SeaHorse_Fanatic's 2012 nano contest entry

[Acipenser]

Looking forward to see what you come up with Anthony !

[Tom R]

Go Anthony Go

Tom R

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Well, now I have to decide whether to do the 2g Spec or 8g Flora since Felicia has asked that one of her fw tanks become a nano-reef. Totally HER idea, just out of the blue. I guess she's bored with 3 fw tanks on her desk. I hadn't even mentioned the nano contest to anyone at home or tried to talk to Felicia about converting her tank (yet). Wow, I did a great job raising my mini-me reefer

So now to rethink my nano project to go bigger, but same ideas.

[Enigma]

While I'd love to see you work with the Spec, the Flora has four times the water volume and would probably be the better choice in the long run. It doesn't have back chambers though, does it?

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

No it doesn't. May look at another alternative to the Spec or Flora but we'll see. Operating on 3 hours sleep so now is not a good time to make a decision.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

So now my newest concept is to use the 8g Fluval Flora but have a canister filter filled with biomedia and purigen and with an attached surface skimmer to pump water into a 2g above tank sump that will house my Saffire skimmer and be drilled to gravity feed the cleaned water back into the Flora. The lighting will probably end up being a DIY LED nano unit that I'll have to build later on. Probably use a different light that I already have in storage in the meantime.

[Nano]

Neat my first reef was a flora
I just used the stock light for zoas and leathers for about 4 months until moving it to my 16g