Joao Tomas Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 REEF3 It´s been a while that i have the idea of having a reef cube, now this idea became reality! 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! Link to comment
Orangutran Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 where are the strings?! Link to comment
itzju Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 it this a real life? following along. going to be awesome. Link to comment
xlzerolx Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Looks cool! Is that being held up by zip ties?! Link to comment
Joao Tomas Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 Don´t have strings!! And yes is real...it´s fixed in the overflow Actual photo: 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. Link to comment
Benny314 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 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. Link to comment
BoricuaNY Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Very original, love the floating look! Did you take any pics when you put the rock together? Link to comment
Joao Tomas Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 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: Link to comment
Joao Tomas Posted March 1, 2015 Author Share Posted March 1, 2015 This weekend i visit the LFS and bought 3 new frags: Acro plate...maybe efflo? Lokani? Don´t know but have a beatiful blue colour: Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Floating reef! Insane, genius, new idea. Following! Link to comment
Joao Tomas Posted March 1, 2015 Author Share Posted March 1, 2015 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: Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 It's still novel to me since I didn't know about it anywhere, nor on this site. How awesome for circulation. Link to comment
Red_Blenny Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Amazing aquascaping. If we can nominate the "best aquascaping" award, you'll definitely win. Link to comment
Joao Tomas Posted March 2, 2015 Author Share Posted March 2, 2015 Thank you Red_Blenny, but this is just a start...I hope that corals grow and make the aquascaping even better!! Link to comment
snowprince Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Wow, just came across this thread. Very inspiring! Makes me wanna redo my scape LOL! Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Wow, just came across this thread. Very inspiring! Makes me wanna redo my scape LOL! I think we all do now. Link to comment
I<3SPS Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Awesome tank! Looking forward to seeing this grow out :-) Link to comment
RK_tek Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Really awesome scape. Keep us updated Link to comment
Joao Tomas Posted March 5, 2015 Author Share Posted March 5, 2015 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 Link to comment
Littleworld Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 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... Link to comment
Joao Tomas Posted October 6, 2015 Author Share Posted October 6, 2015 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! Link to comment
PieMan2k Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 completely missed this thread until now. I WANT IT Link to comment
Joao Tomas Posted October 6, 2015 Author Share Posted October 6, 2015 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 ...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 Link to comment
Joao Tomas Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 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: Red Planet with sun light Red planet Acropora Nana Acropora valida Acropora Lokani Hope you like it! Link to comment
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