MiNiReFeRx Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 beautifull looks great Link to comment
rickjg Posted September 10, 2006 Author Share Posted September 10, 2006 Wow what a busy summer. Between work, vacations & my son’s Pop Warner football team, I’ve very little free time. A little update on the NC6 --- The July heat wave did not go well for the tank; I came back from vacation on a hot July Sunday and stopped by the office to find the office AC off & the tank temps in the mid 90s. NOT a pretty picture!!! Most of the corals survived after a couple weeks of looking really bad, but both of the frogspawns died... … everything else made it thru... The office AC is now turned off every weekend because of high energy costs & the office temps were easily reaching 85 or 90 during weekend afternoons. I ended up only running the single 18 watt bulb on weekends to keep the tank temps down to the mid 80’s and cranking up all 72 watts Monday thru Friday. I’ve been neglecting the tank maintenance during the summer, with sporadic water changes once every few weeks or so. I finally got a chance to stop in the office this morning to cleanup the tank & do maintenance. Everything is looking really good considering the summer heat wave & abuse. It’s kind of amazing just how resilient the corals can be. I’ll take some pictures & post them in the next few days. -Rick Link to comment
mullman Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 Congrats on the gorgeous nano! If my 5g cadlights nano in my office looks half that good in a yr I'll be pleased. Two Q's: - Have you upgraded the lighting or is your NC6 completely stock? - Are you dosing anything? Link to comment
rickjg Posted September 11, 2006 Author Share Posted September 11, 2006 Fantastic Tank -- very inspiring!! THANKS I've been trying to decide what to do in the back chambers and REALLY appreciate your descriptions of what your approach. A couple of questions, hoping to learn from the master: On one of the pictures of chamber one from our original post I thought I saw the black spongue that comes with the tank in the chamber. Did you remove it, or is still there? (Trying to decide whether to remove mine). The sponge was a small piece placed there temporarily to stop Chato from drifting into the return pump and it's long gone... I see 0 algae. Do you think the combination of natural sea water + phos ban is the key? (Still new at this, hadn't even heard of phos ban until the other day.) The local seawater is very likely to have at least trace amounts of contaminates from storm water runoff, so I use the PhosGuard as a preventive measure and it seems to work for me. I have 36W on mine currently -- things seem OK -- do you think it's worth the extra wattage -- I have frog spawn, galaxia, a brain, zoos, mushrooms. Congrats on the gorgeous nano!If my 5g cadlights nano in my office looks half that good in a yr I'll be pleased. THANKS Two Q's: - Have you upgraded the lighting or is your NC6 completely stock? I have 72 watts of lighting on my NC6 - Are you dosing anything? No The answers to some of the questions are noted above in Blue Here are a couple of current pics attached to this post -Rick Link to comment
rebubula Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 great tank... i'm jealous Link to comment
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