Three nano tanks at work
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Middleton5
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Well, I have some older ones of when the tank was new. I need to get a camera to work and update them. I will post them (perhaps, if I can figure it out) when I get them.
Jeri
Jeri
yeah, the cad light tanks are beautiful. the built in filtration and pump are really nice and the flow is way overkill. with a hydor on high it easily blows water out of the tank. I was a little bummed that the glass was chipped and the backing was cut too small and put on poorly, but when I plugged it in I forgot all about it.
I bought another frag on friday. It's a light green pipe organ, which I had never seen before. I read online that they are hard to keep, but for $5 it was worth a shot. when i got it in my tank i noticed it had some bright yellow zoo's and some green ones. it also had some kind of tunicate (sp?). I dont have any idea what it is, but I've heard you have to feed it plankton daily, so it will probably die soon. so for $5 I think I got a pretty good deal. I'll try to post some pics this week. if anyone knows anything about pipe organs or tunicates (sp?) I'd appreciate the information.
Josh
I bought another frag on friday. It's a light green pipe organ, which I had never seen before. I read online that they are hard to keep, but for $5 it was worth a shot. when i got it in my tank i noticed it had some bright yellow zoo's and some green ones. it also had some kind of tunicate (sp?). I dont have any idea what it is, but I've heard you have to feed it plankton daily, so it will probably die soon. so for $5 I think I got a pretty good deal. I'll try to post some pics this week. if anyone knows anything about pipe organs or tunicates (sp?) I'd appreciate the information.
Josh
So it's true what they say... the only thing that comes quick in reef keeping is failure. It's been a while since we last posted, but the tanks are all doing well. I have 8 different corals in my tank now. There are some green clove polyps, an orange cap montipora, some green pipe organ polyps, pom pom pulsing xenia, recordia, an acro of some sort, and two different color zoas. Everything seems to be going really good. I took some pictures of the corals up close, but they're not on this laptop, so I'll have to wait and post them later, but this is an overall shot of the entire tank at this point.
Josh
I'm happy to report that even though this thread has died down, the tanks haven't. All three of us still have our tanks up and they're all doing pretty good. I've finally decided that I would like my tank better with white sand as opposed to the OBX sand, and that I need less live rock. So I'm going to take everything apart in the next month or so and redo the tank. I'll try to post some pictures before and after. I'll let James and Pete post and tell you about their tanks. They are both getting ready for upgrades though! I'll try to encourage them to post some pics as well. Maybe we can get this thread back to life. I've taken some pics recently and just haven't posted them. I'll try to find them in the next couple of days and post.
As you can see in the previous pictures of my tank, I had way too much rock and the yellow/orange sand from the OBX wasn't really looking that great. I decided to abandon ship and pull out some rock and get some white sand. The new sand makes the tank look a lot brighter. Also, James pointed out that if I don't take advantage of the corners beside my overflow then I have the same footprint as his 5.5 gallon tank. Between the three of us we thought it looked best if I move the rock to the left corner since no one really looks at the tank from that side. I think the tank looks much better, and once the corals get over the shock, I'm sure I'll like it better than the previous setup. The xenia and GSP faired the toughest. They both are still shriveled and look melted.
I've also added a clown fish since the last post. He's really pretty, but bites me every time I put my hand in the tank. And not just once, but constantly the entire time my hand is in the tank. That's not so fun.
Lastly, I've moved my tank from the front of my desk to right beside me under a cabinet. That way I can do like James and Pete and mount my light from the cabinet instead of using the black PVC pipe stand. I can enjoy the tank a lot better here and I have a place to mount a fan which keeps my tank at 76 instead of the 80 or 81 it was running at. The xenia hates the heat.
Hopefully the other guys can post updates soon as well.
This is what the tank looks like on my desk. (the only reason my desk is clean is because I didn't want things to get wet when I redid everything this weekend)
Full tank shot.
Definitely the coral that's done the best in my tank. This cap has more than doubled in size since I got him.
I've also added a clown fish since the last post. He's really pretty, but bites me every time I put my hand in the tank. And not just once, but constantly the entire time my hand is in the tank. That's not so fun.
Lastly, I've moved my tank from the front of my desk to right beside me under a cabinet. That way I can do like James and Pete and mount my light from the cabinet instead of using the black PVC pipe stand. I can enjoy the tank a lot better here and I have a place to mount a fan which keeps my tank at 76 instead of the 80 or 81 it was running at. The xenia hates the heat.
Hopefully the other guys can post updates soon as well.
This is what the tank looks like on my desk. (the only reason my desk is clean is because I didn't want things to get wet when I redid everything this weekend)
Full tank shot.
Definitely the coral that's done the best in my tank. This cap has more than doubled in size since I got him.
coast2coast7390
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this is cool...im interested in doing something like this
Thanks.
we didn't really ask, but our office is not out in the open and then we have cubicles on top of that. A lot of people have warmly welcomed them and stop by occasionally to see how things are doing. The real people that we were worried about having a problem with them have just ignored them and pretend like they're not there. It's real odd.
we didn't really ask, but our office is not out in the open and then we have cubicles on top of that. A lot of people have warmly welcomed them and stop by occasionally to see how things are doing. The real people that we were worried about having a problem with them have just ignored them and pretend like they're not there. It's real odd.
crazy clown meets his match!
crazy clown meets his match!
I don't believe that I've mentioned how crazy my clown is. Every time I put my hand in the tank, he constantly bites my hand until I remove it. When I got him they said he had been kept in a tank full of damsels. I'd probably be mad too if I had to live with damsels. This morning I was mounting some frags with superglue gel and he was constantly biting my hand the entire time. I put a lot of glue on one piece and as soon as I put it in the water the clown swam up, bit the glue, and then swam away to a corner and didn't move. I thought I'd check on him later once I got the frag mounted, and then I realized it had glued his mouth shut so he couldn't breathe. I then had to pull him out of the tank by hand since we don't have any nets at work, and try to remove the glue. I was able to pull the glue off of his side, gills, and mouth. I then put him back in the tank and he swam to the bottom corner and didn't move. He was breathing now though. I mounted three more frags and he stayed in the corner the entire time. I thought maybe this had fixed him. I just pictured him thinking, "gosh, I won't mess with that guy again. I bit him and he was able to permanently close my mouth somehow" However, upon mounting the fourth frag, there was the clown, back up and biting my hand again. I'm glad to see that things are back to normal.
the picture below is the piece of glue I pulled off of the clown. If I had a higher resolution camera, you'd be able to see that the end of the glue has a semicircle mouth shape in it. crazy stuff.
crazy clown meets his match!
I don't believe that I've mentioned how crazy my clown is. Every time I put my hand in the tank, he constantly bites my hand until I remove it. When I got him they said he had been kept in a tank full of damsels. I'd probably be mad too if I had to live with damsels. This morning I was mounting some frags with superglue gel and he was constantly biting my hand the entire time. I put a lot of glue on one piece and as soon as I put it in the water the clown swam up, bit the glue, and then swam away to a corner and didn't move. I thought I'd check on him later once I got the frag mounted, and then I realized it had glued his mouth shut so he couldn't breathe. I then had to pull him out of the tank by hand since we don't have any nets at work, and try to remove the glue. I was able to pull the glue off of his side, gills, and mouth. I then put him back in the tank and he swam to the bottom corner and didn't move. He was breathing now though. I mounted three more frags and he stayed in the corner the entire time. I thought maybe this had fixed him. I just pictured him thinking, "gosh, I won't mess with that guy again. I bit him and he was able to permanently close my mouth somehow" However, upon mounting the fourth frag, there was the clown, back up and biting my hand again. I'm glad to see that things are back to normal.
the picture below is the piece of glue I pulled off of the clown. If I had a higher resolution camera, you'd be able to see that the end of the glue has a semicircle mouth shape in it. crazy stuff.
thanks! The office is about 72-74 most days. The tank did get a lot hotter than that. I remember when I first set it up I had the light come on at 8, then cut off from 12-2 and then back on from 2-4. During that short 4 hour the temp would go from 77 to 83 or 84. But now that I've added the fan it cools it right down. I have a 120mm case fan for a PC about 12 inches from the tank blowing across the water. That way it not only moves the hot air, but I get some evaporative cooling as well.
I believe Pete is going to be posting some pictures of his tank soon. He had a 10 gallon and yesterday he upgraded to a 15 gallon. It looks really nice. The overflow and refugium area are great. I took some pictures with my camera phone of his tank before, and hopefully we can post those with some new shots of his 15. I'll try to bring in my regular camera tomorrow.
James is probably going to buy Pete's old 10 and then we can put some pictures up of that as well. He's really not happy with his 5.5 gallon tank how it is now. But, hopefully he can upgrade to the 10 and get everything straightened out.
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