Updated Photos of 2 Gallon Cube
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ninjafish
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Thanks Skip. Here is a photo of my 13w 50/50 pc:
Lightining is the limiting factor right now. When I move this tank home from the office I will build a hood with 4 of these, or maybe 4 t5's, or maybe a 70w mh (if I can find one in the right spectrum)....
Lunchbucket, what's your opinion on having a ton of light over a little nano?
- Chad
Lightining is the limiting factor right now. When I move this tank home from the office I will build a hood with 4 of these, or maybe 4 t5's, or maybe a 70w mh (if I can find one in the right spectrum)....
Lunchbucket, what's your opinion on having a ton of light over a little nano?
- Chad
LobsterOfJustice
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flycut said:
Cause there's not too much to take pictures of :lol:
mightymouse
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this tank is amazing i can only hop eto get my new 2.5 to look like that i like the lr in the center so u have somehtin to look at from all angles
ninjafish
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LobsterOfJustice said:
Haha, that's the truth, I feel like I've already shot everything that there is to shoot (cool username by the way).
Here is a couple pics of the blenny - every time I took out the camera, the little bugger would dart back into his cave and peek out at me.
As I said before, this fish is perfect for this tank. He struts around his 2gal world like he owns the place
.- Chad
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tekknoschtev
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Just so you know, I am perpetually amazed by this tank, and many nano cubes. If I didnt have so many tanks going (fresh and salt) as is right now, I'd build one for my dorm room, but I dont think my parents would like that very much. I am going to build a tank similar to yours, but it probably wont be set up for a while.
Awesome tank. Just a question though, from a newbie, but don't the bicolor blennies get too large for that size of tank? The resources I have read say they need 30gal+, but thats just what I have read, not what I have experienced, so dont take it the wrong way.
Awesome tank. Just a question though, from a newbie, but don't the bicolor blennies get too large for that size of tank? The resources I have read say they need 30gal+, but thats just what I have read, not what I have experienced, so dont take it the wrong way.
mightymouse
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what kind of blenny is that is it a bicolor? i have a red sea mimic blenny and i love him he has so much personality but is kind of a scaredy cat lol
ninjafish
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tekknoschtev said:
Thank you - if you do set something like this up, I'd love to see it.
To tell you the truth, I don't know the answer on the bicolor. I got him because he was quite small and because he is a perching fish as opposed to an open water, swimming fish. For those reasons, I felt that this tank would be big enough for its physical and psychological health - having said that, if he gets a lot bigger, I will have to move him to my 23/20gal at home. I have come across the same 30+ estimates that you did online but I just thought that no one was going to recommended any fish for a 2gal
- just because there is no such thing as a 2 gal tank in mainstream saltwater fish keeping. I appreciate any input I can get though and will definitely keep an eye on this guy. If I do need to replace it, I will probably get a yellow r green clown goby.Adam,
I haven't seen a mimic goby for sale in my city before... sounds pretty cool.
- Chad
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tekknoschtev
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Ok, I wasnt sure, just thought I'd make mention.
I'd like to one day set up a tank in the office of where I work at Michigan State University because I think it'd liven the place up, but it'd have to be a nano/pico like yours, and I am only here for the next 3-4 years, so I dont think anyone would take care of it afterwards/care to learn how to take care of it, and bringing it home is out of the question. Between fresh and salt we have too much.
Anyways, keep us posted on the progress of the tank, I think its pretty well balanced right now, and looks astounding.
I'd like to one day set up a tank in the office of where I work at Michigan State University because I think it'd liven the place up, but it'd have to be a nano/pico like yours, and I am only here for the next 3-4 years, so I dont think anyone would take care of it afterwards/care to learn how to take care of it, and bringing it home is out of the question. Between fresh and salt we have too much.
Anyways, keep us posted on the progress of the tank, I think its pretty well balanced right now, and looks astounding.
ninjafish
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Elric said:That tank is awsome...where can I get one?
Haha... it was actually pretty easy to set up. The tank concept and hardware is pretty neat (modestly
), but the livestock right now - particularily coral - isn't anything to write home about. The reason for this is my lighting, it is just barely up to the task. As I've mentioned before, I wanted to go with a normal desk lamp because I wanted this tank to be so understated and clean that anyone looking at it would believe that they could just fill a box with saltwater and plunk it down on their desk and it would do well.When I move this tank home I plan on building a diy canopy with a 70w mh and two 13w pc actinics. Then I would be able to grow frags of some of my nicer corals and I would get better colors (the zoos in this tank have faded a bit). I also plan on replacing the rock in the tank with one twice as big so that the whole reef is more prominent. I guess even with a tank this size you are never really finished...
- Chad
ninjafish
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tekknoschtev said:
My situation was much like yours. I am a police officer and at work I was seconded to a detail that meant I would be in the office and have a desk for a year and a half. As soon as I got the news, I got to brainstorming something that would be small and professional looking, but bulletproof enough that I could leave it alone on weekends without any negative effects. This is what I came up with and I moved it into the office with a backback and a bucket of water. If I decide I don't want to set it up at home after, I can just put the rock and the water back into my big tank and the only thing that I will be out will be the cost of the 8" cube - a relatively small expense. This has been a big hit around the office and I'm pretty sure that if they wanted to keep it going when I left they could, providing I showed them how much to feed and how to top up the water. I would continue doing water changes which entails syphoning two liters of water out of my big tank before I go to work and trading it with two liters of water from the nano - I usually do it at the start of each work week and it is the fastest water change I've ever done.
- Chad
reefarchitect
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I am truly impressed! It just goes to show what can be done with a little creativity and planning. So many people are focused on bigger better more, sadly they will probably never have a tank which looks as good or as well thought out as yours.
Must make your workday much better.
Must make your workday much better.
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