My first SW tank...and it's a nano!

[mixixe]

I think my boxer crab is holding eggs! I thought the crabs were fighting all this time but maybe they were just getting it on



What should I do?

[Flusher]

Originally Posted by mixixe

Though I've been reading lately, sand is better than coral.

In such a small tank, it probably won't make a difference either way. The tank is too small for a deep sand bed (DSB), so you'd probably do best keeping the substrate as shallow as possible. The depth of the sandbed in the first picture looks about right, IMO.

Maybe I'll upgrade on the lighting a bit more. I'm not quite sure how I should upgrade though.

Coralife 50/50s. I've been using those for over a year in my nanos, and they work great for soft corals. They screw in to medium-based lightbulb sockets. Two 20W bulbs might be overkill; that's what I use on my 6 gallon tank. A 20W might do it, or maybe a 20W and a 10W?

HTH
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Stracraft 2 Replay

[mixixe]

so now I have two light strips over my tank, and theyare both 8 inches long. It's the mini coralife light strips. I"m using 2 10000k 9 watt bulbs, 2 actinic 9watt bulbs. Is that good? The corals look much nicer now. I see more of the colors that didn't show up before but some are still brown.

[imisky]

mixixes! nice to see you on here, well i havent been using canreef much but i see that we have converted you i cant wait to see what your final tank will look like, so far so good

[mixixe]

Imisky after seeing your tank I told you I was gonna have to do one too! It's all your fault, but thank you, b/c i love my tank so much, but dones't quite look as nice as yours. I'm still trying to figure it all out

[mixixe]

Update... so i made some changes in the tank and now it's been running for about 3-4 months and I like it alot better. Here are some pics.









my sharknose goby



my featherduster



my refugium



enjoy!

[Midknight]

Hey there, The tank is looking good.
Nice stuff you have in there.
Can't see the xenia, is it hiding?

[andsoitgoes]

LOVE the fuge setup! Great work! I see you have a standard powerhead pumping water into the fuge, what do you have pumping water out? Dying to know!

[mixixe]

I think I killed the xenia it stopped pulsing and stretched out looking all funny so I scraped it off. Maybe I will give it another shot when I'm brave enough to have another one

[mixixe]

Originally Posted by andsoitgoes

LOVE the fuge setup! Great work! I see you have a standard powerhead pumping water into the fuge, what do you have pumping water out? Dying to know!

I didn't make the refugium, mykiss made it for me. There is the powerhead pumping water into the fuge and then another tube on the other end that goes into the tank. Mykiss explained to me as the water level equals out between the tank it will pump excess water back into the main tank. But I don't know how, but it works!