For October we're featuring Dapellegrini and his 5.5 gallon nano reef!



Click the picture above to check out his reef profile! You can find Dapellegrini's ADA Rimless tank journal here in our Members Aquariums forum. Feel free to post any comments or questions you may have for Dapellegrini, and he'll try his best to answer them.

very nice.

very nice tank

Congrats on the TOTM! I've always admired how clean and simple your tank looked, and how you are able to keep that look and have a great diversity of critters. I also love the scape. Great job and keep reefing!

Thanks everyone

I appreciate all of the help and feedback I got from this site along the way.

woohoo!

crisp and clean, well worth the tank of the month!

All i can say is.. About time dapellegrini! Seriously this is one of if not THE most amazing tank on nanoreef.

Congratulations

Congrats!!! Tank looks great! Can't wait to see the SPS really grow in!

Did you pull the heater all together or just for the pics? Just wondering if you had any need for one?

The heater is in there, laid down along the back of the tank under the Powerhead. It does kick on in the evenings when it gets cooler.

Thanks for the nice comments...

Congratulations. Very, very nice layout.
I'm curious about the zoanthids in the sponge. How long have you had your colony?
I've wanted to try one but have been unsure of my success with the sponge.

I have had the colony since July, so about 3 months now (definitely not long term success yet). They are doing fine, but I think that they would be happier in a larger tank and farther away from the light. They seem much happier when the lights are out and with a good flow angled at them. I got this one from SeaLifeInc.net for $9 if I remember right.

nice tank!!!

Congrats!!

i have been following the progress of this tank, and have been inspired since day one of the very artistic and clean lines of the setup. even the rockwork was arranged immaculately, and the entire look is very very professional. well deserved TOTM.

on a side note, i used to do freshwater plants, and one would imagine that reefs would be more work, but amazingly i found that high tech planted tanks are insanely tiresome to maintain with the constant pruning and dosing elements and testing elements and battling algae... nice to see someone else also transition over.

Purdy, congrats.

very very nice

i bet this will inspire many of us officaly unoffical contest contestants

Props for all natural filtration- it really is the way to go!
Aside from that- lookin' gooooood.

amazing progression and evolution! i liked your old planted tank too!

congratulations!

Amazing! One of the nicest smaller tanks I've seen. It looks much larger than it is. Well done. Congrats!

HAPPY TANK

Thanks everyone...

love that zoa/sponge symbiosis

Yeah that thing is sick!!!!

Congrats again!

Congratulations! Your tank is an inspiration of how picos are the ultimate bonsai reefs.

I want to be you.

Thanks everyone! I was just gifted a few more zoo frags and a Green Paly colony... Hoping to have an update tonight in the main build thread!

Nice tank!

I recently set up my first reef tank, and since I have numerous "high tech" planted tanks, I found the following very amusing: "The term "Invasive" in Reef-speak translates to "slow growing and easy to manage" in Planted FW." That is soooo true! Everyone says I have to be careful with GSP and the encrusting clove polyps and such in my tank since they are "invasive," which makes no sense to me considering how slow they grow...they've obviously never seen Hetanthera zosterfolia before - now THAT is invasive!!!

I Have followed your tank from the beggining Dan . Well deserved totm.
Took me awhile to post. Busy watching Macclellan's avatr.

Definitely well deserving of the title... come to think of it... his tank did inspire me to return to marine

Congrats!!! Beautiful tank!

Hi !
I've just visited this forum. Happy to get acquainted with you. Thanks.


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