My Nano Reef... *DUW*

I decided a few months ago that I wanted to play around with a nano reef (again)....this time around I decided to go with an all-in-one system vs. a DIY nano like I've done before. This beauty has been set up 2 months now...the liverock is from my 75 that has been established for 3 years now.

I went with a Current USA 12 gallon Aquapod. I've added an extra powerhead for more flow. Otherwise I haven't modded too much else....yet.;)

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1.../NanoFTS01.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1.../NanoFTS02.jpg
New "Rare" Orange Cycloseris sp.:D This thing glows bright orange under moonlights!
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...on/Plate01.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...thon/Zoos1.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...thon/Zoos2.jpg

And here's the latest addition to my 75 gallon...by far THE biggest Potters Angel I've ever seen, couldn't get a decent picture, he's still a bit reclusive...but he'll come around eventually.
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1.../Potters01.jpg

Welcome to my world of salt creep! Enjoy!

-Jason

:cool: one word...AWESOME!
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Button polyps are awesome nice reef bro. Is that a true percula? Have your soft corals reproduced well for you? I had my 75g for 4 years and loved it, I had great reproduction from my yellow polyps, leathers, and mushrooms. Star polyps also did well, I had to get out of the hobby it was to much work maybe later I'll get in to it again.

Jason you did an excellent job!!! If those corals came FROM your 75, I'd love to see what that looks like!!!

nice nano, the rock looks good!



vaughn

Gorgeous.. and good luck with the potter's angel.. they're difficult if I remember correctly. Beautiful though.

Wow, Jason that is really beautiful! :eek:

Beautiful!

Beautiful!!! Lets see the 75 gallon....please:P

That's gorgeous, Jason!! I'm always in awe of people who can create and maintain such beautiful salt-water environments!

NIIICE!!! I love Nanos ... The red Mushrooms are my FAV! & Your Percula? looks very happy! :sunny: That Potters is Hott too!

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Originally Posted by steveo

:cool: one word...AWESOME!
:rockon:

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Thanks Steveo!

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Originally Posted by Emilio

Button polyps are awesome nice reef bro. Is that a true percula? Have your soft corals reproduced well for you? I had my 75g for 4 years and loved it, I had great reproduction from my yellow polyps, leathers, and mushrooms. Star polyps also did well, I had to get out of the hobby it was to much work maybe later I'll get in to it again.

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Zooanthids.:P But there are to green button polyps in there. It is a Amphiprion percula indeed, the Ocellaris are in my 75. As far as reproduction the red mushrooms have taken off, aswell as the yellow polyps, everything else has only been in the tank about a month. As far as maintenance I perform a 20% waterchange once every three days, and check evap topoff every other day...simple really.:D

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Originally Posted by 4thSNAKElady

Jason you did an excellent job!!! If those corals came FROM your 75, I'd love to see what that looks like!!!

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Thanks! The Montipora cap came from the 75, and a few mushrooms, I salvaged them after my 75 crashed around new years this last year. Long story short I won't keep Xenia in any of my tanks ever again. As of now the 75 is a fish only (all fish are reef safe however)...eventually I will restock it to be a SPS dominated tank.

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Originally Posted by kavmon

nice nano, the rock looks good!

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Thanks Vaughn...using established rock from my 75 defnitely helped to eliminate that new tank look (and algae blooms.:D )

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Gorgeous.. and good luck with the potter's angel.. they're difficult if I remember correctly. Beautiful though

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Thanks April. The Potters Angel should do quite well for me...the key to keeping some of the touchier dwarf angels is an established tank with loads of liverock, pods, etc... The 75 he's in has been running for 3 years with the 130lbs of rock, so he has a lot of flora and fauna to munch on. As far as growth he probably won't get much bigger than he is. I'd take a guess that he is 5 & 1/2 inches...biggest I've ever seen.

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Originally Posted by daaangconcepts

Wow, Jason that is really beautiful! :eek:

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Thanks Susan! You're not too bad yourself.:P

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Originally Posted by lilyorchid

Beautiful!

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Thanks Allison!

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Originally Posted by ZEKESMOM

Beautiful!!! Lets see the 75 gallon....please:P

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Hopefully I can get some pictures up of that tonight or tomorrow sometime. I'm still restocking it with fish...and trying to still locate my showpiece fish so I can start its quarantine.

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Originally Posted by JLC

That's gorgeous, Jason!! I'm always in awe of people who can create and maintain such beautiful salt-water environments!

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Thanks Judy! My family loves to sit and oogle my tanks, and they don't have to do any of the work. Saltwater is really trying on my patience sometimes...but its truly one of my passions. When I'm finished with school, get married, all that jazz I would like to put together my dream reef of ~300 gallons for the display plus frag tanks for propagating corals.

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NIIICE!!! I love Nanos ... The red Mushrooms are my FAV! & Your Percula? looks very happy! :sunny: That Potters is Hott too!

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Thanks Laura! I started into the saltwater hobby with a 10 gallon, definitely not the way to get into it, but you learn really fast how to properly care for a smaller ecosystem. The red mushrooms were a donation to me from a lovely neighbor that is in our local reef club. If you like my percula (which are my fav clown BTW) then you'd loooove my other fish in there, a Pinkbar Goby , she's really neat to watch...but very difficult to catch a picture of.

Thanks everyone. I'm glad I could share another one of my obsession/passions. I'll try to get some pictures of my 75 FOWLR, and 46 African Cichlid Tank.

-Jason

That's beautiful. My husband really wants one but since we'll be moving in a few years I don't want to go to the trouble of getting one setup just to tear it down.

Marine tanks are amazing, I love my fish mags. :)

Thats amazing!!! Is that self-sustained or do you still feed, clean etc?

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Originally Posted by Phreak

Thats amazing!!! Is that self-sustained or do you still feed, clean etc?

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I still feed once a day...once every two weeks I dose zooplankton for the corals. I do a water change every 3 days, and watch evaporation every other day. You really have to watch small salt tanks like a hawk things can turn foul fast.

-Jason

So larger ones are easier?

Nano's are sweet! :cool:

Potters are without a doubt my favorite 'Centropyge'. :rockon:

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Originally Posted by Phreak

So larger ones are easier?

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Larger tank= larger room for error in terms of water chemisty/quality....changes don't tend to happen as sudden making it a much more stable environment for the inhabitants.:)

Thanks Panther! Potters were on the top of my list for the Centropyge angels... but I would LOVE Centropyge inneruptus...I just don't love the prices.:eek:

brilliant inverts!
my tanks are essentially fish only for now, coral and the like are too expensive for a student :mad:
LOVE the potter's angel, makes my coral beauty look like a goby. :)

I love the Japanese angel too.. I was trying to think of the one that was sort of similar to the Potter's angel that I liked.. I haven't looked at marine fish in awhile.