Rosebud161616's 15 gallon custom built nano

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Originally Posted by rosebud161616

....It is very similar to what you would get at Ikea. They were more expensive at Walmart, but they were also the exact dimensions of my tank. The Ikea ones were slightly larger. Plus Ikea is about 100 miles away while Walmart is about 10. So, I went the Walmart route.

It doesn't seem to have any trouble with the weight. I think the big part here is the dimensional lumber that I used to sturdy the whole thing up. Without it, it would have just toppled over. I'll have to try to get a close up of the wood with a flash so you can see what I did.

I still plan on adding doors, but just haven't gotten around to it. I was thinking of laminating some plywood with zebra wood veneer. I haven't laminated before but after doing a ton of research, I really want to give it a shot!

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Thanks! Any extra info will help!!

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Originally Posted by rosebud161616

Should I keep the mangroves along the backside or fill it in with coral?

http://kevintoomey.com/reef/Nano_Build/MangroveSide.jpg

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Mangroves! :thumbsup:

I like it, looks a little like an underwater Stonehenge....or something....

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Originally Posted by kev2me

Mangroves! :thumbsup:

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Thanks, husband! :)

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Originally Posted by Sula

I like it, looks a little like an underwater Stonehenge....or something....

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Sue, you crack me up...:redneck:

Just a quick random picture. I love this Mushroom! It seems to have really expanded quite a bit and settled in.

http://kevintoomey.com/reef/Nano_Build/mushroom2.jpg

I agree that's a cool little mushroom!

How about another quick picture? My husband snapped this one last night:

http://kevintoomey.com/reef/Nano_Bui...011/Dendro.jpg

I have a bit of bad news today. One of our orange lined cardinal committed suicide. I had read in quite a few places that these guys are not jumpers so I had thought they would be good for a rimless tank...

Well I'm down to 2 and these 2 seem to have paired up. I'm going to leave it at 2. It will be a smaller bioload on this small of a tank and I don't like to have gone through so many fish! On the bright side, maybe I'll get some baby orange lined cardinalfish at some point and raise back the ones I lost!

Sorry about your jumper. I plan on adding 2 to my tank also. A Flaming Prawn Goby would do wonderful in your tank. Your corals all look wonderful and healthy :)

Well today was the WORC swap in Dayton, OH and I got some KILLER deals! I got a lot of cheap prices on stuff that was browned out and Free w/purchase items that were more rescue-type frags. Here are the receipts from today's swap:

http://kevintoomey.com/reef/Nano_Bui...Receipt001.jpg

http://kevintoomey.com/reef/Nano_Bui...Receipt002.jpg

I ended up removing a few things to make room in my budget for my stuff.

I removed the bright green favia. It has bleached quite a bit and I really think it might just be too bright in the tank for it. I could not find a place where it is happy so I'm going to move it to my main tank and see if I can make it happier.

I also removed the 2 maxi minis that were not cooperating with location. I was able to get to them through some holes in the rock work. The red one had moved to the top of the rocks on the backside so he was relatively easy to get to. The orange one I could get to through a cave on one of the front sides. It wasn't easy but a little work with an ice cube and I was able to get them out.

Then here is my updated price list including everything from today:

http://kevintoomey.com/reef/Nano_Build/pricelist3.jpg