cleadus1

u dont hav any small ones i could buy off you when its fully set up do u?

opps haha yip. yea its easy enugh to change water. just some soft corals and a coupple of clowns. wot soft corals do you think would do best in a tank like this?

i will add photos whn photobucket is working again

wel im building a new nano... the tank is about 30L ish, iv had exactly the same tank set up for a lil while but not with much in it as i have always thought about improving it and wel i had anothr tank sitting around so thought i would do something with it, this tank is going to use a undergound filter with just under 1/3 of the tank acting as the filter crushed shell as bottom layer and coral sand on top, it is what is in my other tank and works fine. the improvements that i will make on this tank are that i am going to run pumps and heater inside a peice of pvc pipe that will run up the center of the tank so everything is hidden and will have a 360 degree view of tank, i will cover the pvc in live rock to create a sort of pillar in the center, the light tht comes with the tank is a 6w fluro but i am upgraing that to a 18w marine light and am going to make a wood base to hide underground filter and material on bottom. any coments or ideas would be greatly appreciated. i will post pics soon.

my dad used to have a 6foot nz reef tank with a octopus about 20years ago, but now he has one of my old tanks (about a 60lr) with a leatherjacket, spotie sum small goby kinda thngs shrimp and anemone's kinda cool, the leatherjacket is cool it flashes different colours when its begging for food (espesially if there is food on the table and it can c it).

its one of those fluro lights with 4 pins

im looking at a new way to light my nano tank and picked up a PL-18w bulb now i need the fittings to use it can anyone help me? if you need more info about the light (because i dnt think i hav explained it too well) just ask and i will try to answer it as best as i can but i dont really know too much about these lights.

i have a tank thats just like yours but larger but must b made by the same company, its proly just under 20L it came with a fluro (im lookind at installing beta lighting) and insted of using the crappy filter at the top i made a undergravel filter for it and used the pump to suck the water thru the filter, this has worked very well for me and have a humbug in there and a coupple of mushroom and another random coral and there all doing fine, tank only cost me $80.

i used 2 have 3 in a tank and they feed happily on frozen brine shrimp but the problem that i had was tha my tank was so large and seahorses are lazy so i hd to put in alot of food for them 2 b able eat wot flated past there mouth, so my experence tels me that wot would be best would b a smallish tank with heaps!! of filteration (for frozen foods), but if you could hatch your own brine shrimp which would last a little while swiming around in your tank giving your seahorses a chance to eat them before they fal to the bttum and start rotting like frozen ones. ell thats wot i think anyway hope it helps.

cool, i might use some of that for topups suldnt b too pricey for me considering my tank is only 20L

went in there 2day and they have a tank full of dark coloured female bettas, u may hav 2 b in quick.

my male ct used 2 blow huge bubble nests so i got him a few females but every time i put 1 in with him he just chases her away, she will go up to him sideon and bar up but then he wil chase her away thengo sit under the nest and every time she comes up he wil chase her away again and in the process he destroys his bubble nest, and now his nests look like hes just fartes a coupple of times under the cup. can sum1 please help me?

cool. do u have like almost 10L? do u hav a numba i can txt u on?

guttd. could i grab that shrimp off u 2morow maby? do u hav much spare water?

is spring water collectd from a spring (not bottled) alright in marine tanks?

wow! awsome tank, i just read the entire thread 2! lots of info!. you must b stoaked at your first attempt. if u dont mind me askn, wots your $ count up2?

err jst found out how much instant ocean hurts in a open wound!.

cool thanx for that!.

yea i guess givn it a go is the only way to find out. i plan on using already cured rock.

well i want 2 build a live rock "wall" at the back of the tank to hide pump and filter and maby b home to a small coral or 2 (would that do the job?). its 10cm total.

its just got a coupple of inches of crushed shell (hidden by black paper around bottom of tank) and a coupple of inches of coral sand, all up almost 1/3 of tank. hows that pic now?

im keeping it simple undergravel filter, heater and light. hopefully it suld work gud, iv got another tank the same set up with local salt water but undergravel filter isnt as gud but is workn okbut not too gr8 at the mo, but this 1 is going to hav a smallish bioload and its got a way betta u/g filter.

o ok maby not so big nw. it was huge for awile.

wow thats a big pic, but at least it workd i guess.