I wanna start a 10 Gal nano

[Anonymous]

Matt_W and Hwarang...i know you guys have had a good amount of success with nanos and im really contiplating a 10gal nano...i have the lighting and tank..obviously i need sand and LR..no prob on that...how ever skimming...that is the question...do any of you guys skim???or do you just use PHs and some sort of bio filtration?

 

[shalegac]

not realy needed for a ten unless you have a huge bioload. Keep up circulation and it should be fine. Although, it never hurts to skim.

 

[Anonymous]

Agreed. If you are building a sump, or have a skimmer already laying around, I would either use it or build one. If not, it's simpler to just go w/o one. My SPS tank doesn't have one. If you want to build one, I can post plans for an airdriven $10 DIY one that works really well. You would need to buy a cheap air pump as well, if you don't already have one.

 

[Anonymous]

I have a hang on fuge for my 10. everything grows like mad in it (razor, grape, halemedia, cheata,) and keeps my tank nice and clean. I'll even admit I sometimes go 6 weeks without a water change, and everything looks great.

I built the fuge for less than $30 with everything included. I'll send you plans if you want.

B

 

[Anonymous]

So far I've attributed my success to two main things:

1. Frequent aggressive water changes (3 gal midweek and 3 gal weekend or 4 gal every weekend if i was lazy and missed the midweek one)

2. Purposely low bioload.


However...

I really wanna get this tank up to show quality. I wanna have 100% super sparkly clean polished water. So I was looking at skimming options ... everything from a skilter (lol good idea bad realization) to constructing my own mini skimmer (i used to work for a plastics factory doing fabricating and design w/ lexan acrylic). Anyhow, therein lies the Wub.

 

[Anonymous]

matt, could you post those plans please? i'm kinda interested in constructing a small DIY skimmer.

 

[Anonymous]

Working on it...I thought I had pics, but I don't. I'll go down to the hardware store and build one, then take pics. The things I do for you guys... :roll:

 

[Anonymous]

lol! and then you can mail it to me.

el yay!

 

[Anonymous]

great matt..send me those plans when you get a chance...i have a hang on fuge, that has a big gap..thats easily fixed, but i think that'll go to my 20...Hwarang...your treading on my water... :lol: ..

 

[Anonymous]

http://reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=447730

Here ya go!

 

[Anonymous]

Nice..gonna have to look at that more in detail when i have time... thx matt...favorite places...seems fairly simple....ps that was quick....