littleGermanReef
New Member
Hello guys,
im new here and just wanted to show a bit of my tanks, actually im starting my new 135 gallon shallow reef.
I started march 2019 with my 21 gallon cube with the intention just to throw some soft corals in and enjoy it without any big effort.
Well that didn't work, beside a little colony of zoas, there wasnt ever a soft coral in that cube.
I started to collect some euphylias, duncans and plate corals - just a bit after it, i placed some montiporas and a few other easy sps as normal purple stylo's etz
Then i started reading & looking at some stuff in the internet and yes there beginns the addiction, i started to collect a lot of acropora's, of course some was dead after a few weeks.
I realized i had to stabilize my values and increse my lighting, i added a few 24 watts ATI T5 bulbs to my AI Prime and got some success.
The problem was i started with to much live rocks in that little cube, so i didn't have enough space. In the end, I had a lot of reef decks in my small tank, but at that time I was buying a small house and had to spend most of my time remodeling the house. Of course including my office in the basement that contained all of my aquariums.
So after a long summer with corona and building the house, its done and i can take my tank and set it up.
It is running now for like 3 or 4 weeks, the cycle seems to be almost done, at least as far as the bacteria are concerned, the ammonium is no longer detectable and nitrite is also at 0.25 so next week i will get a delivery with some nice easy sps. Like fiji stylo, birds nest, seriathopora and caliendrium bicolor.
To test the tank, i placed some of my duncan frags first, then some euphylia, ther're doing well so i added some fish 2 weeks ago, just a group of 5 chromis virdis, 1 pseudocheilinus evanidus and a ctenochaetus tominiensis.
Now i will add about 30 turbo snails, to get rid of the upcoming algae because i will start to take the lightning on today.
So please keep your fingers cross it will start well.
Just a few words to my hardware, which i purchased used, except the tank and the cabinet.
- 47,2 x 39,3 with 17,7 height
- deltec 1455 skimmer
- aqua medic x.2 return pump
- blue marine 120 mini reactor
- gyre xf 150
- 2x TMC 8000s
- tunze osmolator
- Lightning will be a diy lamp holder which will hold 4x Ecotech Radion G4 pro's and 6x 39 watts ATI T5 bulb's, (coral plus & blue plus)
- for the hardscape, i used carib sea shelf rock, marco rocks,real reef rock and some fresh live rock for some good bacteria intake
- aswell i pimped my rodi system with a pressure pump, and 3 10" MB40 resin
- Fauna Marin Salt
I add some photos of my cube and the new tank
cheers, Sven
PS: Sorry for some fails in the grammer or something like that, i'm still try to get better at my english. <3
im new here and just wanted to show a bit of my tanks, actually im starting my new 135 gallon shallow reef.
I started march 2019 with my 21 gallon cube with the intention just to throw some soft corals in and enjoy it without any big effort.
Well that didn't work, beside a little colony of zoas, there wasnt ever a soft coral in that cube.
I started to collect some euphylias, duncans and plate corals - just a bit after it, i placed some montiporas and a few other easy sps as normal purple stylo's etz
Then i started reading & looking at some stuff in the internet and yes there beginns the addiction, i started to collect a lot of acropora's, of course some was dead after a few weeks.
I realized i had to stabilize my values and increse my lighting, i added a few 24 watts ATI T5 bulbs to my AI Prime and got some success.
The problem was i started with to much live rocks in that little cube, so i didn't have enough space. In the end, I had a lot of reef decks in my small tank, but at that time I was buying a small house and had to spend most of my time remodeling the house. Of course including my office in the basement that contained all of my aquariums.
So after a long summer with corona and building the house, its done and i can take my tank and set it up.
It is running now for like 3 or 4 weeks, the cycle seems to be almost done, at least as far as the bacteria are concerned, the ammonium is no longer detectable and nitrite is also at 0.25 so next week i will get a delivery with some nice easy sps. Like fiji stylo, birds nest, seriathopora and caliendrium bicolor.
To test the tank, i placed some of my duncan frags first, then some euphylia, ther're doing well so i added some fish 2 weeks ago, just a group of 5 chromis virdis, 1 pseudocheilinus evanidus and a ctenochaetus tominiensis.
Now i will add about 30 turbo snails, to get rid of the upcoming algae because i will start to take the lightning on today.
So please keep your fingers cross it will start well.
Just a few words to my hardware, which i purchased used, except the tank and the cabinet.
- 47,2 x 39,3 with 17,7 height
- deltec 1455 skimmer
- aqua medic x.2 return pump
- blue marine 120 mini reactor
- gyre xf 150
- 2x TMC 8000s
- tunze osmolator
- Lightning will be a diy lamp holder which will hold 4x Ecotech Radion G4 pro's and 6x 39 watts ATI T5 bulb's, (coral plus & blue plus)
- for the hardscape, i used carib sea shelf rock, marco rocks,real reef rock and some fresh live rock for some good bacteria intake
- aswell i pimped my rodi system with a pressure pump, and 3 10" MB40 resin
- Fauna Marin Salt
I add some photos of my cube and the new tank
cheers, Sven
PS: Sorry for some fails in the grammer or something like that, i'm still try to get better at my english. <3
