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Old 10-02-2008, 01:55 AM
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Its an AQ30 running without any filter media. I've modified it to be able to hold some Chaeto and some rock rubble that I'm going to get on my next trip to the LFS. I picked it up primarily so that I could add another direction of flow to the tank (as well as the added chaeto filtration).

As for lighting I've pieced together a 55W PC (50/50) light for the time being. I think that should be enough given the depth of my tank for the basic corals I'm planning to get (softies and leathers).
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Old 10-05-2008, 05:00 AM
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Update!

I turned the light on at 9am before work yesterday and came home to find that in nine hours I had a healthy collection of brown algae (diatoms, I assume) on some of my sand and creeping up the walls of my aquarium. I'm still testing 0 for ammonia, 0 for nitrites, and 0 for nitrates.

Looks like it's cycling!!
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Old 10-05-2008, 09:45 PM
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What substrate are you using? If it is crushed coral you might consider replacing it or mixing in something with smaller grains.
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Argonite "live sand' by Caribsea. 15lbs of it.
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Argonite "live sand' by Caribsea. 15lbs of it.
Perfect. Welcome to the world of Nano where everything in the tank is only inches from your eyes!
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Bumped for Mike. Just moved it for him and it was buried way back in the boonies.
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ALrighty, it's been a very long time since I updated my build thread. This is mainly because my basement flooded and killed my laptop, camera, textbooks, books, guitar amp, etc. and I've had a bitch of a time dealing with insurance and the like...

From my initial posts I added a yellow/green torch coral which was two heads and split to four before it mysteriously fell apart and died. I was most displeased and replaced it with a really nice red open brain which is looking really good. The pictures in the update were still when it was new and looking kinda skeletal but now it's nice and puffy (pics WAAAAY far down).

Anyway. Here's my journal entry I just pulled off my once-fried HDD I yanked out of the flooded laptop:

Alrighty. I borrowed my friend's old Canon 2MP camera with no macro, and took a couple shots to update it. I've changed my aquascape to something... less drab.

We're currently getting in some carpet so I wasn't able to get all the pictures I would have liked.

Enjoy!







Brainnnnnsss (or Brain rather)










More pics to come! Also with a better camera, I hope...


And yes indeed, a better camera came along. It's still a point and shoot (with me spending all this money on the SW hobby I don't have anything left for a DSLR.) Santa brought me a Panasonic DMC-FS20 which takes really nice photos.
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