11 gallon Nano

[voigtstr]

Heres a tank I've been working on for a while..
in milimeters its 620x180x395 which is 44 litres or 11 gallons.
I made the tank myself to go on a mantlepiece, but then we moved so its on a side table now.

I'm waiting on some waterproof endcaps to arrive, and then I'll be building a hood hopefully to match the table that the tank is on.. the hood will house two 2 foot T5 lights.. one 10000k and the other 20000k

Once the lighting and hood are done, I'll be shopping for live rock.

 

[kingtoad]

That's a lot of sand!

 

[rodgod20]

yeah buddy...ton of it!

 

[voigtstr]

yep! lets call it a "deep sand bed"

 

[voigtstr]

So are Deep Sand Beds common in Nanos? (around the 10 gallon range)

I figured that since I was going skimmerless I would go for as much surface area for bacteria as possible. I'm not sure how much live rock I'll be getting yet, and I'll wait till I build the lighting rig/hood before getting it incase I score some hitchhiker corals (its a possibility with Australian Live Rock).

Anyone else done the deep sand bed thing? I figure as well as harbouring a lot of life it will also place corals closer to the lighting