Nearly a week with my nano

[iceman0124]

Heres some progress pics, the tank was running and cycled when i bought it...so I havent just thrown all these in a virgin tank just for carification.

Day I got it up and going

Almost a week later

Took these shortly after a small water change

Side views

Its starting to look like a reef, very surprised to already have little purple coraline spots pooping up all over the bare rocks this soon, these cubes are neat tanks, mines a mutt, older 24G tank with a newer 28G HQI hood, after some fiddling around they work pretty good together, and temps stay very manageable, around 77 peak with lights on for full run, and abit above 74 after lights have been off for a long time ( I keep my living room figid which is where the tank and I live, niether of us likes the heat) What do you guys think thus far?

Thanks to MattS for the trumpet, bright green zoas and large GSP rock that got camera shy after the water change, its normally fully open.

I posted this in the hardware, but felt i should add it here as well, got the PS for my built in moonlights, and even with the HQI on, they are noticeble and give a nice actinic vibe...however at night,

Too much for all night? I'm thinking I should get a timer for these, they are way brighter than the C USA ones I ran on my old 65 high....opionions? let em run all night?, or just a few hours?

 

[subielover]

Looking good, I would definitely bump the temps up though. I like to keep my reef right around 80 degrees, 74 is too cold.

 

[iceman0124]

I'm slowly creeping them up at night, just trying to find the right balance with lights on and off, heres a few more photos

 

[iceman0124]

Some new additions

 

[subielover]

Progressing nicely!

 

[Mitsuko]

Temps definitely need bumped up to 80. It should remain at a constant at all times. Technically speaking...is that hard to achieve and do all of us manage it...No.

 

[iceman0124]

Its a little tricky getting constant temps with the cube, The HQI is going to raise temps a little, and with it sitting directly on top of tank by design, evaporative cooling is minimal at best even with a turbid surface, cooler nightss is a lesser evil than sweltering days, right now I have a peak low of 78-79 and a peak high of 81-82, think thats the best I'll get.

 

[iceman0124]

heres an update, not much has changed, but I have adjusted the camera for better pics. Should have a radium 20k this friday, excited about that.

 

[johnanddawn]

nice start but i have a feeling your going to want to pull out a least one rock or that thing will be bursting at the seams in no time

 

[iceman0124]

How so?

 

[johnanddawn]

just that small tanks fill fast
unless you get all your corals on plugs some of them may be attached to small pieces of rock and that all adds up. sometimes starting with a bit less rock is better and in small tanks it is almost a requirement.
but of course jmo

 

[gilmour01]

careful with the GSP as they like to over grow everything and arent easily removed. been there done that!

 

[ashton]

careful with the GSP as they like to over grow everything and arent easily removed. been there done that!

+1 with what Gilmour said. When I first got into the hobby I had Green star polyps and allowed it to attach to a couple big pieces of live rock. Now that i've gone SPS/LPS i regret letting it spread to the other rocks and am still breaking chunks off to give away and I still havent gotten it all off of the rocks yet.

 

[iceman0124]

Aside from the GSP rock, there are only 3 rocks in the tank, it'd be a pretty bland aquascape with only two in there.

oh yeah



A few hours with the radium....a "slight" difference...:wink: