My attempt at a nano reef

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Hi all
This is my nano reef that's been running for around a year, as with all my tanks I'm lazy as with it but I do a 30% weekly water change on it and that's it. What do you think? Sorry about the iPhone pics



 
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Thanks guys, i find it's so easy to sit in front of this tank and lose so much time just looking:drool:
 
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That looks great!
Apart from wc once a week I service the skimmer and keep the front glass clean but thats about it too. Oh and change the carbon and phosban every couple months.

Gets a bit expensive mixing up the salt mix every week but at least that gives the corals a boost and I don't have to go into all the other you-beaut additives others use.
 
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Brengun said:
That looks great!
Apart from wc once a week I service the skimmer and keep the front glass clean but thats about it too. Oh and change the carbon and phosban every couple months.

Gets a bit expensive mixing up the salt mix every week but at least that gives the corals a boost and I don't have to go into all the other you-beaut additives others use.
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Thanks for the reply as my tank is only 80L I just buy my water in 25L drums, $5 for a refill and I have a few drums so it lasts me a while. I've tryed a lot of the other additives but in a little tank I think just doing weekly wc is all you need.
 
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Threads like this do little to help my temptation to start a salty pico...

very nice, love the mandarin
 
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Give in to temptation :lol:
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I am definitely buying a Dymax IQ5, it just what I do with it that I am not sure about.

Will either be a dwarf cichlid breeder / desert style scape or a salty one.

My worry is that I can leave a fw set up for longer unattended than a sw one and a tank volume so small could go wrong very quickly (zero sw experience)

Hmmm......
 
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xingu said:
I am definitely buying a Dymax IQ5, it just what I do with it that I am not sure about.

Will either be a dwarf cichlid breeder / desert style scape or a salty one.

My worry is that I can leave a fw set up for longer unattended than a sw one and a tank volume so small could go wrong very quickly (zero sw experience)

Hmmm......
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I find with the tank being only 80l that a weekly wc of 30% is a must, the corals don't open as much when it's getting to the end of the week but as soon as I do the water they go nuts, if you need to leave it unattended for more than a week or two at the most it mite not be the thing for you.
 
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SS317 said:
I find with the tank being only 80l that a weekly wc of 30% is a must, the corals don't open as much when it's getting to the end of the week but as soon as I do the water they go nuts, if you need to leave it unattended for more than a week or two at the most it mite not be the thing for you.
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Yeah, the tank i'm getting is 13l so super small and therefore hard to keep stable.
 
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I say go for it, I'm thinking a planted one with shrimp in it would look good in my living room :drool:
 
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