Norwegian 133G Zeovit Reef

[selje]

In my previous thread, Norwegian 133g acrylic sps tank, I lost against aiptasia. I decided in January to remove all of my LR and sand and re-boot. Therefore I now make a new thread as I have a fresh start.

Positive sides of a fresh start.

• Plan Corals and make a perfect Aquascape

• No more Aiptasia (at least for now)

• New and fresh Premium LR from Indonesia

Not so positive sides of a fresh start.

• Expensive

• Take a lot of time

• Lost a couple of corals

• Unstable water parameteres

But now I finally can realize my dream of a 99% Acropora Reef. Of SPS I will only have Acropora in this tank. I will have some LPS on the sand like a couple of Fungias and the Meteorshower Cyphastrea.

Here is some information about the tank and equipment.

Tank:
Aquarium: Acrylic tank from Schuran in Germany 112x75x60 cm, 12mm thickness, 504 l (133 G)
Sump: Glass 65x50x45 cm, 8mm thickness, 146 l (38 G)

Equipment:
Light: Orphek Atlantik v1
Skimmer: Royal Exclusive Bubble King Double Cone 200
Circulation: Maxspect Gyre XF150
Water Filtration: SMR1 Nextreef Reactor with BioPellets, Filter Bag with Rowaphos and active carbon
Additives: Balling+ with a Grotech III NG dosage pump, Amino acids and Kalium

Fish
Amphirion Ocellaris Premium Black Ice/Snowflake ORA x 2
Chelmon Rostratus
Halichoeres Iridis (Radiant Wrasse)
Neocirrhites Armatus (Flame Hawkfish)

Corals:
SPS:
Acropora Awi
Acropora Caroliniana
Acropora sp. Aussie
Acropora Tortuosa

LPS:
Cyphastrea Agassizi Meteorshower

 

[selje]

I had a spare acrylic top for my Orphek Atlantik lamp. This was the perfect stabilizer of my Aquascape. I have used a lot of strips for this scape. I will try to hide most of them with small branching LR and coral glue.

To be continued..

 

[sahin]

Hey Andreas! Good to see you back on the forums. Hope your family is well. Look forward to your rebuild.

 

[selje]

Hey Sahin! Thank you, glad to be back. We are fine thanks. How about you?

Here is the final aquascape. Sorry for the poor picture quality. I forgot to take pictures of the whole process, sorry about that :deadhorse1:

I haven't got the sand yet. Ordered 1-2mm and hope that will be enough to stay on the bottom.

 

[sahin]

I'm good thanks. Thats a pretty cool scape. Lots of negative space should make for an impressive display. :beer:

 

[selje]

A couple of frags. I will try to have just "deepwater acroporas" on the little island.

Here are two for now. Acropora Caroliniana.

And Acropora Awi.

I lost the mother coral in my crash and finally got back a frag from a friend

 

[selje]

Here's a picture of the colony that the Awi came from.

The frag has only been here a couple of days so I can't wait till it will color up!

 

[sahin]

That A. awi looks very nice man. I cant wait to see you produce the stunning tank that you had before under the ATI. I remember the colours were awesome and the photography was top class. Just waiting for all that to return.

 

[selje]

Thanks Sahin. I sadly lost my Achilles Tang a couple of weeks ago. It was crazy about Ocean Nutrition Formula One and Prime Reef Flakes so I was very surprised when it suddenly died. I only had it for around seven days. My second try, and I am not sure if I am going for a third. It must have brought something with it, because only a couple of days later the Chelmon Rostratus and Bipartitus wrasse died without any real reason.

Will not add any more fish for a month or so. Am not sure what kind of fish to try next. I need one Tang (or algae eater), a wrasse who can eat flatworms and other plagues and maybe some anthias or something to bring a little color beside the corals. Do you guys have any tips?

I have gotten a lot of Acropora lately (even though the system is so fresh) . Everything looks very good so far. Stay tuned for more pictures.

 

[sahin]

Sorry about the fish loss.

Look forward to the Acropora photos.

Tangs: if you want small tangs; Kole tang, Tomini tang etc. Use this link for more ideas: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/aquarium-fish-supplies.cfm?c=15+43

Wrasse: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/aquarium-fish-supplies.cfm?c=15+1378 Use that link for ideas, but I recommend Leopard Wrasse and Yellow halichoeres wrasse. Some of the other wrasse are very beautiful.

 

[selje]

Norwegian 133G Acropora Reef

Norwegian 133G Acropora Reef

Thanks Sahin. I think I will try to find two small A. Nigricans and A. Leucosternon. I like the Bipartitus wrasse but it's hard to get hold of right now.

Here's finally a couple of pictures!

Corals finally acclimated. All Aussie!

Hmm, where to start...?

Where to mount everything?

Starting to look like an Acropora reef..

My son is impressed hehe

 

[sahin]

Looking great buddy. :thumbsup: Cant wait to see the top down shots from the Canon DSLR.

 

[selje]

Thanks. Here's pictures one day after introduction.

Tabling Aussie. Unknown id.

Acropora Rosaria.

Acropora Sarmentosa.

Acropora Millepora.

Acropora sp.

Acropora Florida.

Acropora sp.

Acropora Aculeus.

 

[selje]

Acropora Caroliniana.

Acropora Awi.

Acropora sp.

Acropora Aculeus.

Acropora Florida.

 

[sahin]

Thats more like it! :beer: I've always enjoyed the awesome photography you produce. :thumbsup: These corals should look awesome within a few months. The A. sarmentosa will look awesome soon. I had one in the past, it got bright pink tip faces and awesome glowing green body.

Take things easy; thats got to be some expensive coral purchase. Be careful with the nutrient reduction and keep parameters stable; these corals will be sensitive for a while. Goodluck my friend. Hope to see this reef become special like your 140G.

 

[selje]

Some top-down!

Acropora Aculeus.

Aussie Fungia.

Acropora sp.

Acropora sp.

Tabling A. Sp.

Acropora Florida.

Acropora Rosaria.

Acropora Sarmentosa.

 

[selje]

Thats more like it! :beer: I've always enjoyed the awesome photography you produce. :thumbsup: These corals should look awesome within a few months. The A. sarmentosa will look awesome soon. I had one in the past, it got bright pink tip faces and awesome glowing green body.

Take things easy; thats got to be some expensive coral purchase. Be careful with the nutrient reduction and keep parameters stable; these corals will be sensitive for a while. Goodluck my friend. Hope to see this reef become special like your 140G.

Thanks Sahin. I had to go all in when I got a chance to get hold of Aussie Acroporas:xlbirthday:

I have acclimated them well. Am running the lamp on acclimation program and will gradually put it back on 100% by next week. Since the rock and everything is so fresh, nutrients can become a problem. But I hope biopellets and rowphos will take most of it. So far so good. Balling is currently on 100ml pr day. So far no loss!

 

[selje]

Acropora Millepora.

Saving the best hehe!

Acropora Microclados. Aussie SSC.

Acropora Spathulata.

Acropora sp. Pearlberry (sadly I lost this little frag the day after introduction).

Blue Acropora Spathulata.

Here's the placement of the Spathulatas (have one more frag of a pink one, its to the left in front of the large Milli)

FTS in blue lights.

 

[Wings6010]

Beautiful!! Subscribed

 

[sahin]

Beautiful! :beer: Love that spathulata...need a frag of that.