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Absolutly gorgeous tank! Congrats!!!!
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Awesome and well deserved!
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Outstanding tank! Congrats!!
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Kudos. Grea tank. Kudos to reef central as well for finally awarding this honor to something other than a large sps dominated tank.
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Very nice, congratulations!
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Wow, very nice! I too am excited to know how long some of the sps have been in there. some of the colors were fantastic. way to go, you clearly put a lot of work in.
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I've always been a fan of your tank and your photography. Congratulations Louis.
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That calcium reactor is made by Aquatica Australia, which is no longer in business. He sold all his stuff at a garage sell and I picked it up for AUD$40 (USD$33). It works OK, but the tuning is a lot more fiddly than my other DBReefTech CR-5C. Quote:
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I always get asked if surface skimming is an issue with a setup like this. In the case of a nano tank, no. I switch the return pump off for feeding, and this drains all the surface water into the filter bag. However, this same design does not work on a large tank with a very large surface area. On my 4' tank, I made a skimming box that screws onto the bulkhead, and this allows for surface skimming . If anyone is interested in that, I'll post a photo of it. Quote:
The bubble-algae looking hitchhiking crab is actually a decorator crab that live in macro algae. He can change looks very quickly. One moment he is definitely a chaetomorphia-camo one, and the next moment he's holding Caulerpa instead. It's quite funny when he's hanging onto a mangrove, while holding Caulerpa
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Great Tank, Congratulation! I wanted to ask, do the mounting legs for the light come with it, or did you have to make/buy those separately?
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beautiful tank! well deserved congratulations
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No coment. Absolutely the best.
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That is simply awesome Louis!
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Well deserved Louis. Very nice indeed.
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Awesome nano reef. Congratulations !
For how long do you have the mandarim ???
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You are the Nano Man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Awesome tank Louis!
What kind of drill bit did you use to make the holes for the bulkheads? TIA! |
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wow, thats awsome
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Gorgeous tank - very clean and beautiful! My question, however, I thought a true nano tank was self-contained? I didn't realize you could have such a large refugium/sump and still be considered a Nano. I'm very new to the hobby and am struggeling with a 29g. Your tank is an inspiration!
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louist -
Really fantastic setup!! Inspirational to those w/ nano's or starting one. Can you explain more detail about how you drilled such a small tank, whole location and why, materials/tools used, etc? Thanks,
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This mandarin was eating frozen food at the LFS (I got an audition). However, I still had to train her to recognise the pipetter and me. These days she will surface as soon as the pumps go out. In fact, she will attack the pipetter if food is dispensed too slowly. I feed her once a day until she is full. There are no competition for food in the tank. The hermit crabs try, but they are just bus boys. Quote:
The way I drilled was this: 1. Drill a scrap piece of perspex to use as template 2. Clamp the template to the tank glass (easy to do since holes are close to edge, you can use sticky tape too). The template is to prevent drifting when you just started 3. Plug your ears with tissue unless you wish to lose your hearing for a few hours 4. Get a small container and fill it with water and have it close by. This will be your cooling tank. 5. Start drilling! Apply only feather light pressure and try to be perpendicular to the glass. Every 40 seconds (or when your arms get sore), stop and dip the drill bit in the container or water to cool it. Using this method, the bit never got beyond ~25 celcius. 6. As you get close to the end, go SLOW and GENTLE. This will facilitate a cleaner exit hole. I stuck a piece of sticky tape across the exit hole to hold the drilled out glass That's it. It's pretty simple. It's time consuming, but using my cooling method, it's very clean, no mess. I used this same technique to drill my 4' tank which has 10mm glass. As for the hole location; I drilled close to the top since that's the level I wanted the bulkhead and water level. Keep in mind that this setup works well for a nano tank, but isn't ideal in a large tank. I did a modified version of this for the 4'. Quote:
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All the photos you see there are taken with the Canon EOS 10D with: 70-200 f2.8 IS L 180 f3.5 macro MP-E65 macro 28-80 f3.5-5.6 (the "Dog Toy") FTS and non-macros are with the 70-200 or 28-80. All macro shots are with the 180 f3.5 and all super macros (> 1x) are with the MP-E65. In case you are wondering, I am not a professional photographer. I just somehow ended up in two very expensive hobbies Early mid life crisis? I am actually a bioinformatician in medical research. Photographing insects is my main repertoire before I starting reefing. I'll post more photos if people are interested. Some may no longer be relevant to the tank as it is now. Or unless you guys want to go totally OT and see some photos of bugs?
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Post all the pics you want Louis. They're all awesome.
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