Ivan's pico reef!

[reef-rc]

Pico tank is looking great as usual. Is it me or do you have the opportunity to change a number of frags around on varying occassion?

curious...what kind of work or store do you do? don't say aquarium...as i'll be jealous ;)

 

[Iván Olalla]

Pico tank is looking great as usual. Is it me or do you have the opportunity to change a number of frags around on varying occassion?

curious...what kind of work or store do you do? don't say aquarium...as i'll be jealous ;)

I try to not move them around, but when fellow reefers visit always want a fresh cut, so i comply...lol...

Actually my job Is not hobbie related, we have a family owned small factory, we make seats for buses, mostly for private companies that provide transportation services to big factories like GM, Toyota, VW and the automotive cluster in the northeast of Mexico

 

[reef-rc]

I try to not move them around, but when fellow reefers visit always want a fresh cut, so i comply...lol...

Actually my job Is not hobbie related, we have a family owned small factory, we make seats for buses, mostly for private companies that provide transportation services to big factories like GM, Toyota, VW and the automotive cluster in the northeast of Mexico

I can see why you put the hours you do in. Does sound like at times your clients and schedule can be demanding.

 

[Iván Olalla]

Work has been chaotic, long hours....but i'm making progress with the frag tank. My aproach to lighting will be lots of it keeping an easy acces to the tank using lifters

 

[Iván Olalla]

Still hectic work schedule, yesterday was WC sunday for the kind of neglected tank, and took some pics

 

[Iván Olalla]

Also received my biopellet reactor and put my passive media reactors in the fuge, they're filled with Seachem Matrix and Denitrate, the low and passive flow should help with denitryfication

 

[Iván Olalla]

Reactors

 

[Iván Olalla]

Some more pics, it's crowded! Need to start the frag tank ASAP

 

[Iván Olalla]

FTS

 

[Iván Olalla]

FTS blues

 

[Iván Olalla]

Bonus pic

 

[PanchoG]

FTS blues

Looks awesome pal.

 

[Ruben's Reef]

Gorgeous tank for that size. Those acros are doing great. What are you dosing?

 

[Iván Olalla]

Gorgeous tank for that size. Those acros are doing great. What are you dosing?

tks a lot! i try to keep it simple:

10% wc every 10 days and fill the kalk container with a fresh batch of fully saturated kalk.... i dose 40 ml every 2 hours with a dosing pump and that keeps my alk in the 8/8.3 dkh range rock steady and ph around 8.4/8.5

Other than that only feeding (reef chili and reef roids) and aminos with acropower weekly dosing

 

[Iván Olalla]

Some pics

 

[PanchoG]

A lot of variety in a small place, good job.

 

[Iván Olalla]

A little update with SPS este candy!

 

[Iván Olalla]

Working late in the office

 

[Ranjib]

Do you have to trim the corals aggressively ? My pico and nano tanks has reached a point where I’m trimming them almost every other week

 

[Iván Olalla]

Do you have to trim the corals aggressively ? My pico and nano tanks has reached a point where I’m trimming them almost every other week

Yes, the gorg i cut at least twice a month, the green monti i chip the growth to avoid shadowing below, and already have lost several zoa colnies due to one being more dominant, i need to finish the frag setup soon and trim a lot in order to save most colonies... on the other hand the clowns love the zoa garden, regards!