Hi all,
this is Ralf from Germany, Hamburg introducing my 870gal in-wall tank.
Finding this group, dedicated to the slightly bigger tanks and reading about your
great setups and beautiful tanks its only fair to show you mine in return.
Thanks for your great work here, i love to read about how things are done on the
other side of our beloved ocean.
After the (hopefully) following images i'll attach a list of the equip. i use.
Basically its a Berlin method tank, Ca/Mg/KH is done by "Balling"-method i.e. adding
chemicals by dosingpump (MgCl2/CaCl2/NaHCO3/NaCl free-Seawater).
Well, time to get out of the dark now:
The 870 USgal (gross) reef is running with the following devices:
Size: about 9.8 x 4.3 x 2.8 ft. frontglas made of VSG Optiwhite glas Silicone joints covered with glasbars
- V2A-steel stand
- 4 * 400 Watt HQI Giesemann System 400 (Megachrome)
- 4 * Lumimaster T5 (each 2*Aquascience special + 2*Osram Blue 54 Watt)
- 5 * Lumimaster T5 (each 2*Aquascience special + 2*Osram Blue 24 Watt)
= 2944 Watt max. at high noon switched in 5 groups
- 120 USgal filtersump
- 12 m3/h Red Dragon with antichalk mod. as sumppump
- 2 * 14m3/h Red Dragon with antichalk mod. as currentpumps outside the tank
- 2 * 20m3/h Tunze Streams changeing every 6 hours with nightslowdown
- 2 * 12m3/h Tunze Streams with nightslowdown
- 2 * Tunze Wavebox with nightslowdown
- Tunze currentpumps with 2 * 2,2 kVA UPSs
- skimmer Bubbleking 500 (580 - 1320 USgal )
- IKS-Aquastar measuring for safety
- Grotech dosing with 11 channels (Ca/Mg/2*KH/2*NaCl free Saltwater/2*Reefwater (Balling method) + Sr/I/traceelements)
- osmosis with ion exchanger (autom. rinsing/level 400 USgal container in cellar)
- waterlevel in sump maintained by IKS (refill) with SP4800 hose pump (Grotech)
- mech. prefilter in outlet shaft, finefilter in sump
- Rowa ?flowbed-filter? as phosphatabsorber/Aktivcarbon etc.
- UV sterilizer from Deltec with 4 * 34 watts
- temperaturecontrol via splitlevel aircon in tankroom
- 1/2 of sump is algaefilter (Caulerpa) lighted only at night
- 50 USgal (one rainbarrel) waterchange a week
- Axis 2100 cam