24 Cube @ work?? Possible?

[Haggisman14]

Hello everyone. I've been in the hobby for about 3 years, and currently have a 50 gallon tank. I've been in my current office now for about a year, and finally asked my boss if i could set up a fish tank here...and thankfully he said yes. Here's my question.

How doable is it to have a saltwater tank in my office? I will not have access to the office on the weekends, so i'm kind of scared as to how the tank will do over a weekend stint. I'm thinking of picking up the 12 or 24 nano cube, probably with the deluxe hood. I'm thinking it would probably be a tank housing 2 clowns, maybe some gobies, I would also like to get some shrimp in there...maybe some sexies.

Corals for the tank might be one or two sps, but I think i would keep it to some zoo's, and softies. I would definitely stay far far faaaaaaaaaaaaar away from xenia, as i have that in my main tank and it's a weed...would want to worry abou tthat in a small tank.

Let me know how many of you guys have office tanks, and how smoothly they operate.

Thanks in advance.

Marc

 

[mr pink floyd]

they make feeders than run on timers, for liquids and solid and flake and stuff, maybe get light timers and one of those, and your set!

 

[Steve Gordon]

I already have this going. Mine is just a standard 10g on my desk, with another standard 10g sump in the footwell of my desk. I have another desk, so I don't use that footwell anyway. I built my own overflow out of 1" pvc pipe. I built my own auto topoff from a float switch, an air pump, and a 1 gallon water jug. The fish and corals are always fine over weekends as long as your topoff hold out. I've been gone for as long as a week without adverse effects, I just add more water jugs inline for the auto topoff. My lights are on individual timers. All of my plumbing between the tanks is flexible, so I can move everything if I have to move offices (like next month when we're getting new furniture).

My biggest problem is getting RO/DI water in my office. My company doesn't provide bottled water, just drinking fountains with minimal filtering. I actually have to lug 10 1 gallon water bottles to the nearest supermarket and fill them up. Of course, I don't have to do 10 at once, but my tank uses around 2/3 of a gallon in topoff per day, so 10 lasts me around 2 weeks.