durgidog Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 This is my 12 gallon Eclipse glass nano. Tank specs are: Eclipse 2 hood powerhead with sponge 15 watt actinic NO 15 watt coralife 10,000k NO crushed coral and aragonite substrate approximately 18lbs. live rock red shrooms green and red bumpy shrooms pink sea matt green star polyps yellow polyps 15 hermit crabs 1 turbo snail buncha keyhole limpets 1 royal gramma Every two weeks I perform a 1.5 gallon water change with aged and dechlorinated water that I take straight from the tap. (We have great water in Memphis.) I went through some typical short algae blooms, and have a bit of green on the glass currently, but so far so good.) I don't put in any additives at this time. I removed the biowheel, and so far am running carbon continuosly without ill effects. All animals and live rock were either aquacultured or tank bred/propogated. Some of the shrooms and polyps were propogated on aragocrete. The pink polyps are on a piece of dead coral, which was my one compromise to this low-impact reef tank. Thanks for lookin'. Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 Welcome to Nano-Reef.com Durgidog! Your nano reef is coming along well. I love the green star polyps and the royal gramma - good choices! Link to comment
Ledford Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 I am glad to see someone else using TW I have had no problems at all with using it either (I also have very good quality water through my city water supply) good luck keep up the good work!!! Link to comment
pulpsmack Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 Looking good, especially for lower light & every other week water changes. I would like to congratulate you for being another Eclipse 12 owner who doesn't see the need to drop 4 fish in. Your lone gramma seems as happy as my lone damsel Hey, you stole my act!!! I have Aruba shell in my Eclipse too!!! LOL. Link to comment
Kapelakin Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 Looks good, but just wondering: That's 18 pounds of rock? Link to comment
durgidog Posted April 14, 2002 Author Share Posted April 14, 2002 I'm just guessing that it's 18lbs. The large center piece is 11 lbs., and there are some smaller 1-3 pounders supporting the corals in the back. It pretty dense Florida rock. I could have used lighter Fiji or something, but I wanted it aquacultured. The Gramma is always out and about, he's pretty aggressive toward his own reflection and sometimes even me when I'm sitting by the tank. He's usually "yawning" at something. He's a great fish and I figured introducing another one would give him reason to stay in his hidey-hole in the rock. A gramma's territory on the reef is quite a bit bigger than my little tank. The lower bio-load doesn't hurt either. Link to comment
Kapelakin Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 OK, it must be that one big piece that makes it look deceiving. I'll keep that in mind if I go with the Florida rock, thanks! Link to comment
Delph Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 (Edited by Delph at 9:55 am on June 3, 2002) Link to comment
durgidog Posted April 14, 2002 Author Share Posted April 14, 2002 This is a link to the water quality report from 2000. http://www.mlgw.com/waterquality_2000/wate...uality_2000.htm A friend of mine has maintained a reef tank here for 3 years using tap water. I know that he's tested it for phosphates, not sure what else. I'm prepared to switch to R/O if necessary, but so far so good. Link to comment
Delph Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 (Edited by Delph at 9:55 am on June 3, 2002) Link to comment
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