Custom Classroom Nano, Mixed Reef

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10g custom AIO design that resided in a Montessori classroom in Palo Alto, CA.

Let me know if you have any questions!

 

[RAD Aquatics!]

Montessori Classroom Reef - Palo Alto, CA​

The 'quarium at one year. No skimmer, one small pump, 10 gallons. Six fish, SPS, clams, nems, gorgs. Good stony coral growth and a pair of spawning sexy shrimp and clownfish.

Equipment


Format: Custom All-In-One Design, ~8g display, 2g "sump"


Aquarium: 10g Aqueon AGA


Light: Kessil 350 Blue Tuna - Magnetic Refugium LED


Flow: MaxiJet 1100 (294GPH) > SCWD > Loc Line Nozzle


Filtration: Overflow > Poly Filter > Chaeto Refugium > Semi - Benthic Rock Rubble > ROX Carbon and GFO (PRN) > Return Pump


ATO - AquaLab Aquaria


Livestock


Fish: Ocellaris Clowns, Mated Pair - Neon Gobies, Mated Pair - Tail Spot Blenny - Trimma Goby


Inverts: Sexy Shrimp, Mated Pair - Bubble Tip Anemone Clones - Crocea Clam - 3 Nassarius Snails, 1 Turbo


SPS: Ponape Birdsnest, Red Planet Acro, Montipora digitata, Montipora capricornus, Bali Slimer, more


LPS: Brain, Frogspawn, Duncan, CandyCane, Sun Coral, Chalice


Gorgonians: 2 Photosynthetic - 1 Azoox


Soft: Blue Xenia, Pulsing Xenia, Kenya Tree, Neon Toadstool, Zoas, Green Star Polyps, Ricordea


Algaes: Dragon's Tongue, Gracilaria, Valonia (trying to eradicate)


Maintenance


-Weekly Water Change, 10-20%


-Daily Alkalinity and Calcium Dosing, Manually, ~4mL Alk and ~2ml Ca


-Chaetomorpha Pruning


-Glass Scraping


Feeding


-It seems like I feed with reckless abandon. Not to mention my students often over-indulge the fish and corals...I'm starting to theorize that this may be one of the reasons the tank is doing so well; I feed like a **** and the corals like it. My phosphate is undetectable (Hanna) and my nitrate never registers (API).


-Live phyto, Coral Frenzy, Cyclopeeze, and flake daily.

 

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Here are a few other photos of the tank during the beginning. A lot has changed...Lots of success, but a few catastrophes along the way. And I run a Kessil now which made a world of difference...

 

[Tahoe61]

Very cool set up. Brings back a lot of memories of my classroom tanks. Beautifully done and simplistic.

 

[RAD Aquatics!]

Thanks a ton, much appreciated.

Were you a teacher as well?

 

[Tahoe61]

Thanks a ton, much appreciated.

Were you a teacher as well?

I was the student that always begged for the tank, and the aquarium manager at community colleges. You can not go wrong exposing youth to the hobby.

 

[fishroomlady]

very pretty little tank! sure wish I would have had a reef in my teachers' classrooms back in the day

 

[RAD Aquatics!]

Thank you!

 

[Riddler05]

Very nice tank!

 

[soggytees]

Very cool! Any new pics? How's the tank doing these days?