Leonardo's Lagoon

[Leonardo_]

Thanks Greg

Nihoa; I found some OLD pictures. I think you will be more thrilled when I show you these

The green covered small rock on the right in the back.Yes, same coral three years ago!

And this one, 6 months later. Just 3" there...

Leonardo

 

[FUA]

looks sweet

 

[flying_dutchman]

Amazing tank, subscribed thread.
I'm dutch too btw, moved to the U.S 6 moths ago

 

[Leonardo_]

Thanks flying dutchman, you're having a good time in the U.S. ?

Will have new pics within a few hours.

Leonardo

 

[scaryperson27]

Sweet!

 

[DFason]

Leonardo - Are you going to stock this new build with new fishes? Apogans!

-dave

 

[AgentSPS]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15113511#post15113511 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Leonardo_
A few hours ago I came home to see a almost 100% meltdown of the tank.
Somehow the light switch didn't work, leaving my lights ON for two days. This caused the pH to rise so high, that precipitation of calciumcarbonate shut down almost all of my pumps. 3 out of 4 Tunze Streams and the return pump.

This was too much for most of the corals. 25% are already dead, 50% is dying and the rest is severely stressed.

The tunze are now soaking in vinegar but I think they're not fixable. The shaft is unmovable, completely stuck.

I don't now what I will do now, stop or make a restart. I'll keep you posted.

~Leonardo

Leo-

I just thought I would take a peek at your thread to get caught up and saw this! I am so sorry to hear of your setback but am relieved to hear you are taking it in stride and it will just be a setback. Most of us have been there before and all we can do is learn from it and move on. No doubt your solution will be brilliant and we will see some killer tank shots soon enough!

 

[Leonardo_]

DFason; Of course! I think I mentioned it before, this Lagoon will be stocked with mostly nano-reef organisms like small fish, crustaceans etc. A large school of +40 Apogons.

AgentSPS; Thank you! You're right, unfortunately everyone have to experience this events to upgrade their reef and increase their experience.

Leonardo

 

[Leonardo_]

Hmm, photobucket seems to alternate my pics make them very dark. Have to fix it...

Leonardo

 

[the_rider]

Maybe when you are exporting your picture from photoshop you are not in sRGB, make sure you are in sRGB for camera raw and photoshop if you are using RAW

How is going your version 2 ?? Ready to released yet ? Or any sneek peak in circulation yet ? lol

 

[Plankt0s]

Sorry to hear about the problems that you have had... I have followed your threads for a while, I loved the formosa forest. It seems to me that you really enjoy being able to restart on your tanks so this could have been worse.

 

[Leonardo_]

the_rider; When I upload the .jpeg the colors seems to be automatically "corrected", making them mach too dark and blue. I send a question so hopefully I have it solved later today.

biowerks; You're right, I still enjoy my tank and this setback made me redo my whole setup. I'm much more happy with the tank now because it is more what I thought it would be when I planned the original build.


Like I said, I hope to have pictures later today when I get this photobucket problem solved.

Leonardo

 

[Leonardo_]

I found the problem, the browser Mozilla Firefox 3.5 oversaturate Jpeg images. All my images viewed with Firefox will be too saturated, blue and dark.

Leonardo

 

[Leonardo_]

When I first thought of this tank I wanted to create a large, open Lagoon style tank with a lot of room, light and space for my colonies to grow larger. I think I'm finally getting in the direction of creating that image.
I want to combine large colonies with small, nano-reef type organisms to give the tank another scale and let them live, sleep and hide in the coral structures.
Some pictures with MH+T5, some T5 only.

I'll start with full tank pictures.

Next are the more detailed pictures of tank and coral.

 

[Leonardo_]

And of course, a tank without a forest can't be my tank. So I created a small forest island.

 

[Leonardo_]

And my pride, a large Montipora Confusa colony

A Favia and Favites spec.

 

[Leonardo_]

Other colonies

 

[Leonardo_]

My lighting pendant, still without a cover.

And at last, night falls on the Lagoon

Leonardo

 

[flying_dutchman]

Amazing! to what university are you going?

 

[Ed Reef]

Beautiful Leo...... those are some HUGE colonies you got there!