The Best from Brazil - 400G SPS Tank
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Here's yet another video I made today on a visit to Carlos Moreno. You can see him as his fishes usually do... ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJmBySDTyW4
Thanks, Carlos, for allowing me to dive in your tank!
Regards,
Walmyr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJmBySDTyW4
Thanks, Carlos, for allowing me to dive in your tank!
Regards,
Walmyr
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I wasn't satisfied with the final result either. The first video I took, with the recirculating pumps on, was even worse and I discarded it... I'm thinking on a way to attach the camera to a rotating arm and then shoot the video from a kind of inverted tripod, if you know what I mean (hanging from the top). Will try again if I have the chance.
Impressive reef, indeed... can't wait to get back there.
Regards,
Walmyr
Impressive reef, indeed... can't wait to get back there.
Regards,
Walmyr
Rodrigo_BG
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carlinhos moreno
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My name is Carlos Moreno, I am registered Carlinhos Moreno since 2004.
I am 56 years old, and I started in the hobby since I was a child. Started 25 years ago with marine aquarium and this current one is up for one and a half year.
About the Baffles that some people already asked about.
The baffles has 180x60x40cm ( 71 x 24 X 16), its function is to decant particles, so that a great part of them does not arrive to the RDSB.
I clean it monthly, and as the tank does not have sand, and it has pumps that moves the water under the rocks, almost all the dirt goes down passes through the baffles before the skimmer and is restrained in there.
The filter socks that some people asked about , helps to hold back the small particles that are in the water of the aquarium.
Those buckets that were shown in the right back coorner, are the filter socks support.
It is 85cm ( 34 ") height, and a 5000 lph pump ( 1320 GPA) in a close loop under the rocks that is responsible to feed the filter socks.
Filter socks is changed every 10 days.
Temperature control.
Three fans placed one in each RDSB box at the sump are responsible to keep the temperature ate the right place and are controlled by a digital thermostat.
The Sump
The sump is made by three plastic boxes of 180 liters each ( 48 gallons) , inside the first two ones, there are four RDSB boxes ( 16 x 12 x 8 ) , two on each one filled with samoa pink sand #1.
In the future, the plan is to remove one of the RDSB at the time to clean and not implact the aquarium biology.
In the third box are the calcium reactors , return pumps, UV, and fresh water top-off using gravity system.
At the beggining I used vodka to fight briopsis algae , am not using anymore.
I fed for some time the corals with pro-coral zooton, but I had problems with coral spawning and stopped using it.
At the moment I am not using any additives in the tank.
Over the baffle tank, I set a small aquarium that I call the satelliteaquarim. I put some of the corals that had grown to much in the main tank. It's feed by a 1200 lph pump ( 317 gph) that pump the water at the end of the baffle tank and return the water to the beginning of the baffle tank.
Thanks for every comment and question about my tank I received.
I will be happy to answer any question that you might have.
Carlinhos Moreno.
I am 56 years old, and I started in the hobby since I was a child. Started 25 years ago with marine aquarium and this current one is up for one and a half year.
About the Baffles that some people already asked about.
The baffles has 180x60x40cm ( 71 x 24 X 16), its function is to decant particles, so that a great part of them does not arrive to the RDSB.
I clean it monthly, and as the tank does not have sand, and it has pumps that moves the water under the rocks, almost all the dirt goes down passes through the baffles before the skimmer and is restrained in there.
The filter socks that some people asked about , helps to hold back the small particles that are in the water of the aquarium.
Those buckets that were shown in the right back coorner, are the filter socks support.
It is 85cm ( 34 ") height, and a 5000 lph pump ( 1320 GPA) in a close loop under the rocks that is responsible to feed the filter socks.
Filter socks is changed every 10 days.
Temperature control.
Three fans placed one in each RDSB box at the sump are responsible to keep the temperature ate the right place and are controlled by a digital thermostat.
The Sump
The sump is made by three plastic boxes of 180 liters each ( 48 gallons) , inside the first two ones, there are four RDSB boxes ( 16 x 12 x 8 ) , two on each one filled with samoa pink sand #1.
In the future, the plan is to remove one of the RDSB at the time to clean and not implact the aquarium biology.
In the third box are the calcium reactors , return pumps, UV, and fresh water top-off using gravity system.
At the beggining I used vodka to fight briopsis algae , am not using anymore.
I fed for some time the corals with pro-coral zooton, but I had problems with coral spawning and stopped using it.
At the moment I am not using any additives in the tank.
Over the baffle tank, I set a small aquarium that I call the satelliteaquarim. I put some of the corals that had grown to much in the main tank. It's feed by a 1200 lph pump ( 317 gph) that pump the water at the end of the baffle tank and return the water to the beginning of the baffle tank.
Thanks for every comment and question about my tank I received.
I will be happy to answer any question that you might have.
Carlinhos Moreno.
Faisal1976us
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Mr Carlos Moreno , your tank is the most beautiful tank i have see it , can you tell me why you using UV ?
aquavista99
Member
Amazing SPS reef! Thanks for sharing.
carlinhos moreno
Member
I use the UV light because it makes the water more transluscent and it has the power of eliminate the seeweed spores.
Regards,
Carlinhos.
carlinhos moreno
Member
My fishes:
1 Ctenochaetus marginatus
1 Zebrasoma xanthurus
1 Zebrasoma flavescens
1 Acanthurus olivaceus
1 Acanthurus japonicus
1 Acanthurus pyroferus
2 Chelmon rostratus
1 Chrysiptera hemicyanea
1 Neocirrhitus armatus
2 Amphiprion sandaracinos
2 Amphiprion percula
1 Chrysiptera starcki
Regards,
Carlinhos.
carlinhos moreno
Member
The best way I've found to the detritus doesn't accumulate on the tank was build it with RDSB (in the Sump), a special rock building that avoid the detritus to become accumulated, the Decanter and the Shakbag that remove the display detritus too. This tank is not an upgrade of the old tank, this is a new structure.
Regards,
Carlinhos.
Folks, here's yet another video from Carlos' fantastic reef. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjdC_8PjQL0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjdC_8PjQL0
prop-frags
SPS Slave
Fantastic system Carlinhos!
Please tell us about how you feed the system. What kind of food, how much, and how often?
Please tell us about how you feed the system. What kind of food, how much, and how often?
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