Dave's Nanospecs

[exodave]

This should make further questions easier to answer.

I've had this 10 gallon reef since March of 2008. Current specs are as follows:

Equipment

• Biowheel 200 pump and fixture without wheel or filter
• Coralife 20" 96watt 50/50 quad light fixture on legs over closed top glass
• 50watt heater placed inside biowheel fixture
• (coming soon) lunar lights

Biofilters

• 10lb live rock
• ~3.5" live sand base

Cleanup Crew

• ~6 various snails/tiny conchs, none larger than a nickel ("The Electric Mayhem")
• one very small hermit crab ("Rizzo")
• one peppermint shrimp ("Pepe")

Livestock

• a small fragment of button polyps
• a green bubble tip anemone ("Gonzo")
• a perc clownfish ("Camilla")
• a banggai cardinal ("Sweetums")

Feed

• daily 1/3 capsule of frozen mysis shrimp
• small chunk of other frozen or raw seafood to the GBTA every few days

Maintenance

• ~30% water change every 2-3 weeks RO and Reef Crystals to 1.024-25
• daily topoffs
• temp stable at 80 degrees F
• monthly color-match tests for ph, ammonia, nitrates, nitrites

[Loverotties]

Looks great!

[exodave]

http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/album.php?albumid=59

[usmc2b2004]

Wow that's very nice... what kinda rock is that?

[exodave]

Originally Posted by usmc2b2004

Wow that's very nice... what kinda rock is that?

As far as I know, nothing special. They had a few large tanks of live rock at my LFS in Koreatown, and I simply pulled out the ones I liked.

Today, I bought a dollar bag of live brine shrimp from the LFS to try to get the clownfish to eat more. HOLY CAT! Not only does she love it, but every one my polyps had a BS march right up into it! Looks like a new addition to the feeding schedule. The LFS told me that the live BS will keep in my fridge for about a week, and they get shipments weekly.

[usmc2b2004]

I like the shapes of it looks rounded. Nice never tried live brine shrimp sounds like it would be fun to watch.

[exodave]

there are obvious pieces of old coral bonded together which make a maze of caves throughout the rock. Everything seems to pretty much love that. Originaly, as in the pic, I had the two rocks in opposite corners to quell territorial disputes, but since the current inhabitants seem to like to be together anyways, I pushed them together, and I think it looks even cooler now.

[usmc2b2004]

Yea you did a good job looks good.