The beginning of the 60gal "Super Nano"
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Coralfreak
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Alright, you got me, you'd be surprised what you can do with a roll of heavy duty aluminum foil :spin1:
So that's what you did eh? You molded your old Lumenarcs and sold them to Jerry. Now you have a replica of it. Nice! 
Aluminum foil? Please share....
Seriously though, your nano is pretty darn cool. I can't believe all the Deltec goodies you bought for that thing in the past two weeks! Plus you have tons of flow from the nanostreams. Looks good!
Aluminum foil? Please share....Seriously though, your nano is pretty darn cool. I can't believe all the Deltec goodies you bought for that thing in the past two weeks! Plus you have tons of flow from the nanostreams. Looks good!
Coralfreak
Premium Member
Yeah, now if I can find the time to get it all hooked up.
Thanks for the tip on the Nanostream mod, that little thing is crankin the flow now. I will probably go ahead and mod the other two I have. That will give me one 6045 and three modded 6025's.
Double-J
Premium Member
Hey- When I asked if I could join your elite GIRS nano club with that tank you said the tank was too big... So I went out and got a 11g tank so I could be cool
and after all that you consider his 60g a nano....:blown:well I don't want to be part of your cool guy club anyways... 11g nano FS :rollface:
Coralfreak
Premium Member
He's right ya know :rollface:
Coralfreak
Premium Member
You two really should get some help
The lights will be a while, still waiting on the Icecap ballast for them. I did manage to get the calcium reactor up and going today, still have a lot to do with arranging things, but I really wanted to get this online. Its a Deltec PF509 and unlike the larger Deltecs, does not have a place for a pH probe, in all reality you probably dont need it, but I wanted to have one, so I made this handy dandy pH probe holder:
It simply goes into the effluent line of the reactor and seems to be working very well, much easier than drilling a hole into the reactor. Still working on fine tuning it and I obviously didnt rinse the media well enough as its still very cloudy inside the reactor, but heres a pic of it:
The lights will be a while, still waiting on the Icecap ballast for them. I did manage to get the calcium reactor up and going today, still have a lot to do with arranging things, but I really wanted to get this online. Its a Deltec PF509 and unlike the larger Deltecs, does not have a place for a pH probe, in all reality you probably dont need it, but I wanted to have one, so I made this handy dandy pH probe holder:
It simply goes into the effluent line of the reactor and seems to be working very well, much easier than drilling a hole into the reactor. Still working on fine tuning it and I obviously didnt rinse the media well enough as its still very cloudy inside the reactor, but heres a pic of it:
I don't need no stinkin' help! :lol:
Nice mod for the probe holder. It should be easy to pitch the probe when it gets old and just buy a new union for it if you don't want to dig out the silicone.
The reactor I had was always cloudy for me even though I rinsed out the Rowalith C+ I don't know how many times. Yours look good to me.
Nice mod for the probe holder. It should be easy to pitch the probe when it gets old and just buy a new union for it if you don't want to dig out the silicone.
The reactor I had was always cloudy for me even though I rinsed out the Rowalith C+ I don't know how many times. Yours look good to me.
Jojoyojimbi
New member
i don't know what thing does, but it's so cool looking i want one
jk, i know what the calcium reactor does
jk, i know what the calcium reactor does
Coralfreak
Premium Member
Actually have lots of updates for this, but right now I am building the lighting system, so I figured I would throw up a pic. I will using 2 x 24" T5 Actinics powered by an Icecap 660 which pushes them to around 40W each. In the center will be the Lumenarc Stealth reflector with a 250W DE 10K AB lamp on an Icecap MH ballast.
overanalyzer
New member
daaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnng that's some light!!
OBTW - you do realize 60 gallons tends to be a bit larger than your average nano tank...... of course any tank we have is a nano is true comparison!
OBTW - you do realize 60 gallons tends to be a bit larger than your average nano tank...... of course any tank we have is a nano is true comparison!
waverz
Slave to the reef!
Hey allen instead of siliconing that probe in you can get electrical wire fittings that are used to run wires through walls and be water tight, basically they are just a big compression fittings. Thats what i used for my DIY probe holder. The silicone seems to work just fine though.
