riceboy's 34 gallon shallow tank

[riceboy]

well after constant heat issues with such a small tank ( mh over a 8.9 gallon instant toast, and powerhead over heating the tank), i have decided to go with a larger tank, i picked up a 34 gallon neo nano from a fellow reefer and am in the process of cycling it. here are some stats on the tank at the moment.

24x24x12 display neo nano tank,
25 gallon cube sump tank
max 800 sump pump
eshopps 120g skimmer
ebo jagur 150watt heater
sieo m820
2 koralia nano
1 koralia 2
3 24"marine glo ho t5 currently running 2 fiji purple, 1 10k, 3 actinics
13 lbs of live rock (need to add 15lbs more)
5lbs of live sand in sump
cheato in sump
2 digi thermometer one in sump other in tank

will post pics of set up soon

[riceboy]

oh ya going bare bottom for the tank to much flow for sand :lol:

[lorenz0]

With the powerheads you said you wanted you won't have an issue with flow in your stank or stirring up sand

as for lighting, consider a new wave like the ones set up at RC. they are $220ish brand new and with 8 bulbs you can have alot of fun. way better than the hagons

sounds like you have a neat little project going

[riceboy]

lol those are the power heads i have running at the moment, and it produces quite a bit of flow which i love (less scrubbing of algea lol) and ya i'll probably upgrade the lights soon.

[JDigital]

With the powerheads you said you wanted you won't have an issue with flow in your stank or stirring up sand

He might with a 12" tank.. I would know.

[riceboy]

so i should go with a new wave t5 lights? are there any others i should consider?

[riceboy]

oh ya and the appearance of the lights has to be nice since it will be showing on top of my tank

[lorenz0]

How much are you willing to spend? i just reccomended the new wave since its a 8 bulb for under $300. besides that your looking at ATI fixtures which will be $400-600

[riceboy]

i guess that would be the best bang for the buck on a 8 bulb but the cost is around 300 for the light fixture plus another 200 in bulbs so thats 5 bills for the lights, kinda expensive in my books, but kevin also showed me a odyssea 250 watt metal halide with 2 pc lights for 300 and it comes with bulbs what do you guys think of that?

[fishytime]

only issue with the new waves is, they only have one cord and the reflector(though individual) are not polished.....dont knock the hagen "glo" lights.....check out what I did with two of them over a twenty...http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=31856 with three of the them over a 12" deep tank you will be able to keep anything you want.....

gonna be a sweet tank man......

[riceboy]

so i decided to keep the 3 24" glo fixture just replaced all the bulbs, currently running 2 15k bulbs, 1 fiji purple, 2 actinic, also added a koralia 2 and removed the koralia nano. have 25lbs of live rock, 20 lbs of live sand in sump and 10 lbs of live sand in main tank. and discovered that my dendros have survived the previous tank heat spike.:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: so it is starting to show its polyps and tenticals, but to bad i cant say the same about the rest of the corals. Any ways i have picked up a tiny yellow tang and a coral beauty and 2 clown fish from golds along with a open brain and various sps frags ( for 10 bucks per frag i can't complain).:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: also picked up a giant toadstool from Jeff(fragzilla) and he kindly donated another zoo frag, thanks jeff.

now to get the camera back from the gf so i can start taking pics

[kien]

I have more GSP you can come by and pick up so that you can fry in your new tank! :lol:

[Fragzilla]

You can tell us all you want about what you have. But till we see pics it's all for not;)

[riceboy]

Sounds good kien will be sending u a pm soon. Lol ya I know Jeff well worst ces to worst I will use the iPhone lol

[riceboy]

need to get a dslr so i can take real pics lol but anyways heres what my tank looks like right now
http://s569.photobucket.com/albums/ss137/riceboy669/?action=view&current=DSC00508.jpg

[riceboy]

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[Fragzilla]

There we go!

Looking good - you have some nice stuff in there

[riceboy]

I wanted to take some closer pics of the acros with all the polyps out but my camera couldn't do it lol. Same thing with the zoos

[riceboy]

well its been a while since i've updated this but for some reason today my coral beauty just went missing, my guess is that he had jumped out and my dogs got him as a treat. anyways i picked up a dslr so i'll be posting pics of the update all my corals are doing marvelous. pics to come once photo bucket finishes uploading lol

[riceboy]

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[riceboy]

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[riceboy]

full tank pic on the other page

[riceboy]

well its been a while since i've shared anything so here it is
front of tank

http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss137/riceboy669/IMG_0615.jpg

side

http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss137/riceboy669/IMG_0618.jpg

zoo garden
http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss137/riceboy669/IMG_0614.jpg

http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss137/riceboy669/IMG_0617.jpg

ever since my last post i've added 15 different zoos, purple milli, green milli, green birdsnest, purple rim green monti, bright green acro, purple acro (not sure of names of acros :lol:) green torch coral, blue tang tiny guy from golds, dawrf fuzzy lion, green chromis, mandrin goby, elephant ear shroom, blue green chalice,and got rid of the giant toadstool. sps is a little browned out since i just changed to a 20k mh bulb:sad:

[spawn]

Right on Victor, your tank is lookin awesome, Well done. I wonder if the pic of the frogspawn was the one I got off of you this summer? If so it's at about 8 heads that i can tell. When are you going to start fraging some of those acro's?

[riceboy]

Lol might get some accidental frags lol when I move to the new tank. It's great to here the frogspawn is doing well