f16driver

Day 9 Fts

I fed my Duncan ocean nutrition formula one today. I fed them a couple of pellets each. Maybe they stuffed themselves a lil? Their mouths are bloated lol

Hahah I know right. I go to sleep every night saying, "a nano needs no skimmer"

Omg! I was short of a few posts before I could reply hahah. I just started a tank that would benefit from your kind gesture Bro. Check it out from my profile. Cheers!

+1

Do you have chaeto in that refugium? I think it's an awesome idea. But increasing water volume may proof too stressful for an underpowered chiller

Just Google reef cycle and you'll find tons of information. Don't be impatient. I know I was, to add stuff until ammonia and nitrite are zero and stable at zero.

Holy cow! Can you see the huge grin on that clown. My clown has hosted the back corner so.... I'm jealous lol.

Do let us see your ats!

Wow that's high! But yeah I run it at full blast

10 years ago I used the prawn method for my 4 footer. This introduced ammonia to kick start the cycle. Before I started my nano, I had this same question. I decided against using chemicals to start the cycle and bought live sand and live rock, (using less than an hour from shop to tank to prevent to much die off) and my tank was stable with no ammonia and nitrite by day 3. I have since added a percula clown, peppermint, nassarius and spiney star. It is day 7-8 for me. Tests this morning show the same. 0.0.10.

Haha like a flashbang. Works on humans too

OK if you put the whole neck into the sump area, even if the hose area is leaking air, by the time the water fills and reaches the neck area, the filling should stop as air cannot leak in anymore. This assumes that the leak is only from the bottle cap area. Which should be the case unless someone sabo and pokes a hole in your bottle area.

Omg this is brilliant. I was gonna use hospital supplies and fashion a drip based on the estimated evaporation. Very suitable for a nano setup for short holidays. Mind if I ask how you drilled those hoses in and how you made that seal air tight

Mind if I ask how you got your tank down to 26 to begin with

+1 Lately my chiller can't event bring it down to the cut off temp. It really is dependent on your ambient vs your desired.

+1 I have three of them in my nano. Witnessed them eat really old food that turned all fussy. Don't leave snail trails too so that's a plus

On a side note, I found my spiney star snail on his back. I flipped him right side up but he hasn't moved. Hope that little guy is OK.

OK so I did a water change last night. About 15%. And today's results have not budged! I'm fact, I think nitrate went higher to 20. Ammonia and nitrite are still at 0. Hmm any comments?

A house that's built around a tank. Seriously. Jealous much. Does the chiller generate heat in the living space?

Beautiful tank. My tank is the size of your sump lol. How often do you do wc? I understand you have more than twice the water volume, but you have a fair bit of ls too

Wow. That's a really nice colour tho haha

Meanwhile, anyone uses api test kits? I feel that the tubes are a pita to wash. And sometimes you still get the chemical smell. Salifert tho slightly more expensive, comes in easy to wash containers. If I could it over again, I'd spend the extra for Salifert kits. For the container and the measurements and the finer accuracy of Salifert kits.

I'll try lifting the light or repositioning it to see if I get it to open more.

Soooo.... Here's how the Duncan looks like on day two. Using the stock rainbow light. It's now fully open and it may be due to Water para Lights Temps. The last two days my room temps went up to 33deg. The al30 managed 27.9 at best. At this volume, safe to say the delta temps are at 5 from ambient room. If you want lower temps, conventional condenser type chillers are a better bet.