my Deep Sea Neo Nano waterfall tank

Borderjumper · #1 07-07-2012, 04:08 AM

Its finally here! Many years ago I saw one of these at Safari Pets and ohhhed and awed over it every time I was in, but for one reason or another passed on it.

I started thinking about it a few months ago when I started getting into the mini maxi anemones, and what a wicked look down tank it would be. I did some enquirys and no one had any, but Japarto tracked one down sitting in Hagens warehouse somewhere back east..

My brand new 2008 Deep Sea Neo Nano!

The water goes into the two overflow boxs on the sides of the tower into a 30 gallon sump then is pumped up into the tower and cascades in a waterfall back into the tank, The waterfall doesnt disturb the water surface, making it a wicked look down tank

lockrookie · #2 07-07-2012, 04:27 AM

nice.. there are two avail here in regina and if i.... well i never will but agree will be a cool tanki was contemplating making such a beast as a frag tank.. ill be following your thread

windcoast reefs · #3 07-07-2012, 05:28 AM

Very nice! Ill have to come and see it when its up and running!

windcoast reefs · #4 07-07-2012, 05:33 AM

He doesn't have another one does he? lol

msjboy · #5 07-07-2012, 05:36 AM

Nice tank... They have one over at aquariums west downtown vancouver where they sold it but no more as it was briefly discontinued..i saw reefbuilders.com stating they were updating to a newer model.

Also someone was selling one here for$500 a couple weeks ago.

Regs
Msjboy

Madmak · #6 07-07-2012, 05:44 AM

Just saw one at Pisces in Calgary for $399. Considered it for a nice frag tank.

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #7 07-07-2012, 05:44 AM

Sweet. I've always wanted to set up a shallow look down clam tank

Rice Reef · #8 07-07-2012, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by windcoast reefs

Very nice! Ill have to come and see it when its up and running!

+1! Can I come over to take some pics?

Borderjumper · #9 07-08-2012, 04:45 AM

Today I spent most of the day rearranging my fish room so I could put this new tank against the back wall. Jeeze I have acculmulated lots of crap!

The plumbing was very straight forward.

I'm using an eheim return pump I had instead of the one that came with the tank. It was more of a pond pump rated at 800GPH. The Eheim is rated at a tad less than 700 GPH. I like Eheims and never had one fail

Filling the tower with fresh water for a test run... all these little holes are supposed to move the water around the tank.

I really like the waterfall! Ive seen some people complain that it has to be wiped down every few days or algae will grow.. guess I will just have to deal with that, or learn to embrace my algae slide.

Im going to make a few changes. I went to Rona on Bay and bought some elbows. Im going to put them into the overflow boxs so that I can put a strainer in there to keep the snails out. I need to cut the elbows down a 1/2" tho, as they break the surface screwing up the skimming effect of the overflow boxs. Oh! Rona has their $20 petunia baskets on sale for $4.99!!

Also Im not happy with the amount of water that drains back down to the sump when i do an emergency pump shut down. All those little holes in the bottom of the waterfall box tend to keep refilling the box, even after the level goes down past the bulkhead. It drains down a good 2" before it pressurizes enough to stop the back flow.. and when your tank is ony 12" to start whats way too low. I put an elbow into the waterfall box too, and add a standpipe of about 3-4". This keeps the box fuller, which increases the down pressure so the water from the little holes doesnt push back up.

Going to let it run tonight with fresh water, then tomorrow drain it and put in new crushed coral and arrange my dried out branch rock. Then prolly fill it again with fresh water to rinse everything one last time. Hopefully i have the umph left to drain the freshwater, salt er up, and fill up the sump with liverock to get the cycle going.

reefgirl189 · #10 07-08-2012, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Borderjumper

Also Im not happy with the amount of water that drains back down to the sump when i do an emergency pump shut down. All those little holes in the bottom of the waterfall box tend to keep refilling the box, even after the level goes down past the bulkhead. It drains down a good 2" before it pressurizes enough to stop the back flow.. and when your tank is ony 12" to start whats way too low. I put an elbow into the waterfall box too, and add a standpipe of about 3-4". This keeps the box fuller, which increases the down pressure so the water from the little holes doesnt push back up.

Are you thinking about installing a check valve to stop the problem? We ended up having to put one on ours because of the position of the bulkheads draining too much into the sump and found it was a nice, easy, cheap and quick solution.

I'm very excited to see how this tank turns out.