Christopher Marks Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 For May we're featuring Uhuru and his 20 gallon nano reef! Click the picture above to check out his reef profile! You can find Uhuru's tank journal here in our Members Aquariums forum. Feel free to post any comments or questions you may have for Uhuru, and he'll try his best to answer them. Link to comment
skimlessinseattle Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Absolutely stunning. I too, am very interested in NPS corals, but have been hesitant to take the full on plunge with a dedicated tank. Its success stories like this that really encourage the rest of us to step up. Congratulations on your recognition for a truly inspiring tank. Link to comment
Degener8 Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Grats well deserved award.. and definately not your typical reef. Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Congrats on a well-deserved TOTM for a unique and beautiful tank. Link to comment
parishilton Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 What a great tank. I do not know much about NPS. It must be way more difficult than PS. Do they actually grow for example Diodogorgia? I am just curious. Link to comment
Uhuru Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Thank you everyone I am so honored to be among the featured tanks on N-R. It is truly rewarding to have your hard work and dedication recognized by your peers. parishilton - I do consider it more difficult than photosynthetic tanks. Certain corals, such as Dendrophyllia spp. and Rhizotrochus typus can easily be kept in mixed reefs, but the gorgonians have special requirements as do the softies. The gorgonians can and do grow in my tank. In cases of injury or damage to tissue, the new growth is often very fast - even faster than SPS. In cases of normal, healthy growth, the rate tends to be slower than you see in photosynthetic tanks and understandably so. Here you can see my Diodogorgia encrusting over its epoxy plug and onto the rock. I will try to take a more recent picture soon so you can see how much it has grown since then. Here you can see I cut my Dendronephthya from the base and attached it to a new rock with fishing line. It grew these new roots in a matter of days in order to attach to the new rock. And here it is attached to the new rock: Link to comment
mdannyg Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 congrats. i never can get enough of looking at this tank. Link to comment
faerl Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Love that tank. Man it looks like a lot of work. Feeding 10 times a day? Clearly it works for those but I think I'd kill them all in a week. Link to comment
lakshwadeep Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Congratulations! It's good to see a NPS-dominant tank full of healthy livestock be part of the NR TOTM list. Link to comment
neuwave Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Great tank alot of work but well well designed and maintained. Always great to see updates! Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Definitely a tank to be proud of. Congrats! Link to comment
got2envy Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 Congrats Uhuru on such an inspiring nano reef Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 Congrats Uhuru! I love your tank, I think it would be awesome to stare at it and have your eyes go blind at the brightness of it lol. Do you have a link to th 180g you were talking about? Link to comment
sammy113 Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 Congrats, very well deserved. An inspiration for anyone Link to comment
Uhuru Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 Thanks again everyone! animal - here is the link: http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-02/feature/index.php Link to comment
Jacobnano Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 Congrats! edit: cool, post 7,777 Link to comment
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