what makes it a nano?
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im planing on a pair of 15 gallon AG tanks side by side ( 10 inches apart) on a stand, then a common 55 gal sump in the stand with maybe a 10 gal fuge with a cutout of the stand to see the fuge. I will light the tanks with 4 HO T5s on each 15 gal tank, in the sump ill have a coralife 220 skimmer.
am i gona be a nano'er or?
am i gona be a nano'er or?
jakehole2021
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IMO the display is what makes it a nano. I'm sure others will disagree though.
Nicholas89
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Personally I go by display size. Additional water volume is just a bonus.
Purple Penguins
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I dont think that you are going to get a straight answer on this one
I agree, getting a concensus on the question posed is going to be difficult. My 2 cents?? Nano, by standards going back 15 to 20 years, is probably anything less than about 20 gals, but perhaps just as impressive as reefing in such tiny spaces is doing it VERY LOW tech, inexpensive, and simple, and having a large sump kinda violates that rule.
of course I'm not an official on the topic but to add some perspective ... Can many of us here remember not too long ago when NO ONE would have recommended setting up a reef in anything less than a 75 gallon, and that was probably going to be a failure if you didn't have $500 worth of skimmers, $1500 worth of lights and do 25% water changes every 10 days, and NO fish???
How attitudes have changed.
of course I'm not an official on the topic but to add some perspective ... Can many of us here remember not too long ago when NO ONE would have recommended setting up a reef in anything less than a 75 gallon, and that was probably going to be a failure if you didn't have $500 worth of skimmers, $1500 worth of lights and do 25% water changes every 10 days, and NO fish???
How attitudes have changed.
