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I grabbed a 10G tank and a piece of 1/4" plexi and was determined to have a little nano tank for mysis and 'pods and grow out some frags etc... Here is where it's at:
The tank. I cornered off a section with plexi for a sort of in-tank sump and snipped out some of the top where the water from the top flows into the sump. In-take of a fluval 204 in the sump out to the tank. Currently only running the foam.. which will be removed when tank matures.
The sandbed is about 4" deep and I pick out some nice pieces of blank rock I had made. The water was all from my 75G to get things started. I put in about 2 lbs live rock and about 1 llb Garf grunge (no comments on GARF Please) *snicker*
9-10 snails and 3 hermits. The lighting was originally intended to just be natural sunlight in my window... which it still gets.
I have suplimented the light with 2 65W PC's one 10K one actinic.
The snails crawl into the sump to help clean-up and back whenever they want. top off is 4 stage RO/DI.
This tank is now about less than a month. I put in some leather corals and these are doing Odd things. Odd meaning in growth rate.
I looked in at one in particular and it's almost "vomiting" a growth spurt.
It will have a skinny part in the stalk that over the course of a few hours moves up toward the head. Over the past week it has grown about an inch across it's head!!!
Otherwise the tank is doing great!!! I will try to get some pix tomorrow to post for everyone and to track the progress of this experiment and try to capture timed pics of this corals strange dance of growth.
I grabbed a 10G tank and a piece of 1/4" plexi and was determined to have a little nano tank for mysis and 'pods and grow out some frags etc... Here is where it's at:
The tank. I cornered off a section with plexi for a sort of in-tank sump and snipped out some of the top where the water from the top flows into the sump. In-take of a fluval 204 in the sump out to the tank. Currently only running the foam.. which will be removed when tank matures.
The sandbed is about 4" deep and I pick out some nice pieces of blank rock I had made. The water was all from my 75G to get things started. I put in about 2 lbs live rock and about 1 llb Garf grunge (no comments on GARF Please) *snicker*
9-10 snails and 3 hermits. The lighting was originally intended to just be natural sunlight in my window... which it still gets.
I have suplimented the light with 2 65W PC's one 10K one actinic.
The snails crawl into the sump to help clean-up and back whenever they want. top off is 4 stage RO/DI.
This tank is now about less than a month. I put in some leather corals and these are doing Odd things. Odd meaning in growth rate.
I looked in at one in particular and it's almost "vomiting" a growth spurt.
It will have a skinny part in the stalk that over the course of a few hours moves up toward the head. Over the past week it has grown about an inch across it's head!!!
Otherwise the tank is doing great!!! I will try to get some pix tomorrow to post for everyone and to track the progress of this experiment and try to capture timed pics of this corals strange dance of growth.