Neo Nano startup

[Lotus]

Some of you may have seen from the other thread that I won a Neo Nano.

Here are some pics:

Before water:

With water and sand:

Cleared up the next morning:

Shot from the top (the sand around the waterfall part has been displaced by the water jets):

Ecotank plugging in the light:

 

[Lotus]

With corals and rock. I'll work on the aquascape this weekend. I'm not happy with it so far:

 

[Lotus]

The live rock is mostly from my 10g tank, and the white pieces are some fully cured rock.

Because there's really only corals and fully cured live rock, I hope I'll be fine. Ammonia was fine this morning.

 

[DclownD]

omfg thats awsome i really want to build a salt tank some day but id like to go nano and i hear there are some amazing kits out there

 

[strout]

Looking very nice. Geez, I can't belive you won a tank, lol.

 

[zoalover34]

lookin good, so when you gonna frag those sun corals?!

 

[1979camaro]

Is the tank starfire glass?

 

[Lotus]

Is the tank starfire glass?

I don't think it is. There was nothing on the tank or in any of the materials that came with it to indicate that it is.

Apparently it's 3/8" glass. It does look pretty clear, though.

 

[unwritten law]

did it come with that light cause the one on the site I thought was a MH.... should be cool when its done though.

 

[Lotus]

It didn't come with a light We have a MH pendant that should be here Monday. In the meanwhile, we took this light from another tank.

 

[TRe]

your really guna have to work on the rock work cause IMO it really makes or breaks shallow tanks like this but its a great start! i would have waited on the corals till the rockwork was squared away but who am i kidding i prolly would have jump the gun too! its guna be nice with the MH tho

 

[strout]

Any new pics???

 

[Lotus]

Well, we have the new light on, but I haven't managed to move any of the rocks around yet. I'm hoping in the next few days.

Today was "fish day" i.e. the day we do water changes, etc. However, we had a bunch of other tasks to do, like cleaning up some of the tanks we broke down and moving one into a new position (the one that made way for the nano). We also fragged a small colony of zoanthids. We promised some frags to a few friends and associates.

I'll try to get pics up over the weekend. I'm guessing the second aquascape won't be the final one. I'm still trying to figure out how best to aquascape a tank with these dimensions so that it looks good top-down and from the front.

 

[strout]

Can't wait to see what you come up with as far as the aquascaping goes.

 

[Lotus]

This is aquascape V. 2.0

With the new light:

Top-down view of a couple of the corals:

Because this is partially a frag/holding tank, I have a feeling it's always going to look kind of "bitty." I'll see what happens in the next aquascape

 

[unwritten law]

looks great, like something I'd like to have. How loud is it though with the water falling down so far... BTW I want to steal your light.

 

[Lotus]

And an actinic shot:

 

[Lotus]

The fan on the light is actually louder than the tank. It's pretty quiet. There's a slight waterfall sound, but it's not bad.

It's in our spare room, so the only ones who can complain are guests

 

[unwritten law]

That's nice then. I think the fan on my light is the loudest part of my setup as well.

 

[strout]

The tank is starting to look good. The thing that I was most surprized about is, how far the lights are away from the water, wasn't expecting to see that. Also the box in the center of the tank, is that an over flow box? I thought it might be a HOB filter, but it goes all the way to the bottom of the tank, so I thought it might be a over flow box, but it would be to tall for that, so I don't know what it is, lol.