My azoox aquarium is almost complete
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flying_dutchman
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Awesome tank,
+1 on some specs
Thanks for your feedbacks 
The description:
Aquarium is custom made 40X31X29 arround 150Gal with 50 Gal Sump
Filtration:
There are only two sections in sump: 1/3 for skimmer and reactors and other 2/3for refugium. Skimmer is ATI BM200 it is turn on all the time, but actually working only at night. Reactors are: Octopus 110 media reactor with 1000ml NP Bio pellets and Octopus KR140 kalkwasser reactor which is used for feeding.
I also do weekly water changes 10-15 gallons per week, I beleave it is a must for sucha a system.
Lighting: 6 led strips (4.5W each) 1 red, 2 blue and 3 wight and 3 7W blue spot led lamps. Period is 13 hours per day. Generally it is not too bright, but the Idea was to create seep water effect.
Water movement: is done by 2 vertex MP40 and 2 coralia 4 pumps. All pumps are located on left wall. Vertex are running in reef crest mode on mac power.
I'm considering adding vertex MP60 as soon as it will be available in Israel.
Feeding: I feed 30g artemia direct to rizo and sun corals. once a day. I feed mix of FM Ultra Min Clams, Ultra Min D, Ultra Min S; Tropic Marine Phyton, Zooton and Coral Snow 5g of each dissolved in mix of living rotifers an living nannochloropsis. In addition, every couple a days I dose some amount of living 2days old artemia nauplii.
Additives: 5 drops of BrightWell Lugol solution into sump daily and 10 drops of BrightWell Coral Amino daily as well.
I guess that's it.
I'll be happy getting feedbacks and answering your questions
Meanwile: left corner:
The description:
Aquarium is custom made 40X31X29 arround 150Gal with 50 Gal Sump
Filtration:
There are only two sections in sump: 1/3 for skimmer and reactors and other 2/3for refugium. Skimmer is ATI BM200 it is turn on all the time, but actually working only at night. Reactors are: Octopus 110 media reactor with 1000ml NP Bio pellets and Octopus KR140 kalkwasser reactor which is used for feeding.
I also do weekly water changes 10-15 gallons per week, I beleave it is a must for sucha a system.
Lighting: 6 led strips (4.5W each) 1 red, 2 blue and 3 wight and 3 7W blue spot led lamps. Period is 13 hours per day. Generally it is not too bright, but the Idea was to create seep water effect.
Water movement: is done by 2 vertex MP40 and 2 coralia 4 pumps. All pumps are located on left wall. Vertex are running in reef crest mode on mac power.
I'm considering adding vertex MP60 as soon as it will be available in Israel.
Feeding: I feed 30g artemia direct to rizo and sun corals. once a day. I feed mix of FM Ultra Min Clams, Ultra Min D, Ultra Min S; Tropic Marine Phyton, Zooton and Coral Snow 5g of each dissolved in mix of living rotifers an living nannochloropsis. In addition, every couple a days I dose some amount of living 2days old artemia nauplii.
Additives: 5 drops of BrightWell Lugol solution into sump daily and 10 drops of BrightWell Coral Amino daily as well.
I guess that's it.
I'll be happy getting feedbacks and answering your questions
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flying_dutchman
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How long has the tank been setup? How many times a day do you feed the mixture? Do you have any fish in the tank?
flying_dutchman
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scalowagreef
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Awesome tank!
How do you control phosphates and nitrates?
How do you control phosphates and nitrates?
Good Morning
Carlo80: I do not direct feed spirals, but I guess that it receives artemia nauplii and the mix/
Flying_Dutchman: It is actually 1 time a day starting at 7:00 AM and finishing at 9:00 PM. Rate is approx. 1 drop per minute, so food is always there in the water during the day time. That's almost killing skimmer's performance during the daytime, but it works very hard at night.
Uhuru: No, of course I do not think that biopellets can provide sufficient amount of food for corals. I use it because it provides sufficient amount of food for bacteria.
Scalowagreef: Weekly eater changes + Skimmer. + Biopellets.
Carlo80: I do not direct feed spirals, but I guess that it receives artemia nauplii and the mix/
Flying_Dutchman: It is actually 1 time a day starting at 7:00 AM and finishing at 9:00 PM. Rate is approx. 1 drop per minute, so food is always there in the water during the day time. That's almost killing skimmer's performance during the daytime, but it works very hard at night.
Uhuru: No, of course I do not think that biopellets can provide sufficient amount of food for corals. I use it because it provides sufficient amount of food for bacteria.
Scalowagreef: Weekly eater changes + Skimmer. + Biopellets.
Western_reefer
Reef keeper
How long was the tank set up for? Gorgeous tank BTW.
nanshaw2001
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Gorgeous....the colors are incredible! Job very well done!!!!!
flying_dutchman
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Have you noticed any growth with your corals? Are there corals you have more success with than with others?
How do you feed the tank when you're away for a couple of days?
Sorry for all the questions, just curious
flying_dutchman,
Regarding to growth - most of the corals were not in best shape when they came to me:
Diodogorgia nodulifera (not sure about ID, but it looks most like that ) had tissue recession in each tip and on bottom. Now after almost a year it is fully recovered, old branches increased in size and it has new branches.
I also have several echinogorgia species with the same story.
Most successful are tubastreas and dendronephthya, those are growing and reproducing sexually (I'll put the photos of sexual reproduction results later today )
Friends and parents are helping me with feeding when I'm out of home.
fullmonti, Will I be cap. obvious if I'll say that I'm buying them from LFS?
Regarding to growth - most of the corals were not in best shape when they came to me:
Diodogorgia nodulifera (not sure about ID, but it looks most like that ) had tissue recession in each tip and on bottom. Now after almost a year it is fully recovered, old branches increased in size and it has new branches.
I also have several echinogorgia species with the same story.
Most successful are tubastreas and dendronephthya, those are growing and reproducing sexually (I'll put the photos of sexual reproduction results later today
)Friends and parents are helping me with feeding when I'm out of home.
fullmonti, Will I be cap. obvious if I'll say that I'm buying them from LFS?
