Pics from my saltwater nano-reef - 10g

[parker313]

Thanks!

True Perc and False Perc get about 3-4". There are some species of clowns that get much bigger, even 5-6".

 

[steelhealr]

Parker...just beautiful. Great job. You should be proud. I have a 46 gallon FW and like to try a nano reef as well. Did you use any references to get started? Web sites? Thanks...kudos. SH

 

[neontetra05]

parker very cool where did you purchase this nano reef

 

[Nospherith]

vrry vrry nice

 

[parker313]

Parker...just beautiful. Great job. You should be proud. I have a 46 gallon FW and like to try a nano reef as well. Did you use any references to get started? Web sites? Thanks...kudos. SH

Thank you! I used the topics pinned to the top of the Marine Chit Chat forum plus I surfed a LOT at the nano-reef.com forums. They have a TON of information as to equipment specifically for nanos. Google is a great search tool as well for learning about fish or corals. Then, any specific questions I had, I would ask in the Marine section here.

Neontetra05 - It's a regular All-Glass 10 gallon aquarium. The lights are from aquatraders.com - their 24" 110 total watt lights. Everything else I just purchased individually. You can buy tanks specially made for nano-cubes, but I already had the tank.

 

[fufanu360]

im quite interested in sw, but there is no place to buy it around here, closest place is at least 2 hours away... do you need very good lighting to have coral? this is sorta the wrong place, and i a hijack, but

 

[Fishy411]

You Need Very Good Lights for corals.

Parker...just beautiful. Great job. You should be proud. I have a 46 gallon FW and like to try a nano reef as well. Did you use any references to get started? Web sites? Thanks...kudos. SH

46 gallonwould not be a nano reef. A nano is anything under 20 gallons. I think a great stock list for yur tank would be a Maroon Clown and Six line Wrasse. Just a caution Angels are sometimes Coral nippers and are best avoided.


Saltwaterfish.com Is absolutely Amazing and has helped Me co8untless times. A great site for people getting started


Sorry To hijack

 

[parker313]

im quite interested in sw, but there is no place to buy it around here, closest place is at least 2 hours away... do you need very good lighting to have coral? this is sorta the wrong place, and i a hijack, but

It depends on what corals. To keep *any* corals though, you will almost certainly need to upgrade your lighting from the standard flourescent lighting that comes with a tank. Some keep corals that need a LOT of light and go really high powered with metal halides, but for the corals I'm interested in, I just got a power compact flourescent light - 55w daylight and 55w actinic (blue) in a 24" hood.

A good source for nano information is www.nano-reef.com There's information on pretty much all the topics - fish, inverts, corals, hardware, etc.

 

[Fishy411]

If u Have Really Low power lights You could keep yellow polyps or A sun coral buyt suns need to be hsand fed all the time.

 

[Paul_MTS]

Thats awesome, i would love a saltwater just to keep a few really bright coloured fish!!

I thought it's best to start big as Nana-reefs are really hard to control the levels of....right and not good for SW beginners.

 

[parker313]

Thats awesome, i would love a saltwater just to keep a few really bright coloured fish!!

I thought it's best to start big as Nana-reefs are really hard to control the levels of....right and not good for SW beginners.

This is my first SW tank... You're right though - bigger is definitely better b/c it's so much easier to keep your water parameters in check. A small swing in a big tank can easily be absorbed by the large water volume, but in a nano, a small swing can cause mass deaths. Even a beginner to SW *can* do it though, it's just a matter of research and taking things SLOWLY. Rushing to get things in the tank is a major cause of parameters to go haywire, just like in FW