Korallenzucht Wendel has widened
After a long planning and much work the new coral breeding plant has started at 6. April 2011.
The new plant accomodates further 14.000 corals.
The modality of feeding my corals in the new plant
is the same as in the existing plant. On my homepage you can find a detailed description.
The essential differences to the old plant are: Ableger im Becken
- durability of the plant
- huge quantitiy of skimming
- waiving of living stones
- permanent nutrient supply
- electricity savings through the use of optimized flow,
  pressure pumps and
dimmable T5 tubes
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Before I go into details I would like to thank the following companies for the support which made it possible to build this modern breeding plant: Schuran, Venotec, ATI, Tunze, GroTech and GHL
Long-life cycle of the breeding plant
In my point of view it doesn’t make sense to build a new breeding plant which needs several years till it works
properly. And after 10 years you have to demolish the plant because the basins and the frames are exhausted.
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Due to this reason I used for the new plant just materials which lasts at least 30 years.
 
He breeding plant consists of frames made of high quality steel V4A,
the 12 small and the 4 big basins as well as the filter are made of acrylic glass.
(Plexiglas).
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Quickinfo Protein skimmer
For skimming the protein I decided to use an Aquaflotor AW 800 from the company Schuran. It has a capacity of ca. 900 litres.
Due to the 3 chambers it has the ability (at a water capacity of 30.000 l/h) to reach a contact time of 2 minutes with air and ozone,
before the water leaves the skimmer. After that procedure the water runs through 6 maintenance-free „residual ozone annihilator“,
these are filled with 20 litres activated carbon each.
The discharge pipe of the skimmer is in the height of ca. 4 m therefore it can dispense the water through all aquaria because
of the gravity.
The entire aquaria content get pumped through the skimmer every 30 minutes.
No water can reach the next basin without passing the skimmer. Therefore it is possible to benefit the advantage of a large water circulation and minimize the transmission risk of problems, which an aquarium can have.
 
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Abandonment of living stones
Eiweißabschäumer In my point of view it is not necessary to work with living stones because
of the high quality of buyable bacterial working stocks.
 
The huge benefit is clear: you don’t get unwelcome algae, bacteria,
vermins and aiptasia. I work with bacteria from Microbe-Lift
and 1.000 litres Siporas as settlement area.
I seeded the Siporax 4 weeks according to the instructions with Microbe-Lift „Special Blend“ and let it run without skimming.
After the 4 weeks I prepared the remaining 17.000 litres seawater and after 3 days I attached it to the ecological system
inclusive activating the skimmer. At the same time I put a mix of different new fragmented corals in the new breeding plant and
even the sensitive species survived.
In order to avoid unwelcome algae and bacteria in the plant you have to use „ Special Blend “
and TheraP “ from Microbe-Lift permanent.
The permanent nutrient supply
Because of the heavily overdimensioned skimmer it is very important to dose the micronutrient, bacteria etc. at least hourly some
every 15 minutes. For this purpose there are 61 metering possiblilites at the different aquaria from the company GroTech.
Eiweißabschäumer Furthermore you have to dose fresh seawater permanently with
a multichannel dose pump from the laboratory equipment in the basins.
 
In this way 10% of waterchange will be dispensed regularly per week.

 
The fish stock will increase by and by to ca. 2.000 little fishes.
Economical because of low power consumption
With a reconstruction of the skimmer from a 3.500 watt pump to 4 pumps of the company Venotec with 400 watt each you can
save 16.000 kW per year.
I use for 4 large basins 16 Tunze Stream with a performance from 6.500 to 12.000 litre per hour.
 
Always two of them rotates through a Osci-Motion.
In the new breeding plant are about 350 possible slots arranged for dimmable T5-Tubes, splitted in 4- and 8-fold Sunpower-lamps with a dimm-computer of the company ATI.
Technology of the new breeding plant:
  1 x ozonedevice with 20g ozone/h
  1 x osmotic equipment with 100 l/h

  1 x cooling unit with 25-28 kW cooling capacity

  1 x oxygen-generator for the ecological system

27 x Nano Stream 6045 with 4.500 l/h

  8 x Tunze Stream 6065 with 6.500 l/h

  4 x Tunze Stream 6085 with 8.500 l/h

  4 x Tunze Stream 6125 with 12.000 l/h

11 x Abyzz 420 eco from company Veotec

  3 x controller ACS from company Venotec
  1 x skimmer Aquaflotor AQ 800 from Schuran
  1 x calcium-reactor CR 500 from company Schuran
  1 x Titan heat exchanger with ca. 20 kW heating output
        and 12 kW
 Cooling efficiency
  1 x Profilux Plus 3 eX with SMS-modul from GHL

  1 x Profilux II eX from GHL

  7 x dose pumps basic-modul from GroTech

10 x dose pumps extension modul from GroTech

  8 x Osci-Motion from Eco System

38 x Sunpower 4 x 80 watt dimmable with dimm-computer from ATI

24 x Sunpower 8 x 80 watt dimmable with dimm-computer from ATI

12 x Filter-Rack R with skimmer from company Schuran
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Aquaria
  4 aquaria 240 x 35 x 50 cm
     for each 200 litre Siporax as trickle filter.

 
12 aquaria 300 x 35 x 30 cm
     usable as independent aquarium
     with filter or connectable
     to the large water cycle

 
  1 aquarium 300 x 35 x30 cm
     as display basin

  3 aquaria 520 x 140 x 35 cm
 
  1 aquarium 540 x 140 x 60 cm
     therin is integrated 1 aquarium
     with the
following dimensions 520 x 140 x 40 cm
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