My first attempt at a nano.

[Fuzzy]

I'm $2300 in the hole...So I guess you could say I'm beyond the point of no return...I do have a fairly large stack of hardware to show for it though...

I blame Jervis and Andre mainly for poisoning me with this lethal idea, after I started checking out other sites, a few books and magazines it was all over...


Here's what I've gotten running so far, note my noob attempt at scaping live rock, this rock was given to me with the tank and I decided to try to just reuse all of it, instead of buying more new live rock.

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And here's the mess lurking behind

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[Fuzzy]

I bought most of the equipment second hand off here and other marine forums, so it wasn't as expensive as it could have been.


The Damage list reads approximately as follows:

Bought from Forumers / 2nd hand:

JBJ 28 Gallon HQI Nano tank (150W MH Lighting built in) - Full set
Stand for tank
Hailea HC-150A Chiller
20Kg of Live Rock
20lb of Live Sand
Hydor Koralia 1 Wavemaker
250g Biohome
---------------------------------------$488

RM Fluidized Reactor
RM 8" Calcium Reactor
TLF Phosban 150 FR
---------------------------------------$240

Dupla pH Controller Delta
---------------------------------------$120

3.5L CO2 Tank and JBJ Solenoid
---------------------------------------$120

JBJ Automatic Top Off + FW holding Tank
---------------------------------------$100

Tunze 9002 DOC nano Skimmer
---------------------------------------$120

FOX External Thermostat
---------------------------------------$30

API Saltwater Master Test kit
Tropic Marin Ca Test Kit
Seachem Reef Complete
Seachem Reef Carbonate
---------------------------------------$20

1x Digital Timer
2x Analog Timer
---------------------------------------$25



Bought new from various LFS:

Salinity Refractometer
--------------------------------------$90

Crystal Pro 3 stage + inline TDS meter
--------------------------------------$225

60 Litre water drum
-------------------------------------$17

Hydor Koralia 1
-------------------------------------$50

2 Bags Marine Environment Salt
-------------------------------------$68

Tanita Digital Kitchen Scale (3kg/1g)
-------------------------------------$57

20lb Caribsea Live Aragonite Sand
--------------------------------------$40

Grotech kH+CA 3 Remineralization
Purple Up
Aragamilk
TLF Phosban Media
Rowa Ezeclean
D+D Epoxy
API Reef Master Test Kit
------------------------------------$210

BLV 20K 150w DE MH Bulb
------------------------------------$90

Eheim tubing for all plumbing
------------------------------------$40

Eheim Compact 1002 pump
------------------------------------$50

1kg Biohome Plus
------------------------------------$40


I've only got a few small frags of coral in there at the moment, going to take my time stocking this one.

[BFG]

Are you sure the nano is enough for you........? Welcome to the DARK SIDE !!!








ps: where is the chiller?

[blackBRUSHalgae]

WoAh! Can't wait to seeeeee! I believe Jervis is the poison devil

I think I could only do this next year~ can't wait untill I got the space and time!

[Fuzzy]

WoAh! Can't wait to seeeeee! I believe Jervis is the poison devil

I think I could only do this next year~ can't wait untill I got the space and time!

Yes young Padawan you know know you too want to embrace the dark siiiide..lol.

Are you sure the nano is enough for you........? Welcome to the DARK SIDE !!!


ps: where is the chiller?

Ooh thanks, the dark side is really vibrantly coloured and wallet busting I must say..

I can already tell this is going to be fun though

Hehe, the HC-150A is ninja installed behind the tank, below my FR Chaetofuge.
There was just no way sticking it in the stand would work, from a plumbing perspective.

Keeping the tank at 26C for now, Mushrooms, Blasto seem happy, my Sun Coral just started opening, I think it didn't like its previous location, not sure why it had better flow.

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