Carbone's 2000 liters reef

[Carbone]

Hello and greetings from Romania!

I woluld like to present my tank and the build process of my 2000 liters (500 gallons) reef tank started in October 2011

Tank dimensions:
Size (Lxlxh): 280x100x60 cm (110x40x24 inches)
Sump: 2 x (90x80x40 cm) or (35x31x16 inches)
Light: 2 x ATI Sunpower 8x54W and 2 x ATI Sunpower 4x54W
Skimmer: 2 x Bubble Magus 250 (2xAquabee 2000/1 up each Skimmer)
Return: Tunze Master electronic 1073.090 (8300 l/h)
Flow: 2 x Tunze 6105 + 1 x Tunze 6101 on Tunze multicontroller 7096 and 5 x Jebao WP 40
Reactors: GFO and Carbon (BRS dual reactor)
Osmosis: BRS 150 GPD water saver (2x75 GPD) with 3 prefilters and 2 DI canisters

Filling with water ...

Water source

Sump

Fillter with water after 2-3 days

Painting the walls ...

The tank cover

 

[Carbone]

Some pictures from March, 2012

May 2012

 

[dave.m]

Nice assortment of corals and great colours!

Dave.M

 

[Carbone]

And the trip continues with June 2012 ...

 

[Carbone]

July 2012

September 2012

October 2012

 

[Carbone]

Then, in December 2012, in the Christmas night one of the 2 power stabilisers decided to fail and a fire was started. All the fishes looked dead (most of them where actualy dead), corals looked like sh*t. For a few moths I did not want to see the tank anymore. I was lucky with my father that started to catch the dead fishes, venting the room and making some electrical work in order to get all things back to normal as soon as possible.

 

[Carbone]

July 2013

 

[Carbone]

September 2013:

December 2013

 

[Carbone]

January 2014

 

[Carbone]

 

[koala]

A gorgeus tank, I know better! :bounce2:

 

[Denadai]

Awesome tank !!!

 

[Carbone]

Koala, Denadai : thank you !

Some picture from Sunday

a new tridacna crocea

Can't take a clear picture of this one. It is blue/purple with green polyps

This is a paintfull slow grower

Snack timeeeeee

 

[Yellow05gt]

Beautiful tank! What part of Romania are you in?

 

[Carbone]

Beautiful tank! What part of Romania are you in?

I'm from Bucharest, but the tank it's 50km north, at my parent's house. It's a little bit difficult to host 2000 liters tank in an apartment

 

[egis]

Beautiful tank!

 

[kostaskappa]

Im amazed! It just cant be true! Beautiful tank my friend! Good coloration and extermely healthy fishes! Heads up from Greece! Subscribed!

 

[Rybren]

Beautiful tank. I'm happy to see that you continued on after the fire.

 

[Carbone]

egis: thank you. your tank is an inspiration for alot of us
kostaskappa: thank you. I also have some sea urchins from Greece. They make a realy good job.
Rybren: for this I'm grateful to my father who took care of the tank and also supported me

 

[Yellow05gt]

I'm from Bucharest, but the tank it's 50km north, at my parent's house. It's a little bit difficult to host 2000 liters tank in an apartment

Nice! I'm actually down in Constanta right now. We're actually going to be visiting Bucharest tomorrow