pics of my new fish/sps reef :)

[brandon4291]

I may have missed it, what are your current lighting designs?

 

[Tanu]

Brandon, thanx! Although the tank is about 160 G, it is only lit by one Aquaspacelight: 2 x 150 W Hqi ( ab 10.000 K ) and 2 x PC 24 W blue (osram).

I forgot: about 1 month ago I also installed a UV sterilizer, to lower the ammount of pathogens in the water. Combined with a little ozone, I try to help the immune system of the fishes, thus preventing diseases.

 

[brandon4291]

Ive used UV on my planted tanks and enjoyed the results. Obviously it works well for your system, and btw the canopy on that black tank is NICE

 

[danmhippo]

Tanu, you got a shot of inside the cabinet?

 

[Tanu]

You don't want a pic of the cabinet right now . I moved the inhabitants and parts of the equipment from my old tank to this one, but I didn't have time to make a neat install. I'll list the equipment:

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  - Aquaspacelight: 2 x 150 W hqi 10.000 K and 2 x 24 W pc Osram blue
  - Tunze Turbelle 4000 L/h (on wave-maker, with photocell to reduce current at night)
  - Counter Current skimmer designed for tanks up to 400 G, driven by wooden airstone. Skimmer is connected to the overflow directly
  - Sander ozoniser (50 mg/h, set at 20 mg/h 24/7)
  - Continuous use of active carbon, phosphate remover and silicate remover
  - Grotech Trace-el-controller (3 channel dose pump) with trace elements: Grotech abc, 1 ml/day
  - Calcium-reactor (designed for tanks up to 400 G), dual stage.
  - Aqua Medic Ocean runner 3500 as return from sump
  - Aqua Medic mV controller (used to control redox, now used to monitor the orp only)
  - 11 W uv sterilizer (used 24/7) on 140 Gallon p. hour powerhead
  - 140 Gallon per hour powerhead used as some extra flow over the bottom of the tank behind the rockwork
  - filter floss in overflow, changed every 2/3 days
  - durso standpipe

Apart from this, I have auto-top-off unit, but I still have to connect it to the RO unit in the kitchen. So far, I top-off every 1-2 days with a bucket of RO water.

Salt used when setting up was
- Instant Ocean
- Reef Crystals
- Tropic Marin
- Some water from the old tank

I also dose a phytoplancton concentrate every two days, and I give about 4 drops lugol's every week.

So, nothing really special, but it works for me! Grotech recommends 1 ml of abc every 24 hours for each 100 L of water, so I should use 7 ml/day, but I found that the corals would turn brown if I use that much trace elements.