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Joao Tomas

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It´s been a while that i have the idea of having a reef cube, now this idea became reality!



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I want to host in this new system a few rare SPS's species, i´m thinking in 10 or 15 pieces only ... the space is not that much: D



The philosophy imposed in this new reef tank will be a KISS system with a skimmer rather oversized, I think I don´t need much more to reach a ULNS !!


This layout will surely permit a very abundant water flow throughout the tank and will have a very clean and minimalist look.

At the moment the tank have 2 months old, the cycle ended in the first month and i´m starting to put corals and invertebrates slowly...the fish will come later...don't have rush...



Here is my SETUP:


Real Water capacity (Tank + sump) - Approximately 100g

Tank - 75c x 75l x 55a Details

Sump - 85c x 60l x 35a Details

Skimmer - ATI Powercone 250

Pump return - Reefset DC 5000 l / h

Lighting - ATI 6x24W + 2 DIY Led Multichip Led Lumia 5.1 (18x Royal-blue, 2x Red, 2x Green)

Flow - 2x Tunze 6055 + multi-controller 7096

Controller - Grotec - Tec III NG (Running the 2-part solution))

ATO - TMC

Osmosis - Aquili 4 Stages

Nutrient export - AIO Biopellets + Prodibio Bio Digest

Monitoring - seneye




For now that's all, hope you enjoy!

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Don´t have strings!! And yes is real...it´s fixed in the overflow

 

Actual photo:

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Looks cool! Is that being held up by zip ties?!

 

Only some rocks, the rocks are over a pvc structure and the structure is fixed in the overflow.

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This is going to be amazing................


Holy hell just spotted the skimmer in that sump! Looks like it holds nearly the same volume of water as the tank lol.

I thought I'd gone over sized with my 1000l rated skimmer on a 350l system.

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This is going to be amazing................

Holy hell just spotted the skimmer in that sump! Looks like it holds nearly the same volume of water as the tank lol.

I thought I'd gone over sized with my 1000l rated skimmer on a 350l system.

 

Thank you Benny!

Yeah my sump is big enough too , it´s real capacity is about 35g, thats close to half of the main tank capacity.

 

Very original, love the floating look!

Did you take any pics when you put the rock together?

 

Thank you!

Sorry, don´t have pics before.

 

Just another view:

 

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This weekend i visit the LFS and bought 3 new frags:

 

Acro plate...maybe efflo?

 

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Lokani?

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Don´t know but have a beatiful blue colour:

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Thank you but it´s not a new ideia. A hong kong shop made one first, let´s say I improved it :)

 

The other side:

 

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It's still novel to me since I didn't know about it anywhere, nor on this site. How awesome for circulation.

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Thank you Red_Blenny, but this is just a start...I hope that corals grow and make the aquascaping even better!!

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Wow, just came across this thread. Very inspiring! Makes me wanna redo my scape LOL!

 

I think we all do now.

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Thank you all!!!

Well for now, some rocks have nasty brown algae, but i put a nice CUC and they are doing a nice job. I´m in the third month and i´m adding some corals in all weekends (SPS corals) and checking if every thing is ok, maybe i´ll put the first fish in the next month.

 

For now the water parameters are:

 

Temp: 25º

Salinity - 1.025

Kh - 8

Ca - 410

Mg - 1200

NO3 - 0,5

PO4 - 0.11 (I started with 0.55 but with some GFO and macro algae and without fish the phosphate are dropping easily)

 

I use NSW in all my water changes (10% weekly), i'm a lucky man to live near the atlantic.

I´m dropping some bacterias too (DVH Biogro), lets see if help the mature the tank

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Littleworld

Looks fantastic, is there anything that could grow down from underneath in its shadow? Just amazing, great job. Just found this in time as I'm about to start putting my Vidarock together and am picturing it floating...

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  • 6 months later...
The Tank is still in active! ...and the layout has not fallen !! :))

But it has not been an easy start.


From the 3rd month I started putting SPS, and everything was going well, but after a month began to burning tips possibly the cause was the Kh fluctuations, first because I had a brutal explosion of coraline algae!!


In addition there was an imbalance in the system that even my tridacna that was at about 4 years I lost !! I was really discouraged at the time and after losing frags I stopped and waited for things to calm down so getting 3 or 4 corals moving from another tank as a reference to see if things would improve.


But bad things do not stop here ... 1 month later it began to appear the first cyanos ... GREAT!!! it was just what I needed!!!

Nitrate was above the 25ppm.. phosphates was Zero !!! Good!!! So i needed stabilize the system to eliminate the cyano...


Today I can finally say that the tank is better than ever and cyanos disappeared tottaly!!!


Now the tank seems to be improving and corals started to grow!! Finally!


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Thank you PieMan2k!!!

 

I´m figuring out the hotspot of the nutrients, i´m dosing vodka+Phosphate Potassium+MB7...yep you read perfecty...i wrote Phosphate :P

 

...because i had an imbalance between nitrate and phophate and got cyanobacteria! Although I dose phosphate, it remains zero. How can it be? I dont know but it works and i dropped 50ppm to 1-2ppm :D

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  • 4 months later...

Hello...it´s time for some update:

 

My tank is doing well, i switch from vodka to AIO biopellets and right now my nutirent levels are NO3= 2ppm and undetectable phosphate.

 

I stock all the layout with SPS frags so now i just wait it to grow and i´m very happy with the result, let me share with you:

 

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Red Planet with sun light

 

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Red planet

 

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Acropora Nana

 

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Acropora valida

 

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Acropora Lokani

 

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Hope you like it!

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