My 12 gallon nano

[josh.j.avila]

Link to my 85 EcoTech Build

This thread is dedicated to my JBJ NanoCube 12 gallon that I set up again in Texas. The tank was briefly set up in California however, with a lot of moving in undergrad the tank was broken down for 13 years until 2015.

05/2015



02/02/2015





The Tank:

• Nano Cube 12 Gallon non-delux Circa 2004

Filtration/Equipment:

• Home made Media basket with filter floss, carbon, and purigen InTank Media Basket with 2 ChemiPure Blue Nano pouches
• Return - Maxi Jet 600 with hydro deflector
• ATO - Puratek (This was a little tricky to get set up but I love it now)
• Lighting - AI Nano with controller
• Heater - Petco 50 W Cobalt NeoTherm
• Flow - RW-4 Jaebo

Sand/Rock/Water:

• ~12 lbs. of rock live rock
• ~15 lbs. of dry rock Circa 2004
• ~20lbs. of CaribSea Arag-Alive Sand
• MiliQ Ultra Pure Type 1 water with AquaVitro Salinity

Lighting Schule is as follows:

Timer 1: 9AM - 1 PM (B-56, RY-76) 4 Hr Ramp

Timer 2: 11AM - 1 PM (CW-36) 2 Hr Ramp

Timer 3: 5PM - 7 PM (CW-0) 2 Hr Ramp

Timer 3: 5PM - 9 PM (B-1, RY-2) 4 Hr Ramp

Lunary Cycle Enabled, Weather Enabled Cloud Coverage Only 70%, 5 events/day

Livestock:

• 2 - Ocellaris clownfish , 1 Ocellaris Clown fish
• 1 - Royal Gramma
• Watchmen Goby
• CUC - Reef Cleaners (dwarf ceriths, nassarius, florida ceriths, nerites) + Hitch hicker hermits

Coral:

• Maxi Mini
• Superman mushroom
• Orange Ultra Ric
• Yellow Green Ric
• Finger Leather
• Monti Cap
• Staghorn
• Gold Torch
• Frog Spawn
• Blue Digi
• Forest Fire Digit
• Spongedes
• Sun Coral NPS Coral
• Hollywood Stunner Chalice
• Forest Fire Digitia
• ORA Purple Stylo
• Australian strawberry shortcake
• CC Pastel Shortcake
• ORA Pink Birdsnest
• JF Pink Branching cyphastrea
• Setosa Montipora
• Jedi Mind Trick
• Tyree Flower Pedal
• Tyree Strawberry Patch Mont
• Harry’s Valentino Pocillipora
• German Green Digi
• ORA Screaming birdsnest
• Chips Acro
• Birds of Paradise
• Fire and Ice
• Fairy dusters
• Darth Maul
• Blue Zoas
• Pink Zoas
• Tangerine Zoas
• Some other zoas
• Three Blastos
• Orange Acans
• Rainbow Acans
• Alpha Omega Favia
• Orange Trachyphyllia
• Three varieties of candy canes

 

[josh.j.avila]

upgraded to an Gen 2 Pro Radion, did a big water change so everything looks kinda upset.

 

[spspirate]

Cool little reef!! Looking good

 

[josh.j.avila]

Thanks buddy. Those pictures really don't do it justice, I have to say I'm probably really over stocked, I've added quite a lot more, got all the cyno and dino under control too finally. So it's looking epic. Going to move the majority of stuff over to the big tank once we move.

 

[josh.j.avila]

Got myself a nice little (softball size) show piece. Been pretty busy but I'll try to snap a picture soon and show y'all. Actually I'll just snap a picture right now. Don't hate me because the lack of adjust the radion schedule, it's going to be a little blue.

 

[josh.j.avila]

 

[Flameback Pair]

It looks like you're still acclimating a lot of the corals. How long before you mount a bunch of frags to the rock work? I can't wait to see that.

 

[josh.j.avila]

Powers, great question. Sadly I don't have enough room to mount them. I ended up getting a low iron 85 rimless. I'm planning to move select higher end sps from this tank to the new tank. Just a temporary holding pattern.

I've been debating keeping this up as a nano or turning it into a QT tank.

 

[josh.j.avila]

Alright the dino seems to be getting better, I've slowly reduced my feeding and been siphoning out as much as I can with filter floss changes once a day, will bump this up to twice a day starting today. I also plan on cutting lights out from tomorrow until Monday which will probably make a couple things not happy. Since I only have a mandarin I don't think it will hurt for me to cut feeding out for these days.

 

[nanoman28g]

upgraded to an Gen 2 Pro Radion, did a big water change so everything looks kinda upset.

Nice nano tank!

 

[josh.j.avila]

Thank you. The aggressiveness had been paying off. Did 5 cup water change along with swapping out filter floss and a new bag of carbon and the tank is looking clear again. A little bit of Dino remains. Will be taking out my frag rack and giving it a good vinegar bath and taking a brush to my frag plugs to remove any Dino and giving everything a good coral rx dip. Then lights out and immediately replacing the carbon again.

 

[josh.j.avila]

Removed a piece of rock. This is before the lights went on this morning. You can tell the water is a lot more clear now.

 

[josh.j.avila]

cleaned up pictures to follow tonight.

 

[rajkovich207]

Neat tank, always loved aio's. Watch that maxi mini, I lost several fish to mine before I was able to get rid of it. And that is a ton of light for such a small tank lol, I have a single gen2 over my 36" rimless tank!

 

[josh.j.avila]

Luckily I haven't lost anything to it. The porcelain crab does a good job of keeping everyone away from it.

 

[josh.j.avila]

I got the 30 knowing if I wanted to upgrade to a bigger tank it would be easier to just swap out the light.

 

[josh.j.avila]

It's been a while since I've updated the so I figured I'd give it my best. Got rid of a couple of digit frags that weren't looking so great. Culled the colony I guess you could say. These were just quick iPhone snaps.

 

[josh.j.avila]

Ha, looking at these I should have changed the light setting or used a gel filter or at least did some editing of the colors. It's just one of those days guys.

 

[Ahruk]

Wow looking really great!

 

[josh.j.avila]

Thanks hopefully, I'll have a couple better pictures later on, still battling some dinos, but in a week I think I've really cleaned it up. Hopefully another week I'll be done with it completely.