Solar powered aquarium from Italy

[Rod the Reefer]

Just read your entire journal and I love your tank.

I had a cryptic zone set up in my system for years and removed it after listening to people who advised it was a detritus trap and a nitrate factory. Since it's removal my Po4 and No3 have been higher than before.

After reading of your success and the article on cryptic zones I will be reinstating mine!

Thank you Paolo.

Just one question, do you have a filter sock on your drain or would this be a disadvantage to the small critters moving from the display to the sump?

Rod. :thumbsup:

 

[Paolo Piccinell]

Hi Rod!

Happy of being useful!!!
I do not have any filter sock as I think it's a nonsense with cryptic, but maybe if I could restart, I'd put the rocks of the cryptic on a grid, to make easy eventual cleaning intervention.

 

[pocci]

Superb tank....Really a true wonderful tank...

What do you dose to keep their colors? Any carbon dosing or something..?
How many hours of lighting period?

 

[Paolo Piccinell]

Thanks pocci!

I dose plenty of fish food everyday and a couple of spoons of fructose per week.

9 hours HQI, 10 hours blue

 

[Cujo]

Amazing Masterpiece!!

Can I ask how you maintain Calcium levels?

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

I would like to congratulate you on your 2 year anniversary on this beautiful tank.

 

[Paolo Piccinell]

with this calcium reactor:

 

[Faisal1976us]

What you are using for feeding sps ?

 

[Paolo Piccinell]

What you are using for feeding sps ?

nothing, just fish food.

 

[Good_GReef]

Wow is all i can say! Your pics and tank are stunning. I am newly inspired and i love that you are doing all this without a complicated regimen of dosing. Keep the updates coming. You have a lot of fans!

 

[rbarn]

http://postimg.org/image/n2p3vr4h9/


:bigeyes::bigeyes::bigeyes:

After seeing this does your wife wish she had let you put it in the house ? :headwally:

 

[Paolo Piccinell]

No, she still is happy that aquarium is out of her sight!!!

(me too, so I can flood the floor everytime is needed)

 

[Paolo Piccinell]

Yesterday we modified the tank, as some animals were far too big...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvJ9NBAmayg


Seeing this video, I cried!



...now, the tank is ready for its next two years!

 

[Faisal1976us]

Italian reefers always the best

 

[dave.m]

Seeing this video, I cried!

We are crying with you, Paolo. Such a terrible tragedy! Are you absolutely sure you couldn't have kept the corals as they were and just upgraded to a 4000 litre tank?

Dave.M

 

[stevefl]

some very cool ideas thanks for sharing!

 

[Paolo Piccinell]

Are you absolutely sure you couldn't have kept the corals as they were and just upgraded to a 4000 litre tank?

I tried to explain it to my wife, but... :-(

 

[Paolo Piccinell]

Italian reefers always the best

We love noisy and crowded places! LOL

 

[DOGGIE750]

I am a FAN 4life.... cheers Paolo!!!

 

[Paolo Piccinell]

Hi, man!