Nano Growout Build

Squirrel_reefer · Oct 20, 2016

Good Morning Reefers

When you have a bunch of stuff laying around and your 75g mixed reef build just isn't going as fast as you'd like it too.....you might find yourself doing what I did last night.

I decided to put a 10g tank I had laying around to use, and decided I would try my hand at a nano tank, and use it for a coral growout tank. The idea being, I can growout some frags or colonies I want while I put together my 75g mixed reef. Currently I am resealing the 75g tank that I have dubbed "The grand experiment" and I want to build a stand for that tank so its quite a ways down the road. This tank will occupy my time till then, along with my 20g mantis shrimp tank.

anyways, 10g tank details.

Aqueon 10g standard tank
Arctic T247b LED fixture
Ehieim (spelling) heater
Aqueon QuietFlow HOB
Dry black sand, no name
Billy's Reef, Dry rubble leftovers from mantis tank

Having maintained a 20g for a while now I am interested in the challenge of a smaller, simpler tank. My plan is to simply cure a minimal amount of LR (see pics) and then place frag racks through-out the tank. Minimalist approach and treat the tank like a garden, sans fishys, using pure amonia dosing and Special Blend to cycle. We'll see how it goes I suppose. now for what you reefers really want...

Neon Jungle · Oct 20, 2016

Awesome. I also just set one up a 10 yesterday under my 75 as a "Qarantine tank / Nano tank". Cant wait to see how yours grows out !

Squirrel_reefer · Oct 20, 2016

Neon Jungle said:
Awesome. I also just set one up a 10 yesterday under my 75 as a "Qarantine tank / Nano tank". Cant wait to see how yours grows out !

Thanks! best of luck on yours as well

Squirrel_reefer · Oct 26, 2016

The Cycle begins! added a YMG and I'm already getting diatoms

How do you all deal with Diatoms and Detritus in your Frag Tanks?

Squirrel_reefer · Nov 2, 2016

Dealt with some setback lately....

Had my quietFlo take a dirt nap, so the tank was sitting with no circulation for a couple hours. Normally I'd say that's not such a bad thing but it happened 3 days in a row when I was at work. All I did was tap on the pump and try to put a screw driver into the impeller to remove any jams. This got it running again but each day would quit and an unknown time. So after the second time it happened I pulled out the fish and put him into my Mantis shrimp tank.

Water was absolutely gross. Diatoms on everything and a yucky yellow tint to the water.

Grabbed an old HOB I had that is admittedly over sized for the tank but its all I had. Ran Purigen in the HOB with pad and bioballs with the lights off for a few days and holy cow. The Purigen turned the tank around!

also made the mistake of turning my Ehiem heater up to 85 before adding the YMG (oops) guess the big red arrow on the dial wasn't clear enough for me

so I changed it out for another thinking it was faulty. New heater is 300w...luckily it never turns on lol

currently running my whites only at 3% power for 4 hours during midday to keep diatoms at bay