DeZ Office Nano

[dkk08]

Hi guys... I've decided to start a Nano Tank on my office after numerous requests by my colleagues to change my planted Nano tank into a Marine Nano... anyway they're sponsoring some of the stuff and I'm just sponsoring my time and effort

Tank is a 14"x9"x10" Five Plan tank

1x36W PLL

No skimmer

HOB refugium

1-1.5" thick sand bed

Tank is still in process of cycling, all sand and LR and water are from my home tank so how long do u guys suggest I cycle the tank?

Anyway I've yet to decide on wat to keep in it...

A pair of True Percular and 1 Anemone?

A pair of Harlequin shrimps and perhaps a few other small gobies and some frags of LPS/softies?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

[dkk08]

A closer look at the HOB refugium

[dkk08]

[dkk08]

Is the water flow too strong?

[dkk08]

Another look at the water flow and the HOB refugium

[dkk08]

Another closer look at the HOB

[dkk08]

After adding in LR

[dkk08]

Closer look at the LR scaping... trying to create a 3D look as the tank will be view from 3 sides

[dkk08]

Angled look...

[dkk08]

Another Angled look

[dkk08]

Last pic of the day... gonna rush to office to take care of some last min work

[nkh]

The flow is alright as long no splashing in seen. But a tank without overflow u will need surface skimmer to clear the oily surface. U need to to place mini powerhead to help aid water circulation in the tank, the overflow from ur filter will not be enough.

2cents view

[dkk08]

Noted nkh will add a small pump on mon... as for surface skimming... how do I do that... but really I had a 2ft Nano before but there's no oily surface... only my freshwater planted tanks have oily surface

[Flaming Nemo]

dkk80,

looking at your tank, is not advisable to keep anemone. think your condition can substain the life of anemone. or else when it die, it will kill the rest of your life forms

better to have a fish only rocks in your tanks

hope u get a successful beautiful tank

[nkh]

surface skimmer will help in clearing up the water surface thus helping light to better penertrate thru the water if u planning to keep some coral. If not keeping coral, still advisable to get one . U will definitly like the clean water surface. Surface skimmer can be attached to the inlet of ur HOB filter. I m doing tht oso.

[Maxstar81]

Bro, can explain wat stuff U put into the refug !?

Looks like rojak inside. All the best for your new

set up & i suggest keeping off anemones cos they

are time bombs & star eating shrimps as they will

cause the bio load to go sky high for your small sys.

Keep some greens & colourful fish to cheer up the

atmosphere in the office. Some bi colour blennies

or gobies should do well in this small tank.

Quite hardy too. Hope my ideas helps !

Keep the pics coming !!!

[dkk08]

Hehe bro kev... the refugium is indeed rojak coz there's a bag of denitrator, a bag of rowas + sulphar beads and some ulva+Chaeto...

Hmmm my tanks is kinda small so maybe I might have to DIY the surface skimmer...

[dkk08]

Oh ya regarding the anemone... I know its a time bomb (have been there and done that, tank crashed) anyway Clownfish do not always need anemone to host rite

[Qxnviolet]

Nope...i've seen lots of people with clowns who do not have anemones....i just got 2 myself...hope one of my LPS will host them.... Btw, what are the sulphar beads for?

[PerculaClownfish]

Nice liferocking!!

[dkk08]

Nope...i've seen lots of people with clowns who do not have anemones....i just got 2 myself...hope one of my LPS will host them.... Btw, what are the sulphar beads for?

Yes I've heard of clownfish hosting on LPS instead of anemones... but wat kinda LPS can I have in my 5 gallon tank

The sulphur beads (if I rem correctly as I'm getting old and memory is really fading ) are for denitrating (sp)...

[Qxnviolet]

icic, anyway, anemones or LPS is not necessary for a clown's well being....they do very well without them too....

[alien07]

looks good. me also have an office 1ft cube. may post pics soon.

[dkk08]

looks good. me also have an office 1ft cube. may post pics soon.

Good good! Post more pics bro... den we all can learn from each other... frankly speaking I'm learning alot from bro MaxStar81!

[cdckjn]

I jsut started a 1.5ft tank in office too. Cycling now. Will start thread soon. I will personally stay away from anemone because of twice unsuccessful attempts with them.

My tank will be with mushrooms, yumas and fishes (only 2 clownfishes). cleaner shrimps and hermit crabs.