Snazzy 12g Nano

[subman]

Great looking nano Keith! Love the collections of zoas. Need a FTS!

Originally Posted by Borderjumper

beautiful! That closed zoa polyp in the first picture has a nudie on it.. Grab It

Great eyes!

[Tom R]

Hi Keith

The nano is looking great.

Tom R

[Snaz]

Originally Posted by Tom R

Hi Keith

The nano is looking great.

Tom R

Thanks Tom. If you are still in Cloverdale I would love to bring my six year old over to see what a big reef looks like sometime. Bribe you with a beverage?

[fishytime]

thats a great looking wee tank!......no coral goes into my tank without being dipped first.....while dipping may not get everything every time, its cheap insurance that definitely helps lessen the chance of introducing something nasty like nudis....

[Snaz]

Originally Posted by fishytime

thats a great looking wee tank!......no coral goes into my tank without being dipped first.....while dipping may not get everything every time, its cheap insurance that definitely helps lessen the chance of introducing something nasty like nudis....

I'm a big dipper. I don't usually acclimate my corals. Everything gets a fresh water/iodine wash before it goes into the display. Everything jumps off but i guess some eggs sneaked through.

[Nano]

Any chance you could post or pm me some pics/instructions on the DIY ato?

[Snaz]

Originally Posted by Nano

Any chance you could post or pm me some pics/instructions on the DIY ato?

By far the best DIY I did for this tank was the ATO, even better than the LED lights. A constant nonfluctuating salinity makes everything so much happier.

This is the guide I followed when I built mine:
http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/inde...howtopic=29093

- Replaced the battery operated air pump with a proper Aqualifter.
- Use a 1g green glass olive bottle as a reservoir, it lasts weeks unless it is the summer then it lasts 2-3 days before needing to be refilled with fresh water. Evaporative cooling ftw.
- Because the float switch is not suitable to directly switch the Aqualifter on/off I built a 9v relay in a project box that accomplishes the task nicely. The reason the above build thread uses a battery operated air pump is because a float switch should not be directly connected to a 110v appliance. I ran like this for more than a year but the awful sound of the battery operated air pump and swapping batteries pushed me towards building the relay box.

I can take pictures if you are interested.
Keith

[Tom R]

Hi Keith

Your welcome to come over for a visit.

Just send me a PM and I will return it to you with my address and phone number.

Tom R

Originally Posted by Snaz

Thanks Tom. If you are still in Cloverdale I would love to bring my six year old over to see what a big reef looks like sometime. Bribe you with a beverage?

[Snaz]

So it has been almost a week since I picked off the last visible nudibranch and I have not seen any eggs so I am hoping this problem is behind me.

I am having issues with my dKH falling to 5.7 from 6.7 within 24 hours. I did a water change today which brought it up to 6.9 but it is dropping again. I can bring it up with some Arm&Hammer but I guess I need to sort out a dosing routine. Time to buy a calcium test kit. Can I cheap out with Ca test kit or buy Salifert?

My large orange/green Echino is getting too big for this little tank, time to list it for sale I think.

[Casey8]

Originally Posted by Snaz

So it has been almost a week since I picked off the last visible nudibranch and I have not seen any eggs so I am hoping this problem is behind me.

I am having issues with my dKH falling to 5.7 from 6.7 within 24 hours. I did a water change today which brought it up to 6.9 but it is dropping again. I can bring it up with some Arm&Hammer but I guess I need to sort out a dosing routine. Time to buy a calcium test kit. Can I cheap out with Ca test kit or buy Salifert?

My large orange/green Echino is getting too big for this little tank, time to list it for sale I think.

I don't know why but I just couln't spend any money on the Cal and Mag test kit. I would cheap out with those test kits, but I have to use the cheap API to test my dKH because mine is falling about 2 dKH just in a day. I have to keep an eye on it. I see you have some of the sps coral frags in your little cute tank, so the more they grow the more you might have trouble to keep up your dKH, unless you plan to dose your tank in the future. I am using Kent kalwasser to drip at night, but I still have a hard time to maintain my dKH at 7.5 right now. Maybe too many sps corals in my tank, time to think of getting rid of some of them later, that is my plan.