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[owlbassboy]

Well I got my pico yesterday so filled it and scaped with some dry rock...... I hate scaping!

 

The builder forgot to send me a light but I'll order up my 10w 20000k led very soon

 

Planning few sps, sea squirt, clam then some zoas and mushies round the base and maybe an acan or two in there for luck

 

 

August 2012 FTS

 

[gimptastic matt]

Nice

what are the dimensions?

[GrantM3]

Not sure if lighting is efficient enough for clam let alone water volume. Anyone else want to chime in?

[owlbassboy]

I could up it to a 20w chip but I think it may be too much. I can move the clam to my 24g sps zeocube if it isn't doing well.

 

The display is 8x8x10 with a 2" section for the chambers at the back

[jgpico]

lookin good. I like the dimensions. Are you keeping it a bare bottom?

[owlbassboy]

I'm thinking about sticking with the bare bottom, I'll start with bare bottom anyway as its easier to add sand than to remove it.

[jgpico]

I say put sand in there. I just personally don't like bare bottom.

[siwelk]

Bare bottom in the UK is much less controversial.

It were the Puritans who left after all.

[owlbassboy]

It's only for trying to keep as little trapped detritus in the tank as physically possible. One piece scape so I can easily do a full strip down of the tank for cleaning if needed.

 

I may cover the base with zoas or gsp or something similar

[jgpico]

a gsp floor would look awesome! I have always wanted to have a gsp bottom or back wall. If you dont do sand definitely do gsp!

[owlbassboy]

As I've had success in my nano with zeovit I'm seriously considering giving it a go in here.

[owlbassboy]

teasing update.....

 

 

there will be more on this light later on nanoreefblog you can also see the mame skimmer.

 

also have 2 of these little guys (Trimma annosum)

 

[KeyboardWarrior]

I'm gonna tell the others what your plans are ste only joking your secrets safe with me can't wait for this tank to get up and running I'd definatly go zoa floor over GSP if your going bare bottom

[owlbassboy]

after having the light on a few days im going to add sand, really not a bare bottom fan even if it is more practical for cleaning

[owlbassboy]

http://www.nanoreefblog.com/reviews/unboxi...zn1702-led-unit

 

heres more info on the light unit

[jgpico]

I want your fish!

[KeyboardWarrior]

after having the light on a few days im going to add sand, really not a bare bottom fan even if it is more practical for cleaning

 

Glad you've decided to go with sand mate I'm not a massive fan of bare bottom tanks either

[jgpico]

I think that is the best decision you have made since the beginning of the build lol.

[owlbassboy]

Here's a pic update, still no sand and suffering from a bit of cyano also lost a few corals but my grandfather passed away so I was a bit too busy this past week for maintenance. Hopefully get it on track again soon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just snapped on my phone so hope they look ok on bigger screen

[Ryan260]

Question, where did you get your lights? I have been searching the net and can't find a place to buy, they have a pretty cool product lineup and it might be cheap to do a build around them.

[owlbassboy]

Zetlight sent the light direct to me, try contacting them or there may be someone on eBay selling them but not sure what models they sell.

[owlbassboy]

looks much different now we have sand

 

from the right

 

 

 

 

 

ive also added a little bit of purple rimmed monti from the nano to see if it does as well as the red monti

[owlbassboy]

New zoa frag not fully opened yet

 

[owlbassboy]

Here's a video of one of my trimma annosum

 

[msscha]

Here's a video of one of my trimma annosum

 

Cool -- I love trimma gobies -- mine is a canna. Disappeared for six days, then showed up again today -- I've had if for several months and that's the first time this has happened!