DLANDINO Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Sharing progress pictures of my 7 month old nano reef. JBJ 8 cube Built in filtration running GFO and GAC AI Prime LED pendant Tunze Nanostream controllable wave maker Red Sea Coral Pro salt No skimmer Bi-weekly 50% water change Pukani dry rock Carib sea live sand Link to comment
ScubaSteveZ Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 What happened to all the rock in the sink? I'm diggin the minimal scape! Link to comment
DLANDINO Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share Posted February 16, 2016 Thank you! The rest of the rock made its way to friends tanks and I reserved a little bit for future use. Link to comment
JSVAND5 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 How long have you had the gorgonian in there? I'd like to get some for my seahorse tank but I figured they'd die. Link to comment
DLANDINO Posted February 17, 2016 Author Share Posted February 17, 2016 How long have you had the gorgonian in there? I'd like to get some for my seahorse tank but I figured they'd die. The gorg is only a week old but when I kept them in my former mixed reef I had them for years without issue. Link to comment
bbales Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Nice! I also have a jbj 8 gal =) Nice little tank I will be following along! Link to comment
DLANDINO Posted February 17, 2016 Author Share Posted February 17, 2016 Nice! I also have a jbj 8 gal =) Nice little tank I will be following along! Excellent. Would love to see pics of yours. Did you find that you needed to drill a pressure relief hole in the black plastic separating the filter compartment from the tank? Link to comment
bbales Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Hmmm, not sure what you are referring to, but I did change to Stevie T's filter rack instead and have been really happy with that. He gives you a little diverter to help with the flow/ surface skimming. I also house the ATO float valve and heater in the chambers with the return pumps. Top rack I run filter floss, then chemipure elite and then purigen. Also I haven't updated with pictures recently, but I should! You can check mine out at the link in my signature =) Link to comment
DLANDINO Posted February 17, 2016 Author Share Posted February 17, 2016 Hmmm, not sure what you are referring to, but I did change to Stevie T's filter rack instead and have been really happy with that. He gives you a little diverter to help with the flow/ surface skimming. I also house the ATO float valve and heater in the chambers with the return pumps. Top rack I run filter floss, then chemipure elite and then purigen. Also I haven't updated with pictures recently, but I should! You can check mine out at the link in my signature =) I found that when doing a water change, if you remove enough water from the main display that the pressure in the filter compartment will bow and crack the black back wall from the glass. I had to reinstall the entire piece on mine with a ton of silicone to get it to work. Its perfect now though. So, I drilled a very small hole about 4" up the back wall in the plastic so that the water will drain out of the back and not put pressure against the plastic. Nice tank in your signature! Link to comment
bbales Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Ahhh yeah, I have not had that issue, but I only ever do a 2.5 gal waterchange at most, I guess I could just keep pumps on and pump some water into display so there isn't a ton of water back there, good to know! Thank you! =) Link to comment
DLANDINO Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 UPDATE - FTS Nov 2016 Skimmerless, sumpless and about 6.5 gallons. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161104/1d9c8120b5ea5de1d446feeab804bfc3.jpg Link to comment
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