New prop system
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Shawnts106
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Can anyone ... scream update!
UPDATE!!!!!
awsome!
UPDATE!!!!!
awsome!
RRodrigues
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Hi guys and gals, here's the pics I took yesterday with actinics on. Sorry for the long delay updating this post.
Sunday past I have attended at the 2nd anniversary of our portuguese reef discussion forum www.reefforum.net and had the opportunity to talk personally with Mr. Anthony Calfo about my prop system. From this talk I've decided that I'm not going to use any substrate for my 2nd prop tank (hard corals, SPS). Coral feeding is important and some kind of food must be provided to corals, maybe I'll get again into plankton cultures.
Crowded mixed tank with cyano algae appearing
Turbinaria reniformis from Red Sea
Photosynthetic gorgonia from Duarte Conceicao reef tank
Montipora australiensis from Juca reef tank
Red Montipora digitata from Joao Ribeiro reef tank
Caulastrea sp.
Nice Acropora from Joao Ribeiro reef tank
Psammocora sp.
Lobophyton pauciflorum
Regards
Sunday past I have attended at the 2nd anniversary of our portuguese reef discussion forum www.reefforum.net and had the opportunity to talk personally with Mr. Anthony Calfo about my prop system. From this talk I've decided that I'm not going to use any substrate for my 2nd prop tank (hard corals, SPS). Coral feeding is important and some kind of food must be provided to corals, maybe I'll get again into plankton cultures.
Crowded mixed tank with cyano algae appearing
Turbinaria reniformis from Red Sea
Photosynthetic gorgonia from Duarte Conceicao reef tank
Montipora australiensis from Juca reef tank
Red Montipora digitata from Joao Ribeiro reef tank
Caulastrea sp.
Nice Acropora from Joao Ribeiro reef tank
Psammocora sp.
Lobophyton pauciflorum
Regards
CoralFiend
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Very nice! A sweet system like that and NSW to top it off! Just too cool! Looks like a bunch of happy coral frags to me. 
RRodrigues
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Hi,
My prop system has now 1 year and is almost done. Hard and soft corals are in separate tanks. I modified the lighting in both tanks to 2 x 150W HQI (10 000K) + 2 x 36W T8 actinics to save on the electricity bill. I'm doing bi-weekly water changes of 20% using NSW. Both tanks have auto top-off systems with kalk adition (Tunze osmolator + Calcium dispenser). The upper tank (hard corals) is going to have a Ca reactor (Aquamedic 1000).
Photos from last week:
Comments and critics welcome
My prop system has now 1 year and is almost done. Hard and soft corals are in separate tanks. I modified the lighting in both tanks to 2 x 150W HQI (10 000K) + 2 x 36W T8 actinics to save on the electricity bill. I'm doing bi-weekly water changes of 20% using NSW. Both tanks have auto top-off systems with kalk adition (Tunze osmolator + Calcium dispenser). The upper tank (hard corals) is going to have a Ca reactor (Aquamedic 1000).
Photos from last week:
Comments and critics welcome
RRodrigues
New member
Thanks guys.
Meanwhile I'm not happy with the colours of my SPS, I think the lack of a fish population and dissolved organic matter plays an important role here. Yesterday I start adding a little fish food into the system (brine shrimp, cyclop-eeze mixed with Vitamin C and Essential elements from Kent Marine).
Meanwhile I'm not happy with the colours of my SPS, I think the lack of a fish population and dissolved organic matter plays an important role here. Yesterday I start adding a little fish food into the system (brine shrimp, cyclop-eeze mixed with Vitamin C and Essential elements from Kent Marine).
RRodrigues
New member
Temperatures are dropping so I added one more 100W thermostat to the upper tank. The average temperatures in both tanks now are 75 ºF (24ºC).
New photos:
Hard corals tank
Zebrassom velliferum
Sump with Aquamedic Calcium reactor 1000 (pH=6,5)
Big crab in sump
Soft corals tank
Caulerpa prolifera
Lobophyton pauciflorum
Galaxea big frags (don't any space left for them in the upper tank)
Regards
New photos:
Hard corals tank
Zebrassom velliferum
Sump with Aquamedic Calcium reactor 1000 (pH=6,5)
Big crab in sump
Soft corals tank
Caulerpa prolifera
Lobophyton pauciflorum
Galaxea big frags (don't any space left for them in the upper tank)
Regards
AVALover5498
*Zoa Freak*
Very nice!!!!
-Chris-
-Chris-
Opcn
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Beautiful tank, beautiful stand, I am very impressed sir.
Also, too chime in on woods (even though thats long dead) What nammy pointed out was 99% what distinguished hard woods from soft,. Gymnosperms (Pinophyta, plants that produce cones, have narrow leaves referred to as needles) are soft woods and Angiosperms (Magnoliophyta, make flowers, have broad leaves) are hard woods, not sure where Ginkgo (Ginkgophyta) falls or the Gnetophyta, but we won't ever encounter those woods for building. The biggest difference I see is the resin content, Softwoods tent to have a lot of pitch in them and for the most part more volatile organics, which can irritate fish if the water comes in contact with them but serves to reduce water penetration, which lessens the chance of rot. sorry for prattleing on, Once again, Beautiful Tank, great looking frags too!
Also, too chime in on woods (even though thats long dead) What nammy pointed out was 99% what distinguished hard woods from soft,. Gymnosperms (Pinophyta, plants that produce cones, have narrow leaves referred to as needles) are soft woods and Angiosperms (Magnoliophyta, make flowers, have broad leaves) are hard woods, not sure where Ginkgo (Ginkgophyta) falls or the Gnetophyta, but we won't ever encounter those woods for building. The biggest difference I see is the resin content, Softwoods tent to have a lot of pitch in them and for the most part more volatile organics, which can irritate fish if the water comes in contact with them but serves to reduce water penetration, which lessens the chance of rot. sorry for prattleing on, Once again, Beautiful Tank, great looking frags too!
racrumrine
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Great pictures, what sort of camera and lens do you use?
Regards,
Roy
Regards,
Roy
RRodrigues
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Thank you for the info Opcn.
racrumrine, I uses Canon Rebel XT (EOS 350D in Europe) with Canon EF 28-80mm and EF 50mm (f1.8).
racrumrine, I uses Canon Rebel XT (EOS 350D in Europe) with Canon EF 28-80mm and EF 50mm (f1.8).
racrumrine
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Thanks.
Best of luck,
Roy
Best of luck,
Roy
naldopr
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saludos from puerto rico<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6146470#post6146470 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RRodrigues
Lights are almost completely done.
Should I put some sugar size aragonite in the bottom?
New pics with my Bangaii juveniles:
Comments please!
Hasta,
Ricardo
I love this tank awesome job
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