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Badfish & LittleMermaids 2.5 Nano Build


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    phishcrazee - Reefkeeper CR Member
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    Looking good! Will be fun to see this as a grown out tank a year (or less) from now

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    NOT TOO SHaBBy BaDDy!

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    Badfish - Reefkeeper CR Member
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    Quote Originally Posted by phishcrazee View Post
    Looking good! Will be fun to see this as a grown out tank a year (or less) from now
    Thanks, I hoping by then I'll have gotten an ATO, another year of daily manual top off? No thanks


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    NOT TOO SHaBBy BaDDy!
    Ha ha,Just try'n to make it HaPPen CaP'n

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    Badfish - Reefkeeper CR Member
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    Here a pic with the Solo Cup I use to do my Water chages, kinda gives the photo some scale.
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    Red Solo Cup... I fill you up... Let's have a party.....

    Tank is looking awesome! I have a fondness for picos! Good luck!!
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    Badfish - Reefkeeper CR Member
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    182730 - Badfish & LittleMermaids 2.5 Nano Build

    Sorry for lack of info on this thread I was waiting until I had the tank a little more stable before I wanted to talk about my approach to this build. Lately I've read a lot articles on how technology and advances in equipment has made reef keep much easier; while I totally agree with this statement (I have Leds on this tank and they are the main reason why it's able to keep such a wide range of corals), I've also seen tanks more tricked than the cars from those fast and furious movies. Too many people depend on crazy controllers and loads of equipment meant to reduce the amount of water changes need to be done rather than doing research on what makes a balanced system and watching to see what their tank is telling them.

    I felt a good way to test this is by using the famous K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) method on this tank and seeing how far I could take it. Again the only maintenance is my weekly water changes and daily RO/DI Top off, I'm using the tanks stock filter pretty much as is:

    Mechanical: Porous foam block
    Chemical: Replaced Carbon with SeaChem's SeaGel for phosphate control
    Biological: BIOMAX insert

    no skimmer, no dosing, no feeding... I didn't even test my water parameters up until last week. I wanted to just keep an eye on everything and let the tank tell me how it's going. The only thing I have been worrying about lately is my Alk and Ca levels because I have a lot of stony corals in this tiny guy, I figured that they were being soaked up like a sponge and the water changes would have a hard time keeping up. (The levels for my fresh mixed W/C are @ 8-9 dKH and 460-480 Ca). And with all the different variables from light acclimation to just plain having SPS in a pico, it was hard to tell just on observing growth alone, so I decided maybe it was time to test the tank and see how things where holding up.

    All the levels seem pretty good except for dKH it was at 5! So I've been doing small daily water changes with 12 dKH to slowly get it back to around 9-10. Surprisingly none of the corals seem to have been effected too much by it, I was still seeing pretty good growth in my stonys.
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    (4 new heads on this Acan)

    I'm hoping once I get the levels where I want them I can maintain them my using water with higher dKH and Ca for my weekly water changes. Another problem we dealt with was the red Zoas came down with a fungal infection of some sort
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    but we dipped them in some Furan-2 which seem to do the trick and they are recovering nicely.
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    Also the last few piece of coral have all been light acclimated so the tank got a final rescaping job, that makes a total of 20 different piece in only 2 gals . I'm thinking the tanks is full, time to sit back and watch it grow. The only thing I'm still looking to add is a unique inverter of some sort... I just have no Idea what .


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    Thanks for looking.

    I'm working on the price list, it should be up in a few days
    Last edited by Badfish; 04-23-2012 at 02:06 PM.
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    TheLittleMermaid - Reefkeeper CR Member
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    Now that everything has been placed in our Pico we are ready to watch it grow! I am hoping that we can work on a video clip tomorrow of our tank. The last few additions which were added are blue sympodium (hiding in the back for now), a small piece of our yellow scroll coral, and a mushrrom we picked up in Flint. Take a look!

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    I have also put together our final Coral Price List for the Build as well as the cost for the tank and equipment used.
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    Just keep swimming, ...swimming, swimming....
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    MizTanks - Reefkeeper
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    Beautiful!!
    There's nothing like being a Reefer! www.upmmas.com
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