Snaz's Aquapod 12 with Stock Lights

[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.

[Tine]

Looks great Snaz, let us know if it works!

[Ron99]

Should work just fine. I did something similar to my BC8. The cheato in the middle chamber grows really well.

[Snaz]

Originally Posted by Snaz

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

Well after 1.5 weeks it grew a nice squared "brick" of chaeto taking up every inch of the chamber. I removed all but a pinch.