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09-02-2006, 07:11 PM
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project nano cube
so after building a stand perfect to fit me 13" cube tank, it is now set up and running. the heater will be relocated into the canister fiter but just while its getting set up its on the side. next thing to do it build a hood to hold two coralife mini's
sorry for the sideways pictures i dont have any programs to flip them right now.  heres my canister filter a filstar XP1 running up to 3/4 bulkheads.  Last edited by JOSH; 09-04-2006 at 03:38 AM. 
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09-02-2006, 08:21 PM
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Won't all the water just spill out the right hand side with it placed like that?
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09-02-2006, 09:40 PM
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That looks sweet. I've got a bunch of smaller tanks with homemade canopies holding mini-compact fluorescent bulbs. They're easy to build. Post pics of your progress.
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09-02-2006, 11:10 PM
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Which mini's are you getting? They've got 10W and 20W 50/50 screw-in bulbs, and they've got the 50/50 PC canopies. I've only used the screw-ins, and they work pretty good for soft corals.
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09-02-2006, 11:31 PM
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they are the coralife minis they have one 9watt 10 000k bulb and one 9watt blue bulb. gold aquariums has a 10 gallon with just one and it grows soft corals so if i put two on top i should be able to grow some soft corals pretty good.
my stocking plans are GSP pulsing xenia i might try some frogspawn and a couple mushrooms
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09-03-2006, 01:20 AM
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I'll bet that the Frogspawn does better than the GSP and the xenia. I couldn't keep either of the latter. The xenia died off (although it came from a tank with lower lighting) and the GSP didn't grow at all. I sold the GSP to someone with much stronger lighting and it grew like a weed. Then again, both these corals were some of my first, when I was using household spiral bulbs that weren't even the daylight type.
Mushrooms will do well.  Two 20W screw-in bulbs would be cheaper, would take up less room, and would give you more lighting. Here are some pictures of my canopy when I was using two types of bulbs (the 20W 50/50s and the household spirals):   I'm going to try four 27W Daylight spirals over my next tank (16 gallon display), which'll only have mushrooms, waving hand, and a head of Frogspawn. ________ IOLITE PORTABLE VAPORIZER Last edited by Flusher; 04-21-2011 at 03:03 PM.
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09-03-2006, 09:07 PM
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the only thing with th 50/50 bulbs is they are $25 and only a 6500K rating where these are 10 000k, and im only getting 4 less watts. the xenia will be sitting almost at the top of the tank so it should be getting alot of light. i guess corals will be kinda a hit or miss, but i hope i can grow those three
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09-04-2006, 03:39 AM
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theres a picture with the 10lbs of live rock i added today, but looks like all the bristle worms died that came with it, is that normal? should i be taking those out.
i think im going to upgrade my lighting already though
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