30g Nano Cube

[michika]

Outtafocus,

So far its pretty quiet. I'm pleased that there was relatively little work to be done. I loved how it arrived to me, kind of like a plug and play tank!

I'm so excited to put stuff in the tank its getting out of hand. I already have a fish list for stuff I want to eventually put in the tank!

[outtafocus]

Nothing new??

[michika]

Lots new actually!
I'm assembling photos, hopefully for an update tonight.

The tank currently has rock, sand, and a new 'fug to boast about. Tomorrow its getting livestock!

[michika]

May 3rd update,

The tank has hit a bit of a slump as far as production is going. I keep planning on working on it, and then something comes up, and I get distracted.

First there came spray bars!


Then came the disaster....the siphon break holes I drilled at the top of the spray bars morphed into mini gisers courtesy of my SCWD. I then had to drill bigger holes in the spray bars. Now I have mini mounts of wavy water when the SCWD alternates, I'm pretending and calling it added surface movement!


After the spray bars came the hood! I have 2xPCs ordered, and I have picked up the supplies required for moonlights!


I installed two little fans to facilitate air movement, one blowing in, and one blowing out.


Next up was a powerbar, installed below the display, at the back of the stand to keep everything looking neat and clean.


The MH ballast was also installed. Something still needs to be done about the cords, but that is a job for tomorrow.


This is the sump as it stands now. I'm going to find a way to keep all the cords up, out of the water, and with drip loops.


The display with some fugly sump rock from the 230g tank. I have some nice rock picked out from the display, but I don't want to move it to the nano yet, as most of it is encrusted with SPS.



The whole thing sitting on plastic in the basement. I move in less then 4 weeks, so we just left the plastic down as its there for painting the basement.

I tested all my levels today and it seems that I have a slight ammonia spike. I'm not sure where it came from as everything came from the 230g display. I'm just going to finish all the hardware related work, and hopefully by then the system will be ready for livestock.

Next up:
-lighting for the refugium
-fans for the sump
-install my PC lights (whenever they arrive)
-install the moonlights
-put all the lighting on timers
-add macro algae to 'fug
-remove fugly rock and replace with pretty rock
-add livestock

[Skimmerking]

looks good so far Catherine

[michika]

Something about posting photos incited me to do more work! So now I have moonlights!

First there was heat shrink, 2 blue LEDs, and 2 big resistors.


Then there was lights...


And now my tank has two artificial moons!


Now I'm putting my camera down for the evening.

[michika]

Just to mention, the LEDs are 15,000MCD, 100mA, and the resistors are 100 OHM, 2% tolerant, 2W.

FYI Kevin (Krazykuch) assembled the above moonlights lights, I just took photos and asked lots of questions. That was about it for my share of the work in building the moonlights, aside from purchasing, and picking out colors!

[michika]

The tank is officially up and running!

Over the course of the last few days I have moved over most of my SPS, and all of my clams from the 230g display.

A shot just after all the SPS and clams arrived in the tank


The first fishy inhabitant, a yellow shoulder tang. its approximately 1" in length at this time. I plan to move it to a much larger tank once it grows bigger, and stronger.


The tank this evening. I'm not pleased with the lighting, I find everything to be too yellow. I think I will be swapping out my 10,000K PC for a second actinic bulb.


A closer shot of everything tonight.

[Skimmerking]

you have enough CLAMS In there that is retarded


looks great

[michika]

Thank you!

I'm done with adding clams to this tank. If anything I would be removing 1-2 of the larger ones, but I'm not sure yet. I am letting it run to the end of the month before I make a decision.

How many clams can you find?