BelowH20's 10g Nano. [Archive]

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Belowh20

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 04:31 AM

Hey everyone, usually I frequent nano-reef.com, but since I've been surfing this site more often I wanted to share my tank. Hope you enjoy!

Tank Stats.

-10 gallon all-glass aquarium
-Fluval 204 run with carbon only
-Rio 400
-Maxi-jet 600
-14-15 Lbs fiji live rock
-aragonite sandbed
-25 watt heater
-DIY canopy housing 90 watts no florescent

Livestock

LPS:
acanthastrea lordhowensis
blastomussa wellsi & merletti
dendrophyllia coccinea
orange fungia plate
caulastrea

Soft Coral:
zooanthids
xenia
mushrooms
florida ricordia
green star polyps

SPS:
purple tip montipora digitata
orange montipora digitata
montipora capricornus
blue plate heliopora

Fish:
Clarkii clown
Sand blennie

Belowh20

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 04:37 AM

full tank...
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/DSCF0372.jpg

Belowh20

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 04:41 AM

looking left...
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/DSCF0390.jpg

Belowh20

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 04:48 AM

blastos...
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/3-blastos.jpg

candycane feeding...
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/DSCF0408.jpg

don-n-sa

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 07:18 AM

man someones in big trouble 8)

akm

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 07:25 AM

Well even though you cant post a pic, it looks like you have some pretty nice corals.

Brett Wilson

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 08:42 AM

I'm anxious enough to see those pictures that I will host them for you, just shoot them to me in an email if you like.

Polkster13

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 08:53 AM

You can't beat an offer like that!

cpreefguy

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 09:34 AM

http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/9040DSCF0390.jpg

GaryP

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 09:34 AM

Your files may be to large to post. Try cutting back on resolution or size. They need to be less than 256K.

cpreefguy

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 09:36 AM

You can just link them from NR

Belowh20

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 01:43 PM

I tried linking from nano-reef and a bunch of x's came up. All pics have been sized previously. I'm gonna try linking from photo bucket.

Thanks for the offer TurboBrett, you may have a pm if this doesn't work.

Brett Wilson

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 01:47 PM

Sure thing. Just let me know...

Belowh20

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 01:48 PM

Ok, looks like everything worked out. Thanks for the replies and the advice.

I have a TON of pics, so stay tuned...

Brett Wilson

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 01:48 PM

Awesome tank!

alexwolf

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 01:51 PM

wow, very nice!!!!

falcondob

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 01:55 PM

Dude! That is a great looking tank in anyone's book. Congratulations!
John

cpreefguy

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 02:04 PM

Do you still have NO florescent or did you upgrade to T5's?

Thunderkat

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 02:04 PM

I think the time for me to just throw in the towel and give up on salt water tanks is coming soon (either that or stop looking at pictures in this website). My tank is just plain horrible.

bigdscobra

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 02:55 PM

nice very nice!!

Belowh20

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 03:25 PM

still got normal output. I'm planning on upgrading soon.

cpreefguy

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 03:49 PM

Yeah, your tank is sweet. We should do some trading

Belowh20

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 06:35 PM

Thanks for the kind words everyone. You guys have some pretty awesome reefs as well.

Here's my two lords...the pink one is actually florescent pink, the lighting came out really blue for some reason.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/DSCF0296.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/DSCF0435.jpg

Belowh20

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 06:40 PM

One of the more rare items in my tank...Dendrophyllia Coccinea.

These guys are in the same family as sun polyps except they are very rare and VERY large. This single polyp is at least as big as my thumb.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/DSCF0419.jpg

Orange Monti cap, doing well under normal output...

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/DSCF0373.jpg

Belowh20

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 07:21 PM

Last pics for today...

four month zoanthid growth
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/Untitled-1.jpg

Clarkii chilling around coral
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/DSCF0430.jpg

blueboy

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 09:17 PM

hey, great looking tank! always good to see another San Martian on the board.

NaCl_H2O

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 09:23 PM

That is gorgeous - GREAT job! I mean, REALLY GREAT !!!!

Pay your MAAST dues & submit for TOTM, it is a shoe in!

NaCl_H2O

Mon, 18th Apr 2005, 09:24 PM

Oh yea, what camera are you using? Really clear pics!

Belowh20

Tue, 19th Apr 2005, 07:35 PM

I really appreciate your comments Steve. I will be paying maast dues as soon as I sell some stuff from my tank. I'm thrilled at the prospect of totm, but unfortunatly I'm moving and the tank is coming down. Basically right now I'm trying to sell everything but my "cream-of-the-crop" corals, and either upgrade to a 20-24g or start the same ten with slower growing more selective choices in coral.

As for the camera...its a Fuji FinePix 4800zoom, 2.4 mp. I got this around three years ago, and until about seven months ago I was convinced it would never take a good aquarium shot. Thats when I took an interest in learning manual settings, lol. Check this site, probably one of the most informative I've found...

http://www.ximinasphotography.com/home.html

Belowh20

Tue, 19th Apr 2005, 07:40 PM

Blueboy: sounds like you have a pretty sweet set-up yourself.

NaCl_H2O

Tue, 19th Apr 2005, 08:39 PM

Thanks for the link, I need to study it. I have a FinePix S5000 and my pictures aren't close to the quality of yours!

BTW - the tank doesn't need to be "Existing" to submit as TOTM - you have plenty of pics for a submital, and you could submit again after the new tank is mature :)

Belowh20

Wed, 20th Apr 2005, 01:09 AM

More pics :)

New Yuma and Fungia I added. Fungia from Aquatek, Yuma from Aquadome.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/DSCF0439.jpg

Here's a pic of the Dendrophyllia in the daytime. I did not photoshop except the border, my camera takes darker pics when angled from above. I think it looks like a fiery torch.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/DSCF0446.jpg

Here is a montipora cap growth pic over the period of 2-3 months. This is under 90 watts normal output florescent.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/montigrowthpic.jpg

This may possibly be the last Full tank shot. Unfortunatly in the last week I had to frag the red blasto due to die-off. I am also trading a piece. The tank looks really empty without it. Also I gave the brown zoas that were up front to a friend.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/RDTennet/ft1.jpg

Belowh20

Wed, 20th Apr 2005, 01:26 AM

Steve, the FinePix series are really nice cameras. The year mine came out it was designed by Porsche! I was about to buy a 1.6 mp sony, then I saw this for a fragment more at circuit city with higher MP, video/sound capability, and tons of manual features. At this stage I feel I would like a little more freedom as far as manual goes, but Fuji makes a great camera.

What megapixel is you camera rated?

aquadoc

Wed, 20th Apr 2005, 01:55 AM

Looks nice. Good job.

gjuarez

Wed, 20th Apr 2005, 03:13 PM

WOw, I guess this is enough to motivate me into setting up a 10g nano again. Just beautiful.

NaCl_H2O

Wed, 20th Apr 2005, 04:04 PM

What megapixel is you camera rated?

Mine is the S5000, 10x Optical zoom and 3.1 Megapixels

Just bought a tripod, and ordered the 1.5x Fuji macro lens ... now I'm gonna go read that link :)