My little Reef

[Patrice]

At 12 months, we had to move so I thought this was the time to get a bigger tank.

So the only freshwater tank I had left went from this:


To this:

(the light on this picture is actually not my 150W MH)

While I am at talking about my new setup, let me show you my filter. As I said above, it's quite weird. I had some good results with it for the first year so why not keeping it.

So first of all, I need a canister filter. There is some special canister made for that but I am too cheap to get them so I use a Fluval filter. Its not as good but it do the job.
In the filter, I use whats call Tri Base pelletized Carbon and pH rocks. See pictures bellow:

The carbon


The rocks


All that in a bag in the canister


It's a little long to explain how this work. Maybe we could talk about that later but for now, here is the only non-commercial link I found about this filter: U.S. Patent Number 6,025,152

Because the Carbon "eat" all trace element in my water, I am using some Sea Lab Trace Element block. They automatically add trace element to the water. Here they are:



It's now time for me to drive my wife to work. I'll finish this a little later tonight.