AEALOVESHERGIRLS
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Looks awesome RJ, nice to see someone else besides Mary and I adding WAY too much WAY too fast 
New 24g Aquapod Starting Up
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rjwilson37
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Thanks Amanda!
rjwilson37
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Wow, almost 2 weeks since my last post... sorry about that. I re-arranged the nano a little and broke apart the lavender mushroom since it was so big and I think the new aquascape looks much better.
Ok... We.. meaning the GRMAS (Grand Rapids Marine Aquarium Society) had our first annual swap meet and it was a great success. The turn out was big, we sold over 800 raffle tickets for a bunch of prizes like a 4-5" crocea clam, some Acan Lords, a 4-5" Tri-Color Acro with multiple branches and a bunch of other stuff. I sold some stuff and bought a few things and one of the things I sold, was some of my pink zoa's from the 90g. I took the best frag from my medium piece in the 90g and sold the other 3, so I moved that nice pink zoa in my Nano. I also got another zoa and a moon polyp for the nano.
Here are some pictures, I had to much glare for the full tank picture, I will get that later this afternoon, but here are some pictures to wet your apetite.
Ok... We.. meaning the GRMAS (Grand Rapids Marine Aquarium Society) had our first annual swap meet and it was a great success. The turn out was big, we sold over 800 raffle tickets for a bunch of prizes like a 4-5" crocea clam, some Acan Lords, a 4-5" Tri-Color Acro with multiple branches and a bunch of other stuff. I sold some stuff and bought a few things and one of the things I sold, was some of my pink zoa's from the 90g. I took the best frag from my medium piece in the 90g and sold the other 3, so I moved that nice pink zoa in my Nano. I also got another zoa and a moon polyp for the nano.
Here are some pictures, I had to much glare for the full tank picture, I will get that later this afternoon, but here are some pictures to wet your apetite.
rjwilson37
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This is not a great shot, but hopefully when the glare goes away later this afternoon I will get some better pictures. My little maroon clown using the big zoa colony on the left side for it's host, which you can see in this picture.
rjwilson37
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I didn't have to wait until mid afternoon to take a couple more pictures, here you go.
ga_reefer_guy
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Hey, rj what kind of skimmer are you running on your nano?
rjwilson37
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No Skimmer at all, just 4g weekly water changes and rinsing out the sponges in the back. I don't want to kill any benificial bacteria that might be on the sponges, but I do get a lot of crud out of them when I rinse them thoughly with the water that comes out of the tank at the water change time.
dmazz_63
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Hey RJ and the other nano-er's here. I'm considering breaking my 29 gal AGA down and putting everything into one of these self enclosed cubes like yours. There's just too many wires on my desk the way it's set-up. Is it easy to hide all the wires and what is the weekly maintenance like?
Thanks, Dave.
Thanks, Dave.
rjwilson37
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The Maintenance is very simple, just the weekly water change and since my LR is away from the sides and front, it is a snap to clean the glass. I does some Araga Milk 1-2 times a week with just a little squirt and I am just doing hardy fish and hardy type corals. If for some reason the nitrates get out of hand it is a snap to do a couple big water changes, but the nitrates are not bad at all, even with this high bioload.
Who really knows for the long run though of how well this little setup is going to do, I will let you know in 8-10 months if it is still a snap to take care of.
Here are a couple pictures from today.
The Clown is like, get away from my home there home boy!
dmazz_63
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Nice pics RJ. Is your substrate aragonite sand? It looks alot whiter than what's available here. The petsmart here carries the sugar sized .5 - 1.0 mm and it's more a pinkish brown almost like play sand. Yours seems a little coarser and whiter (and cleaner!) than the crushed coral I used.
rjwilson37
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Yes, it is the argonite sand and the sand I purchased for this tank has a little bit bigger pieces than I used for my 90g. I wanted the bigger pieces for this tank, just something a little different that I think looks nice.
You can see here that yes, there are some electrical cords showing that is driving my wife crazy. I may make a little oak staind box to go over them and cover them from sight.
My Eel could care less about any of the fish in the tank.
You can see here that yes, there are some electrical cords showing that is driving my wife crazy. I may make a little oak staind box to go over them and cover them from sight.
My Eel could care less about any of the fish in the tank.
rjwilson37
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Here is the 5th day of spring in West Michigan, it snowed last night so it is not much of a spring for flying kites yet.
nc2tarheels
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sweet looking tank man!
rjwilson37
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Thanks you two, things are going well it seems.
rjwilson37
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I sort of feel the same way, but he seems very content in there and spends most of his time back in the rock work anyway. He comes out for about 3 hours a day which is before, during and after meal time in the evening for the most part. I am sure he comes out in the evening looking for a way out, as they are escape artists and if there is a way out, they typically find it, but there is no way out.
rjwilson37
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Here is a link to my new thread, I just want to have one thread for both tanks, it makes it easier and you can see the progression of both tanks since sometimes things will be traded between them.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=809475
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=809475
