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Ok, well as long as their not fish eating paracitic bugs then I'm cool with it. They can really move too when they want to. I guess I should stop killing them then. The other thing I've got to address post haste is to put a cover over my overflow so a snail doesn't attempt to crawl down...

Sorry for no pics yet. Got side tracked yesterday but as I was inspecting my tank, I killed yet another pillbug style 'pod but I also found out where they're breeding and I saw at least four or five more, along with a ton (15-20) little squigglers that were so small I'm not sure what they were...

It's been awhile but my tank is still curing. Yesterday I added a full complement of a cleanup crew consisting of 10 snails of different varieties, 10 small hermits of various breeds to go along with the zebra and 2 scarlets (both the blue hermies died or are still mia). One emerald crab and I...

Do T5's require their own special ballast?

Nanotank Members and Visitors: Welcome to the second installment of the construction of my reef tank. In "Three Days to Start" ( http://www.nanotank.com/viewtopic.php?t=255 ) we saw the design and construction of my tank, the setbacks, the questions, and the lessons learned. Most noteibly...

DJConn: Please lock this thread. The exciting adventures of my tank shall continue in: Phischy's Project Pt II !!

One week later I tested my water again, this time just for nitrite, and it's down in the .1ml/l range. So woo hoo! Levels are balancing themselves out. Pretty sweet. I think this weekend I"m goign to get a better quality test and then start looking into my calcium levels. Ihaven't really...

Ok, well I'm not putting anything in the tank for another few weeks anyway, so if they are blood suckers they'll have to be genetic freaks to go over a month without any live grub. I tried to photo one but it just looks like a piece of sand. I've also found more little filter feeders...

Bugs & Stuff So I get home today and I turn on the lights just to see what's happening in the old tank. And to my surprise, a see a bunch of very very lightly colored bugs go scurryin' for cover. So my tank actually has something alive in it! Bwa ha ha ha, it lives, IT LIVES!!!!! The bugs...

The most important member of the cleanup crew is the human who devotes hours upon endless hours and bags of cash to keeping the system operating! Everyone in the tank is just along for the ride, lucky freeloaders!

Anyone use this? http://www.marinedepot.com/aquarium_lig ... sp?CartId= Looks kinda neat and on the cheaper end.

Not a damn thing. My tank is still cycling so I have nothing it there but live rock.

I'm in San Diego too! Mission Hills area.

Yes a nano is under 20 or 30gal depending on who you talk to. There's not a whole lot of difference between nano's and regular tanks in general. the main difference as I see it being any change in water quality will affect the system more dramatically due to a smaller buffer capacity. I...

I've been toying with the idea of turning my 15gal sump into a big ass 'fuge down the road. I've got enough extra rock in my tank that's sort of cluttering up the look of it right now. Space is my biggest problem so I'm not sure where I'd actually put it. I may get a powerfilter then, more...

Considering the ba-jallions of gallons of water in the ocean, I consider my 40gal to be a nano. Thus I'm here. ha ha ha ha ha :P

Ha ha, Phischy rules!!! No real news to report other than it finally stopped stinking up my small apartment and I'm past the ammonia phase of the cycling. Kinda boring right now, it just sits with the lights off and cycles away. I think this weekend I may get a random orbital sander and fix...