Waterman808 Nano in 90 contest entry

[BarbH]

Will be interesting to see if you are able to have the tank sustain itself on running cost.

 

[Waterman808]

Well if the tank can go at least 3 polyps of a common zoa or paly a month, it should, or whatever else I put in it. I have a colony of Miami hurricane as bubblegum monster chalice's to frag and grow at least one eye and I think I could sell those pretty fast.

 

[Waterman808]

The tank finally has water in it. So I went with the Eheim Liberty 100 hob, a 50 watt Jalli heater, and about 4 pounds of live sand. Now I have to adjust my power usage to account for the bigger heater. I'm still however waiting for my Cerameco bonsai rock and Ledtric Par38 bulb to ship out. Now for some photos

 

[BarbH]

Looking good so far can't wait to see it with the rock in.

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[mallorieGgator]

Looks really cool! Any shots of it cleared up?

 

[Waterman808]

Should have a new shot tomorrow but the rock won't be here until Friday and my light should hopefully ship out Friday or Saturday.

 

[Waterman808]

I threw in some rubble from my other tank a few days ago to help with the cycle. Looking forward to getting my rock and light soon. Right now it just has the stock pc fixture that came with it.

 

[wysiwyg]

wow looking really nice so far. keep the updates coming

 

[Mike&Terry]

Glad to see you have a bit of progress. Looking forward to seeing an update once your rock is in!

-M&T

 

[Waterman808]

So I did the math because my original plan was for a 25 watt heater and I ended up a 50 watt heater. The new price is about $3.30 a month to run this tank but thats with the heater on 24 hours a day but we all know that heaters never stay on that much and I'm to cheap to buy a Kill-a-watt meter. My ambient house temperature is anywhere from 70-76 degrees.

 

[Waterman808]

Finally my tank is coming together. Got the rock in the tank and I think it's going to work out alright. It came packaged very well as when I picked it up I felt like it was more fragile than live rock. I think my light will be shipping out Monday now and I hope to have it by the end of next week. Still deciding whether to put a nano/pico fish in. Well here is an updated FTS

 

[BarbH]

Looks good, I like the rock structure should really look awesome once you get your corals in.

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[strange33w]

coming along nicely

 

[Waterman808]

I think some gsp would look awesome along the top.

 

[skinz78]

Looking good!

 

[Waterman808]

The bulb has arrived! Can't wait to fire it up and load up photos.

 

[Mike&Terry]

The VidaRock looks great in the tank! Love that stuff - we used it to aquascape our tank as well.

-M&T

 

[Waterman808]

Now to find the perfect fixture.

 

[Waterman808]

I purchased on eBay through Aqua SD so I guess the price is half because they are a sponsor on R2R. So I will round it up to $11 and divide it in half so it's $5.50. I kept it in my main tank until this one was ready.

Here is a photo of it in the picotope.

Also pictured is a two head torch coral I bought for $15.00 but don't have a receipt but that is fair market value. Also some 15 polyp zoa frag but not sure on the name, so it's a common one, so I'd you put a $1 per polyp that's $15. So $35.50 total now. Here is one last frag I added today

it's 4 polyp with a fair market value of $2 per polyp bringing the grand total to $43.50. Here's some other photos I took today

 

[Waterman808]