200g lost and in loneliness in Madagascar

[j2m-marley]

Hi all, nice to meet with you guys.
First thread of my Gasy reef in Madagascar.

To introduce myself, I'm a French aquatic scientist working mainly on freshwater aquaculture even if my true passion goes to reef ecosystems.
I work for an French institute in agronomy and research (Cirad)
I do have about 11 year of experience in reef keeping. And my last tank here that will be presented in this thread is 3 years old.

The tanks is full local with few endemic species such as amphiprion latifasciatus. I have also some individuals that has to be identified. The trick is that they're any retailer here (I do import every material except glass bought here and tank build by myself)
Even sea salt as to be imported when I travel to France coz I'm 10 hours far from the sea in the capital Antananarivo.
I had the opportunity to work with a coral and fish farm in Nosy Be who use to export in EU, selling me live rocks, fish and corals.

The setting is really simple with sump, skimmer and bailing using carbonate method. My safe guard is a diesel generator given regular power outage.

Here is a first input from my phone. Would be glad to provide more information on request.
Cheers

 

[IKD]

Welcome aboard! Great looking tank!! The striping on that plate coral is really cool!

 

[j2m-marley]

Thks, well I received only plate rocks so had to do something with this to be consistent. I used ppr tubing inserted in the plate to get them stuck together.

 

[j2m-marley]

Here is some more information about the setup

170x80x60 cm with 53 cm water level and 1.00 cm glass thickness
Sump is about 100 L (need to be calculated...)

Tank as suffered of High PO4 without affecting corals (maybe growth was low) and now on target without real visible effects. Succeeded with Lanthanum Chloride thanks to @Larry L

For balling, I'm using HW Balling carbonate see attached

 

[najer]

Welcome to R2R, very nice, following.

 

[Rick.45cal]

Welcome to Reef2Reef, what an awesome tank!

 

[MaddyP]

Welcome to the forum! Great looking tank!

 

[j2m-marley]

Hello, my staying in Madagascar ended but the reef is still alive and was offered to one of my friends there
I'm now in Cambodia for the next 6 years and starting a new project that will come with new informations
Cheers

the reef during its best time

Before departure

Now in my friend place waiting for new light