Nanofreaks Shallow 45 CADlight

[FlowerMama]

Are you moving fish too or getting new fish for this longer larger tank?

[Nanofreak79]

Thanks, trying to get this one right, or the way I want it will be a chore. There's so much random coral attached and glued everywhere.

 

Are you moving fish too or getting new fish for this longer larger tank?

No I'll be moving all the fish and inverts. It's a long list

 

.Melanarus wrasse, naked clown! Snowflake clown! Orange spot goby/pistol shrimp! Royal gramma! Banghai cardinal, spotted mandarin! Sexy shrimp, 2 Pom Pom crabs,Strawberry crab! Cleaner shrimp! Harlequin shrimp! Anemone crab and an army of different snails.......think that's it?

 

^ don't know why there's ! Those, instead of commas, sorry. lmao.

 

I will probably add another fish or two.

[FlowerMama]

Hope all goes well for your transfer. Nice list! Though my 60 will be a rock flower anemone tank I think I do want to add some focal points of interest. We'll see.

[Nanofreak79]

A little diversity is good. A nice rock flower garden will be sweet though.

[Chris!]

Tanks gonna be sweet as hell man. I dunno how I missed it but I thought you were doin a 60 cube.... this footprint is waaaaaaaaaaay cooler

[Nanofreak79]

What a day! Took me roughly 8 fast paced hours to get everything torn down and set up. I was also able to clean up my mess in that time and get the house back to togehter. Wife was home today, and not too happy about the destruction, causing a chaotic mess in the living room. She's all better now.

 

 

 

 

 

I still need to scape the tank, but need time to do that and I'm tired. I'll probably tackle that tomorrow. Here's some pics of my days happenings. Enjoy!

 

First, ups guy dropped off yet another stand, even though amazon supposedly stopped shipment. It was beat to hell and I'm glad I didn't try to use it, and go with a diy stand.

 

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The mess I had for most of the day! All taken with my iPhone, sorry I'm lazy right now.

 

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Coral and rock.

 

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Fish, snails and inverts sharing a small space.

 

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Sump pics!

 

http://flic.kr/p/niZsXb'>http://flic.kr/p/niZsXb'>My Photo Stream-917 by -Nanofreak79-

 

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Tank, needing some scape work put in.

 

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[Reefkid88]

Looking gooooood man !!! Hell yeah. So what,you have to send back another stand ? Or what ?

[Nanofreak79]

They put in a pick up order for ups guy. This time he can F off and get it in the truck himself. I'm sending back the SCA-302, and hopefully using the BM, if it ever stops overproducing bubbles. I think it just needs another bacterial slime coating inside the skimmer body.

[Reefkid88]

Hahahaha,I don't blame you. He probably hates you as much as you hate them LOL. I mean if you cleaned it as good as you say you did,then I wouldn't doubt it.

[Tamberav]

Nice set up I love all the stickers on the sump.

 

I finally plugged the ATI in, it works Still hiding it in the closet but soon it will get some love.

[Nanofreak79]

Nice set up I love all the stickers on the sump. I finally plugged the ATI in, it works Still hiding it in the closet but soon it will get some love.

Glad to hear it shipped well. I was 99% sure bulbs we be good. Can't wait to see it over the tank.

 

Hahahaha,I don't blame you. He probably hates you as much as you hate them LOL. I mean if you cleaned it as good as you say you did,then I wouldn't doubt it.

No I hate him more! Lol.

[FlowerMama]

What's the name of that accordian style tubing- that looks like it's for pool and home vacuums? I'll have to look at that at Lowes.

[Horerczy]

My mail men are always cool. Very careful not to break my shiz.

[Reefkid88]

Hahaha I'm sure. I laughed so hard when you said you were sending the stand back,dudes gotta lug it back and forth. I'm surprised you actually got it in even close to one piece this time.

[Nanofreak79]

What's the name of that accordian style tubing- that looks like it's for pool and home vacuums? I'll have to look at that at Lowes.

 

Spa flex hosing. Used for pools and spas, found mine at HD. You can buy it by the foot.

[FlowerMama]

Thanks. Spa tubing. I'll have to write that down because I know I won't remember.

 

Can't wait to see mine wet. How many pounds of sand would I need to make an inch?

[Nanofreak79]

Hahaha I'm sure. I laughed so hard when you said you were sending the stand back,dudes gotta lug it back and forth. I'm surprised you actually got it in even close to one piece this time.

If you could be here to actually look closer you'd see that you wouldn't want it. It's all banged up and falling apart. Sitting upside down and edges coming out of the box all jacked. I'll be watching for him tomorrow. Hehehe...

 

Can't wait to see mine wet. How many pounds of sand would I need to make an inch?

I used 70 pounds out of the 80 I bought. It was the wet sand, but not full of water.....if that makes sense. I was going to do one bag, but it only gave me 1/2". I have at least 3/4-1" now easy.

 

My mail men are always cool. Very careful not to break my shiz.

Mine normally is good. Considering I get packages about every week, with Jo other internal damages. Sometimes the box is jacked, but no broken shit.......maybe he'll start running over my packages.

[Reefkid88]

You'd think with these big companies that make big monies they'd ship their sh*t better,it's crazy. With the money they made,they can afford thicker,sturdier boxes and nice "crates" regardless of materials and shipping costs,they'd make their money back 10 fold instead of having sh*t like you've had happen to their customers and lose business and a valued customer,hah.

 

Just buy a attack dog,and let him go to town on his a$$

[Nanofreak79]

Bty, don't use the spa flex. I'm getting a small leak. It's nothing major, but I ordered another standard bulkhead and valve tonight. Easy fix, but annoying. It's just a tiny drip here and there, but needs to be fixed. Hard plumb your line. The bulkheads are not leaking, which is good. My last ones did not leak, but people do think there crap.

 

You'd think with these big companies that make big monies they'd ship their sh*t better,it's crazy. With the money they made,they can afford thicker,sturdier boxes and nice "crates" regardless of materials and shipping costs,they'd make their money back 10 fold instead of having sh*t like you've had happen to their customers and lose business and a valued customer,hah. Just buy a attack dog,and let him go to town on his a$$

Already have the dog. One of my dogs is super protective of the house and yard. They pulled it from there website, supposedly. They did say they use freight shipping, and that's what they'll be doing to fix this, once they go jump through all the hoops at amazon.

[FlowerMama]

I was also told to get that same tubing by my friend who also has the same 60 since she said it's great because it flexes. And I got 2 better bulkheads free from a different friend so that was really cool since I did hear that their bulkheads were problematic- leaking. So, I'll have to continue to think it out. Since I don't yet at this time know if I'm going to have macro yet I don't know about getting the vinyl tubing because algae grew in it in my 34 with the light in there- funny, it grew only that foot and a half that was in the light. I also though am going to go to Lowes to find out about a light I could turn on when I do need to look inside the stand if I choose to not use macro.

 

Bty, don't use the spa flex. I'm getting a small leak. It's nothing major, but I ordered another standard bulkhead and valve tonight. Easy fix, but annoying. It's just a tiny drip here and there, but needs to be fixed. Hard plumb your line. The bulkheads are not leaking, which is good. My last ones did it's leak, but people do think there crap.

[Nanofreak79]

Yeah clear vinyl will grow crap in it, plus it's impossible to flex, if you need it to go anywhere but straight down. Best idea is to glue it togehter and use pvc. The spa flex is super tight, I had to jam it on......still leaks a tiny bit though. Idk, it's stupid.

[FlowerMama]

Yeah, I better use pvc. Longevity factor and no algae factor is important. thanks for your help.

 

Are your eyes still adjusting getting used to it? The 34g so far is the biggest tank I have and this just looks so enormous and wonderful!

[Nanofreak79]

Yeah, it's super weird having this tank in and full of water. My fish seem happier already, and scaping tomorrow should be fun. It's deffinetly a big tank once you get it filled up. I'm super happy with it. I was finally able to organize all my cables and cords too. I have all the outlets written down. I'll order a p touch next week, so I can label them on the pc4's.

[FlowerMama]

Yeah, it's super weird having this tank in and full of water. My fish seem happier already, and scaping tomorrow should be fun. It's deffinetly a big tank once you get it filled up. I'm super happy with it. I was finally able to organize all my cables and cords too. I have all the outlets written down. I'll order a p touch next week, so I can label them on the pc4's.

 

Looking forward to seeing your scape. Mine will hopefully slowly fill up and one day I want it to be a total flower frenzy. I know there are some people out there who would be happy to have a a rock flower born in captivity. I'd love the luxury of diving and then turning around and selling but yeah, we don't get that many in our NC creeks! . It'll be a spawn and wait, hope, hope some more, feed, feed, feed, feed- oh, did I mention FEED! feed to spawn, feed to fertilize, feed to grow. But I'll be so excited once I see the first colorful baby and of course hope that red and green don't give me brown like Play-doh.

[Nanofreak79]

I'm ordering one from Glenn, hopefully. I need him to hold it until payday. It's just green and red, but very nice. A spawn and babies would be super cool!