My bluevalley 1800 liters

Nelson Pena

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Hi,
This year i start a new tank in my house.
The size is about 3 meters of lenght for 78 cm of width and 65 of height.

A short descrition of the equipment.


Circulation configuration


Nelson Pena
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13292775#post13292775 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ed Reef
Great to see another hotelier on board :)

hehe
thank you :D
i´m just finishing my last year on the college and working as a sommelier.
 
1st month photos




In that time i was using HQI 400 watts from giesemann.Right now i´m using t5.
These corals come from my old aquariums.
 
This Project starts a little bit influenced by the available space for the aquarium and was impossible to create a working room and i only have some additional lateral space besides underneath aquarium.Of Course this aquarium is not tottaly my pro reefer idea but i really belived that was possible to create the best aquarium that i ever had.
I choose a long 3 meter aquarium because i believe that is possible to create inside the same aquarium and of course using the same water two different marine habitats, one with powerfull and variable circulation and the other with more close and calm waters creating conditions for having SPS and LPS. The SPS area is about 2/3 of the aquarium and besides the strong circulation have two overflows that creates more rotation in the water.
The remaining 1/3 was imagined to have more retention water and less circulation, creating therefore more conditions for LPS.

There is a contradiction between the natural environment for SPS and LPS but i believe that is possible to approach in certain way the conditions for SPS and LPS without harming one of them.

The draw explains the more rotation in the SPS area and the less circulation in LPS area but i may try to have some SPS in the LPS area like poccilopora, montipora and Acropora millepora and also i will try some less demanding nutrient LPS´s like Euphyllia in the SPS area, speccially on the middle of the reef.

The Major doubt are related with the possibility of the reduction of the redox derivative of the calm waters on LPS area.

 
22th month update

22th month update

hi
22th month update
some problems with aefw and monti nudis but is under control.
:)
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14851731#post14851731 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by waynem
Great collection of frags sitting in the tank. Is it still jsut the T5 lamps?

no. its a combination between t5 and hqi.
5 lumenarc with 400 watts reeflux coralvue running in marine lux ballasts
and 2 xt5 blau 6 x 80 watts with t5 lamps.
:)
 
All the frags come from my colonies . around 100 frags. i´m starting a new tank only for propagation. i really dont appreciate all this frags in the bottom.
 
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