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tomorrow i will try and cover the nano

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once upon a time.. Gregt started up a Nano contest...some really nice prizes were offered adn a bunch of us signed up...
i managed to get a hold of 2 ten gallon tanks and one was drilled witha durso over flow all ready.


i did not have to do much to it since it had come from a LFS and was used in the coral section.




i used one for a sump..the total cost of the nano so far was a big 7$

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started the cabinet for it..
ended up withthe doors off. easier to get to everything..




oh i forgot... the cost to this point was onlu 4.99$!!!!!!!
but i did not get the lighting for it or the pump yet. the pump ended up being a mag 5. the mag 12 i had was ..shall we say ...ummm a bit much....

so i ordered the mag 5 and a quad 50/50 pc from one of our sponors.. tell ya what they sure know how to take care of us!

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just when i thought i had enough tanks.. i get a phone call asking if i wanted a 100 gallon tank..let me think on that......... daaaa yes.... so in came a 100 gallon. but something di not look right with it. after taking measurements and using gregt's cal. on his website i found out that it is only a 70 gallon... but was free!
so that got set up at the same time!

well finally got water in to the nano after what seemed to be forever!

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then the Live rock rubble went in..

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then things started to not go good with the nano..
i picked up a mushroom rock fromthe over priced LFS and got soooo taken it was not funny. none of them actaully lived .. it looks like they were goingout the door before i got them..
then i decided to do a species tank of just colt coral..
order 3 nice looking frags and the melted down with a few days.. the place said they would send more if i wanted them, but idecided that holding off for now would be better. but they did send some nice purple Zoa's..
I added a Bicolor blenny to the tanks and stopped there, it turned out the lights werer heating thetank up a bit when they were on. so i had to raise them up a bit.

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Well Added a green mushroom rock to the Nano, adn a4 emerald crabs to the 70 gallon, ya got love thoses little buggers, always picking at the nookes and crankies..
i will try and graba few pictures as soon as i can

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Have some new ( to me) corals coming in a few days..
pink skirt, electirc blue Zoa's, zombie eye Zoa's and pink Zoa's.. i hope htey ship well , they are coming from the west coast..
once they are in the tank and everyone is doing good. i will take a bunch of pictures for everyone.

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yup the new Zoa's are in and all are doing well except on bunch..

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well added more life to the Nano tank,
pictures are in the nano build off , i will move them here when i can.
addeda nice looking leather coral. very pretty, and two orange/yellow skunk clowns. the larger of the two has already hosted with green mushrooms in tank. althoght the mushrooms are a bit small right now, he/she loves them. since i have added the skunks to the tank the bi color blenny has come out a lot more.

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