Boudster's Custom 10.4 Gallon Quad-chamber Nano Thread
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incysor
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bennerkla said:
My coralife piccolo knockoff does a great job of pulling nasty looking/smelling skimmate out of my 10g. It's about 8" tall.
But you're absolutely correct that if I had space for a 16" tall one that it would do a better job. I'm certainly not going to argue that point. But saying that a mini skimmer won't do much isn't accurate in my experience.
Microbubbles don't hurt anything. People don't like them for aesthetic reasons, although, I've never understood peoples drive to keep all the bubbles out of the display. If you go diving anywhere on a reef, there are tons of bubbles and stuff floating around, so to me bubbles seem realistic. I've never heard of anything being harmed by bubbles.
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boudster
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As a testimony to the importance of getting good advice before planning a setup on your own, along with a testimony to the value of ReefCentral, here is the evolution of the tank plan over the past week (for those who haven't followed this from the start)
Plan #1
Plan #2
Current Plan
Plan #1
Plan #2
Current Plan
incysor
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Hi there,
I'm Incysor's wife, and I have a solution for your canopy finish issue. There are some pretty cool metal laminates out these days, for example:
http://www.alsacorp.com/laminates.htm
http://www.formica.com/grades.jsp?chip_id=5
This was a result of a cursory google search for stainless laminate. There are peel and stick metal sheets available, and you can probably hunt around & find one that is the right finish & price for what you want.
Feel free to ask about whatever other finish products you might need, I can prolly track it down.
Good luck!
Shannen
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boudster said:
Hi there,
I'm Incysor's wife, and I have a solution for your canopy finish issue. There are some pretty cool metal laminates out these days, for example:
http://www.alsacorp.com/laminates.htm
http://www.formica.com/grades.jsp?chip_id=5
This was a result of a cursory google search for stainless laminate. There are peel and stick metal sheets available, and you can probably hunt around & find one that is the right finish & price for what you want.
Feel free to ask about whatever other finish products you might need, I can prolly track it down.
Good luck!
Shannen
incysor
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http://www.tmc-ltd.co.uk/aquarium/sander-skimmers.asp
http://www.qualitymarineusa.com/drygoods/skimmers.html
http://www.aqua-sander.de/produkte/piccolo.en.html
http://www.pet-supermarket.co.uk/er...&lr=&q=piccolo%2C+skimmer%2C+%24*&btnG=Search
Here's a pic of one.
http://www.kolumbus.fi/martin.lindstrom/piccolo.jpg
I can't remember if I bought this one from bigalsonline, (they don't have them anymore), ebay, or nano-reef.com. They come up on ebay and n-r fairly often.
If you don't want to wait, you could try this. The small lees counter current skimmer is a slightly better model, but it's a bit taller, but cutting it shouldn't be too difficult.
http://66.98.194.185/forums/showthread.php?postid=118017
Sorry I wasn't able to find an easier solution.
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http://www.qualitymarineusa.com/drygoods/skimmers.html
http://www.aqua-sander.de/produkte/piccolo.en.html
http://www.pet-supermarket.co.uk/er...&lr=&q=piccolo%2C+skimmer%2C+%24*&btnG=Search
Here's a pic of one.
http://www.kolumbus.fi/martin.lindstrom/piccolo.jpg
I can't remember if I bought this one from bigalsonline, (they don't have them anymore), ebay, or nano-reef.com. They come up on ebay and n-r fairly often.
If you don't want to wait, you could try this. The small lees counter current skimmer is a slightly better model, but it's a bit taller, but cutting it shouldn't be too difficult.
http://66.98.194.185/forums/showthread.php?postid=118017
Sorry I wasn't able to find an easier solution.
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boudster
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Well, work on the nano tank has begun!....pics to come soon. Tedu stoped by the other day and brought me a tiny little skimmer to try out, so if it fits I will probably use it.....and it was free! Can't beat free 
, Thanks Ted!!
My wife has been out of town during this whole process of starting up the nano, so needless to say when I told here about it yesterday it was an interesting conversation :lol:
She's cool with it though.....each of us get an "allowance" to spend on whatever we want each month....so as long as I use that money instead of our grocery money she doesn't get mad :lol:
, Thanks Ted!!My wife has been out of town during this whole process of starting up the nano, so needless to say when I told here about it yesterday it was an interesting conversation :lol:
She's cool with it though.....each of us get an "allowance" to spend on whatever we want each month....so as long as I use that money instead of our grocery money she doesn't get mad :lol:
boudster
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And here are the very first pics of the tank.....still in the assembly process:
(Pics compliments of Nick's Acrylic Reef)...Thanks Nick!
Pile of acrylic!
One of the chamber walls
overflow control
Other side of overflow control
full view Seahorse chamber divider with overflow control
Back wall with overflow control
Other side of back wall with overflow control
It's nice to see this work in progress....looking forward to getting the whole thing assembled!
(Pics compliments of Nick's Acrylic Reef)...Thanks Nick!
Pile of acrylic!
One of the chamber walls
overflow control
Other side of overflow control
full view Seahorse chamber divider with overflow control
Back wall with overflow control
Other side of back wall with overflow control
It's nice to see this work in progress....looking forward to getting the whole thing assembled!
