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05-16-2010, 05:25 AM
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New 30 Gallon Nano Tank Journal
Well, had success with my 10 gallon nano, now getting the itch for and upgrade....
 This is a picture of my current 10 gallon tank with the new t5 light setup I bought for the new tank, once it is setup. FYI LOVE the T5 compaired to the compact fluorencents..... So I went on Kijiji, and found myself one hell of a deal, a 30 Gallon Hex front tank with stand for $35, how could I pass this up? lol I went and picked it up on Friday afternoon and brought it back to my office, after my boss gave me a look like oh gawd another fish tank....*Evil Grin*  This is a picture of it brought into my office, dirty girl eh? As you can see it came with a T12 light, Thus why I went out on bought the new T5 setup.... I got to work cleaning it....man what a chore!  Much better now....*whipes sweat of brow*  This is a picture after I put in all the water and live sand....Cloudy with a chance of meatballs???? nah just cloudy....See what it will look like on monday morning. I put in the following hardware for temporary, until the tank cycles: Hydor Koralia Nano Powerhead (240 GPH) Aquaclear Powerhead 802 (400 GPH) Aquaclear 70 Filter System This is it for now, will update when tank cycles..... 
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05-16-2010, 05:27 AM
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koool sooo far!
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05-31-2010, 11:14 PM
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5/31/2010- Update
So finally had the time to do some upgrades to my tank, and having it fully cycled now...yahhhh... So I moved everything over from my 10G over.
So the first thing that I did was to pickup a Coral Life Super Skimmer (65g). I was very nervous at first, trying to find the sweet spot, so it wouldn't overflow the collection cup, which it did the first night...grrrr... One of the biggest flaws in this, was you have to shut off the pump in order to take out the collection cup in order to empty it. I thought this was retarded, so being a DIY guy, I thought I would improve on the design....*evil grin* So I went to Home Depot and picked up of all things, was a pvc 90 degree threaded electrical conduite. They didn't have anything similar under the plumbing section, don't ask..... So I broke out my handy drill and drilled me a hole, 3/4 " thru the plastic, and attached rubber gaskets on either side. And Viola, an emergency overflow that drains into a bucket hidden by the stand.... Never have to worry about the collection cup or finding the sweet spot again.  So here are some pictures of all the lifestock transfered over with the new T5 light:   
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06-17-2010, 03:41 AM
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Update 6-16-2010
Update 6-16-2010
Got some new live rock today, now up to about 35lbs of live rock..... Also got some hitch hikers along with the rock, some star fish. Had my anemone split as well, now I have 2 of them....YAHHHH.... Now for the pictures:          
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07-29-2010, 02:48 AM
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Tank Update 7-28-2010
I Thought it was about time for an update, frags are doing amazing and growing nicely! Had a little bit of a hair algea from leaving the blinds open over the weekend....stupid sun light.....lol Got that under control, just reduced my lighting period from 12 hours to 8 hours, and pick up some mexican turbo snails. I have some Cree Q5 LED's on order and going to continue with the DIY light, by adding those to the light with the drivers of course...just had an itch for a DIY project.....Will update onces those come in. And now for the pictures:
        
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#10
07-29-2010, 02:56 PM
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Nice looking tank, just a word of advice with the new drain you installed in your skimmer, it could end up doing some damage especially with that brand of skimmer as there quite prone to overflowing. If your skimmer continues to over flow it will keep emptying into your emergency drain which could result in a lot of water being drained out which would suck, as I've seen one of those skimmers empty out 10-15G's easily
(Ignore me if im totally wrong lol, it way to early in the morning)
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