I want to thank you all very much for your kind words.
Bax:
The TOTM is nearly exactly 5 years ago. Amazing how coral grow in that time.
Ching:
Thank you very much, I am an admirer of your tank with your very modern design approach.
joao:
I stopped dosing NO3, I bought more fish and am feeding a lot more and cleaning the skimmer less often.
I still can't find NO3 in the water, but the coral grow well, so there'll have to be some around.
I don't remember, how many grams I exactly dosed. It was a NaNO3 solution in water and I used a Hosepump to dose and adjusted its ON-time to keep 3 ppm NO3 in the reef.
stone.david:
Thank you very much,
the equipment is very much the same than mentioned on page 1 of this thread, it is:
The 870 USgal (gross) reef is running with the following devices:
Size: about 9.8 x 4.3 x 2.8 ft. frontglas made of LSG Optiwhite glas Silicone joints covered with glasbars
V2A- high grade stainless-steel stand
4 * 400 Watt HQI Giesemann System 400 (2 * Megachrome coral / 2 * Megachrome marine)
4 * (4*54 Watt) Lumimaster T5 (Aquascience special / Aquascience Blue / a few Giesemann Powerchrome aquapink )
5 * (4*24 Watt) Lumimaster T5 (Aquascience special / Aquascience Blue / a few Giesemann Powerchrome aquapink )
= 2944 Watt max. at high noon switched in 5 groups, having a lot of different blueish colorscemes
120 USgal filtersump
14 m3/h Red Dragon with antichalk mod. as sumppump
2 * 14m3/h Red Dragon with antichalk mod. outside the tank (closed loop)
2 * 20m3/h Tunze Streams changeing every 6 hours with nightslowdown
2 * 12m3/h Tunze Streams with nightslowdown
2 * Tunze Wavebox with nightslowdown
1 * Vortech pump that blows from behind the center reefstructure
2 of the Tunze pumps with 2,2 kVA UPS(Battery power supply) each
skimmer Bubbleking 500 (580 - 1320 USgal )
IKS-Aquastar measuring for safety
IKS-SMS-module for remote monitoring/alarm
Grotech dosing pump (Mg/Sr/Traceelements)
2 Harton industrial grade hosepumps (CaCl2/KH(NaHCO3) dosage)
osmosis with ion exchanger (autom. rinsing/level 400 USgal container in cellar)
waterlevel in sump maintained by IKS (refill) with SP4800 hose pump (Grotech)
mech. prefilter in outlet shaft, finefilter (AMA pre-filter in sump)
Rowa fluidized bed filter as phosphatabsorber (very seldom used)
UV sterilizer from Deltec with 4 * 34 watts
temperaturecontrol via splitlevel aircon in tankroom
air exchange with Stiebel Eltron DL 13 cross flow heat exchanger fan
1/2 of sump is dark and filled with some living rocks
8 * 66 USgal tanks (some with 250 watts MH some with 4*39watts T5)
are frag and other small tanks with a different sump system
132 USgal (500 liters, thats 20 kg Salt) waterchange a week with one week aged water
powder blue:
I am also a true ching chai follower
again, thank you all very much
Bax:
The TOTM is nearly exactly 5 years ago. Amazing how coral grow in that time.
Ching:
Thank you very much, I am an admirer of your tank with your very modern design approach.
joao:
I stopped dosing NO3, I bought more fish and am feeding a lot more and cleaning the skimmer less often.
I still can't find NO3 in the water, but the coral grow well, so there'll have to be some around.
I don't remember, how many grams I exactly dosed. It was a NaNO3 solution in water and I used a Hosepump to dose and adjusted its ON-time to keep 3 ppm NO3 in the reef.
stone.david:
Thank you very much,
the equipment is very much the same than mentioned on page 1 of this thread, it is:
The 870 USgal (gross) reef is running with the following devices:
Size: about 9.8 x 4.3 x 2.8 ft. frontglas made of LSG Optiwhite glas Silicone joints covered with glasbars
V2A- high grade stainless-steel stand
4 * 400 Watt HQI Giesemann System 400 (2 * Megachrome coral / 2 * Megachrome marine)
4 * (4*54 Watt) Lumimaster T5 (Aquascience special / Aquascience Blue / a few Giesemann Powerchrome aquapink )
5 * (4*24 Watt) Lumimaster T5 (Aquascience special / Aquascience Blue / a few Giesemann Powerchrome aquapink )
= 2944 Watt max. at high noon switched in 5 groups, having a lot of different blueish colorscemes
120 USgal filtersump
14 m3/h Red Dragon with antichalk mod. as sumppump
2 * 14m3/h Red Dragon with antichalk mod. outside the tank (closed loop)
2 * 20m3/h Tunze Streams changeing every 6 hours with nightslowdown
2 * 12m3/h Tunze Streams with nightslowdown
2 * Tunze Wavebox with nightslowdown
1 * Vortech pump that blows from behind the center reefstructure
2 of the Tunze pumps with 2,2 kVA UPS(Battery power supply) each
skimmer Bubbleking 500 (580 - 1320 USgal )
IKS-Aquastar measuring for safety
IKS-SMS-module for remote monitoring/alarm
Grotech dosing pump (Mg/Sr/Traceelements)
2 Harton industrial grade hosepumps (CaCl2/KH(NaHCO3) dosage)
osmosis with ion exchanger (autom. rinsing/level 400 USgal container in cellar)
waterlevel in sump maintained by IKS (refill) with SP4800 hose pump (Grotech)
mech. prefilter in outlet shaft, finefilter (AMA pre-filter in sump)
Rowa fluidized bed filter as phosphatabsorber (very seldom used)
UV sterilizer from Deltec with 4 * 34 watts
temperaturecontrol via splitlevel aircon in tankroom
air exchange with Stiebel Eltron DL 13 cross flow heat exchanger fan
1/2 of sump is dark and filled with some living rocks
8 * 66 USgal tanks (some with 250 watts MH some with 4*39watts T5)
are frag and other small tanks with a different sump system
132 USgal (500 liters, thats 20 kg Salt) waterchange a week with one week aged water
powder blue:
I am also a true ching chai follower
again, thank you all very much
