Entering the Nano Reef Buildoff

Cyberdude47 · 10-10-2005, 08:28 PM

Today is October 10, 2005. We are planning on joining the nano reef build off. We just purchased our tank today. It is a 10 gallon glass aquarium. The tank measures at 20" wide 12" high and 10" deep. It has a Aqua-tech 5-15 power filter and ez change cartridge. We will have a home made skimmer, 2 13w compact flourescent lights, a little home made moon light l.e.d phase controller and 2 200gph rio power heads with a closed loop system. We plan on having only 10 gallons of water in total. We plan on housing some colorful mushrooms, zooanthids, polyps, lps, such as brains frog spawn ect., feather dusters, and maybe hopefully an acropora frag, and whatever else we can come up with. We would like to house a true percula clown, 2 purple fire fish, a fireball angel (hopefully) bicolor blenny, and possibly a yellow clown goby. We will have about 10-20 lbs of live rock, and argranite sand.

VWD · 10-10-2005, 08:34 PM

Welcome to TRT! and to the Nano Buildoff.

Good luck and have fun

wharyat · 10-10-2005, 09:45 PM

Sounds good.

Welcome to TRT and the buildoff!

capt2000 · 10-10-2005, 09:51 PM

ditto and ditto and vince and vince

Cyberdude47 · 10-11-2005, 01:49 AM

Here is day one hopefully I will get this thing set up soon and post another pic.

Loverotties · 10-11-2005, 07:10 AM

Welcome to TRT!You should have fun!

yardboy · 10-11-2005, 03:58 PM

Welcome to the madness and good luck with your entry.

reef_noob · 10-11-2005, 06:27 PM

Welcome to trt!
Good luck with your entry

...one bit o' advice...that sounds like a lot of fish for a 10 gal...heavy bioload and nano don't mix well.

tims · 10-15-2005, 03:18 PM

Welcome and sounds great!
might think about cuttng out most of the fish but sounds great

alaskaknucklehead · 10-15-2005, 03:44 PM

Ditto on Tims... waaay to many fish

Cyberdude47 · 10-16-2005, 10:59 AM

Hi guys thanks for your advice on the amount of fish I'll have to reconsider how many I put in, This is my first Nano so I just wrote a figure on what I'd like in there but anyway here is my first update it's my Diy skimer a smaller scaled version of the remora. I don't know if it works yet but I'll know soon enough I'll try to test it today.

aussiereefer · 10-17-2005, 05:51 AM

nice, did you glue up all the perspex yourself? or is a prebuilt box?

yardboy · 10-17-2005, 08:55 PM

So how's she work?

Cyberdude47 · 10-19-2005, 09:40 PM

Hey guys, I cut and glued all the acrylic myself for you guys that asked, I finally got the tank set up here is a pic of the tank set up, My lights aren't in yet so it looks kind of yellow but here are some pics of my DIY skimmer seems to work pretty good so far. At first it spit up lots of water but now it's settled she's humming along pretty good.