The great reveal.

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It did not come with a heater but she borrowed a fluval heater from one of my Edge tanks. It has a slim design to keep with the slim profile of the tank.

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Set up.

She chose two great pieces of coraline algae covered liverock from my tank. Fortunately/unfortunately, a maxi-mini had decided it wasn't coming off the one piece. As a result, she wasn't able to take any "out of the tank" pictures of the liverock as not to stress the maxi-mini. She also filled the tank immediately, as a result was unable to take empty tank shots with just the liverock and sand.

She also knows that she broke the cardinal rule of "no carpet anemones in a nano tank" but she will endeavor to encourage it off of the rock so it can be returned to my tank.

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After the water cleared up.

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Before bedtime.

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Maxi minis would be perfectly fine for nanos/picos given that the light and the water conditions are adequate :) The lights that comes on fluval spec 5 might not be enough for any coral; well maybe just good enough for mushrooms but that's it. Maybe start a DIY led for the setup :D She will learn a bit of engineering too :D

What kind of led lighting would you suggest? Shipping as I type and have never bought leds and we wanted to know what we should be looking for. TIA.

You could add a couple of these to the existing light that comes with it.
http://www.modularled.ca/ecopico-led...te-453nm-blue/

I have the strips I think you would be more happy with this http://www.modularled.ca/panorama-pro-led-module/

Would two of these be overkill?

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.ca/viewit...id=51542850412

I actually have two waterproof strips that I'm not using. I forget how many Kelvin units they are.

The Ecopico strips ?

If you don't want to go DIY route, ecoxotic strips (panaroma, stunner, etc.) would be the best choice for you. Ebay waterproof lights strips would be useless.