Tank of the month: September 2019

EMANUELE CASATI

For our tank of the month feature, today we present the aquarium of one of our members, Emanuele Casati, run with a calcium reactor (yes, we are BallingMania, but we do not discriminate against reactor users!). Emanuele introduces himself like this:

"Good morning, and thank you so much for the honour of publishing my little tank. It makes me proud and gives me great satisfaction.

I come from ten years of ADA planted aquariums with carpets and all the rest, but marine was always an obsession and I always saw it as a step to take sooner or later...

Until, three years ago, I set up my first small LPS cube, thanks to a friend who guided me step by step... Then, after a year, the turning point with the move to my current tank, almost all SPS, which over time has gone through changes of rockwork, skimmer and lights, from dosing pump to reactor, and of flow pumps, up to today's latest version.

I do not want to go on too long, so here is the tank:

Extra-clear tank 100*50*50

Sump 90*45*40

Light unit 8*39 W T5 (KZ tubes)

2 Vortech MP40

1 Jebao RW4

LGM 701 calcium reactor

Akula 180 skimmer

UKS 120 zeolite reactor

Rossmont Riser 3200 l/h return

Roller filter

Chiller

All managed by the complete Aquatronica system.

It is a Berlin system with a sprinkling of a couple of centimetres of coarse sand stirred by 5 Archaster stars... All run with Zeovit, using the complete protocol, which however I dose according to the state of the animals and by watching their reaction, so not following the manufacturer's doses.

In the sump one compartment is lit and holds live rock and Chaetomorpha.

There are many fish, but some are being removed, as they were added to solve problems, because I support the natural method rather than chemistry.

Tomentosus for the majano (gone)

Naso for the Dictyota (gone)

Staying:

Flavescens

Strigosus

Centropyge acanthops

Hexataenia

2 Ocellaris I brought with me from the first little cube

Over to you for the photos...

P.S. I thank the whole group and especially Ciro Murino for all the advice, without which I certainly would not have achieved these results".