220 Galons Cube

[Marco Madeira]

Some pics of my new tank...
Hope you like.

Tank Pics

Corals Pics

I wood like to thank my good friend Joao Ribeiro that took the photos because they are very nice!!

 

[Marco Madeira]

Fish Pics

 

[thor32766]

wow sweet tank and pics, love the tangs! that toadstoll is HUGE~

 

[Clownlover]

I love all the pics especially the clowns.

 

[natep206]

love the achilies (sp?)

 

[Ironsheikh]

On camera I'd guess that tank was 40 gallons or so until you see the fish compared to it- nice camera work you can see the texture in the fish's skin

whats your filtration? I'd like to get a 240 eventually

 

[fluke4]

Wow

Nice Tank ...
I love your AT

 

[Marco Madeira]

Hi Ironsheikh...

Date of the assemble: 07/12/2005, but I took everything from my old 96 galons tank.

Tank: 48” x 38” x 25”
Sump: 38” x 17” x 17”
Lightning: 10 flurescent 54w T5 lamps.
- 3 T5 6000K + 2 T5 10000K + 5 T5 Actinic
Circulation: 2 EHEIM 1262 970 G/H (turnover) + 1 Lifetech 1500 G/H (close loop) + 4 maxikets 330 G/h
Skimmer : Deltec AP850
Kalkwasser reactor: Deltec KM500
Live Rock: 120Kg Indonesia Live Rock
Substact: 2.3" of Nature Ocean Reef Sand (Sugar Size)
Deltec Aquastat 1000 for controling fresh water entrance in the tank.

 

[mmd]

beautiful, and im glad to see the t5's (im all abouts lowering electric use). given my experience (which is limited) on smaller tanks, do you thinkb you could get away w/8 bulbs in lieu of 10 ?

 

[Marco Madeira]

Hi MMD.
Yes... im sure. I just installed 6 lamps 3 weeks ago. In the begining i had only 4 lamps and everithing was ok, even the sps, but my tank is not very high. The problem is that you don't have so much coral growth but they still get some growth with just 4 lamps. I had 2 T5 6000K + 1 T5 10.000K + 1 T5 Actinic. All 54W each.

 

[mmd]

JUST WATCH FOR BLEACHING

 

[fish590a]

very nice!!! i got to set-up my cube.

 

[mmd]

MY 37 W/T 24" T5'S STARTED BLEACHING MY FROGSPAWN WHICH WAS ABOUT 14 INCHES FROM THE FRONT OF THE TANK AND WAS IN THE FRONT OF THE TANK SO IT WAS NOT EVEN UNDER THE LIGHT FIXTURE

 

[yoboyjdizz]

Very nice pictures achilles tang looks awsome! How long have you had the copperband and is it taking prepared foods?

 

[Jar*Head]

You got me jealous. For the life of me, i can't never be able to keep achilles tank. What is the trick

 

[vest0830]

pics of the equipment?

 

[Marco Madeira]

My Chelmon have now 8 months in the tank but he was 4 months without eating... then he started to eat mysys and brine shrimp. Now he eats any frozen food and even Cyclop Eeze...
My Achilles Tang is going to make 2 years in December. I think that one of the success with this tang its food. Lots and lots of diferent food and lots of diferent algae...
Aquilles, Hepatus and YT all together they eat 2 nori leaves every day plus the rest of the food...

Some pics of the equipment...

 

[dlopes]

Hi Marco,

I can´t understand how on hearth I haven´t been abble to visit you!!! Great pics and a a great tank.

Cheers,
Diogo

 

[Joao Monteiro]

Same here... but I´l check it out this weeking !

That´a good looking thank !!

 

[mr.bear]

thats an awesome tank