Terry's home made nano. NANO contest 2010. my unique tank.

[the marine apprentice]

Hmmm interesting I like blennies.
So I was in Calgary yesterday and spend a few bucks on some highly needed supplies. I got an orange spot goby, a lawnmower blenny and a cute green clown goby. I also got a sweet frag of red zoas that are new to my collection of 26 different types of zoas and I also upgraded two of my bulbs in my light. So instead of 3 15k aqua science and one crappy current USA actinic I know have 2 15k and 2 geisman actinic + and holy crap I never knew I had that sort of color in my nano. Everything just popped and the coral all seemed a bit more happy today when the lights went out. I am very impressed with the new lights and a huge thanks goes out to Doug and carmen from red coral for all the help you guys rock don't change the way u do things there.
I have a few pics of the new stuff but I have to get it all loaded from my phone to photobucket and it takes forever when I don't have a wifi connection.

On a really sad note I came home after work tonight to fine my orange spot goby dried up and laying on my desk beside my tank. I saw that my sixline was bein a bully last night for a while but simmered down once my lights went out. But I guess the sixline basterd didn't like the goby today. The six line will be finding a new home asap.

[bauder1986]

i have a home for that six line....

[Gaffer]

Wow, Great looking tank.

How tough was it to work with the acrylic?

Andrew

[bauder1986]

alright terry, now i got those two little bastard fish of yours in my tank you can make this tank look good with out them f-ing it up for you.

[the marine apprentice]

soooo.... im sorry i havent really updated this thread in a while ive been working lots and i just got my internet working again in my house so now i can actually put up some higher quality pictures instead of those crappy iphone pics.

there has been some recent changes in the tank as well as some cool additions to it as well.
as some of you know my six line wrasse and my blue damsel were little basterds so i sent them over to josh's tank where they cant destroy my stuff anymore haha.
i had gotten a lawnmower blenny, a orange spot goby and a green clown goby a few weeks ago from big als in calgary and my six line chased the orange spot and my lawnmower out of the tank and they ended up drying out on my desk and carpet over night. i was pretty ****ed about it but oh well, just need to move on and make some changes. so that is when the blue damsel and the six line went to a new home.
so i am done boring you people with words so here are some pics of the new setup and some new coral and such. feel free to comment on what ever you want.
new blastos

new brain coral from grizz

my orange rics that everyone loves

my birds nest i picked up last fall

my birds nest now

my green clown goby hangin out in my digi

my blastos that are growing nicely (finally!!)

my zoa island with just actinic +

my frogspawn close up

and a full tank shot with just actinic+


well i hope you all like and feel free to comment.

[the marine apprentice]

here is a full tank shot from right in front just for you bauder

[bauder1986]

Originally Posted by the marine apprentice

here is a full tank shot from right in front just for you bauder

the vertical angle is off abit haha. jk looks good dude.

[the marine apprentice]

yes josh it is off a little

i am starting my mini renovation of the nano tonight as i do not like the way it looks and when you see pics in the next few days it is gonna look alot different

[the marine apprentice]

so in the last two weeks alot has happened in my tank, first off my acrylic tank that i had built was on the verge of blowing two seams out, luckily i had silconed the corners and they held on till i oculd go pick up my little 15g from greg just out of town ans i did the swap over last tuesday i think. but before i set it all up i painted the back of the 15 white so it gave the tank a cool look. which is the same as i am going to do on my new tank i am pickin up this weekend in calgary.
one bad part about all the move and such with all my coral is that i must have dinged my one brain coral which was doing very well and now it is slowly dying off in the 15g. makes me sad because it was the brighter and healthier of the two i had gotten, but now the one that is pale color and never was thought to survive is big a puffy all day and night.
here are a few pics of the new set up. still using all the same equipment minus one fan and my phosbahn reactor(which i havent gotten the energy to set it up yet)

[the marine apprentice]

nothing much is new right now the tank is on cruise control right now and i will be hopeing to some new zoas in the next few weeks when i go back down to calgary to see some special people.