29 gallon NANO build

[mindytoy]

hi guys, decided to start a small process thread. i sold my 90 gallon wave like 6 months ago, and said i wont get into it again until i get my own house then id want a 500plus in wall. for now were renting so i decided to go with a small nano. why not? so thanx to Ben i got a great deal on a 29 gallon bio cube with a tunzee skimmer, koralia, and upgraded LED hood. he gave me the LR a royal gramma, some cuc, and water, as well as 3 frags of zoas and a rock with nice green mushrooms! set it up was a breeze. its been running for about a week. heres a list of other stuff ive boughten for it at sea creatures (thanx jimmy) also ordered some fish and corals from him just waiting for them to come in.
Anemone
Candy Canes
Reef starfish idk what it is tho
Pair of clowns
10lbs of sand

cant wait to get the goby, and other fish and corals. want a colorfull tank. heres some few piks taken from my phone

 

[puffin04]

Looks to be a Red Tile starfish, "Fromia." They are very much reef safe but in a tank that small will surely starve to death and die. They are predicted to eat micro fauna which is found in well establish tanks. I have heard rumors that they will accept meaty foods but still skeptical about that. Thanks

 

[mindytoy]

any sugestions for a small chiller and temp/timmer controller? is this chiller too smal?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IceProbe-Mi...745?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43a8a333c9

 

[pnavarro170]

try it see if it works. And how many watts are the leds ? what needed to be fixed on those.

 

[mindytoy]

It has 3 strips of leds and the middle one is out this is w onpy 2 on

 

[benjabba]

It looks really good. It has to be something simple on the LED's as they were working. I checked the hood and everything is connected properly. My best guess is there is something loose in the ballast/driver box.

 

[mindytoy]

Hey ben can i have some info on the leds buddy like watts? Abd have u seen a chiller that would work with it? I remember you suggesting a controller too..

 

[mindytoy]

Just added a elephant ear coral
a mandarin dragonet
and a purple firefish
i bought a small $25 bottle of copepods and threw half in the rear mini fuge with algea and hope they feed him. Hes tiny too. Damn food was more expensive than the mandarin lol

 

[pnavarro170]

hows it all going ?

 

[mindytoy]

Its going good...i bought the second bulb on the stock hood it only had the daylight one i bought the actinic looks way better. I bought aome radioactive zoas..some eagle eye zoas...some purple death zoas...some armor of god zoas...hammers..frogspawn...a big hairy mushroom...some hermits..and some rods food from puffin. And he has my led fixture hopefully he lets me know soon. Also my starfish died it sucks.

 

[pnavarro170]

nice starfish are tempting but i also havent had success with them. Well hopefully he can do something about the light, but if not the AI nano would be PERFECT. I love the thing.

 

[pnavarro170]

any updates ? did you get the light fixed ?

 

[puffin04]

So i have mindytoy hood and i fear the worst. I can not figure out what drivers he has because they are made in china and do not have any type of listing on them. Even Rapid LED are confused on this one. Also there is no telling how many led's you can use without hooking a string to them. I will post pictures of them soon. Thanks

Steffen Sparks

 

[pnavarro170]

well screw that, just get the ai nano, its awesome !!

 

[pnavarro170]

so no updates ?

 

[mindytoy]

Gonna post new pics got a sailfin tang lol water is doing good now just need leds

 

[pnavarro170]

sweet, update what you can thanks.

 

[mindytoy]

i wouldnt call it an update since some corals died. but i did add an awesome tiny sailfin tang the size of a quarter, the royal gramma picks on it a bit, im thinking of a goby and a tiny niger trigger til i upgrade. i move in a year and if i have my own house ill be going big, atleast a 500+ in wall for sure, with lots of tangs maybe sharks, id have a budget of maybe $6-$8,000 im sure i could get it done, id need some of your guys's help for sure. anyways heres some pics.

i dont know what the mandarin eats it looks healthy i dont see any pods either

how lame PCS look

 

[mindytoy]

notice algea, and aptasia...

 

[pnavarro170]

ill sell ya my large lawnmower blenny for $15