Nano_Steve's 2.5 Gallon

[Nano_Steve]

just showing off the 2.5 gallon. hopefully it will grow out as fast as it has been.

thats my diy topoff to the left, i made it out of an a&w cream soda bottle, an air pump, some rigid airline tubing, an air regulator, and some airline, works miracles!

-steve[/img]

[MikeDeL]

The top off is almost as big as your tank. LOL
Looks good. How bout some close ups? How bout some details of the setup too?


Mike

[Nano_Steve]

some more pics taken just a few minutes ago. i built a new hood that matched the base but never got around to building it until today.

and some close ups just for you mike :P

-steve

[scuba_steveo]

Very nice desk!

[Nano_Steve]

:( i spend all this time setting up the tank, doing all the woodwork, wiring all the lights, slowly collecting all the animals, and all you look at is the desk?! :P

thanks though, yeah i had to clean it up for the pic. dont anyone come to my room expecting it to EVER look like this :P i just figured if i was gonna post my dorm desk on the worldwide web id at least clean it off. :-D

thats my new imac g5 btw ^_^ its so awesome!

-steve

[lax]

ill take the g5 off your hands, umm i mean any time you need someone to babysit it

[Brett Wilson]

I think he means everything on the desk... the complete presentation... well at least that is what I like personally :D
good work

[::pete::]

The tank looks good and I like the woodwork!!

[Nano_Steve]

:-D lol, i know he was looking at the whole setup, i just thought itd be funny to give him a hard time! :P

thanks for all the great compliments yall, im planning on getting a bunch more frags in the coming week, this poor little thing is gonna be crammed full!

power to the nanos!

-steve

[SexyShrimp]

I love the canopy and base! nice work!

[Reef69]

awesome puter..lol..Tank looks really cool Steve, Im enjoying My comp. aswell..:p

[MikeDeL]

What kind of coral is that on your screen. It almost looks like one of those Venezualan Sunburst Anemones. LOL j/k. Nice set up.

[Nano_Steve]

ok, i finally got a pic of my yasha goby, he came up to the front today finally!

-steve

[Nano_Steve]

i upgraded my topoff from the 1L bottle to a 4L bottle. if youre wondering if you recognize the bottle here's a clue, in order for me to have it now i was completely wasted last weekend :P

it works MUCH better than the previous one, holds MUCH more water and i put silicone inside the cap around the tubes so it is completely air tight.

i also rearranged a few of the corals and got a couple of new ones.

-steve

[Nano_Steve]

oh yeah, and i changed the 10k bulb out with a 50/50 so the pic and the tank are ALOT more blue. i decided that i wanted more color than growth in this tank so i went with that. :)

-steve

[Instar]

That is quite a rig. Love the wood work! Kinda makes the top off bottle holder look a little ghetto, but, only scuba-steve will see that. :P

[AlienAnchovies]

i saw a few awsome peices that would look great in your nano at aquatic warhouse, zoo's for $9
assorted polyps and brain frags, how often do you have to change the water in a tank that small?

[Nano_Steve]

i havent done a single water change in about a month and a half. i know its bad husbandry but i usually dont do water changes unless i get new frags.

im going to do one this weekend. im supposed to get some blue elkhorn digitata and a frag of the coveted german blue polyp, im very excited :D

-steve

[gjuarez]

Wow, that is a very nice setup. How long did you let it cycle before you acutally put your corals in?

[Nano_Steve]

i put most of the corals in the tank the first day i put the rock and sand in there. i got my rock from a very well established tank and the sand came from my 7 gallon bowfront that had cultured for about a month.

-steve

[blueboy]

looks like a "thug jug" of caro rossi.

[Nano_Steve]

UPDATE!

I haven't posted in forever about my 2.5 but here are some updates.

Tell me what you guys think!

Specs:

Fish:
Rainford Goby (Amblygobius rainfordi)

Inverts:
Blue Porcelain Crab (Petrolisthes sp.) x1
Small Turbo Snails (Turbo fluctuosa) x2
Small Astrea Snails (Astraea tecta) x2
Purple Hawai'ian Feather Duster (Sabellastarte sp.)
Numerous Stomatella Snails
Numerous Spaghetti Worms
Numerous MicroStars

Corals:
Montipora Digitata (Brown, Orange, Purple, Green)
Montipora Capricornis (White, Purple, Green, Brown)
Zoanthids (Numerous Colors)
Blue Ricordia Mushrooms
Yuma Ricordia Mushrooms
Kenya Tree Leather
Torch Coral
Green Tree Leather

Setup:
3 x 13watt Power Compact (2x 50/50, 1x Actinic)
10watt Heater
Mini Power Head
Whisper HOB Filter
Computer Cooling Fan/Cold Cathode Light
DIY Auto Top-Off System with 1 Gallon Top-Off/Calcium Injector
DIY Canopy and Stand designed to go with the interior design them of my apartment.

Pics:


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[MattK]

That is sweet! Why is there a plastic tube around the feather duster? I assume it is to protect it from something, but what?

[LoneStar]

Very Very Cool!! Thanks for keeping us up to date on it :)

[Nano_Steve]

hahaha matt, I can't believe it's that noticeable :P It's there because I used to move him around alot and he lost all of his feathers over the summer and I wanted to put him in something wthat I could move around easily but not have him get all stressed out from ripping his foot off of the rocks. He has since grown all of his feathers back and has put alot of new growth on it.

Thanks for the comments guys. I'm in the process of taking photos each week to see how it grows. I only have my phone camera to take photos with but the quality isnt too bad when you consider its a phone.

-Steve

[MattK]

Those are great pics, I would have never thought it was from a phone.

[don-n-sa]

Good to see you back on here Steve...nice tank. I still have that flower anemone I bought from you. Oh and how about some jetty snorkeling???