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    Carmie's Cube

    I wanted to share my new Nanocube 24 with everyone! I picked it up last night.



    It was already set up so I have acquired a few more critters.



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    I am really excited to have it but the whole situation makes me mad. The young couple who were selling it had really been given bad advice from a lfs. After a year they were bailing out and were so soured on reef tanks. I wish they would have found TR the day they brought their nano home.
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    nice, although carmie, you cheated on the space race.

    bad advice seems to be universal.
    couldn't have too bad though,or came good toward the end of ownership yeah- cause the cal alg seems to still be abundant.

    Nice score by the way.
    The nano generation kicks into high gear these days.



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    Yeah the tank was still running but they had lost most of their corals. There are some GSP's left but they don't look so great and the colt which looks pretty droopy.
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    What size tank is that?

    There's a guy in our local club that's selling a 14 gal nano, and I've been thinking about setting it up in my office at work.

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    It's a 24. So far I like it even though I haven't really done much besides bring it home and set it back up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CarmieJo View Post
    It's a 24. So far I like it even though I haven't really done much besides bring it home and set it back up.
    sounds like it is time to start STOCKING this thing !! what are you planning for it ??
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    I'm not sure. It came with a chromis and a clown, perhaps an ocellaris. I may keep these guys and just add some more corals.
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    Welcome to the cube club Carmie!


    "Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful,
    more simple or more direct than does nature"

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    You know, when I went on vacation the cubes held up better than the rest. I have the JBJ 24,12 and the new 28 HQI. Great little tanks.
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    Hi Carmie,
    That LR that came with your 24g...is it porous or solid? By the pic it seems a little closer to base rock than LR.
    And congrats on now having 2 tanks.Mulit-tanks owners agree....the fun never ends!!
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    Larry, the LR is porous and has coralline on the sides that were exposed before I got it. I didn't get it stacked back in the same way and so a lot of the white is exposed. The tank had been up for a year.
    Last edited by CarmieJo; 07-04-2007 at 08:49 PM.
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    your nano looks so cool

    what is it equiped with?

    any modifications or new live stock planned?
    Paul

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    It is the stock tank. I removed the water diffuser thing because I didn't think that there was enough water movement at the surface. I haven't really made any decisions on where to go with it, I'll decide when I get back form vacation.
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    Here is a current FTS.

    My frog spawn is very happy in this tank and has already added a new head.
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    Looking really nice Carmie. My frogspawn really responded well when I moved it to my nano. I think there was too much flow in my 120.
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    I think the frogspawn might look prettier with the lights in the big tank but I don't think it could look happier.
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    Here is a pretty new Ricordia I added to my still fishless nano.
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    Looking good. With your skills it will become even more beautiful plus you get the credit of rescuing the critters involved
    Peace
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    hey carmi nice looking cube
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    sweet, space is still a premium which is good

    abit messy with the pain on the back wall though my girl!



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    what happened to the tank

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    Yeah Carmie, you haven't updated this lately!
    I think I will be picking up a 24gal jbj nano. I plan on hacking it to pieces too! I want to build a platform to put the stand on that will raise it above the top rim of my DT and turning it into a gravity drain fuge. The chamber on the left (unless I am mistaken) will be the perfect place to drill a hole in the back of the tank and install a bulkhead that I can hard pipe to the pod pile in my DT. I can stick a maxi jet under the Overflow box in my DT and return water back to the nano. I figure I'll cut out the middle and right side chambers to add volume and space for LR and some macro algae.

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    It's only been a couple years since an update...gotta be something new in there..lol. Now I'm curious too.

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    LOL! It has a lot of HA, a few corals and a bunch of DIBS nassarius snails in it. I'll have to scrape the glass and take some pictures.
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