Six Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Although "nano-reefs' are those 30 g or less, I'd say anything less than an ocean is truely a nano environment. That's my excuse. Oh, and I'll have a 10g mantis tank inline with this monstrosity. Eventually. The plan is to have a main display (100g tub), a refugium (100g), and a sump (100g) system plumbed together which will also incorperate a Carlson Surge Device. I wanted to do an Achemedes Screw, but you know, there just wasn't enough space. The sump will more than likely become a frag grow out tank. I wanted to mod a 4" deep snake aquarium as a frag tank, but it wouldnt be big enough. maybe ill try it. we'll see. Also, there will be a small mantis tank inline. that qualifies the project as a "nano", right? We need to redo the basement this contraption is going into, so right now we've got a 100g tub up, a 5 gallon surge bucket, 2x175 10K, 2x 40W VHO (Actinic and 10K), eheim for carbon and polyfilter (no skimmer yet), and a few mag pumps as extra circulation. Here's a pic the 100g tub. so far there's a purple tang, a huge sarcophyton leather and misc frags. ill post photos soon. if anyone local wants a purple tang, LMK. he tries to tail slap me when i reach in the tank... not cool of him with that big ol' switch blade on the caudal fin. If no one minds that this project isnt a nano, ill keep undating as we progress. Link to comment
REEFCRUSHER Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Looks really cool, keep feeding us the updates! Link to comment
iluvfishies01 Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 sounds like alot of work! where are you located? if your local, i'm interested in the purple tang Link to comment
Reefer Addict Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 More pic's!!!! And yes I am a pic's whore!!! Link to comment
rics4me Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Get to work on the basement! Link to comment
crrichey Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 As long as its saltwater, I couldn't care less how many gallons it is! Link to comment
Six Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 Wow, thanks. I wasn't sure if this project would interest nano-reefers. I heard someone was a pics whore. Here's your fix: Blue shrooms, top down photo. linkia that gut burnt by the heater. he's in recovery and doing well. Bubble tip at a few years old. Instead of propagating, it just grew and grew! Stung the tar out of my coral, he found a new home. Our newer aquisition, Blue Echinophyllia species (we think). Was brown, turning blue with pink mouths! Sounds like we're adding the skimmer soon. got some nuscience algae that is starting to grow. It's all the purple tang's fault! (ilovefishies, I'm in Central Ohio) Thansk fo all the kind word of encouragement. Link to comment
Six Posted December 16, 2005 Author Share Posted December 16, 2005 The linkia has almost totally repaired itself. I'll post a pic this weekend of it. truely amazing. Installing a CPR model 4 skimmer this weekend as well. I don't need it on my 58 'plant' tank as the macro is taking out everything the skimmer usually takes out. Pretty cool. I feed like a mad woman too. Soon enough we'll be upgrading the skimmer to a EuroReef. Added a new coral, I had to buy it. Plesiastrea species. Pretty uncommon and utterly breathtaking, although subtle. Pics this weekend! We're down sizing the shrooms and I'll be selling some zoa colonies soon. For those interested, i have a colony of eagle eyes on ebay for a starting bid of $1. Here Link to comment
Six Posted December 29, 2005 Author Share Posted December 29, 2005 Well the skimmer, a CPR model 4 sump style, was a little hard to modify to fit on the side. the acrylic was poorly molded and had a hole then the bulkhead was lose. we're working on modifying it. its a pain in the butt. here's some photos for the time being: my buddy, mr snaily cool brain coral, Plesiastrea species. yellow zoas. they're GROWING!! WAHOO! Link to comment
Six Posted January 30, 2006 Author Share Posted January 30, 2006 We finally got the skimmer up and running. it seems to help a good deal on the weeks we dont do water changes on the tank. I still have the purple tang, hopefully I have a home for him lined up... he eats wayyy too much for our feeding regimine. I managed to take some top down photos using a 2.5 all glass tank as a top down photographing box. a general photo 4th generation palys from Tropicorium originally. totally unique colors! for you zoa lovers. im thinking of putting together a frag pack once i get frags of each. what do you think? the echinophyllia a little more colored up than the above pic another a tiny frag (1/2") of an inidentified carribean coral we snagged off some carribean live rock. cool looking. and the current scourge: a rock anemone that will not release the rock. it takes up a ton of space. unless you love rock anemones, they are a PITA to get out of an established aquarium ill get some more hardware photos up when we start changing over the tank to the 180tub. thanks for looking! Link to comment
lgreen Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 How's the tank doing six? Dang I want a tub tank! Link to comment
Sebea Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Ooo yellow zoas...Fraggin' that baby any time soon? Link to comment
Six Posted January 25, 2007 Author Share Posted January 25, 2007 Sooo... it's been a good 6 months since I updated the thread. Man am I a slacker! We still havent gotten the other system up and running. We're repairing some structural damage in our bedrooms and that needs to be finished, so we're on hold for the second project. We do have everything, just not the time nor space. But, I made a video tour lastnight of the tub. It's in three segments because my camera only takes 2 minute clips (I dunno why). Also, you can see how changing the bulbs affected our coraline growth. It fried much of it and it's slowly growing back. All the rocks used to be mixed colors of coraline. Also, i didn't mention this, but the Carlson Surge on it is also used as a fuge. Here's the link to the thread I started in the aquaculture forum. http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?...p;#entry1026471 here's the vids if you dont want to use the link above: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=04C0CE2F34F06F8A Link to comment
travisurfer Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 awesome vid! that angle actually makes it look like a real reef Link to comment
Six Posted August 23, 2007 Author Share Posted August 23, 2007 So, it's been a few months since I've updated. Here's some recent shots: coraline alage competition: I hope the purple beats the brown. that brown coraline is a fast grower though! ^ all corals ill be trimming back. great wall'o GSP: pretty funny when the water gets low. survives like Bear Grills. before: today: Link to comment
aparker Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 So, it's been a few months since I've updated. Here's some recent shots: Right ON. I want a 100 gal reef tub! Link to comment
travisurfer Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 awesome six, things are really growing well Link to comment
pudge1515 Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Wow your tub is amazing, very inspirational, I especialy like the great wall of GSP, lol Link to comment
Six Posted August 24, 2007 Author Share Posted August 24, 2007 Thanks guys! You can see we had a few casualties- the large toadstool bit it after fragging = me sad. But I've got some awesome pulsing sinularia in its place. Otherwise things are going well. My skimmer just pooped out, so we actually took it offline. We'll see how that works. I dunno where the purple tang went, or if he's just hiding, but we may be down to a clownfish and a possible watchman goby. So, I'm not too concerned going skimmerless. That GSP took quite a while to get going on the wall, but now it wont stop. Pretty cool stuff. Link to comment
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