My 40 Gallon Nano

[alton]

After adding jaw fish to my 300 I realized I wanted to setup a smaller tank for a pair of pearly jaw fish. I needed to keep it small enough so to keep my wife happy, low enough to where it did not clash with my TV since it was going to sit next to it. The following is what I came up with;

Marineland 40 gallon 36” x 12” x 20” and I painted the back black (except for filter area)
Stand was built by Allen of TT with a height of only 24” to match the TV stand
Filter system is internal made from black plexi-glass dimension of 4” x 12” with one chamber of bio balls to work as a trickle filter for aeration and the second chamber to hold the pump and water.
I purchased forty pounds of dead rock kept in my 300 gallon sump for weeks and then stacked it in the forty. I then added four to six inches of carib-sea super reef substrate in and around the live rock.
I decided to use this tank as my grow out tank instead of my sump for my candy canes, so I put twenty-two of them along with mushrooms and a couple of ricordia.
I ordered a pair of pearly jaw fish and I started getting worried but after seven days one popped out and has started eating. I am hoping that the other will show up?
Circulation is from a cheap 250 GPH pump (waiting for more funds to change out) and a Korillia nano 425GPH.
Lighting is a four lamp T5HO fixture by Wavepoint that I am running for only 5 hours a day, and that will increase a hour a week until I get to ten hours a day.
At this time I do two six gallon water changes a week. One is with new fresh saltwater and the other is from my 300 to stabilize the biological load. Since all levels are zero I will probably stop the water changes using water from the 300 this week.
I feed mini mysis, PE mysis, and spirilina enriched brine shrimp. Corals are fed once a week with Coral Frenzy

[Europhyllia]

Finally Alton, finally! lol

I had no idea this was your candy cane tank. Perhaps the second PJ is still getting used to all that dayglo? ;)

[Jarob]

I actually reallllly like the abundance of candy canes!!! Ive been wanting jawfish so bad, Im thinking about adding another 40lbs of crushed coral to my 40 breeder..

[Mr Cob]

Wow...the multitude of neon candy canes looks awesome!

[alton]

Karin it was setup as a jawfish tank but one day I was fragging candy canes and thought why should I put them all back into my 300 sump so I put 28 of them in the 40 gallon. I guess I need to add a bunch of orange and purple ricordias to help out all the green?

[alton]

Well good news last night, when I fed my second jawfish decided to come out and eat. Which is amazing because I added the pair on September 17th and have not seen him/her until last night. Unbelievable how a fish can hide for weeks and then one day just show up.

[nubz]

enough caulastrea??? its the candy cane forest!!