Tank of the month: July 2020

SIMONE IMBRESCIA

It is a braced 12 mm glass tank, all extra-clear, 140x70x60.

"I had started this fantastic hobby with a 70 by 70 tank, then about a year and a half ago I moved to this tank", Simone tells us. "About 40 kilos of live rock and a DSB; the tank sits about 5 cm inside the cabinet so as to hide the DSB a bit. The cabinet has a home-made aluminium frame, then clad by a carpenter friend who did an excellent job. The equipment is kept dry behind the right-hand door."

And the equipment deserves a special mention, because Simone left nothing to improvisation.

"In the sump under the aquarium, skimming is handled by a Deltec 1500i, with the cup drain connected to a liquid-suction dosing pump that empties straight into the washing machine drain behind the aquarium. The triad is balanced by a GYR calcium reactor with a Sicce 2.0 pump, plus an H2Ocean P4 Pro dosing pump with which I am adding some ATI Essentials Pro Balling as a supplement to the reactor. The lighting consists of two GNC Bluray, two Silvermoon Actinic bars and two T5 tubes, one Coral Plus and one Purple."

Behind the aquarium, in a utility room that also houses a sink and a washing machine, there is the RO unit, connected to the aquarium through pipes hidden in the wall, and a Teco chiller, whose hot air is vented outside through a duct. There is also a phytoplankton culture system, dosed into the tank every day.

In this aquarium not only many fish but also corals with very different care needs live together peacefully, not just difficult LPS and SPS but also soft corals: a really fine example of a "community aquarium".

Enjoy, and... congratulations again to Simone!