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Old 09-25-2009, 09:14 PM   #1
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i am building a new tank. the tank is 17g.i have light a heater and a nano power head. do i need anything else? filter system?? anything like that?
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Old 09-26-2009, 12:05 AM   #2
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Live rock will be needed to filter your water. Many nano people like a small cheap HOB filter to run carbon or purigen in as well. What do you want to keep in your nano?
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What type of set up?
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Old 09-26-2009, 01:45 AM   #4
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i am actually just moving my 14g biocube into the 17g. i was just wondering if i needed extra filtration cause the biocube has it and my new tank doesnt. im moving my clowns, hammer coral, xenia, suncoral, white sabae, and my clean up crew. thats about it. plus rocks and im gonna get about 3 or 4 more pounds of rock for the new tank. will one nano power head be enough??
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i am actually just moving my 14g biocube into the 17g. i was just wondering if i needed extra filtration cause the biocube has it and my new tank doesnt. im moving my clowns, hammer coral, xenia, suncoral, white sabae, and my clean up crew. thats about it. plus rocks and im gonna get about 3 or 4 more pounds of rock for the new tank. will one nano power head be enough??
A HOB with purigen or carbon would not be a bad idea. You may have to be strategic with your placement but 1 powerhead may be enough. You really have to look at it for yourself when it is set up and see if you have a place where every one of your critters seems to move as much as you think it should. WHenever I buy a specimen I am not familiar with I try to watch the amount of movement it is given in the tank it is displayed in and if it seems to be healthy.


On a side note, "white sebae" is kind of a misnomer. It is not a species but an anemone that is bleached, or has lost the photosynthetic microorganisms it needs to survive. A 17 gallon is much too small to provide the stability a sebae needs, even if it came in good health. They also grow large enough that they could take up most of the 17 gallon tank even if you had a 50 gallon sump to stabalize the water conditions.
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