3 Foot Office Nano

[enzo]

Never mind I just reread the beginning of the post.

 

[timkenagy]

Very nice!! (I hate my job!)

 

[usernam invalid]

What a fantastic looking nano Do you have another tank at home?

 

[eschulist]

What a fantastic looking nano Do you have another tank at home?

Thanks! Its my only tank which is probably why it gets a lot of attention. I do have some planning in the works to upgrade this tanks stand/plumbing/lighting but its probably a couple months out.

 

[Reef_Obsessed]

Beautiful tank!!! Can you put a Powder Tang in there?

 

[oneilwiz]

Such an amazing tank, I wish my work place would allow me to have a nano in my office since am a systems administrator by my desk all the time. Stunning tank

 

[eschulist]

Never mind I just reread the beginning of the post.

No worries. The light fixture isn't common at all so I get a lot of questions about it. I bought it directly from the factory and had to do a lot of skype chats with a crude interpreter to get my order placed for the size and configuration of LEDs I wanted. Overall I'm really happy with it except for 1-2 things. The support legs are large and unsightly. The cord coming out the top bugs me rather than going smoothly out the side. The hanging connectors also aren't countersunk or even stainless steel. Its also very wide with only a small section of the middle having LEDs, the rest is just a very heavy heatsink. I'm in talks with Dave Fason to get a 36" Nanobox fixture to really make this look sexy.

The water movement is all sump driven by the Eheim 1260. This is another thing I want to upgrade soon. The power and reliability that this pump has is awesome, but I'd like some DC power with calibration settings so I just have more control and have the ability to put it into feed mode without constantly losing a ton of water to backsiphoning and needing to close valves all the time.

 

[cFloor]

What a beautiful little tank! I love the venustus as well

 

[Topside Reef]

That's amazing!
Now I want to set up a smaller tank

 

[eschulist]

What a beautiful little tank! I love the venustus as well

Thank you!

It is by far my favorite fish. I've wanted one for a long time and eventually got to see one during the LiveAquaria open house tour. It was in Kevin's personal tank in his office swimming amonst the Bandits, Tamarin Wrasses, and Gem Tangs. It was maybe a little forward of me but I asked if he would sell it. He said if he could catch it he would. A month or two later went by and he got in touch with me that the fish was ready to go. Special ordered it right there and a few days later it was in my tank.

It was even on the cover of their magazine that month

 

[jack89]

Awesome tank ......

 

[renato120]

Amazing! What camera do you use?

 

[Pfisherman]

I have never seen anything like that, I love it!

 

[eschulist]

Amazing! What camera do you use?

Canon T2i with a 10-22mm lens was used in the video, as well as the cubicle photo. I usually use a Sigma 35mm for most of my photos. I'd like to eventually upgrade to a full frame camera, maybe one of the new Sonys that also shoot 4K video

 

[bbazemore]

Did you sell the wav kit?

 

[eschulist]

Did you sell the wav kit?

Its being sold locally within our club this weekend. If it falls through I'll get in touch with you.

 

[chefjpaul]

Thats a sexy tank.
Well done!!

 

[ReefBuzz]

Wow! What a beautiful nano!!

I've always been a fan of these 3' tanks. Was going to set up a freshwater planted tank a while back and use one.

Great work!

 

[mtswaneya]

Hey Reef2Reef

I've been lurking here for a long time but never posted a build thread. I've done so on my local forum and on nano-reef. I figured people that might not visit either of those places might like to see what I've been doing too.

The build started in the spring of 2012.

The tank is a Mr Aqua 12 gallon. 36" long x 8 wide x 9 high. It is drilled 2 times on both sides. Two 1" drains with flat screens, and two 1/2" returns going straight into the tank. This provides all of my flow. I run a small 10 gallon sump with a filter sock and 75 watt neotherm heater. My main media filtration is a tiny amount of biopellets in a BRS Dual reactor. In chamber two is Rox carbon. It used to be both carbon and gfo mixed but I was over stripping nutrients by doing both the pellets and gfo. The main return pump is an Eheim 1260 that wyes to both returns.

The light was upgraded last year. For the first 2 years I used a Chinese no brand name 50 blue : 50 white on/off style LED fixture. It was really crude but worked. I had separate timers for each channel. To control how much total blue/white I was getting I covered some of the white LEDs to be a bit more blue when both were on at once. In the summer of 2014 (same year we moved office buildings) I upgraded to a different Chinese fixture called the AquaPro made by AquaSanrise. Its 36" long and has built in ramping and dimming of 4 different channels.

Old Cubicle Shot

Fairly recent cubicle shot

FTS Archive

Blue/UV only

Video update

love your tank.

 

[eschulist]

Thats a sexy tank.
Well done!!

Wow! What a beautiful nano!!
I've always been a fan of these 3' tanks. Was going to set up a freshwater planted tank a while back and use one.
Great work!

love your tank.

Thanks everyone. Definitely give it a shot Buzz. Its a constraining size that forces interesting aquascaping and filtration setups.