starting a nano cube
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nudibranch
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When I set up my 5g nano reef cube the whole thing cost me about $400 including cured live rock. After "filling" it I probably ended up spending $500 - $550.
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thomas712
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adamz - Welcome to the board
what size would you like to try out? 10 gallon or less, 10 gallons or more?
Thomas
Nudibranch - where have you been hiding for nearly two years? Welcome back. What is your 5g nano made out of acrylic? Got any pics?
Thomas
what size would you like to try out? 10 gallon or less, 10 gallons or more?
Thomas
Nudibranch - where have you been hiding for nearly two years? Welcome back. What is your 5g nano made out of acrylic? Got any pics?
Thomas
nudibranch
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Adamz, - Yeah a 10 would be fine. A lot better than my shot at a 5g Read on to find out why.
Thomas, - Yeah its good to be back, I wish I had pics to share but sadly, I went on a a snorkeling trip to Belize. Had a great time and had my Dad take care of my tank while I was gone. It was pretty simple, just top off evap water (I live in Arizona its a big problem) w/ the RO DI water sitting in the jug next to the tank. Well I came back from the trip 7-8 days later and the whole thing had crashed and was beyond repair I was missing about 3" of water (RODI jug was full) my salinity was through the roof and almost everything was dead so I tried to revive w/ no luck and scrapped the whole project. I had a 18 watt PC lighting (1 Actinic and 10k?? no sure about that one), did weekly H2O changes cuz I didn't have a skimmer (had yet to find one small enough) and for circulation I was using a Rio (I have found the error of my ways). I had a 2-2.5" DSB with about 5lbs of cured live rock. It was beutiful though, had some mushrooms, an unknown frag of SPS ($10 miscellaneous tank at LPS) that did wonderfully, button polyps and I forget what else. I got discouraged and scraped the idea, but now I want to get back into it again on a larger scale (30g???). So yeah, no loss will keep this fish nut down forever!
Thomas, - Yeah its good to be back, I wish I had pics to share but sadly, I went on a a snorkeling trip to Belize. Had a great time and had my Dad take care of my tank while I was gone. It was pretty simple, just top off evap water (I live in Arizona its a big problem) w/ the RO DI water sitting in the jug next to the tank. Well I came back from the trip 7-8 days later and the whole thing had crashed and was beyond repair I was missing about 3" of water (RODI jug was full) my salinity was through the roof and almost everything was dead so I tried to revive w/ no luck and scrapped the whole project. I had a 18 watt PC lighting (1 Actinic and 10k?? no sure about that one), did weekly H2O changes cuz I didn't have a skimmer (had yet to find one small enough) and for circulation I was using a Rio (I have found the error of my ways). I had a 2-2.5" DSB with about 5lbs of cured live rock. It was beutiful though, had some mushrooms, an unknown frag of SPS ($10 miscellaneous tank at LPS) that did wonderfully, button polyps and I forget what else. I got discouraged and scraped the idea, but now I want to get back into it again on a larger scale (30g???). So yeah, no loss will keep this fish nut down forever!
nudibranch
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To answer your main question it was a glass tank, I think it was an Oceanic but I can't remember.
P.S. I really regret throwing away all the equipment, then again the "non-living" equipment was only $150 of the set up. I might still do a 10g inbetween my 30g endever.
P.S. I really regret throwing away all the equipment, then again the "non-living" equipment was only $150 of the set up. I might still do a 10g inbetween my 30g endever.
nudibranch
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The 500 might be a little bit of a high estimate it's been almost 2 years now...the corals alone cost almost $200 though (including a clean up crew, marco algae etc...), I had to purchase all the frags I wasn't taking them from an existing tank. Then the ligt housing (didn't come with appropriate bulbs) 18W pc (9w act/9w 10k??? not positive if it was 10k) lights, tank, LR and LS all that was an easy $200. The you can add testing kits. It's probably a little more than the acerage price, the LFS I went to was a little more $$ then the others but I support them because they quarentine all the fish for about 2 weeks (longer if necessary and they quarentine all inverts for 24hrs) before releasing them for sale. Might have been a little steep but knowing the quality livestock I was getting made it worth any extra $$