Nanolutionary's 30g Long Shallow - Retired - Lost to Cyanobacteria

[creefer]

Nice scape!

[nanolutionary]

Thanks creefer, I'm really excited to be receiving the lights later in the week, I will be posting up some pics at that point. i went with the single cluster radions, two of them.

[Halo_003]

Where did you get the tiny PAR moonlight bulb and small gooseneck? Tank looks amazing. I'm also curious what you stocking is.

[nanolutionary]

Where did you get the tiny PAR moonlight bulb and small gooseneck? Tank looks amazing. I'm also curious what you stocking is.

 

Thanks

 

http://www.marinereefled.co.uk

[nanolutionary]

Finally my baby is completed and in a good enough state to show off!

 

 

My Maroon clowns seem to be pairing nicely, the female tore the male to pieces, put the little one in the cage, then the big one now both in the cage together and the smaller one is showing signs of submission, almost there I think!

[nanolutionary]

Some more pics

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Yellow Sea Cucumber

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Have a shoal of 9 blue/green chromis (most of which I will exchange when they grow a little larger).

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Have both maroons in the cage with the host anemone, hoping the larger maroon will allow the juvenile into the anemone soon.

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Porcelain crabs amaze me.

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Does anyone know what this coral is called? I love the way it expands so much and then goes into the tiniest slab of skeleton at night or if disturbed.

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Canary Blenny - what beautiful movement this species has!

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I am currently waiting for a new piece of rock i've epoxied together to dry before placing it in the tank tomorrow night.

[k4ndyk1ng]

Love this tank, following along the ride

[nanolutionary]

Love this tank, following along the ride

 

Thanks k4ndyk1ng - your variety of tanks is inspiring - the plate pool is mesmerising would love to see it in person too, must be epic!

 

So the return pump wasn't powerful enough to force enough water through my non-return valve to generate adequate flow. The non-return valve is connected to the flexible black hose which pumps water from the return pump in the sump.

 

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I need a non-return valve so in the event of a power cut/return pump failure my small sump doesn't overflow.

 

The problem is as I went to remove the Ehiem Compact+ 5000 to take pictures and sell it I realised my non-return valve was letting water through, all the way down to the point where the sump would have been flooded - like so:

 

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So now two problems have emerged, I need to add a new non-return valve and hope this one actually works and potentially get a new non-return pump if the new non-return is as strong as the last one.

 

sighhhhh

[vlangel]

What a beautiful tank, sorry that I never checked it out before. I love the minimalist aquascapes. Wished I could do one but my massive rocks in my reef are the bedrock that supplies stability for my seahorse fuge/display. We can't have everything I suppose.:-(

[k4ndyk1ng]

Thanks k4ndyk1ng - your variety of tanks is inspiring - the plate pool is mesmerising would love to see it in person too, must be epic!

Thanks man, looking forward to see where this goes

[nanolutionary]

What a beautiful tank, sorry that I never checked it out before. I love the minimalist aquascapes. Wished I could do one but my massive rocks in my reef are the bedrock that supplies stability for my seahorse fuge/display. We can't have everything I suppose.:-(

 

No need to apologise vlangel, I side more with the non-refugium crowd purely because I haven't got the space for one.

[vlangel]

No need to apologise vlangel, I side more with the non-refugium crowd purely because I haven't got the space for one.

Yes, I get that too as I was there at one time also.

[nanolutionary]

I made my decision watching the refugium debate from Macna 2014 on YouTube. When I eventually have a refugium it will be massive!

[4x5]

Tank looks great, love the scape.

[BattleAthletics]

Have you found a non return valve yet? Aka check valve?

[nanolutionary]

Thanks 4x5 congrats on your TOTM!

 

I have ordered a TMC check valve

[nanolutionary]

As I'm chomping at the bit to receive my check valve on Saturday I thought i'd best use this stasis time to construct the final spire of the rockscape.

 

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Not perfect as the middle spire doesn't match - but it's the best I could do.

[nanolutionary]

I am pretty sure my Fireball has started chomping through my SPS came home today to find the frag just right of centre (looks like it's giving the peace sign on my FTS o n the first post to this thread) half snapped off in two places lying on the sanded.

[nanolutionary]

Emptied ten litres of saltwater onto the oak floor tonight failing to get the herbie overflow adjusted correctly with the new flow rate from the MUCH better TMC non-return valve - considered giving up the tank as a result, decided to sleep on it - more tomorrow night!

[nanolutionary]

So i lost half my livestock through such a stupid mistake!!!

I didn't point the temporary powerhead to the surface of the water, half my fish suffocated

But good news it tank is back up and running.

[myarmolich]

So i lost half my livestock through such a stupid mistake!!!

I didn't point the temporary powerhead to the surface of the water, half my fish suffocated

 

But good news it tank is back up and running.

 

Keep going! If i could get my rockwork to look half as decent as yours i would be incredibly happy! Youll get there

[nanolutionary]

 

Keep going! If i could get my rockwork to look half as decent as yours i would be incredibly happy! Youll get there

 

Thanks myarmolich love what you've done with your first tank.

In the crash I lost three green chromis, the fireball angel, canary blend, algae blenny, indigo dotty back, porcelain crab, pom pom crab so yesterday after work I went to aquatic design centre in London to pick up some more corals I've added a couple of mushrooms, a torch, a replacement anemone and some star polyps. Day before yesterday I also added a midnight angel - what a beautiful species.

[nanolutionary]

Some shots since i got it back up and running following the oxygen crash.

[myarmolich]

Some shots since i got it back up and running since the oxygen crash.

 

looks like everything turned out for the better. How big of a sump did you end up adding to your tank? im contemplating drilling my tank and adding a sump to add more water volume, but im not sure if its necessary. Also, have you had any issues keeping an anemone in your tank? i really want to get a small bubble tipped anemone, but im worried it will kill some of my corals.

[nanolutionary]

So far so good the anemone hasn't tried to attack anything, my clownfish loves it!

And I say do a sump if you want to add anymore equipment in future.