Matt's 9 gal AIO Nano

m.miller1547

m.miller1547

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Another tank change for me. I'm really excited about this one. I'm rockin a custom 16 by 13 by 10 AIO.

Equipment
RKL w/ SL1, PH probe and ato, ALC
Mp10
Karolia EVO 300 return
Hydor 50w heater
Aqualife 115 skimmer - PIF Lunacris :)

Lighting
JBJ Unibody with 30 Cree LEDs. 16rb, 7cw, 4nw, 1r, 1g, 1turquoise. All ran by meanwell drivers @ 700ma. -I will adjust % according to par measurements.

Media
Chemipure
Filterfloss

Dosing will be handled by kalk unless demands reach point of needing dosers. I plan to setup simple auto waterchangr regimen of 1 gal every two days.

Refugium w/chaeto and grape calupra

Stock
Sps
Various euphylia corner
Ricordea
No fish at the moment

This tank will be bare bottom with limited live rock.

View attachment 9706 added fresh salt water just to get things started. I will be mixing current tank water for acclamation reasons.
 
Thanks Chris. This tank will likely be it for a long while. I intend on making this one of the best nano tanks around. I have enough frags to get it started. It's gonna be sexy! I have put allot of thought into coral placement and ease of maintenance. I'm conciderong a reactor with gfo and cstbon, but I'm not sure if it will strip what little water I have. Decisions decisions.
 
I added the rock yesterday. I'm really happy with it. Thank you Chris for the free skimmer. After a quick airline mod its already foaming well. I don't have huge expectations of muddy skimmate, but it will help. I don't have room for filterfloss or chemipure bag. I'm thinking a reactor may be needed. I also don't want to add another pump. I'm going to move the rock nems over and do another waterchange tomorrow. I have so many sticks. I can't wait to start gluing. If you were to put one fish in here; what would it be?
 
m.miller1547 said:
I added the rock yesterday. I'm really happy with it. Thank you Chris for the free skimmer. After a quick airline mod its already foaming well. I don't have huge expectations of muddy skimmate, but it will help. I don't have room for filterfloss or chemipure bag. I'm thinking a reactor may be needed. I also don't want to add another pump. I'm going to move the rock nems over and do another waterchange tomorrow. I have so many sticks. I can't wait to start gluing. If you were to put one fish in here; what would it be?
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Simply awesome
You are always good with selection
Go at it
 
I glued some frags in yesterday. Tanks lookin pretty nice. I also calibrated ph probe and mixed a lil kalk in ato. The little aqualife skimmer isn't bad. I don't think ill ever get a dry skim from it, but its still removing some nasty stuff.

Here is a photo of what it looks like today. My goal for this tank is to keep hands out and let grow. I'll be updating individual photos of certain pieces for growth.
 
A bit of an update... The tank is doing well. Nothing to write home about yet. My nitrates and salinity were up there for a week or so. Ive since lowered both by 20% changes every 3 days. The sps have lost allot of color, but I expected that after seeing nitrate test.

I order vitamin c and am really looking forward to seeing if can help me out. The aqualife skimmer skims wet and does an okay job. I'm hoping the vc will help skimmer efficiency and get me some color back.

I'm will be adding a refugium/sump to this tank as well. I have too much going on in the rear chambers.

Alk and cal fluctuate a lil bit. Alk seems to drop from 9-7 and cal from 425ish to 350ish in four days. I own the Brs two part and plan to start bits of dosing. I really don't have to because I'm changing water every three days ish.
 
Thanks Dominick. I'm planning to bust up that ric rock and glue em down throughout. I need room on bb for more paly tiles. My goal is to cover it with beautiful growing frags. I've got an okay collection right now. They include sunny d, tiger maul, blue smurff, CAR, alien something or other, and Ding Dangs.

I want but am not a baller anymore palys include.. browser, shazaam, hallucinations, RDPE, scareface, utter chaos, and a few others... Brain fart.
 
m.miller1547 said:
Thanks Dominick. I'm planning to bust up that ric rock and glue em down throughout. I need room on bb for more paly tiles. My goal is to cover it with beautiful growing frags. I've got an okay collection right now. They include sunny d, tiger maul, blue smurff, CAR, alien something or other, and Ding Dangs.

I want but am not a baller anymore palys include.. browser, shazaam, hallucinations, RDPE, scareface, utter chaos, and a few others... Brain fart.
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Looks awesome though! I ended up getting rid of the fluval edge. Hated having to remove water before doing anything. Went with a 10 gallon. Had it for about a month and a half. Now I moved everything over to a 27 gallon cube. I'm done lol! I'll probably post pics either later today or tomorrow.

You're tank is awesome looking now, imagine in a few months!!
 
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