70 Gallon Reef tank

[dinhoriginal]

Hello reefers
I like to show my reef tank.In Brazil 70 gallons is considered an average tank

Size 100X40X50 cm (L X W X H) around 80 G with sump
Skimmer Bubble Magus BM 100 with meshwheel impeller
Main pump Sicce Syncra 3.0 ( or 3.5)
Circulation pumps 2 X NY extreme ( local manufacturer ) around 500 G each with 2 spin boxes ( similar to sea swirl)180º
Lights - 1 X metal halide 150W 14.000K BLV + 2 X T5 actinics 39 W each hagen
Calcium reactor ( to be installed this week) Escuma Bi 600( local manufacturer) for 200 G with Ca and MG medias from Brightwell

Acrylic tanks are particularly expensive if compared to glass tanks, and foreign equipments are quite expensive due to our Brazilian taxes, i had a trip to Miami last year and i found a LED hood that cost $400 in a local store, the same hood if y buy in Brazil i would spend around $1200.

Tank on fish store

Hood with aluminum frame for reflectors

Lightning system

Skimmer working

Sump

Spin boxes

front

Side ( edited colors and saturation on picasa)

Skimmer working with meshwheel



A little video

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[dinhoriginal]

A few corals

Frog

Leather Umbrella

Montipora velvet

Unidentified acropora

Hammer

Seria something

Trumpet

Hydnophora

Acro

Another acro

Well that´s it for now

Regards

Arnold Pieruccini

 

[Hens4Fish]

Nice tank, just not sure its a nano

 

[dinhoriginal]

Hey Hens

It´s not actually a nano, however it´s not a "large" tank, it´s a medium size. My old aquarium was a little bigger, but this one is completely new, stand, display.

 

[dinhoriginal]

Reefers

I made a more complete video. the old one was deleted

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[Dino]

This thread has been moved to the current forum.

 

[dinhoriginal]

New pics from my tank

 

[dinhoriginal]

Well

I never had any kind of problem regarding debris or food behind the rockwall, but my only fish ( adebuf saxatilis) had died and i bought 5 another fishes
1 Yellow Tang
2 fire fish
2 clownfish
and then i started to put much higher amout of food and started to noticed that some part of it was stucked behind the rocks. Made several tests for 3 weeks and no problems were found with No3 or Po4. Anyway i decided to make another rock work to allow the better water flow and room for SPS corals to grow, in this way they can spend their energy to grow , not to fight with another corals around

Mess

Made a little movie showing the new ( used) MP20 pump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBKk7acn2Ko&feature=plcp

 

[dinhoriginal]

Just to keep the thread updated

New toy - Bubble Magus Curve 7

Tank today

 

[dinhoriginal]

Just to keep the thread updated

New toy - Bubble Magus Curve 7

Tank today

 

[dinhoriginal]

Wow, more then 2 years , without an update.

Well just o sum it up everything . In beggining of 2014 British Telecom decided to move their operations to another city. My wife as a dentist with her own clinic and patients did not found a solution for that situation, so was gently fired. It took 2 months until i got hired from another Telecom company ( Level 3 communications) . The great part of that situation is i got a chance to buy the led fixtures for my thank

So i bought the Aquasun 3X36 cree led fixtures



And i bought a bucket of Tropic Marin Bio Actif sea salt. It comes with a bottle of another product for same brand called NP Bacter ( that was my mistake)

After a partial water change i decided to use the product. I read the instructions and started to dose. 24 hours later , everyting normal. 36 hours later all my coral started to die.

it was like this



And i ended with these





First thing, another partial water change , activated carbon etc

I had to dose 0.5 ml of the product, making the counts i dose 5 ml. Gosh i F%#$% it up.

 

[dinhoriginal]

Ok so lets move on to restart all over again

I found a single rock with a nice shape, massive water change and separated all the corals that not died



Things was just fine during a time, everything growing



and in a matter of days, my tank started to crash. The sand was the same for 6 years and probably something stayed in the sand after the product overdose

 

[vooDoo213]

Very nice tank, hope all is well soon!

 

[dinhoriginal]

So now i just started everything from scratch



Closed loop with a 300 gph, big amount of rocks , all of them bleached by the way



New lightning , AI Sol Blue. Got these for a friend. We just switched the Aquasun for AI´s, didn´t spend a penny with this agreement



I was looking for Kessil´s 360W e´s, but not a chance

It´s not secret that Brazil is facing an economic and political crysis, so no importation o US dollar are possible at this moment ( 1 brazilian real worth 3.54 US dollars). My power bill went up more then 120% due to lack of rain in my State, at this moment we are using the thermoelectric station. Our water supply is horrible, several people are having strange symptons probably due to chemical used for clean the water, in this way our DI or RO systems are saturating much faster, sometimes we can´t make 80 gallons of purified water. Despite of all these serious SH*$@, i keep moving foward

 

[dinhoriginal]

Thanks vooDoo213 .

 

[Mark9]

This was fantastic, imo, your zenith.
If I were you, i'd attempt this look again.

 

[drauka99]

HAted to see this tank fall so hard. Congrats on keeping up the faith and going it again. I am surer the latest edition will look awesome given time.

 

[slief]

Wow. What a shame about the tank crash. Your tank was beautiful. It looks like you are getting yourself back on track though. I can't wait to see it when you get stocked again!

 

[dinhoriginal]

Thanks a lot guys

Mark9 - About the layout , it is totally different . I came with a "pyramid" look.



Just trying something else. Let´s see what happen

Drauka99 - Probably every single hobbyst faced this situation at least one time.However i i do not see myself without a tank in my house.

Scott - I´m looking for new corals, probably will add some green chrommis. This will take some time and money to get fully stocked. This time i will not focus only at SPS´s , will try some LPS´s aswell

Cheers guys