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Josh's 10 gallon Build
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So after much thought, time, money and effort I decided to start a tank journal. Now this isn't a overly fancy tank in terms of gadgets. I started this tank with simplicity and silence in mind, since this tank is in my bedroom after all. Now most tank journals start with a run down list of what is going in it for livestock. What is going to be used run it. What kind of stand is being used. Well, sorry to disappoint, I don't plan on doing that until later.
Instead, I'm going to tell a short story of this tank and how it came to be. I got into the hobby about 8 months ago. I started three years ago in freshwater, ending my freshwater hobby with two 55 gallon tanks and a 33 gallon tank and somewhere around 80 fish. When I got into saltwater, I got rid of every single freshwater tank that I had and gave all the fish away. So I impulsively got rid of $3000.00 worth of freshwater stuff to start at ground level again :lol:. Dont get me wrong, I'm still twitching from it haha. My first saltwater tank was a 45 gallon used petland livestock tank with dual overflow with 1 inch bulheads. I bought a simple used sump for it, along with a Sedra KSP-7000 for a pump. I got 16 lbs of liverock at first to start the cycle. And for lighting, I used a 36" Corallife dual PC fixture with one crappy actinic and one true white. First coral in that tank was GSP, Hammer Frogspawn and Xenia. First fish was a yellow damsel given to me by my roomate Terry. So, for first tank running on a budget, I thought that I was doing pretty good. I built a simple but majorly over killed stand for the tank, and by over kill I mean 2 x 6 frame:razz:. And that was my first tank, up to the point where I woke up at 3 am to find the silicone seals on the tank fail and the sump cracked and about 40 gallons of water on my bedroom floor with a blown circuit breaker! :cry: So I tried fixing it, and it just wouldnt work. Say the least, Terry got back his fish along with a bunch of coral, LR and a pump which I sold to him. I didnt get another tank for 2 months till I got this ten gallon. This tank was given to me by the LFS because they wanted to be rid of it and I wanted to start another tank. I looked at this tank and thought that it would be the perfect little frag tank to start growing coral for a bigger tank. So I took the tank home, cleaned it, bought a Corallife 150 watt MH for it and slapped together a filter canister for it with 2 lbs of LR for cycle and seeding and this is what I got. Attachment 5221 Attachment 5222 So I stuck with that for a while, added more LR here and there. and got some coral finally! Attachment 5223 Attachment 5224 And then I moved the tank into my room. Then went to Calgary to meet up with Simon (simplycoral) and got more coral! Attachment 5225 |
And some more from Simon.
http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/u...86/nipples.jpg http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/u...6/P1010840.jpg So I ran with that for a while. Everything went very good, very healthy coral growth. But the canister filter was way to loud for me to be able to sleep peacefully at night since the tank was sitting on the ledge above my bed. So I wanted to go back to Calgary and get a Koralia Nano fan and maybe a frag or two. So I went to Calgary with Terry and met up with John (lobsterboy) at his place to take alook at his SPS tank and ended up buying some Digi. http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/u...6/P1010809.jpg Then we got to talking and John told us about Coral Vit, LPS Amino Acid and all that nice stuff that you can dose your tank with for coral growth. So Terry and I decided to try it on our tanks and we then went down to Red Coral Aquariums and met up with Doug(fishytime) That store was one of the coolest little saltwater store I have been to yet! There were so many corals to choose from and so many toys to buy :biggrin:. Anyways I bought 3 zoo frags, a large zoo colony, a colony of blue pom pom xenia, a Koralia Nano fan (the original reason to go to Calgary) and got some of that Coral Vit, LPS Amino Acid and Pohls. http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/u...6/P1010841.jpg http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/u...6/P1010839.jpg http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/u...6/P1010806.jpg So I got rid of the canister filter, got some frags and no I'm running a silent, sumpless system with great results. http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/u...6/P1010805.jpg http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/u...6/P1010834.jpg Say the least, Im pretty happy about where this tank has gone so far. And now I need a stand! Well I'll post that later on tonight once the stain dries :biggrin: |
Looks really good. I love the simplicity you've gone for, it really works. The blue xenia is going to look great once it settles in.
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I hope you dont use Rickards to do the water changes lol:Banane35:
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Tank's looking good. Consistent water changes is all that 10 gallon will need. :) |
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Those are the parimeters for the last 3 months. They fluctuate in those ranges. Coral growth and color is great. Also I havent had an algea spike in about 2 months. I might be just lucky, but this tank seems to be able to function with out massive amounts of water changes. |
Looking good Josh..:biggrin:
Keep the pictures coming. Always good to see how some of my siblings are getting on :wink: Looks like you're taking good care of them... :biggrin: Simon. |
Simply beautiful :biggrin:
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