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last shoot of nano

Here are some shots I snapped today.  Looks like this will be the last photos we have of this tank, as soon it will all be transfered to the rimless. 
We’ve been allowing the corals to grow, which means we cant stick our hands in the tank; which means lots of coralline growth.  We are over […]

the drip…

as i said the previous post, we have not had much interest in the nano reef.  colors have been fading, and bubble algae growing…yes we have not been giving it as much attention as before, but that still did not add up to the fading and algae growth we were seeing. 
… but now we know […]

happy new year

happy new year! hope everyone was safe and had a good time last night.  update:the new rimless is currently in transit, and should be arriving this week.  i’ll be slammed at work with the kick off of busy season, but we will try and post some pics up here when it arrives. the nano reef is going […]

measurements

here are where things stand as of this morning… 
ph ~8.2
no3 ~0 
alk ~8dkh
ca~ 450ppm
mg ~1500ppm
 mag and calcium are too high for our tastes. the 450 ca explains the rampant coralline growth that has been bothering me. with the growth of the corals we’re no longer able to scrape it clean off of the bottom glass. we […]

nano pics

saturday, we got hit with a little snow and had a short power outage…when the power came back on our tunze’s starting shooting water out of the tank…the jerking motion from restarting cracked the C clamps that holds them in place. one of them is too cracked to work at all, so an MJ1200 […]