pico reef in Milan

[mauro]

The Tank :

Size: 20 x 16 x 35 cm 7. 8 x 6. 2 x 13. 7 inches

Capacity: 11 liters - 2.9 Gallons

 

Lights:

1 X Osram dulux white 6000K 11W

2 X Osram dulux blu 9W

all on for 12 hours per day (at nigth a blue led simulates the moon)

 

Water movement:

1 mini pump (100lt/h)

 

Filtration:

no filter

no skimmer

 

Temperature control:

No heater just a little PC fan to cool the lamps

 

Top off device:

Gravity/siphon feed via a tank that contains osmotic water

 

Water changes:

2 liters per week from bigger tank

 

Corals & Inverts:

 

Pachiclavularia viridis (Green star polyps)

Filogranella spec. (Red feater duster worms colony)

Protopalitoa spec. (zoantid) Collospogia auris (blu ear sponge)

Rhodactis spec. Throcus spec. (turbo snail)

Discosoma spec. (mushroom corals) Stomatella spec. snail

Gorgonia spec. Asterina spec.

Anemonia mayano (mayan anemones)

Zoanthus spec. (Rock anemone)

 

Fish:

 

Pseudochromis paccagnellae

 

Water values:

 

PH 7,9 KH 10 CA 400 Temp 26

[mauro]

partial view

[mauro]

rhodactis spec.

[mauro]

filogranella spec

[mauro]

pseudochromis paccagnelle

[matteo_gugliotta]

Good job Mauro.

Keep us updated !

 

You said you are not using an heater. Do you have any temperature problem during the night ?

[mauro]

No Matteo,

no problem at the moment until HP keep the Air conditioning on

 

Ciao Matteo

[J-Bass]

Monica Bellucci = bona sera!

[mauro]

J bass

your knowledge about the millenarian italian culture is really

exciting!

[Roadrunner]

Originally posted by mauro

J bass

your knowledge about  the millenarian italian culture is really

exciting!

 

LOL

 

How did u make the Gravity/siphon feed top off device?

[mauro]

Is quite sinple to do , more difficult to explain.

 

materials:

A) a "spaghetti" contained,but whatever container that made of clear rigid plastic with a rigid lid is ok;

a plastic bottle with screw plug (coke is ok)

C) airline

D) 3 airline connectors or two smal pieces of rigid airline tube

E) a piece of rigid return tube

F) epoxy glue

 

Ho to do :

 

1) drill and hole in the lid of A) the same diameter of the bottle

opening

2) saw off the bottle the part with the screw (is more rigid than the rest of the bottle)

3) glue this part to the lid (keep the plug do not trow away)

4) drill a small hole in the lid of A) that fit tightly with D,

5) take one of the Ds and glue it in the small hole

6) drill and other small hole near the bottom of A) that fit again D

7) take the second D an glue in this latter hole

8) wasH the A in order to clean it from debrits

9) seal with glue the lid of the A contained (you'll never need to reopen it , you'll just use the "Bottle" opening to refill with RO

10) attach two pieces of airlines to the two Ds

11) you now have to create a sealed join beetween the remaining D and E (I simply use a blob of glue)

12) attach the rigid tube to the airline that come from the TOP of

A

 

Is finished!

 

How to operate

 

a) put the contained ABOVE the tank

put the rigid tube at water level (just one or two millimiter under the water line)

c) keep the airline , coming from the bottom of A, with the opened end above the lid level of A (it imped the water to exit while you refil A) see next point

d) fill as much as you can the A with RO and put back the plug

e) put the opened end of the airline coming from the bottom of A

down just above the tank level;

a litlle of RO will flow in the tank and then stops;

HOw it works

1) water evaporates from tank untill its level goes below the rigid tube

2) air enters into container and so RO starts to flow in the tank

3) water level in the tank will rise untill it reach the rigid tube sealing it from air

4) water flow from A will stop

and again and again....

[Roadrunner]

Originally posted by mauro

and again and again.... [/b]

 

Cool! Simple but effective, thank you very much for the detailed explanation