Reef Ilhabela I

Matias Ilhabela · 01/09/2009, 12:23 PM

First of all, I'd like to apologize, I do not speak English and I use the Google translator, so there might be some errors in my writing...

I began to build this reef on 12/20/2006, in Brazil it is more complicated to do it, everything is more expensive. For you to have an idea: an Achilles Tang costs US$500,00, a Deltec skimmer AP701 costs US$ 1.500,00 the import taxes are too high and leadt to that situation.
About the reef: it is 2.80m height x 0, 60m width x 0,50m large, the lighting has 6 110w 4K lamp tubes and 4 80W T5 Geisemann actinics, the return from the sump is done by a pump of 8 thousand liters per hour and the internal movement is performed by 3 Boyu wave maker pumps .

I harvest the live rock in my houesyard (laughs), I live in an island and I believe that my reef is good because of these live rocks and the amount I used, about 200kg. I used a quartz sand substrate that is commonly present in swimming pool filters, it is inert and does not have silicates.

I am also a moderator of a know aquaristic forum, www.reefcorner.org for 3 years I've been visiting ReefCentral daily to see the assemblies and to try to read some of the articles, always looking for new ideas.

My first marine aquarium dated back in 1995, after that I was more than 10 years only with freshwater aquariums. At this new beginning I had no idea what had changed in the marine aquaristics and I had to look into the web forums. I do not use a calcium reactor, but a direct replacement with tap water, the water here on the island is very good and has no phosphate or nitrate.

Now to the pictures, at the beginning I used a simple camera and now I'm using a Canon 20D.

The reef has a 300 liters refugium and a 250 liters sump, adding up to a total of 1.200 liters of water, currently I use a ETS 1000 skimmer and a UV filter of 40 watts from boyu and a 1HP chiller.

I go snorkelling about 4 times a week, I give very fresh live food for the fishes, like mysis, much of it caught during the night!

GlassReef · 01/09/2009, 12:38 PM

First of all:

To Reef Central

Very interesting start you have made - and very impressive. Your stand alone would be worth a woodworker's build thread. I would love to have it in my kitchen as a table.

Looking forward to seeing much more ...

Matias Ilhabela · 01/09/2009, 12:39 PM

more photos

Matias Ilhabela · 01/09/2009, 12:57 PM

I sent to the table and was US$250,00
thanks Tom

More Photos

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=OaaJyoyAUM8

Jar*Head · 01/09/2009, 01:08 PM

Would be nice to be able to collect and cherry pick your own piece of live rock. BTW, your tank look sweet.

46bfinGA · 01/09/2009, 01:13 PM

Impressive!

Matias Ilhabela · 01/09/2009, 01:16 PM

After 6 months, and after many problems solved rsss
and ready to tackle new problems rss

After 10 months

http://matiasilha.pho.to/albums/reefilhabela1/fs_33.jpg

http://matiasilha.pho.to/albums/reefilhabela1/fs_36.jpg

am3gross · 01/09/2009, 01:20 PM

looks very good. you make the building of the tank look very easy. i think you may need more flow however...

Matias Ilhabela · 01/09/2009, 01:36 PM

After 18 months

Matias Ilhabela · 01/09/2009, 02:15 PM

I started using this reef 3 aquaclear 802 and now has 1 turbelle of 8000 and 2 boyu wave maker of 5500 each.

Matias Ilhabela · 01/09/2009, 02:51 PM

we skip one more year

the food of my fish, live and frozen, Mysis

"Echinometra lacunter"

stunreefer · 01/09/2009, 02:52 PM

Looks great!

That's what I call fresh rock!

mflamb · 01/09/2009, 02:57 PM

WOW!!! You are very skilled! Beautiful reef.

Matias Ilhabela · 01/09/2009, 03:00 PM

an attempt to create an Argonaut nodosa in my refuge, I found 3 of them diving, but he died a few hours, they are of cold water when they arrive on the coast and die in a short time

Matias Ilhabela · 01/09/2009, 03:15 PM

are really fresh and I take it there is some 500 meters from my house.
the live rocks are the most beautiful that are buried in the sand for decades, they will suffer erosion of action and are looking a table.
Thanks

Matias Ilhabela · 01/09/2009, 09:47 PM

after a few thousand liters of partial exchange of water and after 1 year.
The only thing I add is that reef Kalkwasser, 10 grams every 3 days diluted in 5 liters of water.

More Photos

Neptune's Oasis · 01/10/2009, 01:22 AM

Matias Ilhabela · 01/10/2009, 09:11 AM

Brazilian team-cleaning I picked up here in Ilhabela

evil hermit crab

Paul Newman hermit crab, is not his face?

Mithraculus Forceps, of algae eater

gasman059 · 01/10/2009, 09:22 AM

nice very nice!

Buen trabajo!

hatfielj · 01/10/2009, 09:41 AM

WOW!!!!
Amazing Photography too!

Matias Ilhabela · 01/10/2009, 10:22 AM

continuing with the Brazilian team of cleaning

http://matiasilha.pho.to/albums/10012009/fs_5.jpg

before it was called Nassarius Vibex

http://matiasilha.pho.to/albums/10012009/fs_3.jpg

Beautiful, but eats coral

Neptune's Oasis · 01/10/2009, 01:22 PM

dont think too many people can say
they are as (literally) 'immersed' in this hobby as you!

pics are awesome
and a fresh (photo) 'perspective' of aquarium life - here on RC.

regards

Matias Ilhabela · 01/10/2009, 01:53 PM

forgot a few more animals of the cleaning team

Tegula viridula

Ofiuro

Holothurioidea

crab clown, that eats palithoa

Acanthurus nigricans

Cihrrilabrus solorensis

Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura

Matias Ilhabela · 01/10/2009, 02:11 PM

more of a cleaner reef
Elacatinus figaro in action

TandN · 01/10/2009, 02:13 PM

tank looks great best of luck

01/09/2009, 12:23 PM	#1
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	Reef Ilhabela I First of all, I'd like to apologize, I do not speak English and I use the Google translator, so there might be some errors in my writing... I began to build this reef on 12/20/2006, in Brazil it is more complicated to do it, everything is more expensive. For you to have an idea: an Achilles Tang costs US$500,00, a Deltec skimmer AP701 costs US$ 1.500,00 the import taxes are too high and leadt to that situation. About the reef: it is 2.80m height x 0, 60m width x 0,50m large, the lighting has 6 110w 4K lamp tubes and 4 80W T5 Geisemann actinics, the return from the sump is done by a pump of 8 thousand liters per hour and the internal movement is performed by 3 Boyu wave maker pumps . I harvest the live rock in my houesyard (laughs), I live in an island and I believe that my reef is good because of these live rocks and the amount I used, about 200kg. I used a quartz sand substrate that is commonly present in swimming pool filters, it is inert and does not have silicates. I am also a moderator of a know aquaristic forum, www.reefcorner.org for 3 years I've been visiting ReefCentral daily to see the assemblies and to try to read some of the articles, always looking for new ideas. My first marine aquarium dated back in 1995, after that I was more than 10 years only with freshwater aquariums. At this new beginning I had no idea what had changed in the marine aquaristics and I had to look into the web forums. I do not use a calcium reactor, but a direct replacement with tap water, the water here on the island is very good and has no phosphate or nitrate. Now to the pictures, at the beginning I used a simple camera and now I'm using a Canon 20D. The reef has a 300 liters refugium and a 250 liters sump, adding up to a total of 1.200 liters of water, currently I use a ETS 1000 skimmer and a UV filter of 40 watts from boyu and a 1HP chiller. I go snorkelling about 4 times a week, I give very fresh live food for the fishes, like mysis, much of it caught during the night! __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/09/2009, 12:38 PM	#2
GlassReef Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Weeki Wachee, Florida Posts: 1,924	First of all: *To Reef Central* Very interesting start you have made - and very impressive. Your stand alone would be worth a woodworker's build thread. I would love to have it in my kitchen as a table. Looking forward to seeing much more ... __________________ Tom Member of the Tampa Bay Reef Club Go to my homepage to check out my build thread Current Tank Info: Glass 375gal w/ext. coast to coast - 4X 400W CoralVue dim. ballasts & Radium 20k bulbs - 8X 39W T5 - 2 Reeflo 250 Pros, 75gal sump, 75gal refug., 50gal frag, 4X Tunze 6205 streams on Neptune Apex, Dosing per Balling Lite

01/09/2009, 12:39 PM	#3
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	more photos __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/09/2009, 12:57 PM	#4
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	I sent to the table and was US$250,00 thanks Tom More Photos http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=OaaJyoyAUM8 __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/09/2009, 01:08 PM	#5
Jar*Head Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 8,714	Would be nice to be able to collect and cherry pick your own piece of live rock. BTW, your tank look sweet. __________________ Steve 96x48x24, ext overflow, 4 ext waveboxes, 4 tunze 6305, Custom H&S A-400, 4 x 400w Radium/w HQI ballast, Sfiligoi exaggerate pendant, 150w Emperor Aquatic HO U.V, 300mg/h Sanders Ozone with MTC Pro 240D reactor Current Tank Info: 480g peninsula

01/09/2009, 01:13 PM	#6
46bfinGA Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Ball Ground, Ga. Posts: 1,311	Impressive!

01/09/2009, 01:16 PM	#7
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	After 6 months, and after many problems solved rsss and ready to tackle new problems rss After 10 months http://matiasilha.pho.to/albums/reefilhabela1/fs_33.jpg http://matiasilha.pho.to/albums/reefilhabela1/fs_36.jpg __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/09/2009, 01:20 PM	#8
am3gross Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: va Posts: 869	looks very good. you make the building of the tank look very easy. i think you may need more flow however...

01/09/2009, 01:36 PM	#9
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	After 18 months __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/09/2009, 02:15 PM	#10
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	I started using this reef 3 aquaclear 802 and now has 1 turbelle of 8000 and 2 boyu wave maker of 5500 each. __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/09/2009, 02:51 PM	#11
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	we skip one more year the food of my fish, live and frozen, Mysis "Echinometra lacunter" __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/09/2009, 02:52 PM	#12
stunreefer Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Submerged Posts: 2,368	Looks great! That's what I call fresh rock! __________________ -Austin Deepwater ELOS Mini

01/09/2009, 02:57 PM	#13
mflamb Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Seffner Florida Posts: 8,401	WOW!!! You are very skilled! Beautiful reef. __________________ Click on my red house to see my 300 build thread. Tampa Bay Reef Club Educational Director Current Tank Info: Empty 300 for sale

01/09/2009, 03:00 PM	#14
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	an attempt to create an Argonaut nodosa in my refuge, I found 3 of them diving, but he died a few hours, they are of cold water when they arrive on the coast and die in a short time __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/09/2009, 03:15 PM	#15
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	are really fresh and I take it there is some 500 meters from my house. the live rocks are the most beautiful that are buried in the sand for decades, they will suffer erosion of action and are looking a table. Thanks __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/09/2009, 09:47 PM	#16
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	after a few thousand liters of partial exchange of water and after 1 year. The only thing I add is that reef Kalkwasser, 10 grams every 3 days diluted in 5 liters of water. More Photos __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/10/2009, 01:22 AM	#17
Neptune's Oasis Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Arizona Posts: 1,842	__________________ ===>>> .........looking to purchase (rare/hard to find/unusual/LE) sps-lps “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.” Malcolm Muggeridge "The sea, once it casts its spell, it holds one in its net of wonder forever" Jacques Cousteu CONSERVATION through PROPAGATION Current Tank Info: mixed reef - 210gal system - 125dt w/ 50gal 'lagoonal' display fuge (sits under dt in the same stand), 150fowlr, 20 mini reef

01/10/2009, 09:11 AM	#18
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	Brazilian team-cleaning I picked up here in Ilhabela evil hermit crab Paul Newman hermit crab, is not his face? Mithraculus Forceps, of algae eater __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/10/2009, 09:22 AM	#19
gasman059 Tank Raider Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: SOUTH FL. Posts: 8,749	nice very nice! Buen trabajo! __________________ There's a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". You can lead a human to knowledge, but you can't make him think~! Current Tank Info: 60x30x25- BK+SCH

01/10/2009, 09:41 AM	#20
hatfielj Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 1,074	WOW!!!! Amazing Photography too!

01/10/2009, 10:22 AM	#21
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	continuing with the Brazilian team of cleaning http://matiasilha.pho.to/albums/10012009/fs_5.jpg before it was called Nassarius Vibex http://matiasilha.pho.to/albums/10012009/fs_3.jpg Beautiful, but eats coral __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/10/2009, 01:22 PM	#22
Neptune's Oasis Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Arizona Posts: 1,842	dont think too many people can say they are as (literally) 'immersed' in this hobby as you! pics are awesome and a fresh (photo) 'perspective' of aquarium life - here on RC. regards __________________ ===>>> .........looking to purchase (rare/hard to find/unusual/LE) sps-lps “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.” Malcolm Muggeridge "The sea, once it casts its spell, it holds one in its net of wonder forever" Jacques Cousteu CONSERVATION through PROPAGATION Current Tank Info: mixed reef - 210gal system - 125dt w/ 50gal 'lagoonal' display fuge (sits under dt in the same stand), 150fowlr, 20 mini reef

01/10/2009, 01:53 PM	#23
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	forgot a few more animals of the cleaning team Tegula viridula Ofiuro Holothurioidea crab clown, that eats palithoa Acanthurus nigricans Cihrrilabrus solorensis Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/10/2009, 02:11 PM	#24
Matias Ilhabela Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ilhabela Posts: 120	more of a cleaner reef Elacatinus figaro in action __________________ Matias Ilhabela S 23° 47.383 W 045° 21.721 sorry the mistakes of writing, I am using the google translator http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1547615 Current Tank Info: 2,80mt X 0,50 X 0,60 + 2,70x0,60x0,70

01/10/2009, 02:13 PM	#25
TandN Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 2,017	tank looks great best of luck __________________ Tanya & Nick PBITAWA!!!!!!!!! Current Tank Info: 180G SPS Tank w/ all the bells and whistles