Toying with selling nano

Knox_Legend · Dec 31, 2011

Well after hanging out in planted freshwater forums and a general malaise for the whole saltwater/reef setup I have been toying with selling my 5.5 nano to fund a low light low tech planted freswater tank. To me there is something more peaceful about looking at a lower light lush green tank than a bright vivid colored reef. Plus with the ease of maintenance with freswater and the less cost it just sort of makes sense at the moment. Enough about that and on with the details about the tank. As of now I'm kind of toying with selling it leaning towards selling but I will not part it out. It must go all as one. PM with an offer unless they are price post ***** like on RC and I will come up with a price to post and pics when I'm not at work.

5.5 gal
AC 70 with a fuge mod full of cheato, purigen, and chemi-pure elite
AC 70 homemade fuge light
Current USA 18" x2 t5ho light with UVL bulbs(bulbs about 2 months old)
Current 4 led strip light 2 white 2 blue
+/- 5lbs of rock and about 2lbs or so of sand
Nice size frogspawn(4 heads or so)
Big green and brown mushroom
Kenya tree
various palys
about two or three heads of candy cane
Nice size encrusting war coral
Acan echinata orange something or other
Metor Shower coral
a big green frilly mushroom(one of my favorites in the tank)
Some other kind of coral that looks like xenia and I can't remember the name right now. It's a pinkish hue
There may be other things in there too I just cant remember
Fiji damsel
Pom pom crab
and asterina starfish
collonista snails
I'll even throw in some tropic marin salt

Knox_Legend · Jan 10, 2012

A few pics. Sorry about the crappy droid camera work.

Engloid · Jan 10, 2012

If you part it out, I may be interested in the acans.

cee · Jan 10, 2012

EvilMel · Jan 11, 2012

cee said:
Glws

? What's that, Dave?

macclellan · Jan 11, 2012

good luck with the sale

Knox_Legend · Feb 21, 2012

I will sell all the corals as one big frag pack if anyone is interested in them. I'm pretty much over the hobby as I don't have time with working two jobs and pursuing a a much more enjoyable hobby... brewing beer. I'm also looking for a large canister filter for my 135 as I'm going to tear it down and convert to fresh water probably Malawi Cichlids of low tech planted. I have a Sailfin Tang, Niger Trigger, Sixline, Yellowtail damsel, and Molly Miller Blenny.

Engloid · Feb 21, 2012

I'm interested in the sixline wrasse. I have a large canister filter I will trade for it. I think it is a Filstar or something like that. Its square and probably 8x8x12.

EvilMel · Feb 22, 2012

macclellan said:
good luck with the sale

I just saw this!

Thanks.

Knox_Legend · Feb 24, 2012

What kind of shape is the canister in? Could you take a pic of it perhaps?

Engloid · Feb 28, 2012

Knox_Legend said:
What kind of shape is the canister in? Could you take a pic of it perhaps?

it's just like this one: Redirect Notice

wow...the pic makes it look really short. It's probably about a foot tall.

Anyway, it works fine. I got it in a package deal and never used it, so I just plumbed it up in the sink and it flows good. I'm actually surprised at th4e design of it. The internal baskets both stack up, and have flow-thru lids for whatever media you want to put in it. The lever between the inlet and outlets will let both of them come off the filter as one piece, so you never actually have to mess with the clamps on the hose barbs. ONly thing I would suggest is maybe putting inline valves so you can cut off flow beforehand and avoid having to start a siphon once you hook it back up.

The flow is good, but I did notice that the internal oring that seals to the media baskets is broken. It would just mean a little water would blow by the basket, rather than 100% orf it get filtered....but this seal is NOT in a place that any leak would ever result, even if you completely took it out.