Spartanman22
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I just couldn't manage to stay away from the hobby so I made the decision to setup a small desktop nano in my dorm room.
It should hopefully hold me over until I can finally have a decent sized tank again, and it gives me an excuse to use some
of the fancy shmancy equipment I've been collecting :spin2:
The tank is a 5 gallon glass tank (13.5"x8.5"x10") with rounded corners running the following equipment:
MP10w ES
Reef Keeper Elite with Net
Stealth 200 watt heater
Small HOB filter for carbon and maybe GFO down the road
36w PAR38 20K from coral compulsion (this things pretty awesome!)
ATO float switch run through RKE
I plan to hook up a two-head dosing pump once my demands for calcium and alkalinity pick up.
The tank was setup last Tuesday (1-1-13), and is one week old today. The tank has maybe 10-15 lbs of rock in it, and is
barebottom. I wanted to keep a minimalistic look for this tank and think my aquascape came out pretty nicely. I normally
am not a fan of barebottom, but I plan on keeping mostly SPS and Zoa/Palys and didn't want a sandstorm with the MP10.
So far the barebottom is growing on me. I just finished running the first set of parameter tests. I still need to pickup a
nitrite test, but so far my parameters are as follows:
Ammonia: <0.25 (Salifert)
Nitrate: 15 mg/L (Salifert)
pH: 8.2 (Seachem)
Alkalinity 5 meq/L (Seachem)
Calcium: 450 ppm (Salifert)
Magnesium: 1450 ppm (Salifert)
Phosphate: 0.015 mg/L (Seachem)
My plan is to post weekly photo updates every week, if not more frequently, in order to document the tanks growth. Now
onto the pictures! Unfortunately my iPad doesn't take the best pictures but enjoy!
What my initial plan is for the sole fishy inhabitant
It should hopefully hold me over until I can finally have a decent sized tank again, and it gives me an excuse to use some
of the fancy shmancy equipment I've been collecting :spin2:
The tank is a 5 gallon glass tank (13.5"x8.5"x10") with rounded corners running the following equipment:
MP10w ES
Reef Keeper Elite with Net
Stealth 200 watt heater
Small HOB filter for carbon and maybe GFO down the road
36w PAR38 20K from coral compulsion (this things pretty awesome!)
ATO float switch run through RKE
I plan to hook up a two-head dosing pump once my demands for calcium and alkalinity pick up.
The tank was setup last Tuesday (1-1-13), and is one week old today. The tank has maybe 10-15 lbs of rock in it, and is
barebottom. I wanted to keep a minimalistic look for this tank and think my aquascape came out pretty nicely. I normally
am not a fan of barebottom, but I plan on keeping mostly SPS and Zoa/Palys and didn't want a sandstorm with the MP10.
So far the barebottom is growing on me. I just finished running the first set of parameter tests. I still need to pickup a
nitrite test, but so far my parameters are as follows:
Ammonia: <0.25 (Salifert)
Nitrate: 15 mg/L (Salifert)
pH: 8.2 (Seachem)
Alkalinity 5 meq/L (Seachem)
Calcium: 450 ppm (Salifert)
Magnesium: 1450 ppm (Salifert)
Phosphate: 0.015 mg/L (Seachem)
My plan is to post weekly photo updates every week, if not more frequently, in order to document the tanks growth. Now
onto the pictures! Unfortunately my iPad doesn't take the best pictures but enjoy!
What my initial plan is for the sole fishy inhabitant
