Snaz's Aquapod 12 with Stock Lights

[Snaz]

Full Tank Shot April 2009

[Tine]

Tank looks good, why not an update?

[Snaz]

Nothing is quick with PC lights, slow and steady...

I am happy to see that my two frags of Monitipora digitata coral are growing under my blazing 56w of PC light.

[es355lucille]

Nice looking tank Snaz! You have some nice colors happening. It does seem like a big tank. That was amazing to see how small the tank really is.

Nice job!

Brad

[Myka]

Your tank looks awesome! Great shot of the Dendro. Btw you have an Ocellaris clown, not a Percula.

[Snaz]

Originally Posted by Myka

Your tank looks awesome! Great shot of the Dendro. Btw you have an Ocellaris clown, not a Percula.

Thanks for the ID!

[Snaz]

I reorganized the chambers and built a chaeto refugium in chamber two. This is not a new idea and some variations can be found on nano-reef.com:
http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/inde...&#entry1818210

Total cost was about $30.00 and time was a couple of hours mostly spent scraping off the vinyl backing and glue.

Here are the parts as brought home from RONA. The grey box is an outdoor junction box.

Construction is self explanatory by the pictures, everything got painted black.

Removing the vinyl and glue from the back of the tank was a LONG task but I like the way it came out and I am pleased I took the time to make it fit neatly.



Here is the finished housing, note the two pieces of velco that hold the fuge to the back of the tank. I also dremmelled some vents in the housing but the bulb is a 15w 6700k CFL, not very hot to touch at all.


The fuge is on a reverse light cycle, time will tell if it actually grows cheato.

[Snaz]

Originally Posted by Snaz

Nothing is quick with PC lights, slow and steady...

I am happy to see that my two frags of Monitipora digitata coral are growing under my blazing 56w of PC light.

Strangley the digitata are the fastest growing corals in my tank right now. Kind of bland to look at but they sure do grow. Each frag has grown three spikes, one centimetre long each.

SPS growing well under 56W of PC light, nifty.

[Snaz]

I came home with a Yellow Clown Goby today from Ocean Aquatics.

[Leah]

Cute clown