Champtain's Red Sea Max Nano Build

[champtain]

Matches perfectly. Now I have to go get a 2” hole saw, measure out everything that will be mounted, and get the grommets put in. At least I have something to do while the tank cycles and I wait on everything to arrive.

 

[Chrisfish]

Congratulations on your Nano, looking really good and love your Frenchie

 

[Westside Guy]

Matches perfectly. Now I have to go get a 2” hole saw, measure out everything that will be mounted, and get the grommets put in. At least I have something to do while the tank cycles and I wait on everything to arrive.

It looks great, when you are finished please come over and design a panel for me.

 

[champtain]

Getting a rough layout without all of the pieces is pretty frustrating. I think I’m done for a little bit.

 

[champtain]

Congratulations on your Nano, looking really good and love your Frenchie

Thank you! Dude (the Frenchie) thanks you too. He likes sitting in the chair staring at the tank. He also enjoys going to the LFS and looking in their tanks too.

 

[champtain]

It looks great, when you are finished please come over and design a panel for me.

I'll be down your way in July. Lol. I actually went to college at UCF.

 

[champtain]

Day 3. 1st test.

 

[Westside Guy]

Don't rush to stock the tank and it is still early and not totally cycled. I made this mistake and it set me back several weeks.

 

[champtain]

Don't rush to stock the tank and it is still early and not totally cycled. I made this mistake and it set me back several weeks.

Not my 1st rodeo, I think my last tank took 2 weeks and that was with sand and rock I got from a buddies tank, I I’m just gonna assume this one could take around 4. Here was my first college tank.

 

[Westside Guy]

Not my 1st rodeo, I think my last tank took 2 weeks and that was with sand and rock I got from a buddies tank, I I’m just gonna assume this one could take around 4. Here was my first college tank.

Nice, what did you do with it?

 

[champtain]

Nice, what did you do with it?

I think it’s in a closet in my parents basement. The sunpod light might be worth some money now. I’ll have to look for it next time I’m back.

 

[Hemmdog]

Cool stuff man!

 

[champtain]

Cool stuff man!

Thanks!

 

[Westside Guy]

I think it’s in a closet in my parents basement. The sunpod light might be worth some money now. I’ll have to look for it next time I’m back.

Maybe you should use it as a QT tank for your new system?

 

[champtain]

Maybe you should use it as a QT tank for your new system?

I could, but one of my friends already has one set up that I’m going to use. I don’t really have the space, and by “don’t have enough space” I mean the lady would murder me. Lol.

 

[champtain]

This is what he thinks of me spending more time with a fish tank than him.

 

[Westside Guy]

I could, but one of my friends already has one set up that I’m going to use. I don’t really have the space, and by “don’t have enough space” I mean the lady would murder me. Lol.

I went through a similar thing with my wife, at first she refused to even put a fish tank in the living room and then she agreed to do a Reefer 170. After many months of campaigning I took her to a LFS and convinced her that we really needed was the Reefer 250 and she finally gave in. Now she loves the tank and talks to the fishes.

 

[champtain]

Bit the bullet and bought a DOS and DDR last night. Should be here Tuesday so I can finally finish mounting everything and get the wall installed in the cabinet.

I’ve never dosed before, so this will be new to me. I’m just going to do the 2 part in this tank once I get some SPS. I’m thinking (way ahead) I’d like to get a couple clams too.

As for an ATO, I’m waiting to see how much room I have in the back after I install the probes and probe rack. Anyone have any suggestions on a good one (never used one of these before either).

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions, btw. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

 

[champtain]

So I filled my tank with saltwater from the LFS last week because my RODI wasn’t in yet. Checked the salinity today, 1.018. Awesome. So now I’m going to be doing water changes over the next few days to get that corrected. The LFS gave me a bag of salt though, so that was nice.

 

[champtain]

Did a 50% water change last night, checked the salinity at lunch today. It's up to 1.02. I think I'm going to do a 5 gallon change today with 1.03 salinity and check it tomorrow. If it's still a little low, which I assume it will be, I will do daily 5 gallon water changes until it's where I want it to be.

Anyone have any other suggestions on how to do this?