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Ok so after working in the snow all day in Edmonton ( not a good thing when you are a welder ) & freaking out because your wife txt you to tell you the power is out, I finally get home around 8 pm to find big tank is ok but a little cold. So I start on getting a few thing done on the nano.
First the light hanger for black SOL, I put the control on the arm for a lack of a better idea for now: http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...B8E61ECDF0.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...B8E91CB8E5.jpg Then I washed some sand & through it in. Moved the tank back to the wall and refilled it. I hope to have time to set the rock in tonight also think the flow is a little low so I might pick up a bigger pump on the way home again from Edmonton. http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...B8EBEC6402.jpg I hope the judges will be kind to me as I am a few days off the time line but I am a busy man and working out of town ATM. Enjoy and more to come. |
Alrighty then, shall we continue.............
Decided to pick up a nano skimmer instead of using the Tunze 9010 (save that for something bigger) http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...484E508FDF.jpg Skimmer in place along with heater, ph & temp probe http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...485CEFF726.jpg Found a few nice pieces of rock and came up with this so far. http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...48543CFBFB.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...48573457B4.jpg A bit of a side view, you can see the placement of all the equipment except for the AC Jr. power bank which is mounted under the tank. http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...48606944F0.jpg |
Once everything is stable there are a few small pieces of rock that will be added with some Maxi Mini Anemones on them.
As for finned residence I am going with a host of nano fish, a few different colored clown gobies, a small Starry blenny, a Barnacle blenny and a few more that I have not totally decided on yet. |
Love the aquascape kinda looks like stonehedge.
FYI maxi minis eat small nano fish, just ask Doug, he can tell ya. |
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A little update, as I have been super crazy busy I havn't had a lot of time with the tanks.
Anyways, I knew things where going pretty well with my cycle cause the HA was growing like crazy. So I picked up 5 mexi turbos & 10 hermit crabs last week @ RC while I was in the area. They have done a great job so far with atleast 80% of it is now gone. I switch back to the Tunze 9010 skimmer from the little nano skimmer I bought ( regret that purchase decision ) as the collection cup was way to small. Also picked up a Yellow Clown Goby, Green Clown Goby & Wheeler's Shrimp Goby to go in with my little clown. Need to raise my light a little bit & set up an ATO system but all in all tank is going not to bad........so far. |
DEC 1 update.........a day late
All right then, on with the show..............
I have been completely consumed the last week with just being able to get out of bed from blinding migraine, shoulder pain, muscle tension & a twisted vertebrae that I just about forgot to update my thread so here it is. Livestock thus far: 5 - mexi turbo snails, 10 - hermit crabs, a false Perc, Green Clown Goby, Yellow Clown Goby, Wheeler's Shrimp Goby & a cleaner shrimp ( just cause I couldn't put him in big tank yet ) Also tossed a few zoa frags, frogspawn, blastos & neon candy cane in from the big tank to see if that would help them grow better. Need to get some peppermint shrimp in to see if they will deal with the apitasia. I also need to increase the flow a bit with a bigger return pump & going to switch out the ACjr controller with a full blown Apex. Here's some pics taken with my iPhone. http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...4A6BAA6905.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...4A79F127C6.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...4A80FF2A64.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...4A66FFD1A7.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...4A732DFFB5.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...4A3F932F9D.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...4A45346503.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...4A4B9C5E80.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...4A530388F5.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...4A598FC56C.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...4A6051EA9C.jpg |
Looking good greg! Love the scape.
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Wow it's filling in nicely :biggrin:
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looking nice greg!
how on earth are you running a 6025 in there without it ripping everything to shreds? I tried putting one in my 28g nanocube and I found the the flow was far too strong. |
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The 6025 is actually not running any more, I plugged it in for about 10 mins & pulled the plug. You are correct that it's way to much flow for the nano. I have a couple smaller pumps I am going to try out to see if I can get the flow rolling a little better. |
Well a few days late on my update but here it is anyways.
Not much new for fish livestock but added a few zoa colonies, some hammer & frogspawn heads. I thought I would see if I could get a few neat shots with just my blues on & they turned out not to bad, not professional shots but cool. http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...033A957D1E.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...03411C877B.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...0342BB200F.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...03461E4D79.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...0347B9FC3E.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...034A0CFC09.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...034B911C22.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...0346C36CFB.jpg |
Jan 15, 2013 Update
All right lads & ladies here is my Jan 15 update a few days early as I have no idea when work might take me on the 15th. Sadly due to a major fluctuation in my Salinity while I was away working for 3 weeks I lost the 4 fish I had in the nano but that issue has now been addressed with a proper ATO system & salinity is has been holding steady @ 1.025 for over a month now.
I will be looking to add some peppermint shrimp ( if I can find any in Edmonton ) as well as a few fish. I think I will add a few fire fish, a red scooter blenny and whatever else I find that catches thy eye. So with that said on with some pics: FTS http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...R/P1130076.jpg Top Down http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...715EF7CEB8.jpg Some Close-ups http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...R/P1130089.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...R/P1130092.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...R/P1130087.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...R/P1130077.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...R/P1130095.jpg More in just a few minutes............. |
These 2 colonies are very hard to get the colors just right
these have a very small ring of green between the shirt and mouth http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...R/P1130080.jpg and these are a super nice pink color with very thick skirts http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...R/P1130085.jpg |
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What are those purple and yellow zoa's and what is the running price ?
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looking great gregg!!!
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Good job Greg, that second top down picture is amazing. That's too bad that you lost your fish, especially the green coral goby. I love those little guys.
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Sorry to hear you lost your fish :sad: The pic's look good though :thumb:
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Amazing zoa garden you have there.
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Must be nice to have the equivalent of a LFS in your house in terms of other tanks to pull livestock from !
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A few new tenants in the nano, picked up in Calgary yesterday. Excuse the dirty glass, really need to clean it.
Scooter Blenny http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...2D04B552B8.jpg Mandarin http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...260060EFF2.jpg Also a Dottyback & 3 peppermint shrimp where added. |
I have been thinking of maybe adding a few SPS frags to the nano but unsure. Need to build a little egg crate deck before my return pump to hold some filter floss & increase the flow.
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Start with something easy and low maintenance, like birdsnests. I've found millipora (ime) is fairly forgiving to my poor husbandry as well. Acros IME have given me the most grief so far out of all ive tried. Your definitely skimming enough to keep sps with your tunze, but stable parameters will be your saving grace in that little tank.
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Was some what thinking the same way.
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Febuary 15 Update
All right so after 10 mins of taking photos and 3 hrs of uploading to photobucket here is my update.
Had to do a little rearranging to accommodate the newly acquired frags & have a jam packed nano. The dottyback is doing great, hasn't touched one of my 3 peppermint shrimp, which I was afraid of, scooter blenny is so fun to watch as he scoots around the tank, Bangii card was a great addition as well. I don't see the mandy that often as he has a few new pieces of rock to hunt through. So on with some pics FTS & a top down: http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psed842233.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psec0026ef.jpg Some close ups of some of my favs: http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps81fb7fdb.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psfc1597f2.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psec91b17e.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps4a9c8b68.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...pse401a3cd.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psda799257.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps674876d3.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psff1c9bdf.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps6aaa5ee7.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...pscf8b07f2.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psba5c2ee4.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps0bce0fb6.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps205b2187.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps10d33b19.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psd77f7f12.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psd0016ea6.jpg http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps435382db.jpg |
Well Photobucket really sucks, I adjusted the exposed on most of my shots but only a couple actually show up properly.
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Cool that is good to hear & thanks Mr. KIEN :biggrin:
I think I am going to have to remove several of the hermit crabs though as they are starting to pester the zoas as well as a couple of the big mexi turbos. |
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Hopefully the judges and my fellow canreefers agree come judgement day :pray:
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