Tank of the Month - August '06
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Fishie Nut
Premium Member
OHMYGOD!!!
Boy do I envy you. Beautiful.
Boy do I envy you. Beautiful.
Ciarán
New member
Just goes to show who really began this hobby before you rich yanks hopped on the bandwagon! ALLEZ EUROPE LOL!! F-anthias-tic tank, i really love it, proves that continental reefers still rule the roost. (Peter Wilkens will be proud im sure!). BTW is this the UV Steriliser?
looks like it! I cant imagine the effort and money literally pumped into this and it deserves the highest of commendations. Your fish corals and inverts are extremely lucky to have found their way to that awesome system and your trusty husbandry. Major kudos..
Ciaran, the irish reefer.
looks like it! I cant imagine the effort and money literally pumped into this and it deserves the highest of commendations. Your fish corals and inverts are extremely lucky to have found their way to that awesome system and your trusty husbandry. Major kudos..
Ciaran, the irish reefer.
Hi all,
thank you so much for your overwhelming judgement and kind words.
I am still supprised about the reactions I got after posting the first pics.
Feels great ;-)
Well, let's see if I get all questions right and do not overlook something, please remind me if
so.
@panic
regarding the jellyfish I am still gathering information, regarding different species' needs in the
different development stages (changeing temperature etc.).
They do not live so long, so one will have to breed them.
Maybe I start someday with local species from the Northern Sea, being able to eat small Artemia, not having to breed Brachionus etc.
@jadran
I have some other pics here, but they have been taken by the architects and I don't know
if I am allowed to show them public. I think so, but its good behaving to prior ask them,
what I did now. Let's see what they'll reply.
@dougie
It would be so great to go diving in the Great Barrier Reef...
Unfortunately it's so far away from here, digging straight down I should come out somewhere
near. Northern sea is far too muddy and the Baltic Sea thats near, I do not visit very often for diving. Nothing like coralreefs, still nice but only 10 degree Centigrade (50 F) in Summer at
normal diving depth. 7mm half-dry suite is minimum
.
So I prefer looking into my reef most time ;-).
@Angel*Fish
I'll show your posting to my whife, who promised to make a vid some weeks ago.
Now she'll have to do it!
@jnarowe
Think you're right regarding the Kole.
It's leaving the anthias and sixline wrasses alone, but from time to time attacs all others.
If they resist, it leaves them alone and tries again in some weeks.
That one goby was only trying to take refuge, what was it's fault.
@madhouse
there is a bigger version as 3396x2260 jpg of the picture at beginning of this thread at http://www.cashh.de/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=2292 .
Pls. drop me a pm if u need an uncompressed format (Canon RAW / tiff / whatever).
@Ciaran
like Skipper wrote, it's the UV, from Deltec 4*34watts.
It's connected directly at a bypass of the external water-movement pumps and not in the
sump. I was told, that one is getting best results if connecting directly to the tanks water
and not in the sump.
The Deltec UV was the only one I could get here with quartz-glas bulbs and quartz-glas bulb-containers.
Normal glas is filtering UV partly and most UVs here use normal glas.
@tentacles
Lights are 23cm (9") away from the water. Just enough to prevent water splashes
hitting the reflectors of the T5.
@madmac
wrong question ;-)
what was added were the black stripes... the white is the 2" birch multiplex board on the steel
frame, the black stripes is one side (down) self adhering foam of a neoprene like material.
The foam was added to prevent little dirt particles (sand/stones/etc) from giving point
load to the tanks bottom. The bottom was made of 3 parts, resting on the foam stripes.
@cmc5dc
I liked the idea of the "Balling"-method. Beeing able to adjust Ca/Mg/Alk. indep. simply by
reprogramming the dosing-pumps.
In the past I used a pH-regulated Ca-reactor with some Mg in it.
Well it worked, but I've had some issues like changing waterflow due to blocked up in-/outlets
and wasn't able to control the parameters independently.
Having low Ca but high KH and playing around with pH,waterflow to adjust wasn't that easy.
@Kluver
The only help I had is that described in the TOTM article, during buildup.
After the point of bringing the reef-base-structure in, no one else has had its fingers in or around it ;-).
I am doin' coralreefing for about 14 years now and will not let anyone steal the fun I have with it
.
Thanks again for the privilege to share and discuss my setup with you.
Ralf
thank you so much for your overwhelming judgement and kind words.
I am still supprised about the reactions I got after posting the first pics.
Feels great ;-)
Well, let's see if I get all questions right and do not overlook something, please remind me if
so.
@panic
regarding the jellyfish I am still gathering information, regarding different species' needs in the
different development stages (changeing temperature etc.).
They do not live so long, so one will have to breed them.
Maybe I start someday with local species from the Northern Sea, being able to eat small Artemia, not having to breed Brachionus etc.
@jadran
I have some other pics here, but they have been taken by the architects and I don't know
if I am allowed to show them public. I think so, but its good behaving to prior ask them,
what I did now. Let's see what they'll reply.
@dougie
It would be so great to go diving in the Great Barrier Reef...
Unfortunately it's so far away from here, digging straight down I should come out somewhere
near. Northern sea is far too muddy and the Baltic Sea thats near, I do not visit very often for diving. Nothing like coralreefs, still nice but only 10 degree Centigrade (50 F) in Summer at
normal diving depth. 7mm half-dry suite is minimum
.So I prefer looking into my reef most time ;-).
@Angel*Fish
I'll show your posting to my whife, who promised to make a vid some weeks ago.
Now she'll have to do it!
@jnarowe
Think you're right regarding the Kole.
It's leaving the anthias and sixline wrasses alone, but from time to time attacs all others.
If they resist, it leaves them alone and tries again in some weeks.
That one goby was only trying to take refuge, what was it's fault.
@madhouse
there is a bigger version as 3396x2260 jpg of the picture at beginning of this thread at http://www.cashh.de/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=2292 .
Pls. drop me a pm if u need an uncompressed format (Canon RAW / tiff / whatever).
@Ciaran
like Skipper wrote, it's the UV, from Deltec 4*34watts.
It's connected directly at a bypass of the external water-movement pumps and not in the
sump. I was told, that one is getting best results if connecting directly to the tanks water
and not in the sump.
The Deltec UV was the only one I could get here with quartz-glas bulbs and quartz-glas bulb-containers.
Normal glas is filtering UV partly and most UVs here use normal glas.
@tentacles
Lights are 23cm (9") away from the water. Just enough to prevent water splashes
hitting the reflectors of the T5.
@madmac
wrong question ;-)
what was added were the black stripes... the white is the 2" birch multiplex board on the steel
frame, the black stripes is one side (down) self adhering foam of a neoprene like material.
The foam was added to prevent little dirt particles (sand/stones/etc) from giving point
load to the tanks bottom. The bottom was made of 3 parts, resting on the foam stripes.
@cmc5dc
I liked the idea of the "Balling"-method. Beeing able to adjust Ca/Mg/Alk. indep. simply by
reprogramming the dosing-pumps.
In the past I used a pH-regulated Ca-reactor with some Mg in it.
Well it worked, but I've had some issues like changing waterflow due to blocked up in-/outlets
and wasn't able to control the parameters independently.
Having low Ca but high KH and playing around with pH,waterflow to adjust wasn't that easy.
@Kluver
The only help I had is that described in the TOTM article, during buildup.
After the point of bringing the reef-base-structure in, no one else has had its fingers in or around it ;-).
I am doin' coralreefing for about 14 years now and will not let anyone steal the fun I have with it
.Thanks again for the privilege to share and discuss my setup with you.
Ralf
SEAFLOWERS
Premium Member
simply amazing!!
newreefbishop
Premium Member
I loved the setup and was amazed at all the work that was put into it. I am dreaming of the day I will be able to build a tank like that....
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