Reef Ilhabela II

[Matias Ilhabela]

to 3 months ago

My idea was dismantling the old reef and put this in place, but my wife did not leave (I love this woman) , she wants a lot both on the side of another close one side of the restaurant on just 1.20 meters from one side where, I put a door to the idiots behind the fuses not reef.

it is 2.70 x Height 0.70 x 0.60 in boots he had a fall and a rise, but modified leaves only two downhill boot only without the overflow pipes, because of price I will do the base of masonry which is a cost of US 200.00 if the wood would make a minimum of US450.00, the bricklayer will cut the slate to build the blocks against the floor, then I will be the basis of the same color of the wainscot another reef to be similar to other mobile and non distune both, the skimmer will be a recirculating oceantech 2000, he has 4 pumps of 2000 liters with better Impeller NW, and I also put a calcium reactor oceantech.

forgot to mention the lighting of 250W HQI are 4 of geisemann to 14k plus 10 T5 of 80W of geisemann

I ride with a Brazilian Jaubert , with the bottom plate to Plenun and a layer of high substrate, the substrate will be crushed coral on top of the plates, then a layer of aragonite Nature Ocean's number 2, and another layer on top of Nature's Ocean Samoa Pink.

will have a shelter of 1.40 xA40x50 that will be mounted with substrate of crushed coral halimeda ground and the output will fall next to the pump return.

The UV filter will be a Boyu of 40w, the return will be a viaaqua of 8000 related to one or two Squids, I wanted two of 4000, but for now will not give, the movement will be two turbelle nano stream 6045 and two Boyu Move Maker 5500 liters of time.
The sump is almost 300 liters and will have to perlon compartment.

Let the photos of the assembly

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

to put the reef I got some cards to put 10mm of polystyrene on the cement to fix the flaws, then put an offset of 10mm naval and one layer of 15mm of polystyrene.

this time does not fit the glass, I bought a reef used by a friend, then was mounted, was a hard time to unload the glass

I looking at the size of trouble

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

clear that it was crooked, almost 3cm of gap, until I leave and put the bombs blowing for that side to make waves :lol:
bricklayer drunk nobody deserves

took the glass from above the bed and lying on a table with foam to get the basic bricklayer who was pie

a friend did some cut in the PVC pipe using a dremel, cut vertically to not get that cream on the surface after a thermal I opened the blower fins to be tighter in the lid of the overflow and not fall, you can adjust the height do you want the job now is to paste the two pipes of the same height

reached the substrate and has to wash everything, and also some equipment

already "started" I mean, one official told the wash aragonite have to wash a few times to get 6 that fine white dust.

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

Washing the crushed coral

mounting the two overflow

the assembly of the plates that are glued on one other, two layers.

now putting the crushed coral, it has better dissolution Jaubert system in Brazil, this layer is 2 cm in height.
a large number of hobbyist said that this does not solve anything, but a good friend of mine recommended that I use and how much trust it, mount this

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

this time put a union in the pipe to clear the barrel and take the overflow from within every 6 months

a T to go out in the sump water and the shelter

skimmer

I was diving to catch the live rock, and are now on the reef.

 

[Jhardain]

Wish I still lived where I could dive and get my own stuff from the ocean. Nice build. Thanks for the detail!

 

[Jflip2002]

That is awesome, that'd be terrific to eat alongside once it is full.

OT: What is the Chevy? We dont have them here in the states.

 

[wilcalil]

Jflip2002

That's a MONTANA

 

[Jflip2002]

Thats interesting, looks like a Subaru at first.

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

No problem, we send you to the mountain, and you send in the Dodge Ram and the Mustangs:lol: , but with the same price of the USA,
Ram a double cabin here costs about 80 thousand U.S. dollars.

returning to the reef

put a division in the return of 8000 one thousand liters

but not like that, and just getting sicce used two bombs, one of 4000 and a 5800
installed two squids and was much better

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

continuing with the photos of the assembly
I heard some shots inside the reef, caught a piece of shrimp and put the tip of a rod, and discovered that along with the live rock came two mantis shrimp, now take it with a trap, but the other is very smart and does not enter the trap, he comes and knocks on the door close and shut, could kill him easily with a fork, but I'm leaving it to eat the small crabs that come within the rock alive.
I did a piece of cement and gravel for the coral to hide the overflow pipes

mantis shrimp

within the live rock also has a small fish

I had no money to buy a chiller for the reef, so for now I'm only using micro fans, there's a lot and some days the temperature reaches 31.5° Celsius.

still had to spend some corals for the reef, I missed two because of the heat, but I have to fix that.

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

continuing the story of the assembly.

along with the live rock came some small shrimp, discovered that a species like to eat the polyps acroporas

the solution was to stop them putting a nocturnal predator

Holocentrus Ascensionis

the tubastrea is invading the coast here, I put in some colonies to reef

a fish here on the island aluteros scriptus, I do not know if it is reef safe

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

more photos of the reef

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

more photos of the reef

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

clown fish that no one yet knows what should be a hybrid fish, he is very angry

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

Cantherhines

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

blacks Miss Bar e black Ocelaris,

Scartella cristata