pavlos tank

[pavlo]

Hi all

I have been searching around for new forums following the temporary demise of my usual one and I stumbled across this one

Anyway, I thought I would post some pictures of my tank which has been running for nearly four years.

Sorry if you're on dial up.

Cheers

Paul

 

[just_in_time]

Wow what are your specs?
That tank is beautiful.
Absolutely stunning
More pics would be great.

 

[just_in_time]

Oh yeah
:welcome:

 

[pavlo]

Thanks just_in_time

The specs are as follows


Length: 185cm

Width: 70cm

Height: 100cm

Volume: 300 gallons including 48" x 18" x 18" sump

Filtration: 35Kgs live rock, 8 litres of sintered glass pellets from my old system and a deltec AP703 skimmer

Lighting: Arcadia series3 triple 250w halide unit with 10k blv lamps

Substrate: About 100kgs of coral sand

Circulation: two 3500 lph return pumps, two 6100 streams and a 6200 stream giving around 39x turnover

Decorative materials: The tank was aquascaped with a mixture of drilled tufa rock and skeletons from dead corals. A very open structure was formed with the aid of a couple of dozen packs of milliput.

Inhabitants: Fish

5 Yellow Tangs Zebrasoma flavescens
3 Regal Tangs Paracanthurus hepatus
1 Naso Tang Naso lituratus
5 Green Chromis Chromis viridis
2 Anthias Pseudanthias
2 Percula clowns Amphiprion percula
1 Banggai cardinal Pterapogon kauderni
1 Flame angel Centropyge loricula
1 Mandarin Synchiropus splendidus
1 Damsel Chrysiptera taupou
1 Ornate leopard wrasse Macropharyngodon ornatus
1 Canary wrasse Halichoeres trispilus
1 copperband butterflyfish Chelmon rostratus
1 Emperor angel Pomacanthus imperator
4 orchid dottybacks pseudochromis fridmani
Inverts

1 Magnifica Anemone Heteractis magnifica
1 Long spined urchin Diadema species
1 Cleaner shrimps Lysmata amboinensis
1 Derasa clam Tridacna derasa
1 maxima clam Tridacna Maxima
Various hermits, snails and nudibranchs


I was very fortunate to have the Magnifica anemone divide into two about two years ago. I have kept one half and given the other half away. The half I kept is now almost as large as the parent was at the time of splitting

Corals

Soft

Various Sinularia - some very large
Various Gorgonians
Various Lobophytum – very large
Various Sarcophyton
Briareum sp.
Nepthea sp.
Xenia elongata
Zooanthid colonies
Various Discosoma sp.
Various Rhodactis sp.

LPS

Bubble coral

SPS

Various Montipora
Branching porites
Encrusting porites
Various Acropora
Various Pocillopora
Various Pavona
Various Seriatopora

Plus loads that I have forgotten

 

[annette34429]

Great display! Great pics!
What kind of camera did you use?
Annette

 

[pavlo]

Some of the pictures were taken with a Nikon coolpix 5700 and some were taken with a Konica minolta dynax 5D which is a much more capable camera.