My first try with this hobby began 1988 with no significant success before 1993. I moved away from the hobby in 1998 when I was planning to move in to a new house. The result was a 5 year break during which time the tank contained Malawicichids because I wanted to have something to look at while I renovated the new house.
Early in 2003 my mentor and good friend Thore Kjellberg called me wondering if I had been thinking to start up a reef again. I told him that, yes, it’s funny that you called right now when I just started to think about a new tank and soon thereafter I started to build a 190 gallon glass tank. When I was done with the tank and it had been filled up with liverock and water, I picked up frags of many hard corals from my friends but soon I was dissatisfied with the length of the tank because I wanted a longer viewing panel. In the beginning of 2005 I started to plan I new tank and in August everything was clear and almost everything was moved to the new tank Included in this article are images from the newly moved system:
- Skimmer: Aqua Medic TF 5000 Single
- Calcium reactor: Aqua Medic closed model
- Circulation: 1 tunze stream 7000L and 1 Tunze stream 12000L
- Return pump from sump: As New jet 3000
- UV: None
- Nitrate filter: None (I use zeolite)
- Lightning: 3 x 400 metal halide Coralvue 14000k
Water Parameters
- Ca 410-430
- Mg 1300-1350
- KH 11,5-12,0
- Nitrate: 0
- Phosphate: 0
- Silicate: 0
Stocklist
Aquascaping
- Live rock 310 pound
Fish
- 1 Pomacanthus Imperator
- 1 Centropyge loriculus
- 1 Centropyge Bicolor
- 2 Amphiprion Percula
- 1 Siganus magnifica
- 7 chrysiptera Parasema
- 1 pseudochromis fridmani
- 1 Pseudocheilinus Hexataenia
- 2 zebrasoma flavescens
- 1 Labroides dimidiatus
- 1 Calloplesiops altivelis
- 70 hard corals
Corals
- 2 soft corals
- 2 Gorgonians
- 2 colony mushroom
Invertebrates
- 1 Red seastar
- 4 sand shifting seastars
- 80 Astrea snails
- 1 Fire shrimp
- 1 cleaner shrimp
If you find my tank interesting and need more information please contact me. My English is not great, but I will attempt to answer any questions that you have.
Best Regards,
Jorgen Svard
Images taken by Jorgen Svard and Max Strandberg (http://hem.bredband.net/maxstr/)
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