Excaliburs Nano
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Tank is looking great!
MoshJosh
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Pretty sure I just bought this same tank!!!Recently converted my pico frag tank into a pico reef tank. Timing was fortunate as I needed to move a violent clown out my 20g. Hoping to convert my gfs im15 Nuvo fresh water tank into a salt tank for the clown. We will see how that goes.
This tank is a lifeguard aquatics 4g peninsula. Using a Kessil a80 on a smart plug. Helio 30 watt heater, filter sponge and floss for mechanical filtration, and siporax bio media. Doing 50%+ water change weekly. Bare bottom for easy maintenance.
Frag tank mode. Got really bored with this setup because I didn’t trust anything other than softies in it. It served well to mount softy frags and things of that nature. It also served as a hospital tank when my clown had severe body rot.
I didn’t wanna invest too much money into this build at this point so I went with the cheap white rock. Bought maybe 5 pounds to break up and cement together. Big mistake, the white rock is awful to cut or break and is so incredibly silty.
Got a cool nem for the clown fish. Hopefully he likes it lol
Yours is looking good so far! More inspiration to set mine up!
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I swapped the lifeguard 4g to a IM 15g cube. The lifeguard serves as a hospital tank now.
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Are you doing a pico reef in yours?
MoshJosh
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Pays to read more than the first page haha! Still nice looking tanks!
MoshJosh
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Probably. . . Just gotta get my wife to say yes. . . or not notice. . .
It's sitting in the living room empty right now so that should be a good hint to her!
I Like these Lifegard tanks but. . . the AIO design is odd in my opinion. I plan on blocking the bottom intake and cutting the foam it comes with in half, leaving the bottom open for the heater and the bio media. . . ATO will go with the pump.
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I honestly did like the tank overall! But the small dual aio chamber was a challenge for sure. I put a sicce return pump in there and a sicce voyager nano in the display portion.
The filter side I removed the big pad and used some fluval filter sponge from Petco with filter floss piece on top. I had the bio media underneath that. It was a detritus trap in there but it worked decent overall.
i had tried to build a custom media rack for it but never finished it off.
It was cool cuz you can easily do 100% water changes.
MoshJosh
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I though about trying making a media rack too haha but my acrylic skills are a little lacking!
MoshJosh
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Are you still using the a80 on the 15 gallon? What "settings" are you using if so. I have one on my 10 gallon and I can't quite get it dialed in where I want it.
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I’m using an a160 on the 15g now.
When I was using the a80 I had it set at full output power and 70% blue. I think around 6 in from surface of water. A80 is hard to get right I didn’t have great results with it.
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