Thanks alot.

Do you have a lid on yours? Are you using the lid that come from cadlight and what is that doing to your temp of the tank if you are?

Yep i have to because of the fish i currently have. I am using the canopy that came with the tank. However the tank does run a bit warmer than it would open topped. So i added a jbj mini artica chiller takes care of the higher temps.

You are giving me a ton of ideas for my 39g sig Rehype . I am also planning on going Zeo, so maybe we can collaborate a bit. I may have to get an eel as well! I didn't know there were reef safe species that were suitable for a nano.

Also, where the heck did you find that ER skimmer? All I can find is the one for the pro...

Were you not happy with the stock skimmer?

Your welcome You bet.. ill share all details of the setup in this thread.

I got it from euro-reef. i wanted a two pump version so robert over at euroreef redesigned the one for the cadlight pro so it would fit in our signature tanks. I sent him the dimensions and he designed it to hang on the false wall in the fuge section. The stock skimmer performs very well but since i had a feeling i was going to run a zeovit system i wanted the best possible skimmer and the euro-reef is definitely the best nano skimmer IMO.

I will mention though the robert has decided going forward to only design them with one pump. Believe me one is more than enough i havent been able to run both of them as of yet.One does more than enough

Hmmm. I think I will shoot them an e-mail. I am just wondering if I can justify a new skimmer when I already have a brand new one! Did you try to add mesh to the stock skimmer or anything like that?

Well i sold my the cadlight skimmer and put it towards the euroreef No i prefer the design of the euro-reef because with the euroreef skimmer i have ZERO microbubbles.

MUST BE NICE.......

Sorry tim but hey its never too late to invest in a euroreef skimmer

and a vortech
and a new return pump
and a heater
and an ATO
and a top
and a chiller
and a controller

...

this is before stocking any corals, mind you.

how do people afford this hobby??? i think i need to take a second mortgage on my house. maybe take a 2nd job... maybe convince my wife to take a 2nd job... (or, maybe we can quit our jobs and start selling fish equipment... hmmm....).

Your absolutely right tim it definitely can get expensive. I cringe when i think how much ive spent so far....But a guys gotta have his hobbys amirite?

That eel is so cool. I'm mucho jealz of your setup. It's so exciting seeing tanks this professional evolve

Thanks alot david hes definitely the "centerpiece" of the tank

wicked tank man.
that eel is so cool. im sure he will be less secretive once he's been in there for a while too.
and a small request,
can we get a recent FTS?

Thanks hes pretty active when hes hungry. Thats when i can get him to swim about in the open. Sure ill do a fts this weekend .Although theres not much to see other than the fish

Picked up a picasso clown today. I loved his pattern so i snapped a couple of pics to show. His name is jigsaw. It should look really nice when the black starts to come in..

You have quite a unique fish selection! I like your style a lot

outstanding pictures of a sweet fish! i love that bokeh. didn't you say that you're using a point-and-shoot? amazing that you're getting there! any idea on what your camera settings were on those pictures?

i have what i think is a very good utility lens in my 18-135mm lens on my nikon d40, which is great and flexible for a lot of applications, but the fastest my lens gets is f/3.5 at 18mm (and it only slows down as you zoom in, and i end up zooming in on a lot of pictures rather than picking up my tripod and moving to compose my shot). unfortunately, for something so specialized as these aquarium pictures, i think a faster lens (f/1.8) would be very much preferable. or, maybe i just need to get better at photography.

Thanks alot Becact

Envy...Party of 1. I was wondering if your profilux will induce waves simultaneously with the thunderstorm feature? any chance for more pics of equipment

The profilux actually has the ability to do that but only with tunze pumps.. At least for right now. Ecotech is unwilling to provide a third party controller for the guys over a ghl to work with. But it certainly is possible

sure what would you like to see pics of?

Thanks alot tim.Im actually using a canon slr(rebel T1I) i was using the kit lens in those shots (18-55IS). However you are correct in saying a faster lens is very much preferable in an aquarium setting. It was pretty difficult to photograph the picasso since he moves around so quickly. A faster lens allows you to use a faster shutter speed in order to freeze fast moving subjects(such as an active clownfish) and keep your ISO level low in order to keep noise levels down and preserve detail...But believe it or not those shots were taken with the aperature at 5.6 I was actually able to get those shots by turning the LEDS up to 100% to give me the light i needed and i then dialed the shutter to 1/250 in order to freeze the clowns motion and maintain good focus.. Pretty crazy since ive been able to capture droplets of water at 1/200 Hes a fast moving critter..

very interesting. why shoot at 5.6 instead of something faster (or, should i say "wider open"?)? maybe i need to consider looking at shutter speed instead of aperture (i am even more newb at photography than reefing).

well firstly because you have larger depth of field(this makes it easier to get most if your subject in sharp focus) and secondly because most lenses perform their best at around 5.6

More pictures of the eel!

Great tank!

-Dave

Thanks alot Dave. I'll try to get some more this weekend. The hungrier he is the more active he is and it's a bit easier catching him out in the open.

Dang. thats nice.

two things,

1. what do you have on it for a lid??

and 2. Is that Golden dwarf Moray eel reef safe?

Thanks alot kyle. That compilation is really nice.




Im using the glass canopy that came with the with the tank

Yes the golden moray is reef safe although i would advise caution with really small fish(such as small gobies green banded,convict etc..)

I think its called the "get the nicest and most expensive fish" collection. haha I wish i could have your set up ReHype. Wow.

BTW im getting a Golden dwarf next week!




thats ok then. I dont have anythin smaller than 2" Except for my hermits.. arg. lets hope he eats those damn things. I dont have what it takes to take them out, so maybe he will.

Thanks. Well the stocking list for this tank was to get nicely colored fish that would get along together.

Let me know when you get the dwarf id like to see pics. Dont worry about him bothering your hermits or snails.Mine is totally uninterested in them. As long as they are well fed they are one of the most docile fish ive ever owned.

Just another common, cheap fish added to the collection.

My buddy has a taste for the finer things in life

You sure know how to put together a sweet nano my friend

Great pics as always.

Looking forward to that FTS

Hey rehype, your inbox is full. ill send you the pics when it has room k.

Hey richie you know my motto...If your going to go..GO all out Thanks alot buddy. The FTS is going to be a little disappointing since theres like 2 frags ..lol.




Inbox cleared..Sorry bout that

are you using a nimble nano to clean your glass? i was reading back through the cadlights owner's thread and saw that you had at one point posted that you were using that. i had asked Jerome whether he thought a nimble (even the super) would work for 8mm glass, and he was thinking 'probably not' but he was going to look into it.

just seeing what you were doing at this point. glass cleaning (especially in tighter spaces) is getting a little problematic for me.

Hey tim im actually using the nimble nano and it works perfectly. Ive used on this tank and my previous cadlight and it works flawlessly. Jerome makes an awesome product.

are you using the super?

Yep.

So all of my balling chemicals came in the other day.This includes chemicals for keeping my magnesium,alkalinity,calcium in check as well as to replenish depleted trace elements. Ill have to get around to testing my water and adjusting the dosing pumps accordingly but this will help keep my water parameters as close to natural sea water without too much intervention on my part.Which in turn will help me run a successful zeovit/ultra low nutrient system

Hype. Enough is enough. get some real coral in this tank please. I'm living vicariously through you.

Do you really think the Mg supplementing is needed in a smaller tank like this? Do corals consume Mg at a high rate like they do with Ca and Alk, or do you think water changes could keep it in check? I know two part (Ca and Alk) is very common. I'd love to get a nice dosing pump so I don't have to dose every morning, but it's very hard to afford when I keep buying corals!

Also, what chemicals are those? I use brightwell two part, but you have to shake it before dosing, so it couldn't be used with a pump for that reason.

lol all in due time david. The plan is to get everything dialed in before i start adding corals so i can monitor exactly whats being used by the corals once they've been introduced.And then to replenish accordingly. Remember only bad things happen when you rush in this hobby.

Well i wouldnt say Mg dosing is absolutely nescessary in nano tanks.But consider our tanks are very small and resources are depleted quite rapidly.In tanks stocked heavily with sps the relationship between Calcium,Alkalinity and magnesium is very important to keep balanced. Maintaining proper levels of magnesium serve to prevent excessive precipitation of calcium carbonate from our aquarium water and thus makes it easier to maintain high levels of calcium and alkalinity which would no doubt accelerate instead of stunt the growth of stony corals.

The dosing chemicals are Fauna marin balling chemicals:

Calcium Chloride
Magnesium chloride
Magnesium Sulphate
Sodium Bicarbonate
Ultra Trace B Heavy Metal
Ultra Trace B Iodine-Flourine
Ultra Trace B strontium Barium

Very beautiful fish and photos, I love this thread.

I'm reading your posts on dosing carefully. Is it necessary to dose both Mg Sulphate and Mg Chloride?

Thanks so much ap. And the answer is yes.

I am curious to see how much Mg+ your livestock consumes. What kind of water changes do you plan on doing? A 5g bucket weekly would be a 15% change or so. I am thinking this alone might be enough to replace trace elements in anything less than a packed-to-the-walls SPS tank. But like I said, I am curious to see how much Mg depletion you see . Do you plan on testing for the trace elements? Or just doing it by eye?

Im pretty certain the amount will be very small and any reefer would able to keep this parameters stable by doing water changes using a high quality salt. However one that has a tank with a large amount of sps and clams would have to do 5% water changes just about every day to keep these parameters in check.So in most cases dosing of some two part solution is done on a daily basis. The only difference here is the doser is taking care of this on a daily basis and regardless of the amount mg,c,alk or trace elements being used its being replenished. The best thing about the profilux is it can dose as little as 1ml! So its nearly impossible to overdose if testing was done properly.This is all with hopes to help maintain my water as close to natural sea water as possible and run a successful zeovit system. With all that said i still plan to do 5-10% water changes on a weekly basis and to dose trace elements in small amounts

haha sorry if that seemed out of character, i'm just constantly enamored with the hardware going into this tank and i guess i'm having trouble waiting to see what kind of life is going to go into this tank...

weird.