October 2010 Tank of the Month

[Dejavu]

This month we are featuring the beautiful 363 gallon SPS reef aquarium of Luca Girlando's (lucasabao).

More details can be found here.

Congratulations, Luca!

Also check out Reefkeeping blog!

 

[Nando-Italy]

congratulations to my great friend!

 

[lucasabao]

congratulations to my great friend!

thank you my teacher:beer::beer:

 

[tom obrecht]

Tank looks great! Welcome to the club!:dance:

 

[gofor100]

Inspiring tank!!! Truly amazing colors and love the collection of fish you have there.

Have you had any issues with the Regal and Emperor Angel nipping corals/clams?

Congrats on the TOTM!

 

[lucasabao]

Tank looks great! Welcome to the club!:dance:

thanks mate

Inspiring tank!!! Truly amazing colors and love the collection of fish you have there.

Have you had any issues with the Regal and Emperor Angel nipping corals/clams?

Congrats on the TOTM!

no issues for the moment at all, thanks for compliments:wavehand:

 

[sps aquaria]

congratulations

 

[Konolua]

Looks great! Love the bird's nest.

 

[Oldude]

Very nice, congratulations on TOTM!

 

[saltcrazy]

Awesome success! Just curious, your water parameter of alkalinity shows 5.4-5.8 dKH?

 

[jc-reef]

Very impressive and beautiful tank!!
Truley inspiring! :beer::beer::beer:

 

[zaheda]

Congratulations, what an awesome tank you have. Its the first big sps tank me see with just LED lighting. It shows they work and give very nice colour. How is the growth under the LED?

 

[re-fin-away]

Great looking reef. SPS is the direction I am going to go with my new 180. I have LED's on my current tank and have great growth on LPS. I am going the the same on the 180. I am incouraged with the growth you have with them.

 

[alessandro]

Well deserved TOTM!
Fantastic tank!
Congratulations Luca!!:beer::beer:

 

[sue711]

Your tank is beautiful!! Congratulations!

 

[lucasabao]

congratulations

thanks

Looks great! Love the bird's nest.

that was a little frag 16 months ago.....it has an incredible grow rate!!!

Very nice, congratulations on TOTM!

thanks "collegue" :dance:

 

[lucasabao]

Awesome success! Just curious, your water parameter of alkalinity shows 5.4-5.8 dKH?

thank you....yes, alkalinity is 5,4-5,8, why do you find it strange?

 

[lucasabao]

Very impressive and beautiful tank!!
Truley inspiring! :beer::beer::beer:

thank you mate

Congratulations, what an awesome tank you have. Its the first big sps tank me see with just LED lighting. It shows they work and give very nice colour. How is the growth under the LED?

Great looking reef. SPS is the direction I am going to go with my new 180. I have LED's on my current tank and have great growth on LPS. I am going the the same on the 180. I am incouraged with the growth you have with them.

thank you guys, in fact it was a gamble changing over to led (obviousy i've triied before a section of the tank) but i'm very satisfied with the results: the corals seem to like the light, polyp extention is great and the growing rate is very good.
Regarding the colors.....well, they are ok but i think there is a lot of work to do for me finding out the correct lenght and intensity of lighting in order to reach the same colors i used to have with MH

 

[lucasabao]

Well deserved TOTM!
Fantastic tank!
Congratulations Luca!!:beer::beer:

hehehe thank you alessandro

Your tank is beautiful!! Congratulations!

thanks

 

[chingchai]

Luca. Congratulations.
Another beautiful tank from Italy.

One question:
How old is this tank?
Sorry if I misread it.