dennis tb
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Thanks for the warming welkom in the introduction section of this forum.
My name is Dennis en me and my wife (Aartie) are from the netherlands. We both work in the pharmaceutical industry and the spare time we have we love to go on diving trips, snowboarding trips, watch TV series and of course spend time with our aquarium and our cat teigetje.
2017-08-13_08-45-20 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
Through the diving trips we did we became really enthousiastic about corals and specifically acropora corals. The both of us never had an aquarium so we took our time to read read and read (thanks for the brilliant articles of Randy Holmes) and of course we also visited other hobbiest to see how they did their set up. After a year with had our tank: 120x65x55wh incuding the sump this makes 420L netto.
We started of with live rock and basically glued the scape the way we thought was best at that time
2017-08-13_08-20-31 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
We started of with soft corals and after a year we started introducing our highly anticipated acroporas. Before we started our tank, we had to decide how we were going to keep our macro elements up and our trace elements. Water change or not... A lot of questions. In the end we decided to go for the (at that time just new) dsr method (dutch synthetic reefing). A balling derived method were only a couple of trace elements are added (Iron, manganese, iodide, potassium, borium, strontium). Other trace elements are considered to be less relevant or being introduced through feeding. Also it gave a full solution for nitrates and phosphates. And no waterchanges. We just tried it and gave it a shot. I am a bit of a control freak so I send in every 6 months an OES-ICP test just to see if we have no accumulation of heavy metals.
Now 4 years later it is still running nice. No heavy metal accumulation and our tiny small frags have grown out to big colonies.
We use a bubble king mini 180 as skimmer, ATI hybrid as lightning, 3x MP40qd and a dosing pump.
P8110004 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
2017-08-10_03-41-33 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
P8100171 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
P8100176 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
P8100184 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
P8100174 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
P7170031 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
P8040065 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
P8040057 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
P7170035 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
P7160017-2 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
P8100175 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
P8040063 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
2017-03-01_11-43-50 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
My name is Dennis en me and my wife (Aartie) are from the netherlands. We both work in the pharmaceutical industry and the spare time we have we love to go on diving trips, snowboarding trips, watch TV series and of course spend time with our aquarium and our cat teigetje.
2017-08-13_08-45-20 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrThrough the diving trips we did we became really enthousiastic about corals and specifically acropora corals. The both of us never had an aquarium so we took our time to read read and read (thanks for the brilliant articles of Randy Holmes) and of course we also visited other hobbiest to see how they did their set up. After a year with had our tank: 120x65x55wh incuding the sump this makes 420L netto.
We started of with live rock and basically glued the scape the way we thought was best at that time
2017-08-13_08-20-31 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrWe started of with soft corals and after a year we started introducing our highly anticipated acroporas. Before we started our tank, we had to decide how we were going to keep our macro elements up and our trace elements. Water change or not... A lot of questions. In the end we decided to go for the (at that time just new) dsr method (dutch synthetic reefing). A balling derived method were only a couple of trace elements are added (Iron, manganese, iodide, potassium, borium, strontium). Other trace elements are considered to be less relevant or being introduced through feeding. Also it gave a full solution for nitrates and phosphates. And no waterchanges. We just tried it and gave it a shot. I am a bit of a control freak so I send in every 6 months an OES-ICP test just to see if we have no accumulation of heavy metals.
Now 4 years later it is still running nice. No heavy metal accumulation and our tiny small frags have grown out to big colonies.
We use a bubble king mini 180 as skimmer, ATI hybrid as lightning, 3x MP40qd and a dosing pump.
P8110004 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr2017-08-10_03-41-33 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrP8100171 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrP8100176 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrP8100184 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrP8100174 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrP7170031 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrP8040065 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrP8040057 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrP7170035 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrP7160017-2 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrP8100175 by Dennis ter braak, on FlickrP8040063 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr2017-03-01_11-43-50 by Dennis ter braak, on Flickr
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