Hello
my name is Matthias and i am a 38 years old reefaquarist from Germany. I work as quality engineer in a company which is a supplier for the car industries.
I started with keeping fish 10 years ago. At the beginning i kept a small Amazonas - Tank which i bought as my wife went for a week into holidays (she always was against that "boring glass boxes". Imagine how surprise she was as she came back from her trip :mrgreen: 2 years later i changed my tank into a bigger one and did start to keep Malawis. I was very successfull in breeding the following years.
As i visited a big Petstore in Stuttgart, i saw for the first time in my life a reeftank which was designed for private aquarists. Off course i had seen a lot of reefs in zoos, but i never could imagine that somebody without an education as marine biologist would be able to keep corals and coralsfishes in a small glass tank. From that moment i knew that nothing could hinder me to own such a beautiful reeftank- excepted my wife :mrgreen: It tooked 6 months preparation before my wife gave the ok for the project. I sold my whole equipment and animals i kept and bought a small 270 liter / 70 g reeftank. How lucky i was :lol: 1 year later we moved into a new house. I bought a new tank because i was not shure if my fish and invertebrates will survive a long move in the middle of the winter. Of course the tank was little bigger than the old one.
Last event: Big fishdisease which kiled 7 fishes
(probably it was oodinum)
So and this is now my current reeftank
Current Reeftank Specification
Tank
432 liter (appr. 115 gallon) all glas aquarium without filter sump
Lighting
6 x 54 T5 tubes
Moonlight
Skimmer
Tunze Reefpack 500
Powerheads
Tunze Stream 7000 liter/h
Tunze Turbelle 1600 liter/h
Calcium ReactorSchuran Pico
UVC
JBL AquaCristal
Planning
Overflowbox & Technical Tank
Fish
1 Zebrasoma flav.
1 Pseudocheilinus hexataenia
1 Labroides dimidiatus
2 Valenciennea puellaris
1 Chrysiptera parasema
Invertebrates
1 Heteractis malu
few hermit crabs
2 Lysmata amboinensis
Corals
few Xenia colonies
1 Sarcophyton sp.
2 brain corals (one big colony)
3 Montipora australiensis
1 big and a couple small Pachyclavularia colonies
2 Acropora echinata
1 Acropora tumida
1 Pocillopora sp.
2 Euphyllia
1 Seriatopora caliendrum
1 Montipora capricornis
1 Montipora sp.
1 Caulastrea furcata
3 different Zooanthus colonies
Thats it
Greets
Matthias
my name is Matthias and i am a 38 years old reefaquarist from Germany. I work as quality engineer in a company which is a supplier for the car industries.
I started with keeping fish 10 years ago. At the beginning i kept a small Amazonas - Tank which i bought as my wife went for a week into holidays (she always was against that "boring glass boxes". Imagine how surprise she was as she came back from her trip :mrgreen: 2 years later i changed my tank into a bigger one and did start to keep Malawis. I was very successfull in breeding the following years.
As i visited a big Petstore in Stuttgart, i saw for the first time in my life a reeftank which was designed for private aquarists. Off course i had seen a lot of reefs in zoos, but i never could imagine that somebody without an education as marine biologist would be able to keep corals and coralsfishes in a small glass tank. From that moment i knew that nothing could hinder me to own such a beautiful reeftank- excepted my wife :mrgreen: It tooked 6 months preparation before my wife gave the ok for the project. I sold my whole equipment and animals i kept and bought a small 270 liter / 70 g reeftank. How lucky i was :lol: 1 year later we moved into a new house. I bought a new tank because i was not shure if my fish and invertebrates will survive a long move in the middle of the winter. Of course the tank was little bigger than the old one.
Last event: Big fishdisease which kiled 7 fishes
(probably it was oodinum)So and this is now my current reeftank
Current Reeftank Specification
Tank
432 liter (appr. 115 gallon) all glas aquarium without filter sump
Lighting
6 x 54 T5 tubes
Moonlight
Skimmer
Tunze Reefpack 500
Powerheads
Tunze Stream 7000 liter/h
Tunze Turbelle 1600 liter/h
Calcium ReactorSchuran Pico
UVC
JBL AquaCristal
Planning
Overflowbox & Technical Tank
Fish
1 Zebrasoma flav.
1 Pseudocheilinus hexataenia
1 Labroides dimidiatus
2 Valenciennea puellaris
1 Chrysiptera parasema
Invertebrates
1 Heteractis malu
few hermit crabs
2 Lysmata amboinensis
Corals
few Xenia colonies
1 Sarcophyton sp.
2 brain corals (one big colony)
3 Montipora australiensis
1 big and a couple small Pachyclavularia colonies
2 Acropora echinata
1 Acropora tumida
1 Pocillopora sp.
2 Euphyllia
1 Seriatopora caliendrum
1 Montipora capricornis
1 Montipora sp.
1 Caulastrea furcata
3 different Zooanthus colonies
Thats it
Greets
Matthias
