Here is my nano tank that I am currently setting up, mentioned in show #21!!! YAY!! Thank-you Rob!! It consists of a 12gal tank, 13 lbs of Orient 'nude' Beach sand, 10 gallons of saltwater, eggcrate top, and a small powerhead.
Hi Gwen,
I see that you are a fellow Nano Reefer. This was actually our first Marine tank. Me & my wife wanted a Marine tank, but did not want to go full bore with a large tank. Rob helped me alot on this project I had. The tank is 10 months old now. It's a Eclipse System 12 Bow front tank. I stated out using the bio-wheel filter, but Rob said to get rid of it, because it will be a Nitrate factory. So I got a AC300 filter & modded it & made it into a mini fuge with LS & LR rubble. I have some cheato's in there too. I got rid of my stock lighting & added a 96w Power Quad retrofit. Worked out well & fits easily on the stock hood. It has 2 power heads also. About 4 months ago I added a skimmer to it. It's a cheapie skimmer, but it works really well. It's skimming like nuts & got my water in very good shape. It has about 24lbs of live rock & 30lbs of Live sand. Currently we have a Gonipora, open brain, frogspaws & a feather duster. We have a PJ Cardinal & a cleaner shrimp, a few turbo snails & hermit crabs. From then on we added a 30 gal bow front, a glass 5.5 gal & a 2.5gal nano tanks. It's been fun having multiple nano tanks. The 30gal & 5.5 have skimmers, powerheads & mechanical AC filters. I'll post some pics as soon as I have time.
John- your tanks sound nice, would love to see some pictures!!
Just for an update, I ordered most the equipment needed for this tank last night. skimmer- AquaC Remora
heater- 50W Ebo Jager
thermometer with suction cups
2 powerheads- Mini-Jets- up to 150gph
lights- I had a hard time with this part- ty Rob for helping me with lights. I almost bought a clip-on tank light, but it wasn't what I really wanted. Rob told me about aquatraders.com which sells cheaper lights made in china. Aqualights had exactly what I wanted- a 20" MH fixture with supplements and a fan- http://www.aquatraders.com/index.asp...ROD&ProdID=217
it does have moon lights, but I really don't care about that much. The MH is 175W with 2 pc supplements at 24w each. I'm looking at 223w for my nano- I should be ready for SPS and clams. YAY!! They said it would come with a 20000K mh, but I requested a 10000K, we'll see what happens- I can always change it out- but I do like blue so it might work out great for me.
Hi Gwen,
Hows the tank coming along? any new pics? Looks like you got a good start. Can't wait for updates.
Take care
OK Mopecula- not too much happening, but here is the latest:
I stopped at my favorite LFS last night, Imagine Ocean and bought 18 lbs of LR. I'm storing it in the big tank now until the nano has more equipment. I'm waiting for some shipments, that are gonna be xmas and bday presents. So I won't get the equipment until then.
The peppermints went crazy on the LR munching away. It was hard to get a clear shot.
Ok my packages arrived on Monday and I talked mom into letting me have some early xmas presents- the heater and one pump. It took overnight for the tank to heat up.
Once the tank heated, I added the live rock.... took a few hours to get the rock-scaping how I wanted it!! I *think* its pretty stable. I've always wanted to do an arc, but if someone thinks this is a bad idea, please let me know.
__________________ Gwen - 2008 Atlanta Reef Club Board MACNA XX Committee 125g RR AGA "The Simple Reef Tank"
I like it!! It must have been hard work trying to get the rock stable in that tank but i think it looks good and when you start to get the corals to grow on it it will look even better. I alsways say take your time in setting up a reef, go slow, add thing slowly so and write it down in a log that way if some thing goes wrong you have a possibility to track what went wrong and how to correct it. Just some advice that, yep you guessed it, I learned the hard way, lol but you look like your doing great with the tank. Geez why did I write that, man this getting old thing is catching up to me,lol
Take care
i thought you had two pumps...
where is the second one..??!?!?!?
There are two, but I had to leave a few things for mom to wrap and put under the tree! I just took one to have a little flow in there.... Will have lights, and the other pump in there over the weekend. YAY!
__________________ Gwen - 2008 Atlanta Reef Club Board MACNA XX Committee 125g RR AGA "The Simple Reef Tank"
Beach sand, 10 gallons of saltwater, eggcrate top, and a small powerhead. 
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