My 5 gal nano winter project
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Tank is doing good. Will have more pics of it sometime this week.
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I bent the plastics using a vice and a heat gun.
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It has been over a month since I originally setup my 5.5 gal. I packed it up and took it back to school around Jan 17th. Since then I have gotten several new corals from other hobbyists, Thanks again Brad! It is doing quite well since I put the Current 36w T5HO over it and am getting nice coloration and growth. I have been doing weekly 1 gallon water changes and evap is minimal since I had a glass lid covering most of the top. Here are some more updated pics.
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Its doing good. In the process of cleaning the rock off it slipped and knocked a piece of it off. Other than that it is doing good. Thanks again!
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Here are some updated pictures of the nano. Colors are pretty close to what you actually see in the tank.
Mushrooms
Baby Bubble Coral
Random Zoas taken from colonies and put on this piece of rubble to make more space. Popping out several new heads already
Candy Cane
New Candy Cane from TPP Swap- Kinda pale yellow with neon yellow mouths and powdered flourescent green rim around top of heads. Can see the green better on the head in the back center.
Yellow polyps
Anyone around the wilkesbarre/scranton area have any kryptonite candy cane frags or frags that I dont have pictured, Or have any frogspawn or other LPS? Lemme know if you have anything. Thanks
Mushrooms
Baby Bubble Coral
Random Zoas taken from colonies and put on this piece of rubble to make more space. Popping out several new heads already
Candy Cane
New Candy Cane from TPP Swap- Kinda pale yellow with neon yellow mouths and powdered flourescent green rim around top of heads. Can see the green better on the head in the back center.
Yellow polyps
Anyone around the wilkesbarre/scranton area have any kryptonite candy cane frags or frags that I dont have pictured, Or have any frogspawn or other LPS? Lemme know if you have anything. Thanks
rigleautomotive
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The pet zone has a few of the kriptonite candy canes.
ParanoidObseshn
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I had about half a dozen small tupperware containers to hold my corals and fish and a larger piece of live rock. Layed the rest of the live rock on the sand with 1/3 of the water left in it and then moved it and then set it back up when I had it in its new spot.
Nice tank! I like the overflow/return pump area. I gotta couple questions though;
1) What's the dimensions of the overflow box?
2) Did you put any filter media back there before it goes to the return pump area?
3) What's your lights schedule like?
Thanks in advance for your time!
1) What's the dimensions of the overflow box?
2) Did you put any filter media back there before it goes to the return pump area?
3) What's your lights schedule like?
Thanks in advance for your time!
ParanoidObseshn
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I think the measurements of the overflow box are 5 1/2 inches wide, 3 1/2 deep, and 9 1/2 tall. In the first compartment I have a little container of carbon besides having the macro algae and my lights are on from 10am to 10pm.
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Well its been a month since I last put pictures up of my 5.5 gal. Last week I was on spring break and left my tank at school for 9 days and after coming back everything was still doing perfectly fine. Glad it passed that test.
Here is a picture of my War Paint Clown Goby that is the only resident of my tank, since coming back from break he comes out and sits in the front more often, before he would hide behind all the rock in the back corner of the tank and never saw him.
Also after coming back I found a new superman, green, purple, and ricordea mushroom as the original mushrooms moved and left part of their foot behind. Here is a picture of the ricordea as it has broken off 3 times since I put him in this tank.
While I was home on break I picked up some North Star zoas and before I came back to school I decided to frag them and take a piece to school and leave another piece at my tank at home. While fragging the one zoanthids mat wouldnt cut away completely and when the pieces seperated it ripped the zoanthid right down the center. I fragged it on the 13th and just expected that it would probably die pretty quick. But so far it hasnt shown any signs of melting away. Here are some pictures of the zoanthid I am talking about, it is the one on the front right of the frag.
Seems like it is still doing ok as it is opening and closing fine, just going to keep watching it as time goes on.
I will post more pictures of coral growth in a couple days after I clean the front glass and do a water change.
Here is a picture of my War Paint Clown Goby that is the only resident of my tank, since coming back from break he comes out and sits in the front more often, before he would hide behind all the rock in the back corner of the tank and never saw him.
Also after coming back I found a new superman, green, purple, and ricordea mushroom as the original mushrooms moved and left part of their foot behind. Here is a picture of the ricordea as it has broken off 3 times since I put him in this tank.
While I was home on break I picked up some North Star zoas and before I came back to school I decided to frag them and take a piece to school and leave another piece at my tank at home. While fragging the one zoanthids mat wouldnt cut away completely and when the pieces seperated it ripped the zoanthid right down the center. I fragged it on the 13th and just expected that it would probably die pretty quick. But so far it hasnt shown any signs of melting away. Here are some pictures of the zoanthid I am talking about, it is the one on the front right of the frag.
Seems like it is still doing ok as it is opening and closing fine, just going to keep watching it as time goes on.
I will post more pictures of coral growth in a couple days after I clean the front glass and do a water change.
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Here are some growth shots since last month.
New Mushrooms from the last 2 weeks are shown by the arrows.
Here is a little patch of zoas that I placed onto a piece that broke off my live rock. It started with 4 different zoas that I placed on there. Here is a picture of what it looks like now.
From the 4 to now having about 24 zoanthids with more coming along.
This other patch of green zoas had 9 heads on the rock when I brought it into my tank.
The frag now has about 26 heads and has been growing fairly quickly.
This frag started with 3 heads and now has about 10.
Here is a small bubble coral that has been growing fairly good as well.
New Mushrooms from the last 2 weeks are shown by the arrows.
Here is a little patch of zoas that I placed onto a piece that broke off my live rock. It started with 4 different zoas that I placed on there. Here is a picture of what it looks like now.
From the 4 to now having about 24 zoanthids with more coming along.
This other patch of green zoas had 9 heads on the rock when I brought it into my tank.
The frag now has about 26 heads and has been growing fairly quickly.
This frag started with 3 heads and now has about 10.
Here is a small bubble coral that has been growing fairly good as well.
