10 Gallon Nano

Well since I have a job its my time to start showing how terrible a tank can possibly be. This time around: A 10 gallon with a freshly painted (as in today) black back. Iv been toying around with how im going to scape it and this is what I came up with. I need to get some paint off the sides from where the wind was blowing and I was too hard headed to cover the entire side. I know its a link but with my internet it takes me about an hour to upload 5 pictures onto the forum so I just put them on photobucket.

https://s938.photobucket.com/albums/ad230/A_cedia/10%20Gallon%20Nano/

PS...Yes the walls ARE pink...No they wont be for long...

no workie

need to be friends to see album.

photobucket

Rodger that give me a minute

There we go

https://s938.photobucket.com/albums/ad230/A_cedia/10%20Gallon%20Nano/

Works!

What do you want to put in it? octopus? lol

is that live rock or just rock at this point?

Just rock at this point. 36 hours in bleach im fairly sure it aint doing anything.

I actually havent decided what I want to put in it yet...I figure il give that a few months and let it get set up and cycled.


Okay heres a pic of my lighting set up so far. Nothing fancy but basically im going to run 4 26W 6500k CFL's and a 13W blue party cfl in the middle. I left room for changing it to 2 13W blue's if 1 isnt enough for the actinic look. I can also of course change bulb size etc.

Aquascaping looks nice. Just make sure you get flow going behind those rocks .

I have a Koralia 1 my skimmer and 2 Azoo 1200's at my disposal. Im sure il have enough flow

Well boys. Just finished wiring and testing the light. All I have to do is paint the outside black and hide the wiring a little bit and im ready for water. Uploading pics on the photobucket link now.

I like the scape, but I would push the rock structure up against the back of the tank. Also, I would epoxy the rocks together for added stability.

I have painted a couple of tank backs black. Masking tape and newspaper helps me keep the paint where I want it.

Are you planning to add reflectors for your CFLs? Might boost your PAR if you can find some that will fit - maybe at HD or Lowes"?

Actually flat white paint is 99+ percent reflective so I just painted the inside. Also added another rock to the scape. I would push the rocks back but I like the interaction the fish can have with it like this. Plus they're hiding my skimmer behind them. I need to find me a PC fan or 2 so I can get some ventilation on it. Thats my next step.

Just put tap water in it for a leak/flow check. Im going to let it run for awhile and make sure everythings rinsed good from cleaning and il just empty it and re fill it every day or 2 and make sure its going to hold together. Pictures on the photobucket link already up and im running approx 800 GPH turnover at 12w/gallon

Bluntokian wrote:... il just empty it and re fill it every day or 2 and make sure its going to hold together.

why empty and refill?

Scrubbed the crap out of everything after a 36 hours soak in bleach. I want to make sure its all gone.

Better safe than sorry.

Draining it for final refill now. This time around its getting salt and substrate. Im going with CaribSea's "Florida Crushed Coral". Looks like some promising stuff.

""Florida Crushed Coral"" doesn't sound very temperate! lol.

Im not doing temperate...Or was I supposed to be? Sorry my fax machine isnt hooked up so...

my bad. I just assumed that was what was going on.

Wait.... what not? hehehe

Lol wasnt trying to be mean man but I been working 9 hour days every day theres work (even saturday) and I cant even get something for my tank without having to give them just as much as I spend in stuff for the tank for gas...Not trying to vent on anyone or anything sorry. Anyway I got salt water in it and 10 pounds of substrate in. Waiting on the water to clear now I think im going to add more. Im really loving the look of the rubble on the big rock. Its creating a lot of nice caves.

What will be living in those caves?

Im not entirely sure yet. I think im going to do either a goby/soft coral tank or a goby/sps tank. I was a little...We'll say asleep when I made my stocking list so I need to go back over it today. Still need to add a little more rubble to the tank. Im loving the way it looks though.

Just added my seed rock to the tank. Fintastic cant sell in parts of a pound so I had to pay $4 for 2 oz of rock. Glad they didnt want to charge for the whole pound though. That was $16 "Display" rock. S@%# imo...

Just found my test kits (I know I should have already had them but I thought id find them quicker) testing the tap and the tank now. We have well water so hopefully everything will be okay. btw has anyone else been having problems with the site? I had to come in through forumotion instead of temperatereef.forumotion.com

Heres test results.


Tap: Ammonia: 0 ppm
Ph: 7.8
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 0 ppm

Tank: SG: 1.023
Ammonia: 0.5
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: Aprrox 2.5
PH: 8.4

Hopefully itll finish cycling within the next week. My room stinks from the diatom nuke...Apparently I didnt get the rocks cleaned off good enough but at least it dosent seem like anything that will affect it long term.