Rebirth

Alex Costa

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This build is a rebuilt of my previous system, Monolith, which crashed in July 2016 due to a electric failure in the street while I was travelling.
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My first thought after that was to dismantle the system and sell out everything, but passed a few days I just found that was not the way to go.
So......here we are.

The setup is basically the same, with much less sand and rocks.
This time I was able to do what I wanna do on Monolith, but didn't do due to the fact that Monolith was an upgraded project.
This was a fresh start, so I can plan it more carefully.

The new layout:

Right View
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Big Island
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Small Island
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Some setup info:
Total volume: aprox. 2000 liters
Dimensions: 1,8 x 1,5 x 0,70 (meters). Crystal Clear 15 mm glass with euro braces. Internal overflow box.
Lightining: 2AI Vega + 2 AI Hydra52 over the Big Island and 2AI Vega over the Small Island
Skimmer – SRO Super Reef Octopus 5000 Internal
Calcium reactor - Super Reef Octopus 5000 dual chamber
Cooling - Chiller ¾ HP Gelaqua Chiller
Heating - Two Finnex 500W titanium heater
Controller - Apex Gold
Circulation – 1 Vortech MP40 (with battery Backup), 1Maxspect Gyre XF150
Return – Reef Octopus Water Blaster 7000
Sandbed – 2cm of samoa pink, Fiji pink and crushed coral #1
Sansibar rocks + pacific rocks + natural rocks
 
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My intended fish list:

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Now I've already have the Chromis (6 actually), the P. fridmanii (a couple), the Golden head goby, the yellow coris and the clowns.
I added too a P. sankeyi, 2 Anthias Lyretail and an antenata goby.

I don't want more than one tang to avoid aggressions, like I have in my previous setup.
 
These are some surviving corals, added 30 days after the setup.
I also added a yongey green frag, to see if the system can handle some sps.

Red favia
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Favia prism
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Duncan
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Alex
 
Two months after the setup, I started with some sps frags.
nana purple
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milepora baby blue
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Red planet
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milepora green orange tips
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My intention, since the beginning, is to setup a a system which has a multitude of corals, inverts and fishes

ORA Blue Green
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frog green rose tips....a common coral but one of my favs....
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some polyps
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The home of the clowns:
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Alex
 
Last week I redo my fixtures support and now I'm running 3 Hydras 52 and 2 Vegas over the big island and 1 Hydras 52 and 2 Vegas over the small island.

Alex
 

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