Coral Reef Finland's reef

Coral Reef Finland's reef

Coral Reef Finland - easy reefing!

1000 l reef system:

8.10.2006 Updated

Reef location: Tampere, Finland, in this tank since 15.06.2002
800 l aquarium with 300 l sump / refugium, second 240 l sump and 300l coral grow-out tank
Lights: 3x 250 W HQI (14000K AquaConnect Performance), 150W HQI (BLV 20000K) and 4x 80W T5 (Osram67 and ATI AquaBlue), T5 on 12 h/day 11:00-23:00, HQI on 11,5 h/day 11:15-22:45
Refugium lights: 4x 18 W fluorescent light (2x Osram 67Actinic Blue and 2x Philips 865 dylight 6500K), ligts on 14 h/day 22:50-13:00
Water flow: DIY wavebox, 3x Tunze Stream 6110 12000 l/h on DIY wavebox controller, Tunze 4000 l/h return pump from sump/ refugium
Protein skimmer: DIY Downdraft Skimmer
Calcium supplementation: DIY Calcium reactor & Kalkwasser reactor
80 kg of live rock
200 kg of coral sand
Phytoplankton reactor feeds automatically 400 ml/day of Nannochloropsis spp. culture, zooplankton grow in refugium
Hardware

DIY wavebox is in operation since 19.05.2004, it fits well on my system, no problem with overflow. Here are 6,70 MB DivX video of box in operation.

22.08.2005 macro photos with new Canon S1 IS camera and HOYA +4 Close Up leans

6.02.2005 underwater pictures

27.08.2004

German reef shop WELKE in Lünen 14.06.2004 and some new things from there

Shipment to Siniriutta reef shop 29.01.2004.

Underwater pictures 15.01.2004.

5-12.12.2003 another trip to Red Sea, Sharm El Sheikh, some pictures are from Ras Mohamed park.

Underwater pictures with Olympus C-4000 and UW-box PT-010 13.11.2003.

Blue Gorgonian, very nice non-photosynthetic Indo-Pacific gorgonian, fragment from PiaJake

Shipment to Siniriutta reef shop 17.10.2003, some pictures from PiaJake reef tank and from my tank

13.08.2003

19-26.05.2003 trip to Red Sea, Sharm el Sheikh

15.02.2003 trip to Swedish reef shops in Stockholm. First 4 pictures are from Akvarielagret, rest from JR AKVARIUM

10.03.2003 some new livestock from UK and some overview pictures.

My Nano Reef project - non expensive and easy reef aquarium :)

Some macro shots from Marko's tank 3.11.2002.

Corals 29.10.2002 pictures was taken with new Olympus C-4000 Zoom camera.

18.10.2002 Some fragments for sale and my macro photo experiments with DIY plastic macro lens, :) was taken with Sony DRV-510E video camera.

13.07.2002

20.06.2002 all corals was transferred.

15.06.2002 last pictures from my 100 l reef just before it was transferred into 800 l, and first pictures of my new 800 l aquarium.

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Last updated on 19.05.2006. More info (myös suomeksi)

Aleksandr Pyndyk