Dr. Saltwater Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Hi all, I'm starting a new 14 Gallon tank with a 2,5 Gallon sump behind my tank. These pictures show you my tank filled with Tap water and Iodine-Salt (Used for food ... ). I only do this to clean everything away for 2 days. I'm trying to work away al my equipement: My equipement for now: Total shot: I'm placing more light in the future and a small HOB-filter. Hope you like the pictures for so far. Link to comment
BelowH2O Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 what type of tank is that? The rounded frame looks really cool! Keep us updated. ~BH20 Link to comment
Dr. Saltwater Posted October 11, 2004 Author Share Posted October 11, 2004 Originally posted by BelowH2O what type of tank is that? The rounded frame looks really cool! Keep us updated. ~BH20 It is a Bioplast-tank ... European I guess ... Here another Shot: Link to comment
coral reef Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 interesting type of tank you have there where did ya get it or what i am trying to say is can i find it somewere on my computer Link to comment
Dr. Saltwater Posted October 12, 2004 Author Share Posted October 12, 2004 Originally posted by coral reef interesting type of tank you have there where did ya get it or what i am trying to say is can i find it somewere on my computer I can't find a site! I'm sorry. I'm from the Netherlands and I bought this tank in Germany in a LFS. It has a built-in filter also. I'll keep you updated and ask around for the tank online! Link to comment
Dr. Saltwater Posted November 2, 2004 Author Share Posted November 2, 2004 Update: Working on my background ... it isn't ready yet, but coming in nice and easy : * Don't watch my dirty front window please Link to comment
coral reef Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 comming along very nice keep us posted Link to comment
The_Barbe-Hatten_Project Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 that's cool... is that one of those molded reefs??? if i'm wrong what is it? Link to comment
Blind Tree Frog Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 I saw a premade reef like that at the fish store (only it was much smaller and to sit on the bottom... and black. Was an interesting idea. Link to comment
Withers Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 that's got a lot of potential, i've been trying to figure out how i could adapt that to one of my tanks. where is your filtration going to come from? Link to comment
badmatt Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 nah thats dead ropck got too be see all the poors....... Link to comment
The_Barbe-Hatten_Project Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 yeah i noticed that too, but it's still od to see a peice of rock that big... and it has been cut out lik a block on the sides and back... Link to comment
badmatt Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 maybe it was alot larger and he cut it with a hack saw and you can cut DR with a hack saw done it before Link to comment
bladze Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 Where do I get those dry rock in cali? I wouldn't mind to put all of them in my tank. Few months later it will become live rocks Link to comment
The_Barbe-Hatten_Project Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 You've still got to have something to introduce the coraline algeas and what not... garf grung from garf.org or just a few peices of live rock from a friend's established tank would do fine... i think it's a greak idea... i think it would be nicer if you could get the peice in there flush with the walls of the tank, so that it actually looks like you took a chunk off of a natural reef... Looks Amazing as is though!!! maybe get some LR rubble as the substrate... that would seed the wall aswell and continue the "Reef-Chunk" look too... Link to comment
Dr. Saltwater Posted November 4, 2004 Author Share Posted November 4, 2004 Hi, like I said ... I'm still working on it. The reason why I use a pre-made background that is ceramic and not LiveRock is to give my bacteria/Micro-organisms a bigger surface to expand. I will use LiveRock ... that's one thing my tank can't work without! The only thing I have to make sure of is that my bacteria/Micro-organisms grow fast enough to cover the background ... but that's just a matter of polluting the tank a little bit. I don't use a filter, only filterwats whitch I only use one week and than stop one week. My main filter is my LiveRock in the future and ofcourse my skimmer (Berlin-Method). I'll keep you updated! I'm far away from ready Thanks for the reply's and sorry for my bad English! Link to comment
MrStoffel Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 Hi Dr. Saltwater, Im from antwerp in belgium. Your tank is looking real nice. Why don't you post your expieriences on www.zeewaterforum.org ? I'm sure you'll get some good feedback there also. I've just started out a nano myself to. But I allready had a bigger tank. I havent posted my pics here yet (UhOooh:blush: ), but i have posted them on the zeewaterfrum.org. Take a look there, my thread is called Opstarten Nano-reef;) . But for the rest of you guys who don't speak dutch, ill make a thread and post my pics so far. GreetzZ From antwerp. Link to comment
Dr. Saltwater Posted November 4, 2004 Author Share Posted November 4, 2004 Hi MrStoffel/CrazyJoker, thnx for the compliment to my tank! I've got a hard head if it comes to feedback on my tank. On the forum you gave the link of are only people with experiance in bigger tanks and that's a world of difference with a nano-reef in my opinion. I know there are a few with Nano-reefs ... I've seen your tank and it looks beautiful ... only the lightning is a problem in my opinion. I hope we can trade out frags to each other in the future !! I'll keep you updated here Link to comment
fishdaddy0831 Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 Cant wait to see an update on this tank! Link to comment
TiGs Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 Interesting tank. I went to Amsterdam a few years ago, beautiful city. Link to comment
The_Barbe-Hatten_Project Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 The Berlin method is great... isn't that veered? Link to comment
Dr. Saltwater Posted November 5, 2004 Author Share Posted November 5, 2004 What is veered? Do you mean like fear or weird ... ??? Link to comment
Dr. Saltwater Posted November 9, 2004 Author Share Posted November 9, 2004 Hello, I'm still working on my background ... but I have a few plans for the future of my little tank but I don't know if it would work so I want to show you guys. First of all I want to say that I'm going to keep the less dificult corals so I can see how everything grows in the tank. If I step into SPS corals and more difficult stuff I would like to do this (* forgive me for the Dutch words ... Hope you understand the picture *): *EDIT by myself* Link to comment
audiocontrol Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 Do you think you may have a problem with the one pump in your refugium? I was going to set up a sump similar to that using a suck/blow method with two pumps, but later found out that no two pumps are exactly made identical, even a variance of .1gph between pumps would cause a problem. I guess I would just make sure that the main pump sitting in the sump to be at a higher GPH/LPF than the pump that pushes water into the refuge and the pump that pushes out, so you dont overflow.. Link to comment
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