August 2014 Tank of the Month!!

[Genetics]

<b>This month we are featuring Valentina Frugoni's (valentina84) 50 US-gallon aquarium.</b>


<img src="http://www.reefkeeping.com/joomla//images/stories/totm/Aug2014/FTSsm.jpg" alt="" border="0"><br><br> <br> More details can be found <a href="http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/index.php/current-issue/article/149-tank-of-the-month" target="_blank">here</a>.


Congratulations, Valentina!


Also check out the <a href="http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/" target="_blank">Reefkeeping Blog</a>!<br> <br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><table style="WIDTH: 431px" align="center" border="2" bordercolor="#006699" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#006699" width="73%"><center><font color="#ffffff">If you'd like to nominate a tank for Tank of the Month, click <a href="http://reefcentral.com/forums/newthread.php?s=&amp;action=newthread&amp;forumid=189" target="_blank"><font color="#ffffff">here</font></a> or use the button to the right.</font></center></td> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="27%"><a href="http://reefcentral.com/forums/newthread.php?s=&amp;action=newthread&amp;forumid=189" target="_blank"><img src="http://reefkeeping.com/images/nominate1.gif" alt="" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

[DgenR8]

Congratulations, valentina! Beautiful tank, thanks for sharing :thumbsup:

[gone fishin]

congrats. Awesome looking tank.

[Odranoel]

Congratulations Vale...........very beautif Tank!!!

[lordlucas]

Good job Valentina! Wonderful tank!

[Wazzel]

Very nice, congrats.

[Misled]

Simply stunning. One of the most beautiful tanks I've seen. Congratulations!!!! :thumbsup:

[Sugar Magnolia]

Congratulations Valentina, your tank is stunning!

[valentina84]

Hi all, i'm very happy to have this opportunity . and thank you so much for compliments
I appriciate it !!!!!!
I want to thank also nat and my husband Alvaro (zon here ) for helping me ...

New tank is running and i promise you that will be better !!!

[hedgedrew]

Congrats valentina. Its beautiful. Good luck with next one. I'm sure you'll be sharing it soon.!!

[ramon1181]

Beautifull setup and goodluck with the new tank

[johnike]

Simply gorgeous.

[OrionN]

A lot of nice and brightly color corals. Congrad.

[cnewsome]

Great looking tank. The bright colors are amazing!!

[jestronix]

Very very nice tank, is there a tank build thread for this ? Id love to see how it was created.

[glaukos]

Congrats valentina:celeb3:
Tank is awesome!

[w.gurney77]

Awesome tank! Do you have any pictures of the sump?

[winwar]

Congratulations Valentina!
Very nice!

[claireputput]

Amazing!

[Scotty freddy]

Awesome tank Valentina, very well deserved!

Congratulations Scotty

[alessandro]

Congratulations!!
well deserved!!

[ChrisKirkland]

Good looking cube. congrats!

[reefsahoy]

very nice indeed! i have one question. how do you keep the glass clean especially behind the corals? dont the corals get broken whenever you scrape the glass?

[hypnoj]

Beautiful tank! What is your light schedule?

[leandro_souza]

Congratulations to Beautiful tank
Can you speak little more about the zeovit routine ?

[JasonD]

Nicely done Valintina nicely done!

[T55]

Great looking tank, the colours of your corals are fantastic. You convinced me that LED's really do work, I've been hooked on T-5's until now,

[Ratpack]

Very beautiful tank. I love the colors. One thing I am wondering now with my LED's after reading about your set up is if I am running too much of the blue LED's and not enough of the whites.

[bfliflet]

Very inspiring tank. We should all be so skilled...

[markalex]

absolutetly incredible,

[juldelf]

congrats , beautiful tank

[ssc]

Congratulations very very nice

[Buzz1329]

Wow. Gorgeous. What is the name of the coral pictured in the third row down, middle, in the thumbnails?

[ScubaSky]

Very nice!

[FastUno]

Beautiful tank & such great color...so many nice pinks!

I am just curious since the corals are so tightly packed, if they are stinging each other? I just had a mixed reef & many of my SPS's stung each other & I lost colonies because of stinging, subsequent RTN, which then affected adjacent corals.

Does the same thing happen to you? Do you just prune/cut the corals before they touch each other?

[bonzaicube]

This is right out of a museum!!! Amazing tank.

[trueblackpercula]

Outstanding reef tank. I have many questions to ask,but my first for now as I didn't see it mentioned. How long is your photoperiod?

[Tanu]

Fantastic, this is a very nice piece of art. Congratulations!!

[cangrejo]

Beautiful tank.

[aquaticaddict]

WOW! What an amazing tank! Congratulations!

[valentina84]

Hi guys.. And thank you for all compliments,firts thing i say is i' did't use zeovit but only some bottles Like k and b balance .. My photoperiod is around 11 hours of full light and yes my fixture are 55 white 8000k and 25 royal 455 nm.

I used this fixtur with success for almost 3 Yeats and all corals stay in perfect conditions like you can see ( only deepwater acro will suffer top much light) now after 3 yrs i noticed that leds are less powerful and light is top yellowish and i think to replace chips or try a mh cause i don't like commercial fixtures that market have ready now bit is a WIP in my mind.. I'm curious to try .

Corals touch themselves and the powerful one burn the other i like wild reef where all is made by nature and not like a expo tank.. No problem at all with rtn by contact .

Sorry for long time reply ..and ask me if you have other questions!!

Bye Valentina

[trueblackpercula]

Thanks for the reply, I know you are reluctant to use commercial led fixtures but I just got a mitras and I am in love lol

[Decadence]

Gorgeous tank!

[Fishy 1]

Congats Valentina. TOTM is well deserved. So refreshing to see a smaller tank as TOTM.

Well done keep it up, best regards Fishy:)

[jdm1114]

I really like this tank, thats some great work on the corals

[svanur]

Awesome tank,great job.

[MKL]

Wow!

[tankslave]

Which LED fixture is that?

[ZON]

Is old italian handcrafted fixture , name is aqualiving

[ZON]

Tomorrow we put a LA3 on this tank with a SE 250w bulb..led are finished and replace they are too expensive.

[supervdl]

Congrats beautiful tank!

[svanur]

Awesome tank,congrats

[Ponganunt]

I do love this tank.

[Jorsan]

Beautifull tank Valentina ... really beautifull.
Would you please elaborate how exactly you are dosing your tank with zeovit stuff?, Im asking because your corals have great and brillant colors, and the way you describe how you apply the zeovit system, seems like you are not closely attached to the stricted rules that this system has.
thanks in advance and again ... congratulations !

[reefmentor]

Congratulations, Valentina

What kind/brand solution(mag. cal. KH) do you use?
Thanks

[Denadai]

Where is the sump and what is the tank dimensions ?

Good job !

Best regards