zoos for club meeting
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Fanof49ASU
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Ah....I can see that.
I use the Nova Extreme t-5's and they're GREAT.
Angela Short
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My 5 gallon nano was VERY easy! My neighbor has it set up now and put a glass top on ands it evaporates like 1/4 cup of water a day. I wouldn't top mine off for days sometimes and then dump in a ton of water with no problems 
. No skimming, very few water changes and stuff grew like mad in that tank. Granted it was all softies but My hairy shrooms from that tank made me a ton of money they split so regular!
When I was first interested in a SW tank about 5 years ago I was also told no way on anything smaller than at least a 40. I stayed out of SW because of the fear the store instowed upon me but I did buy a SW book that got me a nice basic understanding of the cycle and workings of a tank. Times have definetly changed.
Esabasbasard, Welcome to MTRC!! You are more than welcome and will find the folks on here are very freindly and helpful!! I think a huge majority of the members have nanos going.
. No skimming, very few water changes and stuff grew like mad in that tank. Granted it was all softies but My hairy shrooms from that tank made me a ton of money they split so regular!When I was first interested in a SW tank about 5 years ago I was also told no way on anything smaller than at least a 40. I stayed out of SW because of the fear the store instowed upon me but I did buy a SW book that got me a nice basic understanding of the cycle and workings of a tank. Times have definetly changed.
Esabasbasard, Welcome to MTRC!! You are more than welcome and will find the folks on here are very freindly and helpful!!
I think a huge majority of the members have nanos going.Thank you for letting me know they were in. I didn't mean to offend you in any way (and certainly did not mean to "spit" in your face. To be honest, I was just at work, and wanted to just let everyone know that I was on top of the situation and would go by and pick them up as soon as possible. Please PM me if you bad feelings regarding my post.
As for the zoas: Sean/Ebay gave us a pretty good deal. We can talk about the price tag at the meeting if anyone is interested since it was club funds that purchased the zoas. As for the colony itself, there are probably ~150 polyps, maybe a little more. There are at least 3 different types, but mostly are orangish/pink with a blue ring. Some of the others are blue/purple with a green skirt. There also looked like there were 10-15 eagle eye zoas. There very likely could be other types on there as well because only about 1/2 of them were opened up when I bought the colony.
For quite and ease, I'd think about those little Oceanic BioCubes. Got one of the 8gals from Ebay and it's going REALLY well... actually better than my 10gal.
As far as skimming they don't really have many good products that are affordable for nanos... but you can DIY pretty much anything you'd need. A little minijet-404 or 606, airline tubing, some acrylic from homedepot, and weld-on, and in @45mins you got yourself a skimmer.
http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=58540
Of course, the HomeDepot in Bellevue has pretty much nothing... but after a few minutes of looking around I found everything that I needed... minus the weld-on. Ordered that online before I found out there was a place locally that sold it.
Unfortunantly, that skimmer won't fit into the 8gal, but works wonders on a 10. For the 8... if you really wanted to run a skimmer... then you can get the little Fission Nano Skimmer from Fosters and Smith... it's mostly crap, but does skim. Really really wet skim, but still works... I guess. That'll fit in the first chamber, or second chamber if you wanted it there. But for the second chamber I'd go with so LR rubble (instead of the bioballs that it comes with) and chaeto. Again, for the chaeto... more DIY. Gonna have to scrap the black paint off the glass behind that chamber and DIY some lighting from HomeDepot. Also would probably want to upgrade the return pump to something a minijet 606.
That's all optional though, right out of the box you can just add your LS, LR, heater, and saltwater and you're good to go. For an office it has a nice finished look and runs really quite. I don't know how much the light will support, it's only 2 x 18w PCs (1 daylight, one actinic) but for now I have some GSP, xenia, mushrooms, zoas (which are spreading like crazy already)... everything's doing really great and it requires almost no work. Water change once a week or so, top off as needed(rarely).
So, if it's sitting on your desk, I'd say the grand total would be something like... maybe $240 bucks or so? I think... can't remember the cost of the tank, but for you guys that already have big tanks, a little LS from them will take off of the costs, as well as any LR pieces you have in the big tank... so... hmmm.. actually I guess the cost of the whole setup for you would probably just be tank and heater. So maybe $200.
Speaking of chaeto... anyone that visits Ebay often and has chaeto, you know... if you wanted to drop some off there and either lemme know here, or tell Sean to lemme know, that'd be awesome... just and idea... you know... ... ... yep.
crumbletop
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I've got a 150W viper HQI clamp on lamp that I could use for the lighting as long as the PC portion of the top comes off, and there is a decent space on the back to clamp the lamp on. That plus the stuff you mention and I think I'd be good to go except for figuring out some way to keep it topped off over long weekends.
Well, I guess the PC portion COULD come off... ... I'm sure that the lights are the lion's share of the cost. So, take them off might as well get a cheaper tank.
I was eyeballing the little $50 6.5 gallons at Petco, apparently someone here in Nashville already has one setup... should still work with the clamp on.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1101742
Little heater, little powerhead, some water, rock and sand and you're set. I don't have much trouble with the 10 or the 8 as fas as evaporation goes... I top off the 10 every 3 days or so. The 8 never gets topped off because the hood helps cut back on the evaporation, I just adjust my water mix when I top off to keep the salinity where I want it. Maybe one of those little top off switches and jug of water with one of those little water pumps that look like air pumps... you know the ones? I don't know... just tossing out ideas, I'm sure you have already thought of something better.
I was eyeballing the little $50 6.5 gallons at Petco, apparently someone here in Nashville already has one setup... should still work with the clamp on.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1101742
Little heater, little powerhead, some water, rock and sand and you're set. I don't have much trouble with the 10 or the 8 as fas as evaporation goes... I top off the 10 every 3 days or so. The 8 never gets topped off because the hood helps cut back on the evaporation, I just adjust my water mix when I top off to keep the salinity where I want it. Maybe one of those little top off switches and jug of water with one of those little water pumps that look like air pumps... you know the ones? I don't know... just tossing out ideas, I'm sure you have already thought of something better.
