Zer0
is back to save the day!
So, for those of you who don't know me, I'm in the habit of building custom setups, and then selling them. It just comes natural to me. I build it, I think I'm going to set it up, and then I sell it. Well, I got pretty tired of that, and I really missed caring for a saltwater aquarium and all of the joys that come with it. Long story short, I was away from the upkeep for too long and now I crave the salt goodness.
Anyways, I got tired of all the bulkheads, the plumbing, the countless hours of DIY stand building... So I decided to set up something simple and small. I wanted a tank that would fit on my desk when I do work for school. Something I could look at when I needed to relax, take my eyes off the books and snap back to reality. So here, this is my attempt at accomplishing that.
To be quite honest, and trying not to be biased, I believe the tank to look better in person because my camera is pretty old and it doesn't capture the true shadows and colors of the tank. However, I do blame the light since it's an old 6500k spiral bulb. I had nothing else.
All of the equipment you see before you will be gone in the coming weeks(or months lol). I plan to get an AC70 and do the fuge mod, and keep my heater in there as well. The Koralia Nano will stay. I want the added flow because I will probably be adding a couple species of SPS. If that's not enough flow, I'll add the Koralia 1 that I have.
My plan for this tank was to originally do a Wheeler's shrimp goby dedicated tank, but now I'm shying away from that idea because I don't want my sandbed to be too disturbed. So now, I'm probably going to go with a mated pair of Neon Gobies. They don't get very large, have a small bioload and I can feed them every other day, which means low nitrates and phosphates.
I plan on "eventually" making this a reef, but for the coming months it will only be a FOWLR. I'm going to wait until the rock gets nice and purple/green/red etc.. and full of algae, micro life and the like until I really start adding coral. Partially because I just want an established tank before I start adding any coral, and because I don't currently have a light to support any coral
. My plans for that though is either the Nova 2x18w or 2x24w. Whichever one I can find for the cheapest I will do.
Equipment:
- 10G AGA Aquarium
- Aqueon 20 HOB Filter - Running carbon
- Junky 50W heater
- Koralia Nano
- Standard floating thermometer
- Spiral Fluorescent bulb in a HD reflector - 6500k bulb.
Pretty simple right?
That's all for now. Comments, criticism, suggestions all accepted.
EDIT*
Oh yeah one more thing, I don't know if it's just in the petsmarts around me, but AGA has really stepped up their game on the silicone. The edges are actually pretty nice, and the silicone is not all over the place. I have a year old 10G from them and the difference in the new one is absolutely noticeable. Just a thought.
Anyways, I got tired of all the bulkheads, the plumbing, the countless hours of DIY stand building... So I decided to set up something simple and small. I wanted a tank that would fit on my desk when I do work for school. Something I could look at when I needed to relax, take my eyes off the books and snap back to reality. So here, this is my attempt at accomplishing that.
To be quite honest, and trying not to be biased, I believe the tank to look better in person because my camera is pretty old and it doesn't capture the true shadows and colors of the tank. However, I do blame the light since it's an old 6500k spiral bulb. I had nothing else.
All of the equipment you see before you will be gone in the coming weeks(or months lol). I plan to get an AC70 and do the fuge mod, and keep my heater in there as well. The Koralia Nano will stay. I want the added flow because I will probably be adding a couple species of SPS. If that's not enough flow, I'll add the Koralia 1 that I have.
My plan for this tank was to originally do a Wheeler's shrimp goby dedicated tank, but now I'm shying away from that idea because I don't want my sandbed to be too disturbed. So now, I'm probably going to go with a mated pair of Neon Gobies. They don't get very large, have a small bioload and I can feed them every other day, which means low nitrates and phosphates.
I plan on "eventually" making this a reef, but for the coming months it will only be a FOWLR. I'm going to wait until the rock gets nice and purple/green/red etc.. and full of algae, micro life and the like until I really start adding coral. Partially because I just want an established tank before I start adding any coral, and because I don't currently have a light to support any coral
. My plans for that though is either the Nova 2x18w or 2x24w. Whichever one I can find for the cheapest I will do. Equipment:
- 10G AGA Aquarium
- Aqueon 20 HOB Filter - Running carbon
- Junky 50W heater
- Koralia Nano
- Standard floating thermometer
- Spiral Fluorescent bulb in a HD reflector - 6500k bulb.
Pretty simple right?
That's all for now. Comments, criticism, suggestions all accepted.
EDIT*
Oh yeah one more thing, I don't know if it's just in the petsmarts around me, but AGA has really stepped up their game on the silicone. The edges are actually pretty nice, and the silicone is not all over the place. I have a year old 10G from them and the difference in the new one is absolutely noticeable. Just a thought.
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