rickjg Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Memories of my very first nano from 97 to 2000. The pics are pathetic, it was long before I owned a digital camera. I used my camcorder to make movies of the tank so I could show them to my brother who also had a reef tank. I found the old movies a while back and took pics of the movie with my digital camera. It was a Tru-Vu 12g cube with a 10g fuge that I had running for 3 years. It had (2)28w + (1)9w for lighting over the display and (1)28w for the fuge. I double drilled the back for overflow into the fuge & pumped the water back up. I didn't ever have any fish in the tank, but I did accidentally add an octopus when I brought back what I thought was an empty shell from tide pooling and dropped it into my tank. I woke the next morning to find a tiny sea monster in my tank eating all of the hermit crabs. I had the octopus in the tank for several months until it pulled an escape attempt & my dog caught & ate it. Link to comment
aquaman7 Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Memories of my very first nano from 97 to 2000. ... ...I didn't ever have any fish in the tank, but I did accidentally add an octopus when I brought back what I thought was an empty shell from tide pooling and dropped it into my tank. I woke the next morning to find a tiny sea monster in my tank eating all of the hermit crabs. I had the octopus in the tank for several months until it pulled an escape attempt & my dog caught & ate it. Oh, man that one got me gooood... At least he didn't wanna play fetch with a new "toy". Link to comment
Smitten4Witten Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 i bet that was a good reef, although very blurry pics but who cares Link to comment
rickjg Posted January 29, 2006 Author Share Posted January 29, 2006 i bet that was a good reef, although very blurry pics but who cares It was a pretty good reef setup and it would have been nice to have better pictures. I actually still have a piece or two of the same live rock in my current NC6. It was before any web sites like Nano-Reef.com were running; so most of my info came from Julian Sprung's Reef Notes column in FAMA. The reef mostly had mushrooms of several verities, which grew great, & pulsating xenia growing at the top. I used to trade mushroom frags at the LFS to expand my collection. The fuge had a deep sand bed, home made skimmer & a lot of halimeda. Link to comment
Caesar777 Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 Octopus > crab any day (octopus pwns crab, if you will.). I had one at about the same time, though I purchased her from a diver in Florida (twelve dollars or so?). One of her eggs actually hatched into a fully-formed baby small enough to sit fully-spread on my pinky-finger. A-mazing. Cool tank. Nice hitchhiker, heh. Link to comment
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