Newreef's 12 Gallon LED Mantis Tank

Ok so after a bunch of research and a failed atempt at seting up a 150 I have decided to set up a 12 gallon nano cube in my room. The plan for this tank is a mantis shrimp a zoa garder this tank. For lighting I will be using 12 3watt leds from rapidleds.com. For filtration on the tank i am mostly going to use lr, some filter cloth, carbon, mangrooves, and some cheato i dont think i am going to using a skimmer because i cant find any good skimmer the will fit on this tank and on this small of a tank i dont think its worth it.

Ok so without any further adue pics ;D

The pvc is to create a den for the mantis hope fuly he will use it

I used silicon to attack the pvc to the back of the tank this will hold it in place and also stod debree from setling back there


I used 1 inch pvc I use 2 45 degrees and a T elbows i think it came out to like 4 bucks at home depot

I also put some egg crate on the bottom to stop the mantis fron digging to deep and it also helps with stacking the lr


I got 20 pounds of black sand I dont think i will use all of it but thats the smallest size that the lfs had. I went with the black sand because I figure it would create a realy nice contrast between the floresents on the zoas and the black from the sand.


So what do u guys and gals think?;D

 

I'm not sure how much room your have in the back of one of those, but these things kick ass once they break in and are adjusted.
Aquarium Protein Skimmer: AquaticLife Internal Mini Skimmer 115

 

Sounds like it will look great. I like the idea of black sand with the zoas

 

wont fit:-/ anyway i dont think i would be able to sleep with bubbing noise that protien skimmer make lol

 

Yea it was a little noisy... But it got drown out by my overflow anyways ha ha.

 

Yea all skimmers make that strange noise it would drive me crazy in my room at night

 

i just finished roughing up the pvc den with some sand paper i did this so that the coraline algea will grow on it better on it this way i i will turn purple faster