Hello everyone from Athens- Greece!
Let me introduce my self. My name is Panos and I am 36years old. My fascination for reef keeping started when I witnessed a clown fish hosting a Long Tentacle Anemone in a nearby fish store. I started out with a 8 gallons tank, dreaming to keep an anemone and a clownfish. Without any reefing experience or even fresh water experience at all. While browsing on the internet I came across various Forums. This was the turning moment for me. With the wealth of information that is freely shared among the great reefers throughout the world and with a little tweaking on my system I was able to keep fishes and corals. That was back in 2012. The current display is running since July 2014.
System Summary
"¢ Display Aquarium: 200L (50 gallons) 60cm x 60cm x 65cm (23.6" x 23.6" x 26.6")
"¢ Sump: No (future plan)
"¢ Skimmer: Deltec MCE 600 (white pump)
"¢ Lighting: Aqualum Celio (90W 32 Cree XPE - 42 smd 3528) Sunrise- Sunset auto Dimmable
"¢ Water Circulation: 1x Jebao RW-8 & 1x Tunze 6015
"¢ Heater- Cooling: Fluval Aquarium Heater 200W & 6 Head DC Fan controlled by Eliwell ic-915
"¢ Dosing pump: No (future plan)
"¢ ATO: Tunze Nano Osmolator
"¢ RO/DI: Yes- 4 stages.
Aquascaping: I used aquaroche pillar and aragonite 3-5mm
Water Parameters:
Temperature: 26C (78.8ºF)
Salinity: 35ppt
pH: 8.0 - 8.2
Nitrate: 0.2 - 2ppm
Alkalinity: 8 - 8.5dkH
Calcium: 420 - 440ppm
Magnesium: 1300 - 1375ppm
Salts used: Tropic Marine Pro Reef & Red Sea Coral Pro
Maintenance:
Daily
Feed the fishes before leaving for work and before going to bed. Morning feedings depend whether I have time. Clean the viewable panels as needed. Dosing Alkalinity, Calcium, Magnesium (by hand at the moment)
Weekly
Change 5gallons of water vacuum the sand bed and testing parameters
Monthly
Replace carbon and GFO. Clean the skimmer
Livestock:
Fish
1x Sleeper Blue Dot Goby (Valenciennea sexguttata)
2x Blue/Green Reef Chromis (Chromis viridis)
1x Cinnamon Clownfish (Amphiprion melanopus)
1x Six Line Wrasse (Pseudocheilinus hexataenia)
1x Powder Brown Tang (Acanthurus japonicus)
Invertebrates
1x Crocea Clam (Tridacna crocea)
1x Electric Blue Hermit Crab (Calcinus elegans)
1x Neoferdina Cumingi sea star
4-5x Super Tongan Nassarius Snail (Nassarius distortus)
1x Turban Snail (Tectus fenestratus)
2-3x Zebra Turbo Snail (Turbo sp.)
Polyps
Fruit Loops zoas
Sunny D's
Sunrise Supernova
Radioactive Dragon Eye
Rainbow Red
Purple Fission
Mushroom Corals
Ricordea florida pink
Ricordea florida orange
Hairy Mushroom (Rhodactis indosinensis)
LPS
Trumpet Coral - blue (Caulastrea curvata)
Frogspawn Coral (Euphyllia divisa)
Hammer Coral (Euphyllia ancora)
Euphyllia yaeyamaensis
Duncan Coral (Duncanopsammia axifuga)
Acan Lord Coral - Red (Acanthastrea lordhowensis)
Elegance Coral (Catalaphyllia jardinei)
SPS
Acropora Valida
Stylophora Coral - Orange (Stylophora pistillata)
Birdsnest Coral -Pink (Seriatopora hystrix)
seriatopora blue
Digitate Acropora Coral - Purple (Acropora gemmifera)
montipora digitata - Purple
Plating Montipora - Green (Montipora peltiformis)
Pavona Coral (Pavona decussatus)
and some photos! (sorry about poor quality- taken from mobile phone)
Let me introduce my self. My name is Panos and I am 36years old. My fascination for reef keeping started when I witnessed a clown fish hosting a Long Tentacle Anemone in a nearby fish store. I started out with a 8 gallons tank, dreaming to keep an anemone and a clownfish. Without any reefing experience or even fresh water experience at all. While browsing on the internet I came across various Forums. This was the turning moment for me. With the wealth of information that is freely shared among the great reefers throughout the world and with a little tweaking on my system I was able to keep fishes and corals. That was back in 2012. The current display is running since July 2014.
System Summary
"¢ Display Aquarium: 200L (50 gallons) 60cm x 60cm x 65cm (23.6" x 23.6" x 26.6")
"¢ Sump: No (future plan)
"¢ Skimmer: Deltec MCE 600 (white pump)
"¢ Lighting: Aqualum Celio (90W 32 Cree XPE - 42 smd 3528) Sunrise- Sunset auto Dimmable
"¢ Water Circulation: 1x Jebao RW-8 & 1x Tunze 6015
"¢ Heater- Cooling: Fluval Aquarium Heater 200W & 6 Head DC Fan controlled by Eliwell ic-915
"¢ Dosing pump: No (future plan)
"¢ ATO: Tunze Nano Osmolator
"¢ RO/DI: Yes- 4 stages.
Aquascaping: I used aquaroche pillar and aragonite 3-5mm
Water Parameters:
Temperature: 26C (78.8ºF)
Salinity: 35ppt
pH: 8.0 - 8.2
Nitrate: 0.2 - 2ppm
Alkalinity: 8 - 8.5dkH
Calcium: 420 - 440ppm
Magnesium: 1300 - 1375ppm
Salts used: Tropic Marine Pro Reef & Red Sea Coral Pro
Maintenance:
Daily
Feed the fishes before leaving for work and before going to bed. Morning feedings depend whether I have time. Clean the viewable panels as needed. Dosing Alkalinity, Calcium, Magnesium (by hand at the moment)
Weekly
Change 5gallons of water vacuum the sand bed and testing parameters
Monthly
Replace carbon and GFO. Clean the skimmer
Livestock:
Fish
1x Sleeper Blue Dot Goby (Valenciennea sexguttata)
2x Blue/Green Reef Chromis (Chromis viridis)
1x Cinnamon Clownfish (Amphiprion melanopus)
1x Six Line Wrasse (Pseudocheilinus hexataenia)
1x Powder Brown Tang (Acanthurus japonicus)
Invertebrates
1x Crocea Clam (Tridacna crocea)
1x Electric Blue Hermit Crab (Calcinus elegans)
1x Neoferdina Cumingi sea star
4-5x Super Tongan Nassarius Snail (Nassarius distortus)
1x Turban Snail (Tectus fenestratus)
2-3x Zebra Turbo Snail (Turbo sp.)
Polyps
Fruit Loops zoas
Sunny D's
Sunrise Supernova
Radioactive Dragon Eye
Rainbow Red
Purple Fission
Mushroom Corals
Ricordea florida pink
Ricordea florida orange
Hairy Mushroom (Rhodactis indosinensis)
LPS
Trumpet Coral - blue (Caulastrea curvata)
Frogspawn Coral (Euphyllia divisa)
Hammer Coral (Euphyllia ancora)
Euphyllia yaeyamaensis
Duncan Coral (Duncanopsammia axifuga)
Acan Lord Coral - Red (Acanthastrea lordhowensis)
Elegance Coral (Catalaphyllia jardinei)
SPS
Acropora Valida
Stylophora Coral - Orange (Stylophora pistillata)
Birdsnest Coral -Pink (Seriatopora hystrix)
seriatopora blue
Digitate Acropora Coral - Purple (Acropora gemmifera)
montipora digitata - Purple
Plating Montipora - Green (Montipora peltiformis)
Pavona Coral (Pavona decussatus)
and some photos! (sorry about poor quality- taken from mobile phone)
