Eshopps Deskmate 4.8: Show Off Thread!

[sixspeed]

Looks great! How do you does your AFR? Dosing pump, or just manually?

Nice looking aquascape too!

Dosing manually now until I finish my lid that has a dosing tube holder.

I was going to order one of the Kraken reef lids but pricing didn’t really make sense. Lid is $100+ for a tank that only cost $180 so not sure what they’re thinking there and just having a local shop cut a piece of polycarbonate to size.

 

[Haggisman14]

Dosing manually now until I finish my lid that has a dosing tube holder.

I was going to order one of the Kraken reef lids but pricing didn’t really make sense. Lid is $100+ for a tank that only cost $180 so not sure what they’re thinking there and just having a local shop cut a piece of polycarbonate to size.

I hear you about the lid! I wanted one as well, but couldn't justify the price! Made my own with a $6 piece of glass from Lowes that I cut down, and then cut a piece of orange acrylic to match the tank.

I"ve actually got a new piece of orange acrylic coming in tomorrow that's 1/4" thick that hopefully will not warp under the light like this piece of 1/8" did. I also accidentally snapped it when making it initially, so that extra 1/8" of thickness should make a good difference.

Also going to take my time making this lid so it's got a cleaner look to it!

Current lid:

 

[sixspeed]

@Haggisman14 oooh good call on covering the back area, probably will do the same! Looks really clean.

Added a pistol shrimp and yellow watchman goby to the tank, I’ll get a pic when they’re settled. Currently moving a **** ton of sand around and setting the place up haha.

 

[CasperOe]

Some great tanks in here! I am very happy this little wonder of a tank is not readily available in the UK. It would be very hard not to buy one

 

[Brit’s Fish]

My Deskmate - about 10 months old now. Added an AI Prime instead of the stock light, went with the Kraken cover (I have a couple others on my other nanos and they’re awesome - so well made!) & also got the Kraken filter cup.
2 fish - 1 Yellow Clown Goby & 1 Priolepsis Ascensionis Goby, 4 blue leg hermits, 1 Astrea snail, 3 tiny Cerith snails & a million mini brittle stars that keep splitting.
I love this little tank, although the Monti isn’t doing great.

 

[sixspeed]

Is anyone running the eshopps filter media tray?

 

[Haggisman14]

Is anyone running the eshopps filter media tray?

No sir.

I'm running the Kraken Reef filter cup filled with filter floss, and then I"ve got a bag of ceramic media balls in the rear chamber (the ones that BRS sold with their "kit").

I change out a a small square of filter floss about 2x per week.

 

[Cycleguy0623]

I’ll have to follow along to this. I just picked up the BRS kit today. Can’t wait to get it.

 

[AquaLogic]

Dosing manually now until I finish my lid that has a dosing tube holder.

I was going to order one of the Kraken reef lids but pricing didn’t really make sense. Lid is $100+ for a tank that only cost $180 so not sure what they’re thinking there and just having a local shop cut a piece of polycarbonate to size.

Yeah, Kraken seems to make cool stuff but their pricing is...... extreme.

 

[NefariousAquarius]