Coral Maternity in Portugal

[CrazyCohiba]

Signor De Sousa, If I come to Portugal May I visit you and your babies?
How would someone contact you?
You have an amazing Passione.
Ciao,
Domenico

 

[Machado deSousa]

Domenico, you, as well as everybody that visit Portugal, are very welcome to visit my prop and it will be a pleasure for me to receive you. Please send me a PM when you fly to Lisbon and i gonna give you my phone number.
I liked your amused comparison.... Thanks for your words.

 

[FiSHy sAy HeY]

will the blue special and blue plus combination make my colors pop?

And thanks for all the help you have given me Machado

 

[Machado deSousa]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14945416#post14945416 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by snaza
On your first post your wrote this;

Maternity: 8x80w
Nursery: 6x80w
Day-care center: 10x80w

Did you add 2 more bulbs?
….
thanks

Yes, snaza, I have done a lighting upgrade in all tanks.

Maternity

Before: 8x80w (see "Maternity Top View" pic on page 7 of this thread)

Actually: 10x80w - one more Gutter T5 Tiger added. Total: 800 watts

Nursery

Before: 6x80w

Actually: 8x80w - Added one more Gutter T5 (2nd plane tank - pic above). Total = 640 watts



Day-care center tanks (tanks connected each other, located on the highest stand)

Tanks on the middle shelf of the stand:

Before : 10x80w/each tank (see pic on page 20 of this thread)

Actually: Added a new Blau fixture equipped with 10 x 80w bulbs and just kept two Gutters T5. Total 14 x 80w = 1,120 watts/each tank

Tanks on the upper shelf of the stand (close the ceilling)
Will be mounted a Blau fixture equipped with 10 x 80w bulbs and just with two Gutters T5. Total 14 x 80w = 1,120 watts/each tank




Mangrove tank

Before: 4x54w T5 ATI bulbs

Actually: 2x24w (economic bulbs mounted above) and 5 leds (laterally mounted)

Chaeto: Transferred to the Mangrove tank.


Cheers,

 

[Machado deSousa]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14945416#post14945416 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by snaza
...

Also do you have any additional flow in the nursery, or just the return pump and wave device?

thanks

Snaza, I have done some changes in all system. For redundancy, and to increase the water flow in the system, I have implemented an important upgrade in this area.


RETURN PUMPING UPGRADE

To add one more return pump to each system tank, the pump chamber was moved to the left side of the sump compartment. To to that I needed to drill three holes to assemble the external Deltec pumps.

Deltec return pumps added for Maternity tank, Day-care Center tanks and Nursery tank, respectively

Changes done to create the pumps chamber on the left side of the sump compartment

The final result: the new Deltecs and Red Dragon pumps added to the system.

Additions:

Maternity

Before: 1 x Sicce multi 5800 flow rate 5,800 L/h
Added 1 x Deltec HLP 5250 pump added - max flow rate: 5800 lts/h (1289 G/h).


Nursery

Before: 1 x Eheim compact + 5000 (2.500-5.000L/h)
Added 1 x Deltec HLP 5250 pump added max flow rate - 5800 lts/h (1289 G/h). See pic below


Day-care Center tanks (tanks connected each other by a channel, located on the highest stand)

Tanks on the middle shelf of the stand
Before: 1 x Eheim 1260 (5,800 L/h)
Added 1 x Deltec HLP 8070S pump added = max flow rate -8400 lts/h (1866 G/h)

Tanks on the upper shelf of the stand (close the ceilling)
Will be functioning with a Red Dragon II titanium Pump, 170 model , with controller, from Royal Exclusive - Max Flow Rate: 18m3/h at 2m (4,755 G/h at 6.56 foot).

Cheers,

 

[snaza]

Thanks for the detailed update

 

[bradw6860]

woooo you have an awesome setup!!! I couldn't stop reading it.

More More!!

 

[troythegreat]

hey Machado, nice setup...i was thinking of doing something like this but with soft coral only. you have definitely inspired me. do you also propagate softies too?? and which ones?

 

[Machado deSousa]

I'm glad you were able to glean some useful information.
Some Ricordeas and Green Star Polyps... not more.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15090104#post15090104 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by troythegreat
hey Machado, nice setup...i was thinking of doing something like this but with soft coral only. you have definitely inspired me. do you also propagate softies too?? and which ones?

<img src="/images/welcome.gif" width="500" height="62"><br><b><i><big><big>To Reef Central</b></i></big></big>

 

[Marcio T.D.]

Machado, congratulations for this amazing frag propagation system and I would like to thank a lot for sharing all this information and taking time to answer all those questions.


I am so inspired by your work that I will start a small propagation system based in all the infomation that only you shared with us.

Please keep updating, we all have a lot to learn from you.

Parabens e muito sucesso.


TD

 

[Palancarpets]

Machado, I have been following your thread on your system for a while and love seeing your updates on system upgrades. Keep up the good work, you have inspired a lot of fellow reefers. Thanks.

 

[CrazyCohiba]

Machado you mentioned early in the thread you wanted to get into the Guinness book. In my eyes you have...

 

[PauChi]

Hey Machado ,

This Thread is so unique that your passion in setting up frag after frag tanks of endless supplies of your "cloned" coral collection is astounding and truly one heck of a real dedicated propagater
:eek1: !! ... IMHO
It reminds me of folks that propagate orchids in glass flasks ... :lol:

Keep Up the Excellent Work!!

Paul

 

[FuzzyZipperbaum]

I just finished reading this from start to finish in one sitting and my eyes are bleeding....But well worth it!

M: You may have started a whole new trend in reef keeping...(or call it coral keeping)...

 

[tanks2u]

I tried to read the whole thing but only made it half way through..lol. Anyway, as many others have said before I absolutely love your tanks. I had already wanted to start my own frag tank and seeing this thread just reinforces my desire to get my tank up and running. Keep up the great job and continued success!

 

[henrystyle]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10919093#post10919093 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Machado deSousa
Hi prideprops!

I feed corals with some frozen food like red plankton, bosmiden, lobster eggs and cyclops or lyophilised food like pro-coral zooton, alternating all foods every day. For enhanced long-term coloration and growth I feed them too with cyclop-eeze almost daily together with the mentioned foods. When I feed corals or fishes the skimmers don’t run.

Cheers,

Machado de Sousa

Do you feed with the lights on or off?

 

[Machado deSousa]

Marcio T.D., Palancarpets, CrazyCohiba, PauChi, tanks2u, I am really glad you are enjoying this thread. Thanks for your kind words.


FuzzyZipperbaum, one day I’ll open the thread that you have suggested.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15206798#post15206798 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by henrystyle
Do you feed with the lights on or off?

Whenever possible, I use to feed corals with lights off.


Cheers,

 

[cdeboard]

Wow.. this is all amazing.. and the amount of views on this thread is insane!

 

[gnoles]

unbelieveable setup... after my lottery investment pays off, I'm coming to visit.

Machado your setup is an inspiration to get my display to the quality of your maternity tank and be able to do on a very small scale what you have in your space.