Nano sapiens
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I've been perusing and posting on RC for quite a while now and at the 5 year mark for my tank I guess it's high-time to create a tank thread 
Without further ado, here's the tank as it is today:
...and what it looked like setup for about a month or two back in 2008:
The tank itself is a Cadlights 12g AIO I bought new five years ago. The live rock, live sand and some of the mushrooms came from a previous 50g I had running for nearly 10 years.
This tank's setup is quite basic. It consists of the stock 250 gph return pump with a Hydor oscillator, heaters and a thermometer in the rear chambers with live rock and live sand in the display area. There are no chemical or mechanical filtration methods used. Lighting is provided by (6) mixed Ecoxotic Stunner Strips (with individual reflectors) and a DIY 'Full Spectrum' LED strip I put together. I fitted Stunners into the existing Cadlights canopy when the stock T5 ballasts gave out around the 4th year mark and the DIY LED strip a few months ago. I have a pair of 'Pet Bottle' gravity fed ATOs that are used to deliver top-off/Kalkwasser.
Water changes are 5%, 2x/wk (10% total/wk). A few drops of Iodine once a week is the only additive administered besides the Kalkwasser. I feed the two resident Clownfish 3-4x/day (pellets, flake, frozen Mysis, Rods food) and the corals once a week with a cocktail of Rod Food, Baby Brine Shrimp and frozen Mysis). Corals include SPS (Acroporas, Milleporas, Pavonas), LPS (Acanthastrea, Lobophyllia, Leptastrea, Blastomussa), Ricordia Mushrooms and various Zoanthids.
Without further ado, here's the tank as it is today:
...and what it looked like setup for about a month or two back in 2008:
The tank itself is a Cadlights 12g AIO I bought new five years ago. The live rock, live sand and some of the mushrooms came from a previous 50g I had running for nearly 10 years.
This tank's setup is quite basic. It consists of the stock 250 gph return pump with a Hydor oscillator, heaters and a thermometer in the rear chambers with live rock and live sand in the display area. There are no chemical or mechanical filtration methods used. Lighting is provided by (6) mixed Ecoxotic Stunner Strips (with individual reflectors) and a DIY 'Full Spectrum' LED strip I put together. I fitted Stunners into the existing Cadlights canopy when the stock T5 ballasts gave out around the 4th year mark and the DIY LED strip a few months ago. I have a pair of 'Pet Bottle' gravity fed ATOs that are used to deliver top-off/Kalkwasser.
Water changes are 5%, 2x/wk (10% total/wk). A few drops of Iodine once a week is the only additive administered besides the Kalkwasser. I feed the two resident Clownfish 3-4x/day (pellets, flake, frozen Mysis, Rods food) and the corals once a week with a cocktail of Rod Food, Baby Brine Shrimp and frozen Mysis). Corals include SPS (Acroporas, Milleporas, Pavonas), LPS (Acanthastrea, Lobophyllia, Leptastrea, Blastomussa), Ricordia Mushrooms and various Zoanthids.
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