Skimmy
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hi folks i just thought i would start this to show the progress of my most recent nano, it's been taking steriods for the last month and i finally put the first corals in it. 
first off a little about the setup,
this is the second of what im sure is going to be a long line of uber-nanos,
this one is a 10g acrylic with diy 3/4" durso drain and a 1/2 spraybar return,
it has a 20g sump with a 100micron felt filter sock input, euroreef cs5-2 skimmer, bag of chemi-pure, 15ml of rowaphos in a media bag wrapped in poly sitting in a baffle, gen-x 2400 return pump (throttled way back to about
250gph@ 3ft). in the 7" canopy i have 1 175w 20,000k, 1 13w t5 actinic, 1 orbit white moon light, and one 4"fan. in the tank is 10-12 lbs of tonga and marshall island live rock, 2 rio 180's on a natural wavemaker, and one rio800.
currently it's been set up for about 1 month, but as i used cured rock and water from a well established system i experienced hardly much of a cycle, but then moved right into the algae cylce, i just cleaned my first bits of green hair algae, replaced my remora with the euroreef, and added rowaphos a week ago, last night i put my first serious corals in it,
a steve weist blue stag, a pink and a green/orange milli, another insanely blue stag(i think) and a unknown teal acro w/ slight pink tips. also a small blue zoanthid rock. special thanks to dang for sweet frags!
so,it looks like im off to a good start
also just added some acan lord and pink chalice, very happy about that.
first off a little about the setup,
this is the second of what im sure is going to be a long line of uber-nanos,
this one is a 10g acrylic with diy 3/4" durso drain and a 1/2 spraybar return,
it has a 20g sump with a 100micron felt filter sock input, euroreef cs5-2 skimmer, bag of chemi-pure, 15ml of rowaphos in a media bag wrapped in poly sitting in a baffle, gen-x 2400 return pump (throttled way back to about
250gph@ 3ft). in the 7" canopy i have 1 175w 20,000k, 1 13w t5 actinic, 1 orbit white moon light, and one 4"fan. in the tank is 10-12 lbs of tonga and marshall island live rock, 2 rio 180's on a natural wavemaker, and one rio800.
currently it's been set up for about 1 month, but as i used cured rock and water from a well established system i experienced hardly much of a cycle, but then moved right into the algae cylce, i just cleaned my first bits of green hair algae, replaced my remora with the euroreef, and added rowaphos a week ago, last night i put my first serious corals in it,
a steve weist blue stag, a pink and a green/orange milli, another insanely blue stag(i think) and a unknown teal acro w/ slight pink tips. also a small blue zoanthid rock. special thanks to dang for sweet frags!
so,it looks like im off to a good start
also just added some acan lord and pink chalice, very happy about that.
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