first attempt at a nano

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Battling a little bit of cyano. Seems to be from me trying to dirty my water up a little for my clam. Maybe got a little too ambitious doing it. . . Lol. Oh well it's getting well under control




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UPDATE

- modified skimmer works pretty damn well now. Was about to buy another one but see how this goes.

- clam wasn't happy originally he's doing awesome now. Managed to boost my nitrates from near undetectable to 2.5 and phosphates from undetectable to 0.03.

- tanks really filling out, gotta be real selective with these nano's as real estate is high business.

- for some reason calcium and magnesium is kinda high not sure why am not dosing but it's lowering alk which I am dosing.

- still on the hunt for a small blue boxfish and waiting for lfs to get me in a banded shrimp.

- had a cyano outbreak with the increase in nutrients but that is all leveling out and it's barely there now.


Current full tank shot



Clowns have chosen the Duncan as their home




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Feeding time




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So I decided I had to rescape the nano, there was just too much dead spots at the back with the rock stacked how it was. So today I decided to re-scape. Was just debarcles. The heater I use to warm my water change has apparently died in the arse. So while I assumed my water was getting to a nice temperature it was infact at a dangerous low. This meant I had to be very manuveable which meant I couldn't swap as much water as I wanted. And was difficult to rescape as I didn't want to leave rocks out of the water for long. I had planned to do a 50% water change refill tank 75% and rescape underwater. Keeping my tank inhabitants in around 30% of what was taken out and 20% discarded with syphoning of the sand and deteis build ups. So things didn't go to plan and that meant the scape didn't go to plan. However I did achieve moving the rocks off the back wall which was the main reason I wanted to rescape. Them epoxy and glue didn't want to play ball and my temper came within a hair of throwing everything out on the lawn and starting from scratch.

I discarded some corals that didn't appeal to me anymore and made room for ones that I do still want in this tank. So it's looking a little more scarce than it was. Oh and I thought I killed he star fish with a rock slide and crushed him but he's still kicking and moving around.

Current Water Parameters
Nitrates - 2
Phosphates - <0.03
Alk - 9.9
Salinity - 35ppt
Calcium - 480
Magnesium - 1600
ammonia - 0 (tested just to see with rescape)

Current FTS



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Couple of top down shots as the lights dim and change for night. Not the best trying to work my way around the lights reflection!






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Removed some coral, fragged some and bought more frags. Also now have a CBS and an orange starfish








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Some of the newer frags and older ones doing well




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[CanIHazReef]

Would love to know what inhabitants you have at the moment?

Tank is looking great!

[swazzle]

Would love to know what inhabitants you have at the moment?

Tank is looking great!

Hey man thanks!

Inhabitants
Fish 2 x black and white occy's, 1 flame angel

Inverts - 2 conch snails, 2 hermit crabs, 2 turbos, 1 coral banded shrimp

Coral - maybe 15 sps frags, acros, Millis, stylo. Couple of scans, blasto, sun coral, Duncan, zoas and a few I don't really know what their called ha!

Newest editions are the strawberry shortcake pictured above, Aussie paradise and red riding hood acros


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