The Island Reef

[tigastt]

OMG this SPS... I really want to try them

 

[PmRg]

Fantastic job here! Growth and colors are definitely impressive. Kudos to you for an amazing tank. Can't wait to see more in the future.

thank you tj glad you liked it

 

[PmRg]

OMG this SPS... I really want to try them

I'm addicted to SPS

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Hello again,

A few pictures of the sump, still sitting on my garage. At the moment I'm waiting for the rest of the parts to be able to install it

Description the project.

On the first section in the left there are 2x 32mm inlets that receive the water from the DT, the water falls into a bubble breaker and then into the filter sock section. The filter sock section will not have a filter sock installed most of the time since the Triton Method does not advice it I will only use the filter sock when I do major DT cleaning. Then the water enters the refuge on the algae bed ensuring that a lot of flow passes by the algae bed and eliminating the need for flow pumps.

The refuge is lit by an Ecotech Marine Radion XR15w Freshwater, full spectrum, installed on a custom made support made by Seadreams.

The second section is the equipment section that will hold a skimmer, return pump, 2x Aqua-Medic Titanium 200w heaters, probe supports etc...

Dosing, there are 10 inlets for dosing tubes 4 of them are situated above the filter sock this is where the Core7 will be dosed to ensure a VERY good flow and directly in the algae bed like the manual says because "Core 7 reacts with bio-chemical compounds after dosage ( white cloud effect ). A lot of this "reaction partners" can be / are produced by the algae and are a perfect match in that case ;-). so not realy important for the algae but very good for the Core7 reaction."

On the other side there are the rest of the dosing inlets that will be used to dose trace elements and other things that might be necessary along the way.

The 4 Core7 recipients are also created by Seadreams to fit the back side of the sump or can be installed in other sections of the equipment cabinet will decide further on.


Here it is my new filtration system created for the method I'm following.

Pedro.

Wow! This sump is crazy awesome!!

 

[PmRg]

Wow! This sump is crazy awesome!!

cheers dude will be installing it soon

 

[revhtree]

Great job bro!

 

[PmRg]

Great job bro!

Cheers dude how's things with your tank ?

 

[PmRg]

Hello again, updates... another RO disaster, errr I need to replace my whole topup kit errrr I can't be having regular failures like this :/ after having all the elements in check ... Im back to 0 and have to start adjusthing everything again :/

Coming around to the second issue... Hello Cyano algae :/ the system got into a very low nutrients corner :/ 0.00ppm Po4 (Hanna) / 0.016ppm Po4 (Triton) and No3 (RedSea Pro) errr I really hate cyano algae :/ but will go away soon ... I hope lol

For now I'm dosing 1mg/L of No3 per day... to try and understand the tank consumption of No3 and try to keep 0.25ppm in the system.

Considering this road bumps lol corals are looking fine... I hope they stay that way

Here it is some pictures taken before the RO failure 2.0

FTS and new live stock

Growth of the T. Maxima is looking very nice

Macropharyngodon Choati added on 1st of Feb and I only get to see him in certains times of the day... very hard to see lol still I love Macropharyngodons

Pedro.

 

[Bronc]

Looking great!!

 

[Preme]

Sweet! Awesome pics

 

[PmRg]

cheers guys

 

[Murr7]

Love these clams!

 

[PmRg]

Love these clams!

One of my favourite things

 

[Murr7]

What is the approximate size of the smallest one? It seems pretty small next to the other one.

 

[PmRg]

What is the approximate size of the smallest one? It seems pretty small next to the other one.

its 30-40mm long I got it very small.... I was afraid at first... but it's growing

 

[PmRg]

Update....

Hello everyone,

Continuing from the ATO fail 2.0 lol things are looking good... I lost my T. Maxima most likely because of the SG swing still everything else is back to normal and I'm loving the evolution...

All the elements are almost spot on... let's see how's things in a month time...

Latest ICP results, received yesterday.

At the moment I'm trying to maintain No3 above 0.00 but I'm still fine tuning the No3 dosage... still last week No3 was back to 0.00 and cyano algae is now attacking with a bit more strenght...

Anyway like I said.... generaly everything is OK

Here it is some macro shots taken yesterday with a Sony a7s mk ii + Samyang 100mm Macro f2/8

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[costacarles]

Amazing tank Pedro! And those pictures are superb! Following along

 

[PmRg]

Amazing tank Pedro! And those pictures are superb! Following along

Greeting from Portugal

Thank you always trying to improve

Pedro

 

[tj w]

Looks fantastic! Great pics

 

[Iceman001]

Wow, the SPS is amazing.