Laguna viridis
New member
Hey Folks,
as there are so many beautiful tanks on RC I wanted to add my own, hoping your tanks rub of some reef-keeping-luck.
As I am new to RC (and hopefully found the right place to show my tank), so some words about myself: I'm from Germany and got into the hobby about 3 years back. Starting off with freshwater and soon figuring out: "naaah! That's nothing for me!" So I started my first 8 g reef nano. Everything went well so I threw everything into a 24g cube. Now I work in my local fish store and am responsible for the saltwater department. Looking at my 8g, 10g and 24g tanks I just needed something bigger.
So I sat down and made a list of "what I want and never!"
"¢ I did not want my tank to look like the ever so popular Wall of rocks with corals.
"¢ I wanted a fresh and aesthetically pleasing rockwork
"¢ I did not plan to keep any bigger fish
"¢ While diving, I always loved shallow water reefs and lagoons with little patches of corals crowding together and sheltering all those different little animals
"¢ I wanted to recreate that feeling of diversity and that little patch in the ocean brimming with life
After taking my time planning the whole system I did decided to get a custom-built tank and stand. The tank now is a 90x90x55 cm (35x35x21" (hope that's right)) and the stand is stainless steel.
Well, off to some details:
"¢ Tank 90x90x55 cm (35x35x21") Front and Sides are Whiteglas (no idea if that's the name for it... you know, not that greenish stuff)
"¢ Overflow with 3 drilled holes (32 mm, 40 mm, 40 mm ( 11/4", 11/2", 11/2")
"¢ custom Sump 80x60X50 cm (31.5x23.6x19.5") with RoDi compartment (60 Liter / 16g)
"¢ Bubble Magus Nac 5A skimmer
"¢ Hobby temperature control with Schego 300W Titanium heater
"¢ Auto Top Off
"¢ AquaForte Ecomax DM 5000 Returnpump
"¢ Eheim Reeflex 800 Uv-sterilizer
"¢ 2x Tunze 6095 with controller
"¢ 2x AI Hydra with controller
"¢ GHL standalone dosingpump (SA) for Balling
The hardscape was done in dry rock which I cleaned beforehand.
I will incorporate a refugium in the sump with Chaeto later on after cycling it halfway.
It's gonna be a mixed reef with mainly LPS, some SPS and a few softies/leather. I'm gonna throw in some nice Zoas and Rics/Rhodactis because I'm just loving them.
I want to keep a whole lot of little shrimps/crabs like: Periclimenes, Leander plumosus, Neopethrolistes, Lybia tesselata, Thor amboinensis, Urocaridella antonbruunii and many more of those fascinating little critters.
Talking about fish I want to try to establish a school of Apogon parvulus. Apart from those I want a lot of dwarf gobies like Eviota, Trimma, Coryphopterus personatus, a pair of hector gobies and a pair of Signigobius biocellatus
Just a hell of a lot of different little animals to get that feeling of diversity that I miss in quite a lot of tanks.
Well, I hope you like what you see. I would really appreciate comments/critics as I still feel like I can learn a lot. And please excuse any mistakes or strange ways of mine to express something. I'm not writing on english forums on a regular basis.
Cheers,
Erik
as there are so many beautiful tanks on RC I wanted to add my own, hoping your tanks rub of some reef-keeping-luck.
As I am new to RC (and hopefully found the right place to show my tank), so some words about myself: I'm from Germany and got into the hobby about 3 years back. Starting off with freshwater and soon figuring out: "naaah! That's nothing for me!" So I started my first 8 g reef nano. Everything went well so I threw everything into a 24g cube. Now I work in my local fish store and am responsible for the saltwater department. Looking at my 8g, 10g and 24g tanks I just needed something bigger.
So I sat down and made a list of "what I want and never!"
"¢ I did not want my tank to look like the ever so popular Wall of rocks with corals.
"¢ I wanted a fresh and aesthetically pleasing rockwork
"¢ I did not plan to keep any bigger fish
"¢ While diving, I always loved shallow water reefs and lagoons with little patches of corals crowding together and sheltering all those different little animals
"¢ I wanted to recreate that feeling of diversity and that little patch in the ocean brimming with life
After taking my time planning the whole system I did decided to get a custom-built tank and stand. The tank now is a 90x90x55 cm (35x35x21" (hope that's right)) and the stand is stainless steel.
Well, off to some details:
"¢ Tank 90x90x55 cm (35x35x21") Front and Sides are Whiteglas (no idea if that's the name for it... you know, not that greenish stuff)
"¢ Overflow with 3 drilled holes (32 mm, 40 mm, 40 mm ( 11/4", 11/2", 11/2")
"¢ custom Sump 80x60X50 cm (31.5x23.6x19.5") with RoDi compartment (60 Liter / 16g)
"¢ Bubble Magus Nac 5A skimmer
"¢ Hobby temperature control with Schego 300W Titanium heater
"¢ Auto Top Off
"¢ AquaForte Ecomax DM 5000 Returnpump
"¢ Eheim Reeflex 800 Uv-sterilizer
"¢ 2x Tunze 6095 with controller
"¢ 2x AI Hydra with controller
"¢ GHL standalone dosingpump (SA) for Balling
The hardscape was done in dry rock which I cleaned beforehand.
I will incorporate a refugium in the sump with Chaeto later on after cycling it halfway.
It's gonna be a mixed reef with mainly LPS, some SPS and a few softies/leather. I'm gonna throw in some nice Zoas and Rics/Rhodactis because I'm just loving them.
I want to keep a whole lot of little shrimps/crabs like: Periclimenes, Leander plumosus, Neopethrolistes, Lybia tesselata, Thor amboinensis, Urocaridella antonbruunii and many more of those fascinating little critters.
Talking about fish I want to try to establish a school of Apogon parvulus. Apart from those I want a lot of dwarf gobies like Eviota, Trimma, Coryphopterus personatus, a pair of hector gobies and a pair of Signigobius biocellatus
Just a hell of a lot of different little animals to get that feeling of diversity that I miss in quite a lot of tanks.
Well, I hope you like what you see. I would really appreciate comments/critics as I still feel like I can learn a lot. And please excuse any mistakes or strange ways of mine to express something. I'm not writing on english forums on a regular basis.
Cheers,
Erik
anybody got a good tip?
