Mark L.
Moved On
So the other day I decided it was time to clean out an old 5.5 gallon tank my daughter had in her bedroom. She had a fish in it that died like 2 months ago and I just now got the tank out of her room. LOL.
I was in the kitchen cleaning the tank, rock, plants etc. and was wondering what I should do with the tank. I was going to clean it up and just stick it out in the garage for later use. While cleaning the pink gravel she had I started thinking....hmm.... I have some left over sand in the garage from my 100 gal. Then I though, well damn, I have some live rock that's been sitting on the garage floor for a couple months now. I never used it and it was just sitting there all dry and dead.
Then it hits me! A nano tank! So I put away all the freshwater stuff and go out and bring in the sand and now dead rock. I clean the sand in RO water real good and then rinse it with some saltwater I had on hand. I rinse off the dead rock and put it all together. She already had an AquaClear 50 filter so I was good there. She also had a heater, and glass top.
The only thing I have purchased so far for this build is two stunner strips for lights. I bought one 453nm Actinic Blue and one 8000k white/453nm Blue strip. This gives me a total of 30 blue LED's and 18 white. I didn't buy the reflectors because they weren't in stock. Once I get a pair I'll decide if I like the color combo or not. As for now, I just have the strips sitting on the glass top. I need to figure out some way to mount them in a fixture or something.
So for now, I'm just going through a cycle and trying to decide what I want to keep in this tank. Here's a couple quick pics so far. The water just cleared up and the glass is still a little dirty from the sand settling. I'll take more pics as I go. Enjoy!
disregard the blue tape and cardboard taped to the table. I'm trying to keep my new puppy from running under the table! Haha
I was in the kitchen cleaning the tank, rock, plants etc. and was wondering what I should do with the tank. I was going to clean it up and just stick it out in the garage for later use. While cleaning the pink gravel she had I started thinking....hmm.... I have some left over sand in the garage from my 100 gal. Then I though, well damn, I have some live rock that's been sitting on the garage floor for a couple months now. I never used it and it was just sitting there all dry and dead.
Then it hits me! A nano tank! So I put away all the freshwater stuff and go out and bring in the sand and now dead rock. I clean the sand in RO water real good and then rinse it with some saltwater I had on hand. I rinse off the dead rock and put it all together. She already had an AquaClear 50 filter so I was good there. She also had a heater, and glass top.
The only thing I have purchased so far for this build is two stunner strips for lights. I bought one 453nm Actinic Blue and one 8000k white/453nm Blue strip. This gives me a total of 30 blue LED's and 18 white. I didn't buy the reflectors because they weren't in stock. Once I get a pair I'll decide if I like the color combo or not. As for now, I just have the strips sitting on the glass top. I need to figure out some way to mount them in a fixture or something.
So for now, I'm just going through a cycle and trying to decide what I want to keep in this tank. Here's a couple quick pics so far. The water just cleared up and the glass is still a little dirty from the sand settling. I'll take more pics as I go. Enjoy!
disregard the blue tape and cardboard taped to the table. I'm trying to keep my new puppy from running under the table! Haha
