10g Nano Hex

[reefann]

Hey man great looking tank. Two questions about the hood though.
1) are you worried of the wrass jumping out without a glass cover?
2) are you worried of a splash on the MH bulb?
thanks
JJ
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[UnderGrad]

JJ,
Jumping fishies aren't a problem because the hood is completely enclosed (unless of course I leave the doors open). I've heard the firefish try to carpet surf on occasion, but there really isn't anywhere for them to land except back into the tank. I worried at first about splash on the MH bulb, but there really isn't anything in the tank that can splash/spray more than a tiny drop of water onto the bulb. And so far the salt creep hasn't seemed to hurt it, but I could be wrong; I'm no MH expert. Thanks for the compliments.

-AM-

 

[UnderGrad]

For those of you who are following... just learned the hard way this weekend that Halimeda does in fact go sexual. Wow, it really sucks when this stuff does. Doesn't make it any easier not having a skimmer either. I basically had to spend the weekend making water and performing emergency water changes. Luckily nothing was lost. The fish were a bit stressed out, but otherwise fine. I have a feeling this happened due to the sudden cold weather we've been having. I found out my heater wasn't working properly and the tank temp had dropped down to ~74 a couple of nights. All in all this was a good learning experience for me and gave me a good reason to do some much needed cleaning. Here's some pics of the incident...

Arlan

 

[UnderGrad]

Some more pics...

 

[Anonymous]

Wow, nasty. I had the same exact problem with my temp, Arlan. It dropped down to 73, but my Caulerpa didn't go sexual. Everything looks Ok in your tank, fortunately.

Nice new zoos, and the existing ones look like they're spreading nicely.

 

[ricky1414]

^^bump^^

 

[UnderGrad]

Hey thanks for the bump. Any specific reason for it though?

Arlan

 

[Anonymous]

Cause your tank rocks man!

 

[ricky1414]

Cause your tank rocks man!

I agree with Matt, pretty sweet DIY setup! We need to keep the cool tanks on the top. 8) Good Job!

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah I really don't like hex tanks but I like yours man, HF!

 

[UnderGrad]

Cause your tank rocks man!

Hey thanks! 8)

Thought I'd update you all on the fate of the tank...

I got married back in January and the wife and I moved. However our new apt. manager doesn't like tanks over 50g so my 65g freshwater tank had to go. But there were a few fish in there that I've gotten kinda attached to, so after talking to the wife, she gave me the go ahead for a new reef setup (2 29g tanks!) and I decided the freshwater fish would go into the nano hex. So here's a couple of pics of the tearing down process.

 

[UnderGrad]

Heres some pics after everything was moved over to the new apt.

The nano hex was approx. 1 year old when I tore it down and frankly it was definetely time to bring it down. The DIY siphon overflow I installed on it was too small and would get clogged all the time or lose siphon more times than I'd like to admit and it was really really hard to leave the apt for more than a few days for fear of flooding the kitchen floor (which happened a few times). It was a fun tank to work with and everything did great. However a hard lesson I did learn was that you should have at least one powerhead in the tank not plugged into a GFCI... I was gone one weekend and we had a brief power outage. It tripped my GFCI switch and I came home at the end of the weekend to a dark tank and a dead bicolor blenny, a dead six line wrasse, and a nearly dead firefish (all the corals were fine though...). The wife has forbidden me to have any kind of overflow on our new tanks which I'm a little sad and grateful about at the same time. Who know what I would have installed on it had she let me! Anyways, I hope everyone following this at least learned a few pointers from my few successes and many mistakes.

Arlan

 

[ricky1414]

Tanks are looking good there, undergrad.

 

[Anonymous]

I love the Hex hood on the 29 , kinda like a crown.

 

[ricky1414]

is that a 20K mh setup on the left 29 gallon? Sweet Jesus, those are gonna be nice tanks!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Get some pics of those anemone shrimp!

 

[UnderGrad]

Get some pics of those anemone shrimp!

Workin on it!

I love the Hex hood on the 29 , kinda like a crown.

Yes, it totally does now that I look at it that way. Haven't had enough time to build another canopy (still not finished with the first one) so you gotta go with what works.

is that a 20K mh setup on the left 29 gallon?

Nope, thats a 10k 250w Coralvue supplemented with 1 55w Actinic PC and 1 55w 10k PC for aesthetic and acclimation purposes.

 

[UnderGrad]

Here's those shots of the anemone shrimp.

Arlan

...just looked at the file extension of the files and WOW 8O ! I've taken over 7000 pics with my digital cam in the last two years. Definetely getting my moneys worth!