (35 mm)

Live Rock - 160 kg

Substract - Florida Crushed Coral (45 kg)

Display Ilumination

2x250W HQI BLV 10000K + 4x9W PC Actínics + 2x24W PC Actínics


Sump:


100 x 40 x 50 (cm)

Glass - 10 mm

Gallons - 25


Refugium:


50 x 50 x 30 (cm)

Glass - 10 mm

Gallons - 20

Substract : Aragamax (40kg)

Ilumination - 2 x PC 36W 10.000K


Equipments:


Skimmer - Aquamedic Shorty II

Chiller - NA

Heater- Visitherm 2 x 300W

RO Aquacare 300 liters/day

Return Pumps - 2 x Eheim 1260

Ciculation Pumps - Tunze - 2 x Turbelle 7400/2 + 1 Stream 6100 (hide in a Stream Rock)

Kalk Reactor - Sumpetch 14 Liters

Sulfur Reactor - H&S 110 F1000



Kind regards from Portugal,
Diogo

 

[bolrog]

Awsome, but stock it already!!!

 

[My Evil Z]

Looks Great I really like the built in look and can't wait to
see it stocked.

_____________

Dave

 

[anthworks]

great design.

 

[dlopes]

Developments

Developments

Hi guys,

Thanks for your words. The tank is allready full but IÃ"šÃ‚´m going to put some sequencial photos and events.

Filling up the tank...

The Tunzes 7400/2 in position

The decided background

This sequence of photos as been taken with a gap of a week. IÃ"šÃ‚´ll put some equipment and fish photos in the next posts.

Best from Portugal,
Diogo

 

[dlopes]

The equipment

The equipment

The equipment...

Two SCWDÃ"šÃ‚´s connected to the two return Eheim 1260

The sump

The collecting cup of the Aquamedic Shorty II a few hours after.

The upper refuge, allready with some macroalgae

A fan to reduce the heating since I dont have a chiller yet!

 

[dlopes]

Inverts added

Inverts added

The inverts added a week after the natural water as been added...

I have 20 of this little guys (we call then the "green legs")

and another 20 of this (the "white legs")...

And some cerites.

The 3 Lysmata amboinensis plus an debelius (no photo taken from this guy!)

 

[dlopes]

The fishes

The fishes

Finally the fishes...

1 Synchiropus picturatus
1 Chrysiptera cyanea
2 Parachanturus hepatus
1 Zebrassoma flavescens
1 Zebrassoma xanthurus
1 Ctenochaetus striatus
2 Amphiprion ocellaris

And thatÃ"šÃ‚´s it! I hope you like it!

KR,
Diogo

 

[dlopes]

News

News

Hi,

Here are some new habitants from my reef...

Kind regards from Portugal,
Diogo

 

[GatiParda]

Precioso, me encanta tu aquascaping. Felicitaciones

GatiParda

 

[nonot8946]

all red x's

 

[dlopes]

Hola/Hi,

Gracias/Thanks for your words!!

Here are some more news...

One Euphylia parancora:

Dicossomas sp.

and some details:

Saludos/Kind Regards,
Diogo

 

[Tremelle]

Wow, what a Beautifully design setup. Great work.

 

[Martin's Reef]

Keep up the great work. Nice tank!:wavehand:

 

[Ebisan]

Very nice!

 

[skippyreef]

All I can say is you have a nice sense of style. I love the look of the european stands I have seen on here! very clean lines. the aquascape is well planned it seems! you certainly had a vision with this tank!!! very nice indeed!

 

[skippyreef]

All I can say is you have a nice sense of style. I love the look of the european stands I have seen on here! very clean lines. the aquascape is well planned it seems! you certainly had a vision with this tank!!! very nice indeed!

 

[Fliger]

In my top 10 as far as tang/stand design goes! I agree with skippyreef, I love the european stands that I've seen.

 

[Typhon]

Great looking setup!!!

 

[dlopes]

Some news

Some news

Hi,

Thanks for all your comments.

Here are some new photos. First a full shot and a side one...

And the news

one Nephthea

One Euphylia divisa

And the Rodhactis and actinodiscus corner...

Kind Regards,
Diogo