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Old 05-06-2005, 02:21 PM
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And here is the tank progression so far:





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Old 05-18-2005, 11:55 PM
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Update:

Here is the system I am using for auto-topoff:





The tee is connected to the return line for my eheim and the metering pump injects fresh water from a 8 liter resivior directly into the line (so there is still no visible equipment in my tank). I have the dosing rate set so that it adds 0.75ml, eighteen times every hour, 24/7 - which is my evaporation rate.
I am pretty pleased with the results . I never would have thought that my nano would end up being my most stable tank in terms of salinity.

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This past weekend I was away from the tank for 4days (the longest I've ever been able to do that). The system worked awesome but the water level did creep up a little bit (~4mm) so I have dialled down the pump to 15strokes/hour. The pump sits on top of a bucket which holds over 20days' worth of filtered topoff water. Now I do a 2 liter water change on my first day back to work, feed the tank with 'reef chili' each day I am working, and clean the glass on the last day of my work week. When I am on days off I don't worry about a thing. The ritual repeats again the next week. I was a little worried about the anemone crab going over a weekend without being fed but I have 3 pairs of stomatella snails in the tank and between them spawning and the pods on my chaeto, I figure the tank produces a fair amount of live food. So far so good!

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Hi all. Here is a very! low quality video clip of the tank. I am working on putting something better together.

http://www.studioonline.com/playvide...100F246CF2BEB8

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Old 06-20-2005, 05:57 AM
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I don't know if anyone is still interested but here are some recent pics:


















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Old 06-20-2005, 05:59 AM
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Updated stocking list:

zoanthids (six of my best colors)
button polyp
colt
pulsing xenia (two kinds)
devils's hand
gorgonia
candycane
frogspawn
green monti digitata
purple monti digitata
orange monti caps
purple monti caps
pink bird's nest
riccordia (green and orange)
mushrooms (1 green, 1 blue, 1 red and 1 fuzzy)
green star polyp
2 sexy shrimp (2 more planned)
1 nerite snail
4 cerith
6 stomatella

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That looks awesome!

Damn, that is more stocked(coral wise) than my 33g tank! Hahaha.

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Chad,

You're doing a great job on that nano. Love how it looks.

BTW, how was the flooding where you live. I heard that area was inundated.

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That looks awesome!

Damn, that is more stocked(coral wise) than my 33g tank! Hahaha.

Chris
Haha, thanks Chris. It is fine right now but I think it's going to take some major pruning to keep things from getting out of hand...



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Chad,

You're doing a great job on that nano. Love how it looks.

BTW, how was the flooding where you live. I heard that area was inundated.

Anthony

Thanks Anthony. Okotoks was hit pretty hard, especially the homes and businesses along main street. I live up on a hill so I was lucky and didn't have any problems.

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Hi gang,
My buddy hooked me up with an ftp site and helped me post a better quality video. I found that it worked best if I opened it in windows media player (not the browser) and used the skin mode to stretch it out to a decent size. (I hope that makes sense).
And yes, I know the music is lame but I don't have anything that went with the "nano theme" as well as this. Enjoy!

http://www.102tech.com/fish/PicoMovie.wmv


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