Reef Ilhabela I

[Reeftanks6]

very nice!

[Matias Ilhabela]

Yesterday was cleaning day at the reef, every 6 months I aspire all substrate to remove organic matter compressed, also aspire the live rock to remove the dust in first week hope 150 liters of water and dirty and play outside and with a full newly collected water, and after some days I repeat the operation.
I know I should not poke the substrate, because we have bacteria that can not be exposed to the oxygen of water, but I always do that and never had problems, I have a very big Refugium of 300 liters with 50 kg of live rock, about 200 more kg within the reef, and every 3 months I have a new inoculation of bacteria using a bit of sand collected in the sea, put some 50 grams of sand.
well put new colonies of bacteria within the reef









this week I went diving and found this cologne for zoanthus



also find this kind of crab Mithraculus that had not seen and brought to see if it is reef safe



collect some algae to eat and tangs together with them came this nudibranquio that is feeding on sponges orangeade

[erics3000]

Wow..amazing...

[Matias Ilhabela]

new photos

[seattownreefer]

very nice. wish i can shop in the ocean. great thread and thanks for the pictures.

[K' Family Reef]

great photos Matias!

thanks for sharing.

regards

[SunnyX]

Great looking tank! Its so full of life!

[JustinReef]

Great stuff!

I love the diversity of this tank. So much life...I wish I could find just half of the inverts you have for my tank.

My fiances parents are from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean and also dive to collect all their livestock. They also have a very diverse and healthy tank like this.

Can't wait to see more!

[Nanook]

Impressive!! Thanks for all the photographs of the unusual critters you have access to that we in the US do not. Very cool thread.

[Matias Ilhabela]

thank you for the compliments
My Montipora grew and began to shadow the anemone,
who decided to stretch to catch a light
and began to burn the Montipora and Valida
but the basis it is in a hole and I have to take, I think I will have to cut off her.
the place she has not put a bomb as the basis for pointing to her leaving the place
















PS: what is the word that you use to draw those who have aquarium?
here call the aquarista or aquariofilista.

[melev]

Perhaps you are thinking of 'aquarist' or 'hobbyist'.

[SWINGRRRR]

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...readid=1575831

[Matias Ilhabela]

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[SWINGRRRR]

I dont know man. I nominated you for TOTM. I was hoping others could add to the post. Theres a link at the end of all the TOTM articles, and I just followed it.

I thought that was how you nominate people. Ill keep looking.

[melev]

You did it correctly. I saw it, since my access is set to view all nominations.

[Matias Ilhabela]

you will get me ashamed

[K' Family Reef]

bump (for more pics!)



regards

[Matias Ilhabela]

the news is not good
my copperband he died 2 years reef, and ate in the hand
he was very healthy and the last to see the photos as it was, that death has no explanation

these are pictures of him dying









the couple of percula is accepting the visit of ocelaris









these photos are from my other reef, put the first fish, two acanthurus coeruleus, then do a topic to the assembly of it.

[Felipe_Caetano]

I´m sorry people, but this guy deserves some congratulations on his own language ....


Parabens Mathias, fico muito feliz em ver mais um brasileiro por aqui, ainda mais depois de ler que foi indicado pelo proprio Melev a TOTM, que grande felicidade em ver nosso aquarismo nacional chagando nesse nivel, sendo reconhecido pelos gringos que tanto tentamos nos igualar.
Seu aquario está simplesmente magnifico, sem palavras, sinto muito pela perda do seu Cooperband, mas não desanime, esta fazendo um otimo trabalho e continue assim que o TOTM virá para o Brasil e deixará todos nos aquaristas brasileiros muito mais motivados e decididos a melhorar cada vez mais!
E mais uma coisa, esquece isso de se desculpar pelo ingles ruim hehehehehhe, eles não ligam, eu mesmo falo inglês bem por causa do trabalho, mas escrevo de maneira pessima, mas eles nem se dão conta, o que vale aqui é o interesse e admiração que temos por esse hobby fantatisco, palavras são meros detalhes heheheh.
Mais uma vez meus sinceros parabens!
Abraço e não se esqueça de anunciar la no IPAq o resultado da eleição, estou torcendo por você!

OK guys, now we can continue writing in english, i´ve been seen the work of Mathias through other foruns (Brazilian foruns) and was a surprise for me to see his tank here, it´s a very gorgeos tank and i´m happy to see more brazilian tanks here, i´m from Brazil too, and we have a lot of trouble getting almost anything to our tank, from books to live stock, everything is too expensive and almost impossible to find here in my country... i hope someday it might change, for while i just try to do my best with i can put my hands on...
Best wishes for evereone, especially for Mathias, it´s a great honor to know that a brazilian tank was nominated for TOTM, i´m very proud of brazilian hobbysts.

Keep the good job!

[rng_pw]

the tank looks awesome. I wish that I could go for a swim and bring back some coral. Keep up the good work. Ohh yeah the pics are great. They make me realize how much I need a new camera.

[Matias Ilhabela]

But here where I live the only corals that we are the brains(Mussismilia hispida) and some Gorgona, the brains like water cooler and have to feed every week to keep alive.
this week for a dive I found a Myrichthys ocellatus and they tend to be calm and you can catch with the hand, I was walking and seeing how it fed, I began to catch small crabs crushed and she had to eat, and how like a joke, I was taking her to the beach, and was held apart from the water near some people who were in the water was only one yelling and screaming at everyone snake snake snake, I almost drowned laughing so much low-water

[K' Family Reef]

Matias
you have my vote for tank of the month!


anyone know where we go to vote for totm?

thanks.

regards

[melev]

Originally posted by Neptune's Oasis
anyone know where we go to vote for totm?

Here is the information you seek. Please link others to it as well, so everyone knows how to submit nomination-worthy tanks.

Tank of the Month – How Does It Come About?
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-10/totm/index.php

[Matias Ilhabela]

More photos

some photos of the new supply of fish, collected small anchovies that freezes and then step on a grater and I tb whole fish for the reef fish eat the red dots that appear in the photo are myssis





















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[Matias Ilhabela]

more photos