My 10G nano AIO mixed

[soutzee]

im kind of excited to post my first saltwater tank after moving form fresh water:xd:. ive been watching a whole bunch of threads here since july that i started to build my AIO 10G. Its almost finished just a couple of tweaks but i wanted to do a thread to show it off and hear comments advice and opinions since im fairly new to reefing Thanks in advance!


Start Date: 07/10/2012


Hardware
10G derimmed basic tank
Pc Fan for cooling ( temperature staus mainly at 80-81 degrees
Mini Jet 606 for the filtration in the back
Koralia Nano 240
DIY Skimmer
2 Par 38 (24w total. 16white, 8 blue)
2 strips of only blue leds for nighttime or showing


Filtration
~7lb Live Rock
Chemi-Pure Elite
Chaeto
Rubble
One piece of Filter Pad


CUC


1Nerite Sanil
10 Blue hermit crabs
1 Emerald Crab
couple of baby turbo snails ( given to me by a friend)
couple of stomatellas that hitchhiked


Parameters
Nitrates~10
Phos ~0
Calcium 450
KH 10
Ph 8.4


Corals
frogspwan
finger leather
blasto
around 12 types of zoanthids:the names that i know are; fire and ice, grren bay packer, radioactive dragon eye, Valentine day massacre, Eagle Eye, Red People Eater
couple button paly
montipora frag
3 types of mushrooms
1 yuma
Candycane
Green Favia
Green Fungia
GSP
Small peice of Porites


Fish
1 green chromis (had 2 but one jumped and my poodle ate it)


So as i said i'm new to this but got a couple of tips on a couple of friends to build this AIO. Took a sheet of acrylic and cut a wall of 10 x 12 this would separate the filtration from the main display area. This total filtration area has a space of 10x5x12 consisting of 3 chambers. In the first chamber is the overflow which water flows down through the pad onto the chemipure and up through to the 2nd chamber. In the 2nd Chamber i have rubble with feather duster, Chaeto and the Diy Skimmer, flowing down to the third chamber which just has the minijet 606 and from there through a nozzle to the main display area.


I sped up the cycle of the tank by adding live rock and water from a friends aquarium, ( but nonetheless its still cycling but its down to only small patches of cyano being less with time. I add water myslef every day about a bottle due to evaporation havnet had the time to make an ATO. I do weekly water changes adding microbacteria with a salinity of 1.026,


The lights are hanging from a metal tubes i had around that i welded about 1.5 feet above the tank


DOnt know what else to say any question , suggestion , or comments are welcomed


Here are a couplepicture sorry for the bad quality definitive is in my priority getting a better camera
Filtration chambers

Hww it started out

The fixture i welded for the leds ( painted it white afterwards)

Complete View

Close up under normal lights

UNder Blue only lights

After all, that a month later i did a lil bit of rescaping not much change, so i put up better pictures with a closup of some corals

the small piece of porites the urchin bothered

if someone could identify for me the blue zoas on the middle and blue in the back? ( dont mind the small green fungia jaja

also please identify the ones on the lower left is blue with a green rim in the mouth

blasto is my favorite so far

sorry the montis looks like its bleaching it fell on top of the ornage mushroom but its recovering

green favia and orange yuma

ANY suggestions , or comments are welcomed and will be appreciated
Thanks in Advanced!

 

[illdoya]

tank looks great! how'd you make a DIY skimmer? im going to google that now

sorry I cant help with ID's but your zoa garden looks great, I like the variety of them all.

sorry too about your cromie

 

[wysiwyg]

beautiful tank ty for sharing

 

[soutzee]

tank looks great! how'd you make a DIY skimmer? im going to google that now

sorry I cant help with ID's but your zoa garden looks great, I like the variety of them all.

sorry too about your cromie

I took a 2 inch PVC pipe cut it about 9 inches tall with one end being a 45 angle cut and on that end i glued an acrilyc piece ( so i can see how dirty it is) with silicone. On the other end goes a limewood stone ( for the fine bubbles as i was told the finer the bubbles the better) with the normal plastic tubing that air goes through. and on the top a hole with a bigger tubing for the exceess nutrients to get out and i collect it in a water bottle :smile:.

i was looking around coral pedia and they seem like a morph of alien eye i plan on trying to trade it for another type of zoa here locally

 

[soutzee]

and about the chromie damm my poodle had a good snack that day she seemed happy lol

i really hope i can get this 10g looking as beautiful as some ive seen around here

 

[revsgirl]

Great lookin' nano!! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Looks great and thanks for sharing! Keep this updated!

 

[soutzee]

i got some Purple people eater with white speckles and some zoas they sold to me as armageddon ill post pics as soon as i get a working camera jaja

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

The tank is looking great!! Thanks for sharing!!!

 

[soutzee]

the best pictures i could take


here are the Purple people eater with white speckles they look awsome in person

here is a frag for a variety of 3 types of zoas one of them being 2 polyps of armaggedon ( FOR FRICKIN 6 DOLLARS had to YANK THAT PIECE OUT OF THERE jajajajaj)

 

[soutzee]

i wish i knew the names but oh well fopr 6 DOLLARS cant ask more than that jajaja

 

[LVE]

Really cool looking nano. Nice job.

 

[soutzee]

Really cool looking nano. Nice job.

Thanks

 

[soutzee]

SO here a quick update to i have been up to.Well the story with this update is that my frogspawn Ate one of the 2 chromis i had (i bought it 2 days before he ate it so its $5 down the drain). So since i wann abe able to keep fish frogspawn was two big it already had 3 heads so i traded it. The pieces i got in return was a Reverse superman jason fox Monti, hollywood stunner chalice, Green paly with yellow center, Pirate Blood jason fox Zoa,and my LFS gifted me a small frag of king midas zoas, and i bought from there some zoas idk the name but i liked them they are like brown with an orange center. I like how everything is looking so far

Brown zoa with orange center

Pirate blood Jason Fox zoa in the back ( some are closed cause the fish went by them)

The hollywood stunner in fornt and the small frag in the back is the reverse superman JAson Fox MOnti

The green paly with teh yellow center 3 polyps

King midas are behind the Fire and ice Zoa( sorry teh candy cane look like that they take a while to open because lights were off)

and this is an overview how it looks for now

 

[mallorieGgator]

Looking really great! Your zoanthids all look very happy and healthy. Keep up the good work. :clap2:

 

[tinctorus]

I know you said it's a standard 10 gallon tank but that really does NOT look like standard 10 gallon tank dimensions, it looks more like a 15 gallon to me because it's considerably taller looking than a standard 10 gallon tank looks
A standard 10 gallon is 12" tall, that definitely looks taller

 

[soutzee]

MAllorie thanks makes me really happy to hear that from somebody that knows way tons than me :bounce:

Tinctorus maybe it looks that way becasue i take a pic of just the main part of teh tank it has 5 inches to the side i didnt take a pic because that is the filtration area but yes it is a 10 g standard tank, and i got curious so i measured it again jaajajaj yep it is 12 inches tall. BUt thanks i hope that means you like it :bigsmile:

imma hold back a bit to save some money until january because i have to take my CPA exam and it cost around $400 but after january i plan to change some more corals and a add one more chromis

 

[soutzee]

excuse i was wondering of some type of fish that would clean crush coral like a gobby that i could add to my aquarium. Beacuse most of the gobby i know are either too big and the ones that are small enough dont clean crush coral they just eat meaty food , or clean sand. if not what other thing i could put in there besides hermits and turbo snail.

 

[AsphaltPays]

Great looking little Nano Nice job!!

 

[soutzee]

Thanks!