Feature Aquarium: The Aquarium of Jorgen Svard

This month, Jorgen shares his reef aquarium with our readers.

By Jorgen Svard

Keywords: Coral, Equipment, Featured Aquarium, Fish, Lighting, Jorgen Svard

Note: Additional photos can be found in this article's photo album.

My first try with this hobby began 1988 with no significant success before 1993. I moved away from the hobby in 1998 when I was planning to move in to a new house. The result was a 5 year break during which time the tank contained Malawicichids because I wanted to have something to look at while I renovated the new house.

Early in 2003 my mentor and good friend Thore Kjellberg called me wondering if I had been thinking to start up a reef again. I told him that, yes, it's funny that you called right now when I just started to think about a new tank and soon thereafter I started to build a 190 gallon glass tank. When I was done with the tank and it had been filled up with liverock and water, I picked up frags of many hard corals from my friends but soon I was dissatisfied with the length of the tank because I wanted a longer viewing panel. In the beginning of 2005 I started to plan I new tank and in August everything was clear and almost everything was moved to the new tank Included in this article are images from the newly moved system:

Skimmer: Aqua Medic TF 5000 Single
Calcium reactor: Aqua Medic closed model
Circulation: 1 Tunze stream 7000L and 1 Tunze stream 12000L
Return pump from sump: As New jet 3000
UV: None
Nitrate filter: None (I use zeolite)
Lightning: 3 x 400 metal halide Coralvue 14000k

Water Parameters

Ca 410-430
Mg 1300-1350
KH 11,5-12,0
Nitrate: 0
Phosphate: 0
Silicate: 0

Stocklist

Aquascaping

Live rock 310 pound

Fish

1 Pomacanthus Imperator
1 Centropyge loriculus
1 Centropyge Bicolor
2 Amphiprion Percula
1 Siganus magnifica
7 chrysiptera Parasema
1 pseudochromis fridmani
1 Pseudocheilinus Hexataenia
2 zebrasoma flavescens
1 Labroides dimidiatus
1 Calloplesiops altivelis
70 hard corals

Corals

2 soft corals
2 Gorgonians
2 colony mushroom

Invertebrates

1 Red seastar
4 sand shifting seastars
80 Astrea snails
1 Fire shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp

If you find my tank interesting and need more information please contact me. My English is not great, but I will attempt to answer any questions that you have.

Best Regards,

Jorgen Svard

Images taken by Jorgen Svard and Max Strandberg (http://hem.bredband.net/maxstr/)

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