Hello from Lisbon|Portugal

[tmiravent]

Hello everyone,
I'm Tiago from Portugal.
Here is my system with 2 aquariums (they are connected and share the same water system).



The big One (on the right)

Glass | EHEIM 200l + Stand DIY [100cm x 40cm x 50cm]
Eheim 2211(lift water up to refugium) Eheim 2215 + Eheim 2215
Weipro MX1019 + Titanium 300W
CO2|Weipro PH2010 + Dici Co2 + Atomizer TMC AquaGro
Light | LED100S 18W + DIY LED GU10 32W (7 spots)
Sand Black Vulcanic
Actual picture

Corydora Panda | Paracheirodon innesi | Paracheirodon axelrodi | Ancistrus | Boraras maculatus | Khuli | Caridina sp. (var. red crystal ) | Planorbis Corneus

Plants
Lemna Minor|Salvivnia Natans | Vallisneria Spiralis-Tiger|Limnophila sessiflora|Pogostemon Stellata|Myriophyllum mattogrossense red|Limnophila Aromatica|Rotala Rotundifolia
Heteranthera Zosterifolia|Microsorum pteropus|Anúbia Barteri|Echinodorus Tenelus
Echinodorus 'Fantastic Colour'|Hemianthus Micranthemoides|Cryptocoryne Wendtii Brown|Vesicularia Dubyana

The refugum (on the lef)

Nano Panoramic GAD [100cm x 23cm x 17cm] | 30 liters | 20 useful liters] + Stand DIY
Filter Aleas XP06 (+ the filter system of the big one)
Light DIY GU10
Substrate: h.e.l.p. plants
Planorbis Corneus | Neocaridina heteropoda var. red
Aplocheilus annulatus | Corydora pygmaeus | Corydora Habrosus | Ancistrus (com 1 mês, mas não vão ficar aqui!)

Plants
Lemna Minor | Anubias barteri var. barteri | 1 Echinodorus 'Fantastic Colour' | Hemianthus Callitrichoides | Valisnéria Spiralis mini | Hemianthus Micranthemoides | 1 Cryptocoryne Wendtii Brown | Hygrophila polysperma 'Rosanervig' | 2 Lilaeopsis Macloviana
Staurogyne Repens | Marsilea Hirsuta | Eleocharis sp.'mini' | Leptodontium riparium (musgo) | Rotala sp. 'Nanjenshan'

Thanks!
tiago

 

[Alastair]

Very nice tanks and welcome to ukaps

 

[Gary Nelson]

Really nice tanks, they both look great and welcome to the forum 🙂
What are the 2 devices at the end of tank the second picture?... Are they auto water top ups? Water change system?

 

[tmiravent]

Hi Gary,
in the photo there where two devices, now there's four!
1 water level controller for refugium | 1 PH Meter and controler | 1 temperature controler | and a TDS meter
I prefer to have the meters outside the cabinet for visual check
Thanks to all,
tiago

 

[martinmjr62]

Very nice tanks,welcome to the forum 🙂

Cheers
Martin

 

[maboleth]

Hey Lisbon, great tanks! How satisfied are you with DiCi CO2 regulators? I've heard/read some bad and good stories about them.

 

[tmiravent]

Long story...
Short story: one of the meters 'blow up', the high pressure one!
I changed for a new one, bigger not very beautiful.
Now it's working for almost 2 years.
Not top quality but very low price.
cheers

 

[maboleth]

Thanks! I'm torn between Sera one and Dici. As you said, Dici is a very low price, but again if it's working then it's fine.

 

[Pedro Rosa]

Tiago, i never saw this setup in any Portuguese forum.
Very nice

 

[tmiravent]

Hi Pedro, all this information and photos are in aquariofilia.net.
My name is the same, but the setup's are much detailed (and borring!).
Setup's from scratch!
Nice to see you here🙂

 

[Graham01]

Hi & welcome to the forum lovely tanks & pics you have

 

[LondonDragon]

Bem vindos ao Forum Tiago, congrats on the lovely tanks 🙂

How do you share the water between the two tanks? Sump?

 

[tmiravent]

Hi London Dragon,
I share water, heater, UV, filtration, C02, etc between the 2 tanks in this way:


The big one (on the right) is the sump. Eheim200l
The small one (on the left) is like a shelter. Paralelo39N

Notes:
2211 is used to push water to Paralelo39N (with everything the main thank have, temperature, Co2, etc)
2211 is also used to feed the UV filter (is the weakest filter)
I can switch the 2211 to go directly to one or other thank (in case of quarantine or treatment)
Paralelo39N has one extra small filter Aleas XP06

2213 is normaly passive with filtering media but not energized (just plug the pump head during the night to increase agitation if needed)
2215 is always running and makes all the heavy work

On the right (the 3 brown arrows) is directly connected to the sewer
The 2 other serve to take out water fro any purpose or in case of air inside the filters (very effective to make all work quickly)
The 3 arrows in blue in the water supply ( no need tubes and buckets to make cleaning and water change)

Every item is installed regarding easy maintenance, i can take any piece without stopping the system.
The tap's in green are normally open, the tap's in red are normally closed.

Is alike bit confusing the scheme, but is very easy to operate and saves lot of time in cleaning.
Cheers.

 

[LondonDragon]

Every item is installed regarding easy maintenance, i can take any piece without stopping the system.

Nice plumbing 🙂 you got any photos from the cabinets? would be good to see that too 😉

 

[parotet]

Really amazed with your tanks Tiago! Congratulations, wise tanks' configuration and very healthy plants.
Cheers,
Jordi

 

[Gary Nelson]

Yes that is a great setup along with drawing... My kinda thing 🙂

 

[tmiravent]

Hi,
photo of the 'Paralelo39N' cabinet, still some adjustments to be made.
Cheers.

 

[Pedro Rosa]

Very nice cabinet
It should be pretty easy to maintain this equipment (except cleaning those hoses 😀 )

Pedro.

 

[tmiravent]

You're right Pedro!
I've never clean them (yet).
Cheers

 

[LondonDragon]

(except cleaning those hoses )

From the diagram you can almost remove each piece pretty easy, so cleaning them should be straight forward, he is just lazy 😉

Thanks for sharing the photo 🙂