juststartingout
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Ralf, ausgezeichnet!!!! Sehr freundlich getan.
introducing my 870gal tank (pics ahead)
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BetiumInside
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TANK OF THE MONTH!!!
I'll call you when ever I win the lottery for some good advice.
I'll call you when ever I win the lottery for some good advice.
Michelle L
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Ralf, your tank is absolutely breathtaking. I've not seen one this nice before unless it was a public aquarium, and even then yours is just as nice.
Also, I think you speak fluent English. Very well done!
Also, I think you speak fluent English. Very well done!
1SickReefer
New member
Simply amazing, I don't know where you ppl come from 
every new thread I see like this, they just keep getting better and better,
This is by far one of my most favorite yet! Thank you for allowing us to view such a perfect work of art.
Please keep the pics coming.
every new thread I see like this, they just keep getting better and better,This is by far one of my most favorite yet! Thank you for allowing us to view such a perfect work of art.
Please keep the pics coming.
Joao Monteiro
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Good point.
p.s. I bet your private message means TOTM
Joao Monteiro
New member
Eric,
There´s your answer
There´s your answer
Ralf,
Outstanding! One of the best tanks in the world. I have seen a lot of great setups, and yours is definitely one of the best. Tell us more about your background in reefkeeping. We would all love to hear about the process that brought you to this point.
One more thing...why are Gremans so much better at engineering and details than us Americans? It seems to me that you guys make things as close to perfection as is possible.
Outstanding! One of the best tanks in the world. I have seen a lot of great setups, and yours is definitely one of the best. Tell us more about your background in reefkeeping. We would all love to hear about the process that brought you to this point.
One more thing...why are Gremans so much better at engineering and details than us Americans? It seems to me that you guys make things as close to perfection as is possible.
Whow...
what are you doin' ?
I don't know enough english words to thank you again for your kind words
withouth repeating myself. ;-)
Reef Man,
well, the waterflow... the thing i am still working on...
There are two Red Dragon pumps with about 3700 gal/h each, which get their water from one chamber (two drillings) of the overflow shaft you can see prior in this thread. You can't see their pipes around the tank because they sit directly under the shaft and their returnpipes also enter the tank in that shaft via 2 additional drillings.
One of the returnlines is located behind the reefrocks, so no detritus can pile up there.
The other is splitted in one big and one small one, the small running through a UV sterilizer, both entering the tank from the left side.
The two Tunze Waveboxes are located right and left in the tank (having nightslowdown)
Two Tunze Streams with about 5300 gal/h each are located right and left in the tank, pointing to each other. Running alternately, the right one is running at 100%, the left one at max. 30% (because there is already the Dragons from left). (nightslowdown)
Additional 2 Tunze Streams with about 3100 gal/h each are located near the
middle of the tank at the back-glas hidden behind a reef-pylon, one pointing 45 degree right one pointing 45 degree left.
Running alternately at max. 40%.
The returnpump from the sump (a Red Dragon with about 3700 gal/h) is splitted in two pipes, one with about 30% of water into the algae filter and one with
the rest back into the tank somewhere at the left.
The 30% into the algaefilter will later be connected to a currently planned
fragtank above the algaepartition of the sump, which then will return to
the algaefilter.
Hopefully that will be enough for some time. As corals grow, waterflow will
change!
plancton,
sorry for my bad english...
if u think about the pannels around the tank ("Frame") they are painted in
the colour of my wall, a little lighter and each surrounded by a stainless
steal shadow gap.
if u think about the frame ("Frame") thats located on the tank and keeping the
glas-plates together...
its made of Aluminium and powdercoated, its an connected L-profile glued with
silicone on the tank. Two bars additional to thouse right and lift connect
front and back of it.
Its stable enough to put wooden planks on it and lie myself down on it to
reach everywhere in the tank.
AcroSteve,
no work with the sandbed, A.phalaena (sand "eating" goby), sand cleaning starfishes, cucumbers and last but now least my 200 hermits are doin' that job
Michelle L,
thank you so much for praising my english, i am normally reading eng. books and webpages and talking to US friends and collegues... But writing feels a lot different ;-)
Sam,
good for me that with its about 10.000 pound weight its to heavy for you to carry it back to LA ;-)
Bebo77,
you're so right, Iwan is the standard, regarding colour of SPS for me.
Joao,
if the PM would mean that, i wouldn't say... ;-))
Eric,
its running for about a year now, corals, fish etc. are mostly older. After about 1 month with fresh cycled LR, Living Sand, used collected water,i put a lot of the corals in there. Seems that the algae didn't like that (food-competition?).
rberrie,
thanks so much...well, i don't think that Germans are better at anything...
some Germans in the past thought that and i pray that this will not happen again.
Maybe they are not as relaxed as you guys are (and thats good and bad ;-)
edit:
uuuups, i forgot to thank the german writing people here for their kind words and special
welcome.... Dankeschön!
Maybe this pic shows how the 2 Red Dragons under the overflow shaft are connected
(at least it shows one of them, the other is behind it and the UV-sterilizer from Deltec)
It was a strange feeling lieing the first time under the tank and taking a photo
Last part of my way to my actual tank was this one, my previous tank...
A little crowded, but i somehow still love it.
Ralf
what are you doin' ?
I don't know enough english words to thank you again for your kind words
withouth repeating myself. ;-)
Reef Man,
well, the waterflow... the thing i am still working on...
There are two Red Dragon pumps with about 3700 gal/h each, which get their water from one chamber (two drillings) of the overflow shaft you can see prior in this thread. You can't see their pipes around the tank because they sit directly under the shaft and their returnpipes also enter the tank in that shaft via 2 additional drillings.
One of the returnlines is located behind the reefrocks, so no detritus can pile up there.
The other is splitted in one big and one small one, the small running through a UV sterilizer, both entering the tank from the left side.
The two Tunze Waveboxes are located right and left in the tank (having nightslowdown)
Two Tunze Streams with about 5300 gal/h each are located right and left in the tank, pointing to each other. Running alternately, the right one is running at 100%, the left one at max. 30% (because there is already the Dragons from left). (nightslowdown)
Additional 2 Tunze Streams with about 3100 gal/h each are located near the
middle of the tank at the back-glas hidden behind a reef-pylon, one pointing 45 degree right one pointing 45 degree left.
Running alternately at max. 40%.
The returnpump from the sump (a Red Dragon with about 3700 gal/h) is splitted in two pipes, one with about 30% of water into the algae filter and one with
the rest back into the tank somewhere at the left.
The 30% into the algaefilter will later be connected to a currently planned
fragtank above the algaepartition of the sump, which then will return to
the algaefilter.
Hopefully that will be enough for some time. As corals grow, waterflow will
change!
plancton,
sorry for my bad english...
if u think about the pannels around the tank ("Frame") they are painted in
the colour of my wall, a little lighter and each surrounded by a stainless
steal shadow gap.
if u think about the frame ("Frame") thats located on the tank and keeping the
glas-plates together...
its made of Aluminium and powdercoated, its an connected L-profile glued with
silicone on the tank. Two bars additional to thouse right and lift connect
front and back of it.
Its stable enough to put wooden planks on it and lie myself down on it to
reach everywhere in the tank.
AcroSteve,
no work with the sandbed, A.phalaena (sand "eating" goby), sand cleaning starfishes, cucumbers and last but now least my 200 hermits are doin' that job
Michelle L,
thank you so much for praising my english, i am normally reading eng. books and webpages and talking to US friends and collegues... But writing feels a lot different ;-)
Sam,
good for me that with its about 10.000 pound weight its to heavy for you to carry it back to LA ;-)
Bebo77,
you're so right, Iwan is the standard, regarding colour of SPS for me.
Joao,
if the PM would mean that, i wouldn't say... ;-))
Eric,
its running for about a year now, corals, fish etc. are mostly older. After about 1 month with fresh cycled LR, Living Sand, used collected water,i put a lot of the corals in there. Seems that the algae didn't like that (food-competition?).
rberrie,
thanks so much...well, i don't think that Germans are better at anything...
some Germans in the past thought that and i pray that this will not happen again.
Maybe they are not as relaxed as you guys are (and thats good and bad ;-)
edit:
uuuups, i forgot to thank the german writing people here for their kind words and special
welcome.... Dankeschön!
Maybe this pic shows how the 2 Red Dragons under the overflow shaft are connected
(at least it shows one of them, the other is behind it and the UV-sterilizer from Deltec)
It was a strange feeling lieing the first time under the tank and taking a photo
Last part of my way to my actual tank was this one, my previous tank...
A little crowded, but i somehow still love it.
Ralf
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Hi Ralf,
Great looking tank!!!
Tell me one thing, I'm in Hanover for 10 more days and would love to visit a local LFS or public aquarium. Most people I've asked around know nothing of the hobby. Could you recommend few places that would be open this coming weekend (June 10-11) ?
I'd like so much to do that before I head back to Michigan.
Great looking tank!!!
Tell me one thing, I'm in Hanover for 10 more days and would love to visit a local LFS or public aquarium. Most people I've asked around know nothing of the hobby. Could you recommend few places that would be open this coming weekend (June 10-11) ?
I'd like so much to do that before I head back to Michigan.
yoboyjdizz
Active member
Awsome setup! Very clean and organized. Tanks like this reason why i got into this hobby.
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