Lasses Dream Build

[jsker]

Happy tank birthday, the system has come along nicely:)

 

[Lasse]

Your tank is fantastic

You progress is looking outstanding @Lasse ! !

Thank you both

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lasse]

Happy tank birthday, the system has come along nicely:)

And thank you to jsker also

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lasse]

Some new Pictures, diverse quality as usual.

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Sincerely Lasse

 

[jsker]

I really like the red birds nest:)

 

[Lasse]

Yea I like it also - of some reasons - it grows very compact and has a spherical shape

Sincerely Lasse

 

[jsker]

Yea I like it also - of some reasons - it grows very compact and has a spherical shape

Sincerely Lasse

All I see here is green, green. Red would be different

 

[cowboy]

The tank is lokking awesome @Lasse making my rethink a couple of my tanks

 

[Lasse]

All I see here is green, green. Red would be different

Red is the most common birds nest over here. A friends of me has done a genetic analyses of bird nests from different private and public aquarium in Sweden. Most of them comes from a clone that in nature exist at water depth around 5 – 10 m and from the Great Barrier Reef. This clone has an interesting mechanism according to colour. They can shift between green and red as major colour. The red one in my foreground is probably not from this clone but in the background you can see a green birds nest in some of my pictures. It was red when I got it! Now it is mostly green – shifting to red at the branches

The tank is lokking awesome @Lasse making my rethink a couple of my tanks

Thank you

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lasse]

More pictures...

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Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lasse]

Alien

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Growth pattern

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Sincerely Lasse

 

[cowboy]

@Lasse im sure this has been asked but what camera and lense combo are you using. Live your photos man.

 

[Lasse]

@cowboy You will be suprised. It´s a compact camera! Olympus Tought TG-3! Its outstanding. I bought it 4 years ago. Today there is two more cameras in the tought serie - TG4 and TG5. The best thing with it is that you point it against a white part in your aquarium. Push a botton and you have done your white balancing - even if there is a heavy blue tint in your aquarium

Sincerely Lasse

 

[cowboy]

@cowboy You will be suprised. It´s a compact camera! Olympus Tought TG-3! Its outstanding. I bought it 4 years ago. Today there is two more cameras in the tought serie - TG4 and TG5. The best thing with it is that you point it against a white part in your aquarium. Push a botton and you have done your white balancing - even if there is a heavy blue tint in your aquarium

Sincerely Lasse

I do believe I will have to look for one thanks.

 

[Lasse]

More Pictures

FTS

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Clam

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Others

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Sincererly Lasse

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[Lasse]

New clip



Sincerely Lasse

 

[cowboy]

@Lasse your tank has come out beautifully i remember when i first seen tgis thread a year ago, and I have to say im glad i fllowed it. In 13 month you have created a work of art from the rock work to the filtration. Speaking of filtration was curious if your still using the low flow deep sand bed and if your seeing the benefits you were hoping for.

 

[jsker]

I really like how the system pulses, System look great as usual.

 

[Lasse]

Time for a summary



One year ago I had some goals with my aquarium



Esthetical goals

I want to have a piece of the nature in my living room – technical devices – I have seen at my work for my whole life – I do not need them in sight in my living room

I´m rather pleased with the outcome after a year – still things that should be better but – yes – Check on this goal.

Biological goals

Filtration systems

The main reasons for having good filtration systems is for me to create a stable system – a system that’s allowing mistakes and based on a good bacterial base. In water, at particles, in the gravel, in the filters and so on.

I try to combine all of my experiences since I start with aquariums back in the early 70:ties.

I did want as many different system to handle the question of nutrients in so many different ways as possible. First aim was to look at the nutrients (from the food to the fishes) as resources – not as problems. But there must always be some safety with all systems – and sometimes – failsafe.

I have at least 8 different pathways to handle the nutrient input in the system

Production pathways

1. Corals of different types

2. Benthic microalgae as food for different grazers like snails, hermit crabs, fish, crabs and prawns

3. Bacteria – production of bacteria (including both autotrophs and heterotrophs). The autotrophs will be grown automatically because of nitrification – the heterotrophs by adding organic carbon (vodka, sugar and vinegar) the bacteria is food for corals, sponges and other organism that filtrate the water

4. Macro algae for nutrient export


Export - chemical, biological and technical

1. Take away phosphate through GFO or Al based pathways

2. Denitrification through a reversed flow DSB

3. Skimming through a skimmer

4. Oxidation through peroxide dosed by an Oxidator (for take away complexed organic yellowing compounds)

This complexed systems will for sure create one problem with time – lack of nitrogen – especially through the macros and denitrification. Of that reason I have been aware that the whole system will be driven by adding nitrate sooner or later. I think that I am at that point for the moment.

Yesterday I discover that I had zero in nitrate – caused of a dosing pump that had clogging. Around 21:00 I measured 0.13 ppm PO4 and 0 ppm NO3. I add some NO3 and one hour later I measured 12-14 ppm NO3. This morning (before the light of the DT was on but the reversed refugium with macros had light at this moment) I measured 0.06 ppm in PO4 and around 5-6 ppm as NO3. I have seen this before – when I read higher PO4 – adding NO3 will take it down.


As it is now – my DSB may not be necessary but I have some other goals with it and I´ll try to do some changes this fall. I want it to work like a not so effective lime reactor through adding carbon dioxide in the bottom. I want also to add CO2 in order to give the zooxanthella’s extra carbon during the light period and that the macros get some during night (and their light period)


My goals is also to stop using GFO and things like that and to stop skimming.

The last is more or less impossible without introduce some other equipment for gas exchange or – as I have done from today – just take away the skimmer cup and let the skimmer just work as an effective gas exchanger and as an simple but effective aerator


Organisms

1. Goal – plenty of sponges – check

2. Goal – plenty of other filtration organism – half check

3. Goal – variation of snails – own production of them – check

4. Goal – plenty of different hermits, crabs and shrimps – check

5. Goal – to have sand living sea stars to survive for a prolonged period – check

6. Goal – To have a production of pods – check

7. Goal – To introduce some dream species of fish – half check – one is still missing – Sunburst anthias

8. Goal – to have sea cucumber to survive and grow – check

9. Goal – to have non zooxanthella corals to thrive – not achieved. Have plans for how.

10. Goal – to have such a interesting system that I feel like I see something new every day – on its way

11. Goal – to have flatbed growing corals like montipora to thrive – check

12. Goal – at least have some colored pins (my name of some SPS like stagghorn :) ) to survive – check

13. Goal – to have a good mix of corals and let them fight for their places by them self – check



A long answer to a short question – but yes – I´m satisfied with the outcome after one year.



However – the growth is still not as good as I want and some corals do not grow at all. I have still problems and tasks to solve.



Sincerely Lasse

 

[nitro]

Lasse,
I love the way you went about building this system, you had a great plan to start out and just went for it with a tweak here and there. Very well done, your knowledge and experience have served you well and I hope I can learn a from you. Thanks