Seafansar's Nano in 90 - 28 gallon LED JBJ

seafansar · May 15, 2012

Seafansar's Nano in 90 - FAIL

What great timing for this contest! lol. We're currently setting up our old 28 gallon LED JBJ nano again. We want it to be an all anemone and clownfish tank. It's going to have a foam rock wall and is going to be back in a closet (the cheap "in-wall" lol). Here are some pictures of it so far:

We took off the closet door and painted the inside dark blue.

We ran and extension cord into the closet for power (we're cheap! lol).

Made the cords all neat, well sort of. lol

View from our 75 gallon. The closet is on the right near the front door.

Tank corals/anemones so far:
7/6/12
(GBTA was moved to a different tank)
6 RBTA's got through a trade, so fair market value is $50x6= $300

larryl · May 15, 2012

Looking good so far!

mallorieGgator · May 15, 2012

Looking good!

btkrausen · May 15, 2012

Great start. Would be funny if you setup a 28gal JBJ and won a 28gal JBJ

revsgirl · May 15, 2012

Ha that's awesome! Love the tank's little nook!

VB68 · May 15, 2012

Good looking 75g and I like the "in the wall" nano

revhtree · May 15, 2012

HAHA I like it!

skinz78 · May 16, 2012

Looking good, good luck in the contest!

Mike&Terry · May 16, 2012

Great start and love that you made the most of your available space by placing the tank in the closet.

BarbH · May 16, 2012

Looking good and creative use of space

seafansar · May 18, 2012

Thanks! It was my boyfriend's idea. I thought it was a terrible idea at first! lol. "You want to do what now?! And paint it blue?!" But I've changed my mind and think it's going to be really cool.

seafansar · May 24, 2012

Attaching the foam rock wall.

danielsreefs · May 24, 2012

nice looks sick

SmokeyCFH · May 24, 2012

That would be a great way to walk in every day! Looking great! Can't wait to see it as it comes along!

BarbH · May 25, 2012

Looking foward to seeing how the foam rock wall turns out

seafansar · Jun 9, 2012

We ran the tank with freshwater for a couple of weeks and now it has had saltwater in it for a couple of weeks. I'm going to do a big water change and test in hopes that it's ready for fish and inverts for the 15th! (or I should say the 19th, cause I'll be out of town till then!)

Daylight lights (we added very fine sand)

Moonlights (our dawn/dusk lights broke for some reason (they flicker like crazy), so we put a stip of blue LEDs under the hood to go along with the moonlights)

We will probably add another rock or two to the front.

seafansar · Jun 19, 2012

A little late start, but here we go!

The tank has been cycling. Tested the water to see how everything is. pH was fine too, just not pictured.

Got the baby clowns today.

They are so cute! They don't even have all their stripes yet.

And added the GBTA (near the middle of the picture). It's not happy right now, but hopefully it will find a good place. It was about $30. Need to take a picture of the receipt.

BarbH · Jun 21, 2012

Nice looking clowns and hopefully the GBTA starts looking happier for you soon.

seafansar · Jun 25, 2012

So the first night with the tank went pretty terrible. Hated to say anything, but I need to document everything. So my tests showed everything was fine, but what I didn't know was that (I'm guessing) my heater broke. The cleaner shrimp started acting very weird after being in the tank for 20mins; swimming upside down, landing on it's back, pretty much freaking out. So I caught him and put him back into my QT tank and a few hours later he looked fine. That puzzled me, but the clowns still looked fine, just bedded down for the night. But in the morning I could tell something was clearly wrong. The clowns were having a hard time breathing, swimming upsidedown, and laying on their sides on the bottom. I freaked out to say the least! Caught four of them and the GBTA and put them all in the QT tank. We spent a while looking for the last clown and unfortunately found him dead.

I felt terrible! A few hours later the other clowns started acting normal again and I introduced them to my adult clown in the QT tank. I was very happy to see my female not act aggressive towards them.

I then removed the heater and threw it away (I'm assuming it cracked and leaked something bad into the water. though I didn't see any signs of it cracking, I didn't want to take any chance). I drained all the water out of the tank and added 1/2 new saltwater and 1/2 water from my 75 gallon. Went out and bought a new heater and did a trade with some of my chalices for a bunch of RBTA's that were splitting like mad for a guy. Put the new RBTA's in the QT tank which my female clown very much appreciated. I added new carbon and a sponge thing that's supposed to capture any heavy metals in the water in the back of the tank and waited a couple of days. Then we "tested" the tank with the shrimp. He did fine for half the day, so we added the clowns and anemones. So far so good! The clowns and anemones look great. There is minimal fighting between the baby clowns and it's cute to see "big momma" break up fights between the little ones.

So far:
-adult female perc who we've had for 3 years now
-4 juvenile percs (lost one) from local reefer who breeds and raises them
-1 GBTA
-1 skunk cleaner shrimp
-6 RBTA's (who have a history of splitting a lot. fingers crossed!)
-5 nassarius snails