Pics of my 10 gallon Nano

[tjkohler]

Whole tank. Colors are much better in real life, I suck at picture taking and I'm using a digital camcorder to take them.

 

[tjkohler]

Red Brain with the Toadstool in the background.

 

[tjkohler]

Green Sea Stars and Clarkii

 

[tjkohler]

Last one, Toadstool all by himself.

 

[adrian]

Nice, how long has it been up and running?

 

[tjkohler]

I set the tank up at the very beginning of August. I love it and the 75 gallon is coming!

 

[nm reef]

Very nice tj.....
you'll like the fun you can have with the 75. I keep feeding my 55 and someday it'll be a 150(48x30x24)...keep us posted as you get the 75 up and running.

 

[blondenaso1]

Very nice! I especially like the Extra Large piece of LR. It has good shapes. Where did you manage to find it?

 

[j21kickster]

looks good, might i suggest, put that heater down further, just behin the LR- so you wont see it as much. keep it up

 

[tjkohler]

At my favorite LFS here in the Detroit area. They mostly have crappy rock, but every now and then they get something like this (18 lb piece). I've got a 35 gallon going with Southdown and 2 pieces about 1/2 this ones size curing. I hope that in the next couple of months to find another 15-20+ lb piece. I like big pieces (like most people I think ... oh and I am talking about LR ) rather than stacking many little pieces.
Heater issue: The live rock touches both the front and back of the glass. So I can't put it down more. I've tried many things. As a background, this is just a temporary nano so that my wife would see how beautiful reefs are and let me get my 75 gallon. She agreed about 2 weeks ago!

 

[j21kickster]

good deal. do you have a filter? if not i assume you keep up on regular waterchanges? mainly b/c of corals

 

[tjkohler]

I do a water change once a week. Between 1-2 gallons depending on how things are looking that week. No filter besides the LR and LS. I've been cutting back on feedings to twice a week and I'm going to experiment with shortening the photo period starting this week.
Just tonight I've found two new types of snails on my LR ... I'm so geeked!

 

[n2deep]

WOW!!!Tank looks AWESOME!!!! Its unreal what some of u guys can do!!!

 

[flyinbrian]

I love it with the one lr peice.
very beautiful that is inspiration for me to do a nano
no filters eh? how long before it was stable and cycled?

 

[tjkohler]

6 days after I put the LR in, my params were Am=0 Nitrite=0 Nitrate=2-3. My hardest thing to stabalize was my pH. But ever since I've used my buffer it's been fine.

 

[y2says]

Nice tank. I've been thinking about converting my fresh water 10g into a nano, but It's tough for me to take care of both my 180g reef and 54g fish only tank. I think nanos are neat.

 

[reefsoul]

keep up the work... its well worth it...look @ mine. i still need to focus it better