Newbie's 1½ Nano tank...

[limsteel]

Tank size: 1½ft x 1ft x1ft Boyu tank With Guppy tank as Sump housing some Macro Algae, Coral Chips, Activated Carbon fine filter Sponge.

4cm thick grade 0 sand and about 15kg Live rock

2ft Atman FL light with 15W Actinic Blue & 15W White 6500K.

Start Date: 23 Oct 2004

Planning for Mushroom, Buttons... 1 Clown, 1 Blenny, 1 B.Red Shrimp, 1 crab, Some Snails. to be added slowly after 24 Nov 2004

[limsteel]

I was given a L2ft x W1 x H1½ tank free... so using exisiting accessories I set it up.

Skimmer: Red Sea Prizm Skimmer

Filter: Eheim Liberty 200 - mainly Bio Ring, Ehiem original filter pads.

Lights: Atman FL 15W Actinic Blue and 15W 10000K

In tank: about 30Kg of Live Rocks.

will DIY a small HangOn plastic refugium later.

[Alentino]

Nice.... nearly as small as mine.... keep it goin.

[rapalla]

remind me of my old tank! when first starting on marine.

[limsteel]

Thanks for the encouragement!

Rescape using same rocks, creating more holes amongs the rocks from my future Fishies... waiting for the right fish and mushroom to show up!

[rapalla]

Keep it up bro...

[limsteel]

Tank update:

Added coral

Frog Spawn, Hammer, Star Polys

Yuma, Maushroom

Bubble, Fungia

[diabolus]

bro,

the bubbles you put too low liaoz....

try to aquascape ur rockwork so that it can be accomodate in the middle?

its not doing u justice, open not big enough la

[chucky]

Brother, yur reef seem got no sand bed is it???Jst to be more careful when u place yur lr & coral. If can, better put a thin layer of sand to act as cusion.. (safety precautin) Hope to c more pic. Pls keep us update.. Nice work

[limsteel]

Diabolus:

Bro I tried my best to put it mid height... but as all my rocks are smaller than the Bubble how to support it, bo pian then put on at the base... Anyway that the beginning part... now it is bigger... nearly put the hammer side by side until I read that will sting each other...

chucky:

yah... I got a sandless setup... there are acrylics sheets underneath the rock... so the presurre will be distributed... no worry about point pressure stressing the tank base.

[elimmel]

wah nice setup u have going

i also want to have bubble in my 1.5ft but scared it grow too big and sting the other corals ley...

[limsteel]

Bro Diabolus... here's your bubble... Any bigger i will occupied 1/4 of the tank front view.

[diabolus]

nice...but still can go bigger!

wat happen to the plate?

[limsteel]

Still can bigger?! OK I think I need a bigger tank liao!

plate still in my plastic tank... realised that it is pissed with the powerhead vibration. When adjust the Powerhead for minimum vibes... it shrink down to normal size... really need to sell him off... find a good home... my 2ft is not for him... actually even the bubble is also too hugh for 2ft.

I was thinking huge as in 2 fist... Scarly go to your house see one bowling ball! wanna reject also not nice as you reserve for me liao...

[diabolus]

no problem...

one way to go about it is to make the bubbles the centre of attention lah...

wat i mean is that the bubbles polyps with grow bigger, about the size of a 20 cents coin.

[limsteel]

Updates 29 Jan 2005

Added new Coral.. Further mod my light further to 2 x 36W PL, Osram tube are yellowish... make the diatom stand out! :mad: AEC tube are whiter, guess should be range at ±8000K maybe should change them both to AEC.

Using Red Sea NO3 Test kit, Measure the Tank's NO3 level is at 20ppm... also tested water straight from tap to be 10ppm. what to use to removed NO3, water change can;t seems to help even when I do it weekly. Chemipure? Diatom is constantly growing luckily snail muching away. Anyway anyone has some Sea Lettuse to spare wanna start a mini Fuge.

Observation:

Look how big the bubble is! my wife says it look like an alien! and Diabolus says it can be bigger!

Green Muchroom when I brought back was green, place in my tank and it turned pinkish to reddish purple... what happen?

Star polys seems reluctant to open fully... anyway to make it open fully!

[livebait]

bro,the bubble would look better as your centerpiece

[LaW]

agreed

[limsteel]

I got these fellow growing slowly but steadily on the star polys. The 2 hermits, 8 snails, 1 Stripped Blenny, 2 Blood shrimp... didn't make a meal out of it...

Do forgive the poor quality of the pics... anyway to get rid of it other then using Hands? as Manual remover will not be 100% clean... I can't control my 20ppm NO3 thru water change as RedSea NO3 tested 10ppm of NO3 in my tap water. PO4 not tested though...

[limsteel]

updates, Green Mushroom shrinking why?

[limsteel]

Updates 13 Mar 2005

shift the coral around abit... snails are shifting my smaller rocks causing some coral to fall off... might wanna remove the big snail and change ot smaller ones.

[flamey]

ur bubble is huge! very nice...