custom nano, self build back wall/ pendant

[robcampman]

i've been working all night on a pendant and back wall. working the acrylics went very good so i decided to do it all at one time.. here is all the hard labour in a nutshell.. Feel free to flame at the pendant, i know it looks like sh**t but it'l do the job.

The 2 rgb-led color bars (27 flux leds each) can be controlled in all the colours of the rainbow.

 

[Rosseau]

Cool.

How big is the tank?

Where did you get the LED's?

The pendant looks fine.

 

[robcampman]

thanks, the leds i got from the ledsee store at ebay.

the tank is about 20 gallon/ 85 liters.

Thanks for the compliment on my pendant!!. it's only 66 watts so thats a little bit disappointing.. I could use my 150 watt 10K MH on this tank but am afraid it's too much light..

 

[Rosseau]

Meh, it wouldn't be too much light. I guess it depends what you want to keep. The only problem with the MH is the heat really.

Quite a few people around here have 150W MH over 10G, sometimes less.

Looks good though, any plans for livestock?

 

[robcampman]

i wan't a lot of corals, softies.. and later on a pair of amphiprions with an anemone.

This tank is very low budget build, i don't want to spend too much money on livestock. I will just look at the classifieds on the local sites here in Holland until i find a fish/invertibrate/coral that suits my tank.

however i'm planning on buying a-grade live-rock, cured by the LFS so the nitrate excess happens over there.

the fish will have to wait a couple of month's.

when i have my paycheck at the end of the month i'll buy 2 more 36 watts pc lightings to put in the pendant, ending up with 108 watts of lighting. that'll do the trick...

 

[robcampman]

the leak test..

the sump seems to leak a little, but i think it's okay because its a minimal.

 

[mangus7175]

Pendant looks great and what kind of skimmer is that? That's what I need for my 10G fuge....

 

[robcampman]

the skimmer is called a sander piccolo, german skimmer builder here in europe.

it's basically a airstone in a bottle, with a good airpump connected to it. water goes in a the top and is pusht out at the bottom with an airlift principle.

they work pretty good, and easily build with a small soda bottle. The wooden airtones should be replaced every month, so i have a box full of them.. a dollar/euro per airstone..

 

[mangus7175]

Sweet! Thanks for the info and looking forward to more updates on this build.