Central Alberta Aquarium Club Nano Prize Tank

[sharuq1]

This journal is about the CAAC's nano tank. We've put together a draw for members (which may soon be open to the public in raffle format!) to create interest in our new club. Please see our new forum under the Alberta column of Canreef for events/polls/etc.

A HUGE Thank You goes out to everyone who has donated to this effort! (Donations continue to be accepted, pm me.)

Without further adieu here is the specs list with the names of each gracious donator, thank you to everyone who has donated so far. I will update this list as more donations are collected.

Dry Specs
Base rock (Oceanic Corals)
5 gallon aquarium-sharuq1
Elite hood with 9w or 13w? light -unknown K -sharuq1
Extra 11w light (6400K) -sharuq1
Aquaclear mini -sharuq1
Heater -sharuq1
Seio 620 - not here just yet (Oceanic Corals)

Wet Specs
Live rock (Oxymoron)
Zoos and 'shrooms(paddyob, noirsphynx, sharuq1, fragnplug)
Kenya tree (paddyob)
GSP (paddyob)
Caulastrea (sharuq1)
unknown corals -not here just yet (Oceanic Corals)

And a special thank you goes out to one of Canreef's most awesome vendors Oceanic Corals (http://www.oceaniccorals.com/)
You rock!
(Plus you gave us some rock :mrgreen:)


We started the tank July 7. It is a stock 5g waterhome with an elite hood.
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Some of the members chatting in my basement
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Various fishy mags and books available to peruse at the meeting
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Tank wet with live rock (thanks Oxymoron) The clam shell adds an interesting touch.
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Some of our members
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Our handout on how to start a sw aquarium (it's also available for downloadhttp://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=c...4e75f6e8ebb871)
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Stay tuned for coral pics :smile:

[BlueAbyss]

Awesome. It's really cool that a bunch of people donated for this :biggrin:

On a side note, I found an old copy of one of the books there, 'A Practical Guide to Tropical Aquarium Fish', at my cabin this weekend. Copyright 1992... the section on marine setups is... interesting :lol:

[sharuq1]

On a side note, I found an old copy of one of the books there, 'A Practical Guide to Tropical Aquarium Fish', at my cabin this weekend. Copyright 1992... the section on marine setups is... interesting
:lol::lol: I bought it because it had lots of pretty pictures (back when I was a freshie) :redface::lol:

[BlueAbyss]

It is a pretty darn good book for newbies to freshwater, with lots of pictures. Much of that section still holds, not much has really changed there. The equipment maybe... and the book is colorful. I was just amazed at how much has changed in the marine section, specially what it says about 'decorating' with live rock :lol:

[sharuq1]

We have coral pics.
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The blue background is not really there, I put my kids' plastic sled behind the tank for the pictures. :lol:

I will be adding in the base rock soon, as it has finished cycling (albeit still has diatoms). This little tank had a small outbreak of flatworms in July which I hopefully killed off using levamisole. The corals weren't too happy about the treatment and I lost the snail and mini brittles I had added, but although a few things shrank a bit no corals died.

The group is hoping to raise enough money in their upcoming garage sale to cover the shipping costs from Oceanic corals' donations so that we can receive them.

[sharuq1]

I finally got the rock in. Does it look ok this way or does it need more rock? Should I add in sand or leave it sandless for the winner to decide how they like it?

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[bignose]

I hope this club takes off in Red Deer. I would enjoy to see some tanks there when I visit family.

[sharuq1]

The winner of this nano is Debbie Morgan! Congrats Debbie and enjoy your new adventure into the world of saltwater reefing. We all hope you will come to join us here on the Canreef boards soon. :mrgreen: (and -little tip- we all like pictures!)