Aqualung's 16 Gallon Nano

Updates over the next couple days!!

I've always been amazed by the beauty of saltwater tanks. In my nine years of freshwater fish experienced, I had always wanted to get into Saltwater. Because of my space limitations I was drawn towards Nanos, and their challenge. I stayed away from the all-in-one systems, because I didn't want to fiddle or clean chambers behind the tank you can't remove. So I bought an Orbit 80w PC, an AC70 and a Hydor 1, and saved a lot more money that way!

So here's day 1





Hitchhikers

 

Nice tank set up! I love your aquascaping lookks great. I'd wear gloves everytime you stick your hand in that tank with those bristle worms Ouch. What do you plan to keep in your tank? k+ for the nice job

 

Fishes

Wolf (Tank Bred Occelaris) Floyd (Royal Gramma)





CUC

Bender the CBS







Coral

Hairy Mushroom







Xenia



One month later!



Zoas

$11 beat up frag form the LFS.. I'll save you!



after a month



$6 LFS frag

 

Nice, good start!

 

looks good

 

Thanks!

 

Thanks for the replies! Tank is actually almost 3 1/2 months old. I was posting on Nano-reef, but I like this site much better! Here's some more pics:

Month 2 FTS



Month 3 with Algae Bloom! Bad LFS water.. bad reefer (me)! Must make own water





Most Current Pic. and a month after the last two pics. Hair algae was blooming like crazy! I solved it with my homemade water, Kalk Dosing to precipitate phosphates and coraline control , New T5 lighting replacing my PC's, and two Turbo Snails later.. this is 2 days after all these changes. Remember those last pics were taken a month ago. My tank was much worse than the previous pics..

 

Getting some LPS and SPS tomorrow.. stay tuned!

 

Thanks! Well my friend is giving me some LPS and SPS tomorrow. Trumpet Coral, Candy Cane, Birds nest, and Acropora. Gettign a skimmer this month. That's it for fish.. Just dripping 24oz of Kalk mix 1-2 times a week.. coraline is poppin outa the rockwork.. getting pink, red, and orange. Definately getting more zoas. Next year I'm upgrasing to a 40 gallon breeder