Moose's first tank. 450 Litres

[Moose of Sweden]

Hey! Another couple from Sweden here. (sorry for bad english )

Our names is Henrik and Martina. Living in Gothenburg.
We started with our reeftank in april this year (2007).

< Technical >
Aquarium 450 liter Juwel Vision.
Sump 112 liter
Deltec MCE600 Skimmer
2x Hydor Koralia 4 - 4600 litres/hour
Maxi-Jet 1000 - 1000 litres/hour
Korallen'Zuchts ZEOvit reaktor.
Eheim 1262 return


< In the Aquarium >
About 65 kg Live Rock

< corals >
- sps -
Acropora table.
Acropora horrida.
Acropora humilis.
Acropora millepora.
Acropora sp.
Stylophora Pistilata
Pochilipora
Montipora sp.
Montipora Digitata
Montipora Confusa
Montipora Stellata
Seriatopora Hystrix

- lps -
Euphyllia Paradivisa
Euphyllia Paranchora
BrainCoral

- Mushrooms -
one rock with Hairy mushrooms (green)
one rock with mushrooms (brown)
one Mushroom (blue)
one rock with different types, gren and blue etc.
one rock with different types of polyps.

- sofcorals -
Pachyclavularia sp.


This is what we have at the moment.
I also got some old pictures, from 1 month ago. Gonna get better real soon.


/Cheers
Henrik and Martina

[CarmieJo]

Hi Henrik and Martina, to TR! We are being over run by Swedes!

Our family hosted a high school exchange student from Sweden a couple of years ago so your country has a fond place in our heart even though we have never been there.

[nay,kid]

nice tank. my grandmother is from sweden. I've tried to get her to teach me the language but so far all I got are a few bad words. welcome to talking reef

[Reefbaby]

Hej! V&#228;lkommna!!!

it's great to see you guys here. I know you'll love it! TR is an awesome reef family, filled with tons of friendly and informed people!

How are your new frags from Saturday doing?

[Moose of Sweden]

Hej! Välkommna!!!

it's great to see you guys here. I know you'll love it! TR is an awesome reef family, filled with tons of friendly and informed people!

How are your new frags from Saturday doing?

thx!

the new frags is just fine, nice polyps on them and the colors is still nice.

only sad thing now is that the tank is almost full of corals, not much space left for new ones.

i will try to get som new photos asap.

[CarmieJo]

only sad thing now is that the tank is almost full of corals, not much space left for new ones.

i will try to get som new photos asap.

Time for another/bigger tank.

[Moose of Sweden]

update =)

some things.

some new corals, acropora table and acropora horrida.

also instaled 112l sump + zeovitfilter. And i moved the old filterbox that alwyas are in juwel akvariums.
Im using an Overflow box to get the water down, and an Eheim 1262 to get it up again.

here comes a few pics.

[Reefbaby]

Hej Henrik and Marina!

Tank looks great! Looks like you got the hair algae under control! Everything looks fantastic. I'll be curious to hear how you like the Zeovit filter and whether you see major changes in the corals.

[DaTrucka]

Hey, didn't know you got your tank here also. Looks great.

Guess TR Have t do some pocasts in swedish soon

[Reefbaby]

finally getting the Swedish contingency over here!

[Moose of Sweden]

Hey, didn't know you got your tank here also. Looks great.

Guess TR Have t do some pocasts in swedish soon

ofc i do, blame christi =)

[CarmieJo]

LOL, we might better save Swedish podcasts for another time. )

[Moose of Sweden]

i decided to remove all of my sand. So yesterday i was standing with my hands in the aquarium for like 12! hours.

All the rock was out of the tank so i could have some free space to work on.
I got almost all sand out, will take the rest when i do water changes.
So i have rebuild the whole aquascaping.

Some of the corals wasnt so lucky during this, some of them got smashed into pieces etc. (alots of frags, tiny ones)

I believe im statisfied atm. Just going to glue some ot the corals into new spaces.

Reefbaby.
About ur question on the zeovit, i will have to come back to that, cant really tell now when i have been doing all this. Also got some frags for u if u want. Small to tiny pieces of Acropora sp. Monitpora Capri (brown here, almost white at Ted), Montipora Confusa, Montipora Digitata. Acropora Enzmanni.

[Reefbaby]

Hej Henrik! Martina told me about you re-doing everything! She said she walked in the door and you were standing with buckets full of rock and corals! What a pain. Are you going to put in new sand again?

Every time we do any aquascaping, we somehow always end up breaking some of our corals....so frustrating.

The frags would be great! I have some pocillapora and seriotopora hysterix frags if you'd like. Both of them are quite fast growing. Oh...also some fire coral if you'd like. I have grown to love this coral. It grows in a really beautiful shape.

[Moose of Sweden]

yeah, im gonna buy living sand from Ted.

and hopefully im not gonna do this again for a while. phew.....

ur frags should fit in wery well in my system to.
fire coral, hmm. dont remember how it looks. but if im right they dont need so much lights? i may have the perfect spot for it =).

i will update with pics soon, just have to wait for the milky water to get cleared up.

[Reefbaby]

This is what the fire corals look like, although this isn't a picture of mine. Mine had actually fallen into the back of my old tank and I'd forgotten about, thinking it was dead, but it had survived. It actually encrusts whatever rock it sits on and grows quite quickly. It doesn't NEED a ton of light, but definitely brightens up and grows quicker in better lighting. I would take care to put it onto something that you don't mind it encrusting, because it spreads all over the rock! I really like it though....

[Moose of Sweden]

oh, well, not the way i imagined the croral, but let us try =).

heres a wery bad picture of the tank now, still milky water.

and alots of corals still standing on the bottom etc.

[Reefbaby]

I like the aquascaping! I particularly like how the right side of the rocks are higher....kind of reminds me of big huge coral heads. cool!

[Reefbaby]

by the way...the fire coral actually grows even cooler than that....and does have all the little hairs as well!

[Moose of Sweden]

we gotta set up an meeting then! so we can swap some frags and have a cup of coffe =)

[Reefbaby]

absolutely! Unfortunately, I leave for Colorado on Friday for 4 weeks, so it probably won't happen until I get back!!! Unless you want to pop over and visit Georg!

[Moose of Sweden]

ah right, ive forgot that.

we can wait until u get back =)

[CarmieJo]

Hej Henrik and Martina,

Your tank is looking nice. I also like the aquascape, it is very artistic.

[Moose of Sweden]

i will try to fix a better picture today, we wasnt 100% statisfied with the left side, so we dit it all over again =).

[Moose of Sweden]

here is the pictures i promissed.