17g shallow nano build **UPDATED PICS Jan 10/2010**

[Reef_surfer]

hey fellow CR's its time for a new build. its a 17g rimless and shallow tank with a 20g sump (thanks to Lorenz0)

the measurements are 36"long x 12"wide x 9" high, with a overflow and 20g sump. the sump for now just has LR in it. i also got a tek 4x59W T5 fixture
and just bought 2 new bulbs today one 22,000k blue, and a fiji purple.
here are a couple FTS




in the DT i have about 35 lbs of LR with sugar sand.
the live stocki have came from my 33g. it includes a occ Clown(Curious George), clarki's clown(Rampage Jackson), yellow watchman Goby w pistol shrimp(Bert & Ernie) and a yellow tail damsel. My CUC is a sea hare(Pumba) and a handfull of snails about ten-15 or so.

as for my Corals i am wanting this tank to be mostly a Zoa dominate tank with a few Lps. i have started with a few frags. muilti colored richordia Maze brain, Frogspawn, GSP,Candycane, Blue eyed favia, and a pink open brain
zoas include Pink panther, blood red, and not sure of the last one maybe someone can id its a really nice orange with grey skirt


here is a couple of the most current FTS




here is the left side of the tank followed by the right side



one thing that i have come to like is how quite my new tank is compared to the old 33g that had HOB everything from skimmer to filter media. really made a person want to go to the bathroom alot. i will give more updates tomorrow as i have a new addition to the tank. and i might try add some doors to the stand aswell as add maybe a skimmer

[Ryan]

Looks good but can I ask why so much light?

[Reef_surfer]

i couldnt tell you the answer. i only have two lights running for more of the time

[lorenz0]

Tanks looking good. the actually guy who built the tank was binare who i picked it up from. As for the 4 bulb tek, i was planning on running 2 pure actinic's and than 2 aqua science duo's so the lighting wouldn't be overly to strong with the output of the actinic's but still make the corals color pop

for sure will be following the progress of the tank

[Reef_surfer]

so everyone here is the new addition to the tank a potters angel named Halo
good colors and happy in the tank

[the marine apprentice]

that is a cool looking little tank. love how shallow it is,

[1337cr3w]

any other new fish yet? like to see what you replaced these with.

[christyf5]

Wow I love the dimensions of this tank. It looks great! Can't wait to see it progress

[Reef_surfer]

hey guys sorry to all who have been following, it's been awhile since i updated. from the last update i had cooked my tank and lost open brain, frogspawn, potters angel and some zoas from a heater sold to me that was faulty(ohh well stuff happens) since then i had replaced some corals with new ones and added alot more corals.

i sold my old tank to 1337cr3w (hope everything is well) aswell as my clarkii clown, false percula and yellow tail damsel. i replaced those (along with the nice potters angel) with a Harlequin Filefish, Red Mandarin, Yellow Clown Goby and blue/green stripe Goby, plus a tonn of new Zoa's and (what the G/f likes to call "squishy's" LPS). i have added one new piece of live rock (jakarta i believe) and put the old on in the sump. here is some pics

old FTS with the new Harlequin Filefish picking at the frozen food on the acro skeleton


i call my new guy guck's

here is the yellow clown goby (approx .5" big) and Mandarin



these are the best pics i can provide i'm not that great at photo skills.
here are various zoa's again not very good pics
here is some mohawk zoas

invasion zoa's

very nice yellow skirt ones not sure what kind

i also have two different types of watermelon zoa's but need to get better pics
here is some random frag of zoas

here is a really nice yellow leather polyps starting to come out slowly

yellow tipped torch coral

galexia frag

i also have started doseing with zeovit and i am about two weeks into it. i just bought the nano four pack not sure what types they are but i do two bottles of one drop first night and the other two bottles the next night. i was told to do it at night becuase the algea loves the stuff to. im hoping everything turns out

anyways i hope that wasn't to long and ill leave you with the two most current FTS

[fishytime]

The mandarin is eating frozen?