Off the Wagon - New Nano

[cale262]

Looks great... I built an edge with an over flow, 6gal sump and led's, but just some plug and play led's using the edge fixture, mine are not as bright as those cree's though...The nicest thing about the sump is you never get any bubbles trapped under the glass

Got any pics of the lights?

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by cale262

Looks great... I built an edge with an over flow, 6gal sump and led's, but just some plug and play led's using the edge fixture, mine are not as bright as those cree's though...The nicest thing about the sump is you never get any bubbles trapped under the glass

Got any pics of the lights?

Yeah not getting those annoying bubbles is key to this tank, although I still get a few from time to time but they are easily removed with regular cleaning. However I think the best feature gained by adding the sump and overflow is that the tank doesn't overflow when you put your hand in it, the stock tank is pretty freaking stupid for this reason.

I'll post a pic of the light fixture tonight.

[soapy]

Nice tank! Great corals. ;-) Is that a bit of blue cloves you got from me? Looks like it, the cloves are ok but it has that weedy caulerpa on it too. I would pull that out immediately and toss it in the trash. You do not want that particular weed in this small tank. Only a foxface or something big will mow that weed down and it will fill your tank up. Unless of course it runs out of food or iron perhaps? To be safe I would pull it.

I should be able to give you a bit of cloves sans weeds if you like.

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by soapy

Nice tank! Great corals. ;-) Is that a bit of blue cloves you got from me? Looks like it, the cloves are ok but it has that weedy caulerpa on it too. I would pull that out immediately and toss it in the trash. You do not want that particular weed in this small tank. Only a foxface or something big will mow that weed down and it will fill your tank up. Unless of course it runs out of food or iron perhaps? To be safe I would pull it.

I should be able to give you a bit of cloves sans weeds if you like.

Yeah I was thinking about doing that, if you have some more that would be great. Let me know.
Thanks

[soapy]

I went and looked in the display and I am sure I can get you a clean hunk of cloves. Later in the week or on the weekend I will be around.

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by cale262

Got any pics of the lights?

1/2" x 8" x 4" aluminium flat bar
6 LEDS, no optics
Aluminum screen frame used to hold 1/8" acrylic shield

LEDs are a little beat up as I ran them without the shield for few days. Runs a little warn so I'll probably add some fins when I get a chance.

[sphelps]

So you figure this tank is too small for a ghost ribbon eel? Good or bad idea?
I had one before, pretty sure they're blind and wouldn't really notice, just swam around in circles before anyway or just hung out in the overflow box

[Polscot]

welcome to the fluval nano nation, that tank is gorgeous, u did the light mod amazing dude, and chance you could post or pm me detailed info on how you did your plumbing and ATO, i wanna redoo my edge with better plumbing, and did u just order all your lighting from cree.com?

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by Polscot

welcome to the fluval nano nation, that tank is gorgeous, u did the light mod amazing dude, and chance you could post or pm me detailed info on how you did your plumbing and ATO, i wanna redoo my edge with better plumbing, and did u just order all your lighting from cree.com?

I've attached a quick sketch of the plumbing/overflow. I simply used 1/2" PVC to get the job done. I drilled three holes in the back piece of acrylic just big enough for 1/2" PVC pipe to slide through. For the drains I used a Tee and a cut off piece from an elbow to sandwich outside the acrylic. The return is simply a 90 and a 45 sandwich. The fittings where glued in place and silicone was used to seal around the hole.

The two drain tees simply act as standpipes preventing siphon, they are tee'd together to a single drain line.

Personally I don't think this is the best way to go, if I could have I would have just notched the back acrylic piece and added an external overflow in a more traditional manor. However I went this route purely for the ease of doing it in my current situation.

The LEDs were ordered as a kit from RapidLED
Here's a link

[reefwars]

how long did it take to get the leds delivered??