I've kept many a nano in the past. Even won NTOTM RC twice for a vase and a cube and had one published in RK MAG March 2013, 7.5 gallon nano. I think this is the first time I have ever NOT had a nano. I really have to do something about that!
How many of you guys are keeping nano tanks?
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Only reason I have a nano is because it fits on my desk and keeps me entertained while I work. Mostly experimental while I wait on the main display then will turn into a long term QT. Bigger I think is always better but I can see how certain constriants make for having smaller version although it's much easier for me to maintain correct parameters with a larger display. As it is, i can't add an ATO or dossers which makes keeping certain corals likely unlikely.
waterskiguy
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I picked up a 45 gallon nano lagoon a while back but it was put on hold when my display popped a seem in January. Looking forward to building it after replacing my 260. I want do a seahorse / pipe fish type setup. Maybe a yasha / candy pistol pair and flame prawn goby in a macro algae gorgonian and softie tank.
ChrsFrssll
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My BioCube 14 AIO (an actual 9 gallons of water) has been running for about 10 years, but 2 years ago crashed, I burned out and let it fester—nothing but occasional RODI top offs and a pinch of flake food every couple of days for more than a year.
It’s currently 3 months into a full rehab and looking pretty good again—parameters have settled in nicely, so i’ve been resrocking. The clowns, mushrooms, a couple of zoas and a Randall’s pistol shrimp are all hardened crash survivors. The LPS frags, sexy shrimp herd, and a tailspot blenny are newly stocked. Two baby bubble tip anemones and some purple sponge came in on a live rock trade.
Anticipating those bubble tips are going to outgrow this home, i’m looking firing up a larger nano with sump in the not too distant future.
It’s currently 3 months into a full rehab and looking pretty good again—parameters have settled in nicely, so i’ve been resrocking. The clowns, mushrooms, a couple of zoas and a Randall’s pistol shrimp are all hardened crash survivors. The LPS frags, sexy shrimp herd, and a tailspot blenny are newly stocked. Two baby bubble tip anemones and some purple sponge came in on a live rock trade.
Anticipating those bubble tips are going to outgrow this home, i’m looking firing up a larger nano with sump in the not too distant future.
does a 40B count?
aws2266
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I recently bought a fluval 13.5g. I have a pistol shrimp that decided to turn into a serial killer. I put him and his watchman goby in the 13.5g. I'll probably put some zoa's in there but that will be it. The shrimp will kill anything else.
Sharkbait19
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Are you sure the shrimp is doing the killing? Tigers are almost always harmless.I recently bought a fluval 13.5g. I have a pistol shrimp that decided to turn into a serial killer. I put him and his watchman goby in the 13.5g. I'll probably put some zoa's in there but that will be it. The shrimp will kill anything else.
aws2266
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Yep. I was hesitant to believe it at first. Found any fish that swam near his den would wind up dead. The last fish he killed was my black and white clownfish. There was a little nook in a rock where the clown would sleep. Found sand in it from the shrimp being there one day and no clown to be found again. It's been a month since I moved the shrimp and no one else has died. I test my parameters weekly and nothing has been out of sorts. If there was some kind of contamination I would have thought it would have killed several at the same time not slowly over a few months. I did some reading on here and found others where their pistol shrimp has turned homicidal.
Sharkbait19
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It’s possible but my money is on disease, pistols are really good at playing cleanup but a healthy fish shouldn’t be able to get snatched by a near-blind shrimp..
aws2266
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We'll see. There are no signs of disease other than losing around 4 fish over the last 4 or so months. If fish continue to die then I'll look at alternative explanations, but right now I feel pretty confident it's a murder shrimp.
ewoolpert
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Fluval 13.5. 14 Months in and a lot of changes along the way. I have realized that less is more and along the way you have to choose what you want most and slowly adjust the tank. This is my first tank and I think it has gone well this far in.
Have a 13.5 gallon Evo at home. Been a long work in progress but going a bit better now. Macro (specifically pom pom) taking over a bit. I really like mixing DT macros, corals, nems, fish and inverts.
Johnnyrainbowreefer
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MaxTremors
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Picture is couple months old, I’ve had a few losses since (was out of town a bunch last month and had some alk issues and I also found a rusty magnet in one of the back chambers), but it’s recovering:
Seymo44
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This is my fluval 13.5. Please excuse the windex water; the lights go off at 10:30 and they’re on full actinic and uv at the moment. It’s pretty empty right now since I moved all my favorite colonies into my 65. My wife and I also each have 5 gal picos on our desks. The picos are softie tanks with clown gobies.
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sorry if this has been asked, what's the fish in there? I want a .5 gal for my desk at work.Just started a 0.3 G micro reef in our office
That's 30?! amazing. do you have a picture of the hardscape? Id like to try for something like this in my next rescape.I guess my 30 mixed reef is a nano..... At least by comparison to other tanks I have had in the past. I have had 90s a 180 and even a 310. They were soft corals and LPS. The 310 was a shark tank! Smoothhound, Leopard and Hornshark. I chose a 30 long mostly for ease of maintenance and the relatively low initial cost of rock, equipment and the livestock I would need to get back into the hobby.
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