Ice's 15.5G nano

DRC Archive Member Tanks
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Hey everyone, thought i should post my tank on here. not much in there now as i just restarted in the hobby after my 20G reef tank cashed but its a good start

Current FTS as of 3/4/14

Tank brake down

Tank, sump and stand:
16” x 16” x 16” Rimless acrylic cube made by Advanced Acrylics.
12” x 12” x 12” Mr. Aqua cube DIY sump
DIY Stand made with 1x2’s and skinned with half-inch ply
Glass-holes Super Nano Overflow (w/ custom external durso) & ½” SCH80 Return

Equipment:
Mag 3 return pump
Koralia 425gph
Cobalt 75W heater
DIY power head (unknown GPH)

Lighting:
DIY, unit max output 165w, duel fan and driver. consisting of 8 x Cool White 12,000k, 6 x Neutral White 7500k ,6 x Warm White 3500k, 2 x Red 660nm, 2 x Green 520nm, 4 x Violet 420nm, 7 x Royal Blue 450nm, 20 x Blue 460nm

Sump brake down:
lighting for the sump is DIY LED light - 2 Cree XRE NW/2 Cree XRE CW, 5 Cree XRE RB with two 1000mA Buckpuck drivers with External Pots on a 5x6” heatsink
about 5-7lbs live rock
​various macro algae
Aqua Remora C nano protein skimmer with upgraded Cobalt FJ-900 pump ( weird i know)

Current intake/stock:
20lbs black sand
13lbs live rock
oca clownfish – Jasper
B&W clown – Midnight
various zoa’s (lots more to come)
GSP
few small mushrooms
pipe organ
pulsing xenia
1 nass snail

Future stocking adds:
more zoas (a lot more)
more live rock
more nass snails
various coral
maybe a royal gramma or a yellow watchman goby

And now for some nice low quality pictures for you’re pleasure!!





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Livestock pictures soon to come if people would like to see them

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Livestock is the best part

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How about pics taken closer?

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here is some live stock pictures, i have more zoas and will try to get pics of the clowns when i get unlazy. sorry the camera sucks.








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Looks pretty good. Thats a pretty intense light for a nano. I like the look of the black sand, I never used it in my tanks before. I see you’re pretty good at modding stuff too. I’d like to know why the skimmer mod. Not real good stock? Look forward to more pics and updates.

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the light right now channel one (whites,violet,green,red) runs about 35% channel two (two blues) runs around 60% but im not liking my shimmer so plan to bump up to a kessil A150

as far as the skimmer it use to run on a 20G sumpless system. so the bigger pump was a good choice but now its in a sump i would like to push as much water through as i can before it pass’s through. stock pump would be ok for sumpless nano tanks with low bioload.

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Nice picks. Do you plan to add any LPS or SPS?

What light do you have on it right now?

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currently not really known on LPS and SPS. i go back and forth. right now i have my DIY led setup that i listed in the lighting section of my thread. just not liking the little shimmer it puts off

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very cool. always thought about setting up a black sand tank, but never got around to it.

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cayno blends right in LOL

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[quote=“Ice, post:11, topic:7181”]
cayno blends right in LOL[/quote]
Well… I’m sold.

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lol tank is in need of a reactor, the stuff i feed my coral is a playing ground for cayno, thats why all my frags are up on racks so they are not really affected.

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Nice collection of polyps, very nice indeed.

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really need some update pictures, this is only like 25% of my zoas, and thank you!