our 200 gal system

[Machiel]

Hi all,

Some info about me (us)...
I'm Machiel, 26y old from the Netherlands, married for 1 year with my wife Lizz. 15 years ago I had a reeftank with my dad but due to high expenses at that time we had to sell the tank and livestock. Now 15 years later I started a reeftank myself, the whole system contains 200 and something gal and is up and running for about 4 months now.

Size in inches is in my footer, its 150cm x 70cm x 60cm wh with a 130cm x 50cm x 30cm sump.
Lightning: 2x 250w Photon MH and 4x54w ATI T5
AM Phosphate filter
Bubbleking 200mini skimmer
2x Vortech MP40w streamers and 2x 6000 made in china streamers
100-110 kg of LiveRock (or about 200lbs)

Fish:
Zebrasoma verliferum
Ctenochaetus tominiensis
Acanthurus pyroferus
Acanthurus japonicus

Centropyge hybrid (C. eibli x C. flavisimus?)
2x Escenius stigmatura
2x Trimma Rubromaculatus
2x Elactinus multifasciatum
2x trimma sp.

4x cleaner shrimp

Just starting with some sps corals like acropora, stylopora and montipora.

If you want to know more, just ask

 

[Machiel]

Some pics...

New live rock, half of it is fresh Maricultured Bali rock, some 1y old rock and some 4weeks old rock from Indonesia.

 

[Machiel]

Some pics of the living creatures comming out of the rocks...

 

[Machiel]

And how the tank is now, sorry about the bad photo's, a fellow reefkeeper is coming to us this week and he will help us rebuild the left side of the tank and teach us how to make good pictures with the right colors

I will add more pictures of the fish and corals later.

 

[Machiel]

Fish:

the Zebrasoma veliferum or Sailfin tang

Sailfin and Tomini tang

Our Acanthurus pyroferus or mimic tang wich mimics the C. vroliki or Half Black angelfish

The very fresh Acanthurus japonicus or White cheek tang, we got it yesterday and he is having some fights with the tomini (wich is allso agressive). The White cheek isn't scared at all and is constantly looking for the confrontation and we hope it will survive because its behaviour is very interesting and the colors are gorgeous.

 

[Machiel]

The hybrid dwarfangel

Escenius stigmatura

Elactinus multifasciatum or green banded gobie

Unknown to me, Trimma/Eviota sp.?

 

[Machiel]

Some coral frags and other stuff

This is it for now, after we have re-shaped the left side of the tank I will post some new overviews.

 

[blondie0954]

yes like look of tank so far be good to watch it mature like your wifes tshirt my misses has 1 similar lol and she blonde too LOL

 

[Machiel]

Haha thanks, thats my lil sis, shes only 14 years old
My wife is a brunette

 

[Hongt713]

lovely tank

 

[Machiel]

Hmm long time since I posted something here...
We are now owning a reefaquarium over 1 year and we had some ups and downs. We lost our complete sps and half the lps collection twice due to exessive high water temperature and high NO3 levels.

As we speak, the corals and fishes are thriving and I will make a list of it later.
First some pic's.

 

[Machiel]

Some more pic's because they say more than words :rollface:

 

[johnniemac1971]

nice pics

 

[Tom Foolery]

Good work so far!

 

[Machiel]

Thanks guys, I try my best

 

[gtaylor67]

Looks like with those ups and downs you have made some progress. Great tank and hope you can keep us posted..... Thanks

 

[robot2222]

i love the tank...........nice coral shots.

 

[elvis142]

hello, nice tank! please keep the pictures coming.

john

 

[leslie hempel]

very nice

 

[Machiel]

Thank you all!
Currently we have some problems with our Acropora's, most of them are turning green and some are bleaching. Our Monti's are thriving and the water parameters are ok:

NO2 = 0
NO3 = 2
PO4 = < 0.25
KH = 7.7
Ca = 480
Mg = 1250
Temp = 25 celcius

Serveral fellow reefers have told me that we could have too much heavy metals in our system, wich could be the reason of our Acropora's turning green.

We picked up a very cheap Acan lord last week, only 50$ for at least 50+ polyps, its not the brightest color I've seen but I couldn't resist the offer... We allso got a med. Acrozoanthus colony for free!! The shopkeeper is a very nice person who likes me
I made a photo of it and a full tank shot.