And it begins...JBJ Nano Cube 28 gallon LED

[rdahlke1105]

Oooh! Get a pistol shrimp combo on that YWG!!!

Can't. I have a cleaner shrimp and there is a possibility that the pistol would kill my cleaner..I'm not risking Herman.

 

[rdahlke1105]

Well after a major tank crash, I moved all inhabitants over to a 10 gallon tank, broke the DT down and restarted it. I held all of the rock in a bucket with tank water, took out all of the water and sand and replaced. I got to the point where I was hating the black sand that I had in there originally because every time the clowns would be near it, they would cause a sand storm to blow up?

I replaced the sand with dry argonite sand. Here are pictures of the new setup.

FTS:

Right side:

Left side:

Tunnel:

 

[little_fish]

Oh, no. What happened?

But the rebuild looks good!

 

[ErinCahir]

Sorry to hear about your crash, Reaha.
I agree with little_fish, though. Rebuild looks great!

 

[BL1]

I like the new way you've setup your rocks!

 

[rdahlke1105]

I don't know what happened really. But I pulled everyone out and put them in a hospital tank until I could get the tank rebuilt. So far everything is ok. I'm still pulling out some dwarf cerths out of the hospital tank, but everything else is doing ok. Though I did lose my hammer and torch to brown jelly. I'm just going to let the new build coast for awhile. My zoas are coming around, I was really afraid that I was going to lose them too, but they are starting to open back up.

 

[rdahlke1105]

I did lose Herman my cleaner shrimp, I will eventually get another one, but right now I don't want to add anything. I'm not planning on adding anything else for about 3 weeks or more. Except a couple of macros and some chaeto for the fuge in the back.

 

[rdahlke1105]

Well the macros and chaeto I ordered got here today. :)

FTS:

Close ups:

 

[ErinCahir]

Looking good, Reaha!

 

[rdahlke1105]

Thanks Erin. Right now that is all I'm going to add. I'm going to wait for another couple of weeks before I even think of adding anything. I'm getting the RO water together today so I can have my salt mixing tonight and tomorrow do a water change.

 

[rdahlke1105]

Well I did the full range of tests. These are the results.

Temp: 79.3
Specific Gravity: 1.025
PH: 7.8 (lights have only been on for a couple of hours)
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0
dKH: 8.6
Calcium: 460
Phosphates: 0
Magnesium: 1440

 

[Duddy]

How is your nano coming along? I am strongly considering this system as my way to dip my toe back into the hobby. Are you pleased with the overall function?