Hello,
My name is Ciprian Stanescu, live in Bucharest / Romania. I'm at the beginning in the reef aquarium. I have 15 years experience in freshwater aquarium. More than half of them I spent in company discussion. Although I do not know how to take pictures, I present to you that I am currently aquarium. I got a chance, and instead making it difficult among those with Discus. Now I can say that this virus infected me ...!
Hardware:
- 64 L tank (cube breeding Discus)
- Heater 100 W
- Waves pump 3000 L / h
- Circulating pump 200 L / h
- Refugium 15x40x40 divided into two (located on the side)
- Light: 1x150W MH, 14.000k.
Substrate and live rock:
- Display: - 2-3 cm 1-2 mm hole coral
- 7-8 Kg live rock
- Refuge - 12 cm hole 3-5 mm coral
- Chaeto (lighting 8W, 24 / 7)
Live Stock:
- 2 Amphiprion ocellaris black (pair)
- 2 Valenciennea sexguttata (pair)
- 1 Blue hermint
- A shrimp Palaemon elegans
- 1 star snake
- A crab (small, white, found when I removed the stone, do not know how and where they appeared)
- 3 small turbo
Corals:
soft - green palithoa
- Yet one with brown polyps (but shorter and wider)
SPS - acropora yellow-green
- Stylophora purple milka
- Seriatopora caliendrum green fluorescent
- Seriatopora caliendrum (garnet seems)
- Montipora digitata red
LPS - caulastrea
1. Sun Coral (when I almost got lost, and now is recovering very well).
Chemistry:
S: 1023
T: 26 degrees
NO2 - 0
NO3 - tends to 0
PO4 - never outlandish
KH: 9
pH: 8.2 to 8.4
As: 450
Mg: 1300
Tests from Serra majority.
Aquarium came by chance in the house, being designed as a place to store, some live rock received from someone at the beginning of this year. Then came, as too was sitting empty, a lady (the worst choice: no one came to take any donated or after I gave a beer for that), and some macroalgal ....!
The aquarium has been through a move from one room to another and obviously another loop, this time with some of the creatures inside. We designed Refugium site in this way because I wanted to sit next to you aquarium. Initially I used the controversial method, Monaco, filtration, but to me, in a few months, had N03 0. I quit once they move to this method, currently being provided by the biological filter substrate of the aquarium, live rock and substrate of the Refugium. Lately I've supplemented with bacterial cultures from Benue you've added in higher doses and at shorter intervals. I have physical filter!
Like the lighting, I had what was originally the house of freshwater aquariums. 15W fluorescent paint me blue. Tank size does not allow me to highlight another match. Then we went 150W MH, 14000k, now reaching a steady light for 8 hours / day (9-17). I will increase to 10 hours.
Flow is provided by a wave of 3000L/ora maker.
I had only some diatoms which disappeared by itself and a long episode with green algae, occurring as a result of forgetfulness for 2 weeks of bright light while I was away on vacation. It has been solved!
Living things grow very well (except red coral digitata montipora polyps that stay with partially open).
Pisces 3-4x/zi fed with mixture of seafood, calamari, shrimp, vitamins, spirulina, etc ...
Weekly water changes about 10%.
Future Projects:
- Restocking of coral frags with some mushrooms (I have not found )...!
- Pico 16 L with a small attached Refugium (fast)
- Reproductive clown (you will want to file, probably still young, making sexual differentiation at me)
I write ... but already I miss your fingers!
Although we have not a performance machine, the tank looks like, just do not know how to do best and that no miccsorez them to enter the site:
