TWOLITREmedia's 18g Nano Reef (NEW Platinum Designer Clowns Added!)

Thanks! Not sure yet, I am more than open to suggestions. Basically everything in the nano will be starting from frags and grown out I believe is my only "plan" thus far

Haha glad I could help with the decision!

Haha i am hired by clients out of town all the time, all you need to do is buy the plain ticket, and cover my expenses ;-)
Again no specific plan in mind other than to use it as a "frag" tank essentially and documenting growth.
I can officially except the title I think of reef junkie as well, and I feel like I "cheated" until this nano as I officially cycled a brand new tank now. My 72 gallon reef was mature when buying it. ****ty water perameters, and empty, but the rock and water column was mature for sure.

So the lighting on the 18gallon units is always two of their LED hoods! The 4 and 8 gallon have one, the 18 gallon has two Literally all you need with these units is to buy a heater, your LR, and sand bed and your off to the races!

I am patiently waiting for the RKL moonlight module to come in now as there are some things to look at in the tank....it's taking a while for some reason not sure why. Went with the blue module and ordered an addition red bulb to add so itll be a weird eerie blue/red light mixture at night on the nano. Similar to how my dragon tank casts infrared light at night onto my 72 gallon.

Timelapse is certainly a great idea, I should do one of my 72 gallon with the sunrise/sunset cycles on my AI units.

I could not be happier with how all this is going!

 

Ok so small updated on this baby as I have basically maxed out my 72 gallon main DT, grabbed a couple of adds and new pics!

Here is the first VISIBLE fish in here as I still have not seen the goby I bought with the paired shrimp. I know they're there, just under all the flat base rock.

Final Tank Adds! by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com, on Flickr

Peppermint Shrimp!

Final Tank Adds! by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com, on Flickr

Full Tank Shot

Final Tank Adds! by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com, on Flickr

The GF marveling at our little creation

Final Tank Adds! by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com, on Flickr

That's all for now!

 

Thats not a peppermint shirmp

 

He is red and white like Peppermint but no he is a Fire Shrimp, my favorite in the group among shrimp.

That tank looks fantastic too.

 

Beautiful nano.

 

Sorry yes just realized my mistake, my bad!

Thanks for the ID correction and kind words!

I am very happy with this unit.


Also I forgot to state I decided a way to go with this little thing. The final stock list will include another blood shrimp, a fire goby(The white/red guys with mohawk fin), and the final add with be a purple/yellow dotty back being the most agressive and final add. A couple more in my clean up crew would be good I think as well.

As for coral, the tank will be comprised of nothing but super colourful/rare ricordia/yuma/mushrooms, as well as some blastos for additional colour.
We'll see how well I can stay to the plan!

 

I love it! And +1 to Fire Shrimp.

IMO I wouldn't put a Dottyback in that tank, as they can be very aggressive in a tank that small.

 

The guy I purchased the tank from has the 8 gallon version of this and his purple/yellow dotty back does fantastic in there as long as there is a top for no jumping spectacles. Other than that it's very content, and my volume is more than double his so I'm hoping Itll be ok.

Thanks for the compliments everyone, I can't wait to see some coral in this thing, may go grab the first ric/yuma today! The rare ones are expensive :-(

 

Well I guess that it would be fine then I just heard about them being aggressive in smaller tanks a while ago.

How much do Rics and Yumas cost up there? They're really cheap in Florida, so I wouldn't know

 

Well it really depends on colouration and size I suppose, but any of the really nice ones I want are always $100+. To be honest the guy I go to in Kingston destroys and of the Toronto or Ottawa prices for frag dealers so I think I actually have it easy!

As for the dotty back we'll see, If I put him in notice he's a nuisance/psycho...out he goes haha.