2026 / 2025 / 2024: Trips to Germany - Reefing

[Alexander1312]

Cold water exhbition:

 

[jonmedina]

This is incredible man thanks for sharing!!

 

[Alexander1312]

Tropical reefs smaller exhibitions:

 

[Alexander1312]

Cont’d

 

[Alexander1312]

 

[Alexander1312]

 

[popper]

Cold water exhbition:

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lunare wrasse in cold water? do you happen to know the water temperature?

 

[Alexander1312]

Main display - Part 1

 

[Alexander1312]

Main display - Part II

 

[Alexander1312]

lunare wrasse in cold water? do you happen to know the water temperature?

Haha, I was waiting for someone to mention this . This is not a lunar wrasse but an ornate wrasse from the Mediterranean Sea. See below (latin names)

 

[DaddyHook]

That spotted puffer is gorgeous!

 

[Alexander1312]

That spotted puffer is gorgeous!

Totally. Next tank will need to be a FOWLR…

 

[Alexander1312]

Professionally edited video from this trip for your enjoyment (I apologize in advance for the quality).

 

[JVU]

Wow. Thank you for the recap of your visit to FM and the aquarium!

I agree a club Zoom meeting with Claude would be great! We should set it up. In English preferably @Srt4eric @Darkxerox

 

[Alexander1312]

I was at this place again today: https://www.meeresaquarium-zella-mehlis.de/

Instead of pictures, I took videos (not great quality, portrait mode), and this is what youtube did with it.

 

[Alexander1312]

Based on last year’s experience, I have focused on finding more literature, but the one I really wanted to find was about to get another update, and only releases in August - which is a brand new edition of the Fossa/Nielson The Modern Reef Aquarium. they are about to re-release Volume 1 after they updated this (in German language only) a few years ago.

Still, I found a few other interesting books/booklets releated to tangs, fish diseases Stony Corals, and Fish of the Indian Ocean.

 

[Alexander1312]

Here's another video from my visit to the Karlsruhe/Germany Vivarium this week. It recently added a second shark (after the other died, I believe, due to an accident).

I am not sure if I have shared this video already, but I found this quite exciting when they added the second shark, and the drama surrounding this (auto-translate seems to work more or less ok):

 

[psidriven]

Thanks for sharing. I’m always interested in how people reef in different countries and the different brands they use that aren’t as well known here.

 

[Alexander1312]

Thanks for sharing. I’m always interested in how people reef in different countries and the different brands they use that aren’t as well known here.

DELTEC is much more popular, and there are more options for ozone (many use both UV + Ozone). Reef Octopus seems to be non-existent in Germany, and I have not seen Hydros. Red Sea (a non-German brand) is pushing very hard in major retailers but gets very bad feedback when discussed in German-speaking forums, very similar to English-speaking forums. EHEIM of course is very prominent, Abyzz is too expensive for many so only used in larger installs, similar to Royal Exclusive. Tunze is more popular with its various and more affordable pumps. Fish food (branding) is also very similar - have not seen anything similar to TDO (which requires cooling).

 

[Alexander1312]

Currently in Germany again, I stepped up my video editing game (unfortunately not), and put together this 5-minute video from visiting the Aquarium Berlin (not Berlin Aquarium) for your enjoyment.

I really liked this Aquarium, which also had an impressive reptile exhibition. Sadly, I did not visit any of their local fish stores, which were by appointment only (at least the couple of good ones).

There were a couple of takeaways for me personally: I fell in love with the standing wave (flow), and I need a (much) bigger tank.