Nano Cube

Update

2009-10-07T09:49:00.004-05:00

Well I have not post anything for while. I was traveling for while and did not had time to maintain my tank too well. I am shame of killing Nemo and his father (should I say mother). Anyway my son was really upset that they disappeared, good thing my cleanup crew did excellent job could not find any remaining, which was really good thing, so my kid did not find any carcus floating around in the tank.

Well I will post pic pretty soon, I will need to do some cleaning but I am too busy (Making excuses).

2008-07-26T16:18:00.000-05:00

Nemo and his father.

My kid wanted nemo and father, so I finally decide to add live stock.

Tank itself is cycle completed, but I had mini cycle due to livestock introduction.

Getting small amount of coralline algae

2008-07-15T23:10:00.003-05:00

Will be adding fish coming weekend, my son is bugging for Nemo and his dead. I hope water is good enought

Diatom getting really bad

2008-07-15T23:06:00.003-05:00

Dang it start getting diatom after the rearrange the rock work, might cause massive die out in the base rocks, or something else but not sure.

Shorten the light period. turn off the 34watt PC and only running 24watt PC.

Koralia power head and rearrange the tank

2008-07-15T23:02:00.003-05:00

Rearrange the rock work
Installed surface skimmer.

seeding live sand with sand from establish tank

2008-07-08T00:29:00.002-05:00

Well, 3 days pass since I seeded my dead sand, and I am seeing some green algae coming up, not those nasty diatom kind but actually circular green coralline, hopefully I will get some pink or purple ones soon. No live stock yet in my tank. I am waiting for surface skimmer and power head for additional water movement before I start adding live stock it seems I am not getting good gas exchange due to the fact that i have oil build up on my water surface. I hope surface skimmer will help.

I will post pics once I received the items on Wednesday.

Just another week I will be adding live stock, hermit crab and some snails first.

Here is some pic of tank

2008-06-30T23:51:00.001-05:00

Put water in it, and waiting for cycle to be over.

Price Sheet for Nano Cube Setup

2008-06-25T22:13:00.004-05:00

Well here I go start another saltwater tank, I had 55 gallon before and moved lost all.
it was $50 dollar tank which cause me total of over $4000 after I was done with setup.
I am not setting up big tank, I am trying to setup 12 gallon Nano Cube.

I will like to keep track on how much will cause me to set this up.

12 Gallon JBJ Nanocube use = $50
20 pound dry sand (from old tank) = Free
10 pound of base rock (use to be live rock pay $5 per pound) = Free
5 gallon salt fix x 2 = $8
TopFin small glass cleaning brush = $7
Thermometer = $2
JBJ Nano Cube M.S.S. (Modular Surface Skimmer) = $9
Hydor Koralia Nano (Mini) Pump/Powerhead 240gph = $20
shipping for two items = $7
food dry pallet = 5

livestocks

Perecula ClownFish 2 x 15 = $33
Sassariusa Snail 2 x 3 = $6
Mexico blue leg hermit 3 x 2 =$6

Live Stock = $45

Total = $58 + $45 + $50 for tank

$153