Shubi`s 95 gallon mixed reef

[shubi]

Hi All.

My name is Calin, I`m from Romania.
I really like your forum which is why I decided to open a topic , to present my aquarium:


Display: 95 gallon, ultraclear Diamond - Saint Gobain 10mm.

Display sand:
Aquadeco Coral Sand (1 - 2 mm)
CaribSea Ocean Direct Oolite
Live Sand Aragonite
Aquascape dry rock aproximatly 15 kg +20 kg live rock

Sump: 60 gallon

Equipments:

- Eheim 3000 Compact+ pump
- 4 x Turbelle nanostream 6095 + Multicontroller 7096
- Aquamedic topoff
- chiller Hailea 500A
- heater Jager 250W

- Lighting LED DIY fixture, CREE +SemiLEDs

Salt:
Started Red Sea Coral pro
Reef Care Program from Red Sea, manual operation, I like to be useful

I do not make water change, I do not use skimmer.
Filtration made DIY, drop by drop filter (20 gallons/day)

Based on the principle that if you do not have pictures do not exist:

 

[jason g]

Wow! Beautiful tank you have there. Why the use of no skimmer may I ask?

 

[G_Sanab922]

Gorgeous shot and beautiful tank :tea:

 

[shubi]

Thank you Jason.

Because I want to keep pulsating Xenia and with skimmer no chance, actually melts :tongue:
It`s not a low nutrient tank, i give 4+4/day congelate cubes of natural food, drop filtration works very well and is lack of nutrients.

 

[jason g]

Interesting, I myself keep Xenia in my mixed reef and use a skimmer and my Xenia grows extremely well. In fact it tries to invade my other corals and I have to trim it back now and then.

 

[Jimbo662]

Amazing tank. What is the fish with the teeth???

 

[shubi]

Paracanthurus hepatus

Back in time

 

[fishroomlady]

beautiful tank! could you explain a bit about your drip system? I'm confused on that......

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Gorgeous setup that you have!! Please keep this thread updated!!

 

[camelcruiser]

beautiful tank! could you explain a bit about your drip system? I'm confused on that......

Also interested to hear about it. I've never heard of it or may know it by something else.

 

[FishnFriendz]

Beautiful tank, amazing pictures. Tagging along...

 

[EW_Fish]

Amazing tank. What ever your doing keep it going!! I love how there are so many different reef keeping methods.

 

[Rob.D]

Fantastic tank!!!

Do you have any pics of the "drip filter"?

 

[shubi]

It`s a DIY filter, made by me and looks like this:

-group reactors

- individual reactors

The reactor recirculation pump has a flow rate of 1000 liters per hour, recirculate water permanent only in reactor chambers without outside access.
Water enters the cylinders always from bottom out on top, enters the next reactor and so far reaching back to the pump.
Water exits the cylinder due to pressure made ​​by the pump ( drop by drop) and is absorbed in the last reactor due to the phenomenon of decompression performed by the pump.
The reactors are filled with dry coral rock 7-10 mm, the same as that for calcium reactors .
In a year of use had to retype about 2.5 kg of dry coral rock, acidity that occurs inside from disolving organics seems to dissolve calcium and releases in the system where it is consumed by the corals.
I use another type of filter after ATO to supplement the water evaporated. Osmosis water come down in a filter filled with dry rock, with low pH dissolve the broken coral and get enriched in elements and go in the sump, actively participate in maintaining kh.

I have a DIY CNC Router that I use to manufacture components:

[video=youtube;Td-363pjzjE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td-363pjzjE[/video]
[video=youtube;ao9FjY5eFrk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao9FjY5eFrk[/video]

[video=youtube;wbs2RafWKo8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbs2RafWKo8[/video]
[video=youtube;jJhf3LmXnQ0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJhf3LmXnQ0[/video]



I Made all parts including silicone gaskets:

[video=youtube;sCjk6Q8weQA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCjk6Q8weQA&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688[/video]

 

[shubi]

My LED lamp is also DIY, with CREE and Epistar LEDs, LDD, controlled by a Storm X LED Controller.

[video=youtube;rBZF0hQhnJE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBZF0hQhnJE[/video]


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[trickedout900]

Very impressive, love the DIY skills you got there.

 

[PCygni]

Sweet tank, Holmes.

 

[shubi]

Thank you.

 

[shubi]

 

[shubi]

Fresh photo