My 300lit (75 g)reef

[bluereef]

Hi all
This is pictures of my 2,5-3 year old reef,most corals are added last months,only few soft corals are old year or two.Filtration is ecosystem with canister filter for chemical filtration,light 250 wHQI with 10 000 BLV bulb.
http://www.orbicon.com/hraquatica/upload/slike/caulastreaok.jpg
http://www.orbicon.com/hraquatica/upload/slike/sredinaok.jpg
http://www.orbicon.com/hraquatica/upload/slike/nemenzophyllia2.jpg
Total shot is bad picture,sorry
http://www.orbicon.com/hraquatica/upload/slike/total1ok.jpg

[SueT]

bluereef, that is an absolutely beautiful reef system. Very natural and such a diversity of coral life. You should be very proud, it is so nice. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Flatlander]

Very nice indeed.

[bluereef]

Thank you SueT and Doug.

[Chuck S]

Nice tank Buddy!

[zhenya]

Blue,
This is way beyond nice /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gifI just have one question,where is the BIG mama Catalaphyllia? Very beautiful tank!

[bluereef]

Thank you Omegatron and Zhenya /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Big mama catalaphyllia is in aquarium next to this 300 lit.This system have 2 aquarium(400 and 300 lit)which share same sump,refugium and filtration.I still dont know what to do with 400 lit,he have one big sarcopithon,2 sinularia fleksibilis,catalaphyllia(all big corals 35-38 cm each)and few small frag.400 lit was my main tank and this 300 lit was for keeping corals for sale ,but last summer 400 lit start to leak and now is 300 lit main tank.
Good news mama catalaphyllia is pregnant again /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
The way how I make this rock wall is very unusual and against all rules,almost all rocks are small fist size rock or litlle biger which are only throw in pilow behind main rock construction.There is no circulation behind or under rocks,idea is to create cryptic zone filtration in main tank(I am not quite sure did I suces in that).About 3/4 of the tank is under rocks.I have hair algae problem in few spot but I just remove them every 10-15 days.Algae problem start when I start to keep non photosyntethic corals(scleronepthya)and feed tank heavy every day.
I have veliferum,mandarin and lismata shrimp in this tank
http://www.orbicon.com/hraquatica/upload/slike/veliferumokb.jpg

[bluereef]

BTW catalaphyllia cant fit in this 300 lit aquarium,she is bigger then all corals together in second picture,actually she is bigger then all that space there /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Atos]

Why don't you post some pictures of your second tank bluereef???

[oldron]

outstanding, beautiful, awesome. what funny english? I did not read any funny english. http://www.reeftalk.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Chuck S]

Ron,

Bluereef as alot know on all the major boards is Croatian I beleive. His English I can tell you has got alot better. I remember a few years ago when it was quite hard to understand a few postings.

[Atos]

On the picture of the full tank I can notice that there is no some background, and as I can see there is suny window behind your main display. Don't you have some problems with this indirec or direct sunlight???
And as I said once this is one of the most beautie reff displays I see http://www.reeftalk.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

Sory for my funy English

[bluereef]

Hello Atos,how are you?
I still dont know what to do with my main 400 lit tank http://www.reeftalk.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif,I have a idea but is very hard to put that in real life.I have almost no live rock there(that is part of original plan)and have smal pieces of glass with holes glued for the 3 sides of aquarium,I wont to put there sps corals,only few species,and I wont to leave loot of space around this corals so they can grow freely without cuting or moving around.
Problem is that I dont like powerhead inside the aquarium and I still cant provide circulation which I wont(actually which corals need to survive).Second problem are big catalaphillya,he/she is my pet and everything in that tank is created for that coral,and catalaphillya dont like strong flow.Because catalaphillya ocupied almost 1/3 of the tank is almost imposible to create slow flow for her and strong flow for SPS corals,so I still dont know what to do.
IMO is very important to have a plan,to know in advance which animals you wont to have,to study that animals and then to see can you provide right conditions for them,and then go to shoping, saddly I think that many reefer go oposite way.

[bluereef]

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oldron said:
outstanding, beautiful, awesome. what funny english? I did not read any funny english. http://www.reeftalk.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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Thank you Oldron http://www.reeftalk.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Like Omegatron write,I learn a litlle of english language but I still have serious problem with gramatic issue.
Of course after hour of writing,editing,erasing I am able to put together some few words,anyway we reefer have our own language(KH,PH,NO3,HQI,SPS...)and we can comunicate without problem everywhere,heck every year few reefers from germany come to my reef room and we talking for hours,they dont know a single word in my language and everything what I know in german is "kalkwaser".

[bluereef]

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Omegatron said:
Ron,

Bluereef as alot know on all the major boards is Croatian I beleive. His English I can tell you has got alot better. I remember a few years ago when it was quite hard to understand a few postings.

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Thank you Omegatron,I still learning.

[Atos]

Why dont you consider, if you don't like powerheads(dont like neither), closed loop with one Aqumedic OR 6500, and discretly plumbed mainfold on the top of your tank.

[bluereef]

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Atos said:
Why dont you consider, if you don't like powerheads(dont like neither), closed loop with one Aqumedic OR 6500, and discretly plumbed mainfold on the top of your tank.

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Yes I consider this option long time ago,I have 2 eheim 1060 pumps and 1 big eheim canister filter with strong circulation already prepared for this option.Intake is not problem(near back wall)but I dont know where to mount outlet,only place where they can be efective is position from front glass http://www.reeftalk.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif.,and that is what I try to avoid.
But everything is still open to change,I have time and I like when I build aquarium slowly.

[Atos]

If I'm not confused with some other pictures, I think once I saw a big Sinularia Flexsibilis on the left side of the picture, in vertical position??

[bluereef]

Yes ,sinularia can grow in vertical position too,but I remove her for that place and cut branches from both side,is just to big,she had 38 cm and take loot of space,next to her is sarcophytonn,about 40 cm in diameter and next to sarcophyton is catalaphylia,almost 50 cm when is full expanded.My aquarium have only 120 cm long with 50 cm wide http://www.reeftalk.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
http://www.orbicon.com/hraquatica/upload/slike/sinularia%20flexibilis.jpg

[Atos]

Is that Seriatropora histrix in the back??

[Chuck S]

In the second picture on the right side middle back there are a couple of frags it looks like of the Seriatopora histrix of a tan variety.

[Atos]

And what is that in the botom of the thank, that blue one, betwen Clavularia and Alveopora????

[Chuck S]

I see a whole bunch of blue mushrooms.

[bluereef]

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Omegatron said:
I see a whole bunch of blue mushrooms.

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That look like mushrooms but is actually photosyntetic blue sponge colospongia sp..That is great animal,grow like weed,I use her for gluing rock together,to separate corals(that is the reason why she is there,to prevent briareum and pachyclavularia to sting or overgrown neighbour corals),I put her in the rock which are infested with hair algae and sponge overgrown hair algae and in the same time she filter aquarium water like uv -lamp(sponges eat bacteria,protozoe and everything that sizes).
I also have other sponges in this tank mostly easy sponges like chicken liver spnges,ball sponges ...,sometimes I buy corals not because of coral but because of hitchiker sponges in the rock.

[bluereef]

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Omegatron said:
I see a whole bunch of blue mushrooms.

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My fall,yes that is blue mushrooms(Omegatron you have good eyes http://www.reeftalk.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif),after I finished writing I check again Atos post and see that he ask about coral betwen clavularia and alveopora in the right side,I was thinking that he ask about "coral"betwen clavularia and anthelia http://www.reeftalk.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif