DWanks first 10G nano tank!!

[Dwankmuller]

Hey guys,

This is my first tank, its a standard 10 gallon tank with the following:

50w Stealth Heater
2 Koralia Nanos
Whisper 30 with chaeto
DIY Stand

10-12lbs Live Rock
10lb Live sand

Livestock:
5 Nassarius
4 Dwarf Cerith
1 Nerite
2 Scarlet Hermit
2 Nemo

Corals:
Photosynthetic gorgonian
Various Zoas
RPE's
Hammer
Rainbow Acan
GSP
Green Ric
rhodactus mushroom
2 red mushrooms
4 green striped mushrooms
ORA Birds of Paradise
Pink Birdsnest

Tank and Stand:

Added LEDs, CUC, Some sexy shells, RIC frag, green star polyp Frag!!(4/18/10):

New Rock Scape(4/19): Kinda looks like a big doody in the middle of the tank, but i like it much better than the last scape.

New(er) Scape:

LED Night Lights (Made em for 3 dollars )

6/1/10
Whole Tank:

The Mountain!

Closeup of mountain inhabitants and one of my nemos sneaking in:

Actually took a decent closeup picture!!

New Pics on page 2!! (7/6/2010)
Dave

 

[FrostyNYC]

Good luck with this. Just started a nano myself recently. However I have to agree with your assessment of the new rock work. It does look like a pile of $&@! Haha. You sure you don't want to make it less of a pile?

I love that hammer btw. Very nice


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[dubs]

good luck welcome to mr

 

[Dwankmuller]

I actually am starting to enjoy that scape...there are a bunch of caves and crevices along the back that the clowns (when I get them in a month) will be able to hide in. I also like the fact that there is a large difference in light difference from the bottom of the "mountain" to the top, which should allow me to have zoas/shrooms on the bottom, and LPS on the top. Once my tank has been stable for a few months Ill start moving into LPS probably.

That and, Im sick of moving stuff. lol

 

[daisy]

Dave, is the Koralia pointing down? Is there anything breaking the surface? If you have something breaking the water's surface, then you'll be doing a good service to cooling your system, which will become more important to you in the coming weeks and months!

It looks good! I think that as things grow and as you add more, it will look less like a pile, and more like a reef

 

[Dwankmuller]

The nano is facing down, but I have a whisper for a 40 gallon flowing in from the top which makes some nice little waves on the surface.

Im getting 2 nanos in the mail on friday, so Im going to have to figure out where I want them, I will probably aim one up. (My nano in there is broken and hanging on by a thread, and I dont want that little box one in there anymore)

And hopefully it will look like a reef within the next few months! As long as the frogspawn doesnt take over haha

 

[Dwankmuller]

more pictures

 

[stage3-S4]

I would suggest adding a hang on back protien skimmer or adding some type of macro algae.

 

["Shottaz"]

man this looks awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ryangrieder]

i love your lights. care to elaberate on them on what you did cause i noticed you said it cost you 3 bucks lol

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

I have a in tank nano fuge for sale if you are interested it suctions to the glass

 

[Dwankmuller]

stage3-S4 - I was actually looking at adding a HOB Skimmer last night. Got any suggestions? Right now I actually have 2 filters, one with filterfloss and phosban, and one with chaeto in it...and that still doesnt seem to do the job...so hopefully a skimmer will. I might also custom make a refuge out of acrylic that I can just sit behind my tank and stick my thermometer/skimmer/chaeto in there...

shottaz - thanks!

ryangrider - Since I only have a 10 gallon, which isnt that deep I just bought a 15LED sticky strip on ebay, which cost 2 dollars from china, and I bought a 12 volt power adapter for about 1.15 shipped from china as well (ok fine maybe this cost me closer to 4 dollars). All the lights were off when I took that picture, the blue isnt too briight, but just enough to make everything glow. Here is the strip I bought: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/UNIV...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

 

[Dwankmuller]

trigger: Didnt see your post...i think im going to try to make one that fits outside the tank...my tank is already small enough as it is! lol

 

[Dwankmuller]

added 4 more pictures! Just got back from vacation and the tank didnt crash while i was gone! So I bought 2 nemos and they are loving the tank. I heard it could take a few days for the nemos to swim around the tank, but within a few hours these guys were flying around everywhere, and they ate about 50 isopods that were stuck to my glass...pretty cool stuff.

Also found out that I have a pretty large bristle worm, and some weird slug/snail/hair back lookin thing, which i think is reef safe. At any rate, hope you enjoy the new pictures!

Custom King is making me a HOB fuge this week...soooo excited to get it!!!

P.S. I like looking at the timeline of where Ive come from...reefs are so fun to watch grow!

 

[amatta1989]

hey hows the tank going? any updated pics?

 

[jadakiss]

pics

 

[anthony27]

that tank looks hotttttt.

 

[Dwankmuller]

alrighty guys...ill get some more pictures when I get home lol...

 

[Dwankmuller]

New Pics (7/6/10) I wish I had a nice camera...then you could see what Ive got in there. Got a nice frag of strawberry wines, fire and ice, red PE, and some mystery zoas that are cool lookin. SPS are poppin under the LEDS


Overall Picture of the tank

You can see my Custom King fuge on the pack...adds about 2.5 gallons or so, and has a skimmer...somehow one of my clowns got in there this morning...i have no idea how lol

Closeup, one my clowns gettin in the picture.

Closeup of the SPS, zoas, a shroom...

 

[amatta1989]

looking good, your right the birdsnest does grow quick under those LED's.