My 16 Gallon Nano

Okay here are some pictures of my 16 gallon bow frt. and DIY 7 gallon fuge.








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very nice DIY Fuge. nice and clean. i love it

 

nice work on the sump there looks really good!!!

 

Beautiful!

What you usin for light?

 

Thanks, its getting there.

Right now its a 80 PC with 1-6,700k/10,000 bulb and 1-420nm/460nm bulb.
I got a real good deal on 2 BNIB satellite lights at a garage sale, I paid 25
bucks for both (divorced him and was selling his stuff, OUCH).

I am saving to buy a 175w or 250w MH but got lots of other things going on
so it may be awhile. Hoping Santa is REAL nice to me this year!

 

Really nice...

Thanks for sharing !

Cheers! ;D

 

looks awesome.....

 

I added a few inhabitants tonight. Go these from someone on Ebay,
actually some real nice stuff at a reasonable price. Sorry about the
quality on some of these

 

Wow! You have an entire little world in your tank. Do you happen to have a pic of the tank showing how the water is cycled from the tank and through the fuge? Is there a lid on your tank that encloses the lights? I need more filtering for my 24G nano and would like to somehow add a sump w/fuge but the lid closes tightly. Gorgeous tank you have there! Kas

 

My tank flows through an HOB 600 GPH Overflow into a 1" hose that runs into the right side of my Fuge.
Then after running the fuge its pumped back up to tank using a Taam Rio+ 1400 Powerhead/Pump which
I figure with the location of the Fuge is pumping about 300 GPH so I had to put a ball valve between the
overflow and the fuge to slow it down to 300 GPh.

Only the from of my tank has a lid covering it, the back is open for now but I am going to close it in

I had a skimmer on the left which pumped into the front right chamber where the heater originally was but
decided that for a 16 gallon that was a liittle but overkill so I took it out and moved the heater to where it was.

Click on picture to get a larger view.


I know allot of people say that you loose allot of Amphipods, Copepods running them running them
through the pump like that but I have spent many hours just watching them get sucked up and coming
out the other end a little bit dizzy but basically sound. no I am not saying I haven't seen a few here
and there looking like they went through a blender but even those get snapped up by a crab, snail or my clown.



Please no remarks about my tank stands! :-X LOL When my basement remodel is done these tanks and
my New one are all going down there.

Nor any about the window behind it, when I replaced the windows in my House I went with tripple pane
windows that have almost no heat/cold transfrer so that isnt and issue, plus its usually closed with a room

I spent about 35 dollars on plexi which I bought from Delvie's Plastic Inc. He has about the best prices and
shipping that I found on the net, plus he is real easy to work with. If your in the market for plexi you should
really try him.

It was my first attempt in working with plexiglass, I have built my share of glass tanks over the years though so
I had a slight advantage. I am now working on an aproximatley 30 to 35 gallon LPS and SPS tank with built in
fuge, which is my own design, once I get it started I will post photos.

Sorry for the long winded answer..........