dferrari13 Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 (Note:This tank has been refurbished as of Dec 2019, forward to page 3 for new tank.) Oddly enough..this tank is located in my bathroom and it's doing great so far...it's been up and running for a little over 7 months now...so far so good..it's my second small reef tank...my other is a nuvo fusion 10 gallon reef setup Wheeler goby 3 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted January 24, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2016 Updated 4/1/15: I have this running on a hagen aquaclear 30 gallon filter with chemi-pure blue nano/purgen/phosGuard...Tunze Mini pump 5024.040_A (very nice tiny poverhead type pump for caves or bottom flow)... Neo Thermal Heater...and the innovative marine skkye light 18 watt LED...with Smart ATO micro...use Nurti-Sea Water for all water changes...dosing with Red Sea Reef Energy A and B...also use purple up and oyster eggs Roughly 6 pounds of live rock 2 inches of live sand bed About 3 species of mushrooms About 5 species of zoos War brain coral Yellow Fiji toadstool coral Star polyps Pipe Organ Pink Xenias Green Star Polyps Blenny 2 Cerith snails Sexy Shrimp 2 turbo snails 2 dwarf zebra hermit crabs 1 Quote Link to comment
Cencalfishguy56 Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Awesome 1 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted January 24, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2016 Thanks...I don't think I've ever seen some one have a nano reef tank in there bathroom...so my friends get a kick outta that....my girlfriend didn't want me to get any more tanks (cause I had 4 tanks already)....so i started out by telling her it was a quarantine tank...she slowly realized it was not a quarantine tank lmao. She was mad at first but now she admits that she likes it Actually....the wheeler goby just jumped out of the tank today....luckily my girlfriend was in the bathroom at the time and we were able to throw him back in and he's fine....gotta make a tighter lid Quote Link to comment
Cencalfishguy56 Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Thanks...I don't think I've ever seen some one have a nano reef tank in there bathroom...so my friends get a kick outta that....my girlfriend didn't want me to get any more tanks (cause I had 4 tanks already)....so i started out by telling her it was a quarantine tank...she slowly realized it was not a quarantine tank lmao. She was mad at first but now she admits that she likes it Actually....the wheeler goby just jumped out of the tank today....luckily my girlfriend was in the bathroom at the time and we were able to throw him back in and he's fine....gotta make a tighter lid lol I feel your pain man, my girlfriend always complained with even one tank well simply because we all know this hobby takes time haha plus it gets addictive planning your next purchase and plans 1 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share Posted May 1, 2016 Updated full tank shot New Blenny 2 Quote Link to comment
rum_pride Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 I really like the scape, it makes the tank look a lot larger than 5.5, that cove in the back corner is really nice. 1 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted May 16, 2016 Author Share Posted May 16, 2016 Dwarf zebra hermit Metallic Green Pipe Organ Xenias Blue yellow tailed Damsel Fiji Toadstool Leather Green rhodactis mushroom Zoas Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted July 5, 2016 Author Share Posted July 5, 2016 My view on the way to the shitter lol Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted July 18, 2016 Author Share Posted July 18, 2016 Coral grown with the IM 18 watt skkye light LED.....not very powerful but it's doing the job! Quote Link to comment
JakeJekel37 Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 So is your flow solely provided by the AC30? And how do you like the Smart ATO Micro?This is a gorgeous tank. I'm about to start up a 10 gallon zoa/paly/shroom only tank, but may go with a 5.5 instead. I've got both tanks just sitting unused right now. 1 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted August 5, 2016 Author Share Posted August 5, 2016 So is your flow solely provided by the AC30? And how do you like the Smart ATO Micro? This is a gorgeous tank. I'm about to start up a 10 gallon zoa/paly/shroom only tank, but may go with a 5.5 instead. I've got both tanks just sitting unused right now. Thanks....The smart ATO works great...although I have the supply tube set up like this so it doesn't have any chance to start a siphon and suck water out of my tank.... Besides the AC30 I also use a small micro pump called the Tunze Mini pump 5024.040_A (very nice tiny poverhead type pump for caves or bottom flow) Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted August 9, 2016 Author Share Posted August 9, 2016 No idea why my pipe organ coral isn't doing good...hope it recovers Quote Link to comment
yoshii Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Nice bathroom tank lol What's the slim black box on the right side? I just set up my 5.5, and I'm trying to figure out the best place for my AC. Do you like yours on the back? I'm thinking about moving mine to the side Do you have any problems with the mini Tunze pump's limited spread? Pipe Organ corals are known for being difficult to keep, I hope yours recovers! I've never had one, but maybe searching the threads (or google) will help 1 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted August 10, 2016 Author Share Posted August 10, 2016 Nice bathroom tank lol What's the slim black box on the right side? I just set up my 5.5, and I'm trying to figure out the best place for my AC. Do you like yours on the back? I'm thinking about moving mine to the side Do you have any problems with the mini Tunze pump's limited spread? Pipe Organ corals are known for being difficult to keep, I hope yours recovers! I've never had one, but maybe searching the threads (or google) will help Thanks yoshi!!...The slim black thing on the right side is my neo Therm heater...love it so far despite all the problems I read about it...some people reported it exploding...but my has been fine and I like that it's so thin.....I do like my AC in the back center cause it really gives an even dispersion of water flow.... and I mainly use the tunze mini pump so that I don't get dead spots behind my rock work Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted August 10, 2016 Author Share Posted August 10, 2016 I think my pipe organ may be slowly coming back...fingers crossed....can anyone ID the plant growth on this coral...could that be killing it off?? Closeup shot of my GSP Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Might be caulerpa. If you come into Manhattan, bunch of us are having drinks this Friday in Midtown. 2 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted August 11, 2016 Author Share Posted August 11, 2016 Might be caulerpa. If you come into Manhattan, bunch of us are having drinks this Friday in Midtown. Thanks so much for the invite but I'm having some people over at my place in jersey friday night...midtown bars are awesome though Do you think I should be alarmed about the Caulerpa racemosa?? I've read some horror stories and I've also read alot of good things too...so not sure what to think...it's very small as of now 1 Quote Link to comment
yoshii Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 If you don't want macro in your display, take out all the Caulerpa asap 1 Quote Link to comment
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