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Old 03-06-2006, 04:50 PM   #1
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12 gallon nano on a budget...


here's my tank so far...its been lots of fun.

i got the tank, a 12g eclipse with rocks and sand from craigslist for $50. I spent $50 on the lighting upgrade(32w smartpaq), $20 digital coralife timer from ebay, $30 for some garf grundge and the coral frags and they threw in the mangrove and chaeto for free , cycled 2 weeks and everything looked good. I got my fish(six line wrasse) from my lfs a couple days ago. not to much money spent...small tank on the (relatively) cheap....

I had tons of bristle worms and pods but the wrasse ate most of them in 2 days, im sure there are some pods hiding out in the algae...

I have a little cleaner crew I got for free from a friend - 2 smalls hermits(one red legged and one blue legged) and 6 narissus and 2 turbos snails....

I have spotted a sand sifting star too...and some weird things growing here and there

In the future I want to get a 33 gallon tank to make the wrasse happy, I plan to drill the eclipse and convert it to a refugium to go above the display tank...
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Congrats on the tank looks nice!!
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Old 03-06-2006, 05:26 PM   #3
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thanks,

your fish cam rocks!
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thanks,

your fish cam rocks!
Thanks, My cam sucks i think. Its to blurry i need to get a different one.



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