Nano Sapiens 12g - Ye Olde Mixed Reef

[mkutsch]

I want one again. They used to be everywhere, but I can't find em anywhere!

 

[mkutsch]

Hey, do you know your PAR values at the ricordia's level?

 

[Nano sapiens]

I want one again. They used to be everywhere, but I can't find em anywhere!

Liveaquaria has them in stock (that's where I got my two little male porkers, now in a testosterone rage with each other):

 

[mkutsch]

That guy looks huge! How big is he IRL?

 

[Maacc]

Left side:

Right side:

Stunning tank!

 

[Nano sapiens]

Hey, do you know your PAR values at the ricordia's level?

`~90-135 PAR when the lights are at peak. Peak lighting is only on for 3 hours, though, so the rest is ramp up/ramp down making 9-1/2 hrs. total.

 

[Nano sapiens]

That guy looks huge! How big is he IRL?

It does look like it's 5" long, doesn't it? In reality, they are both nearly 2" long, end-end.

 

[Nano sapiens]

Stunning tank!

Thank you!

 

[Dana Riddle]

FTS - 9th Year (started July 2008):

Humble beginnings (Aug 2008):

Simple little 12g Cadlights nano...pump w/Hydor rotating water deflector, heater, DIY 'Complete Spectrum' LEDs, no mechanical/chemical filtration, gravity-fed ATO, 10%/weekly water changes (5%, 2x/wk). Only additives are Kalkwasser (added to the ATOs) and occasionally a few drops of Iodine. Easy-breezy to service and maintain.

CORAL:

Acropora:

• Vivid 'Northern Lights' Granulosa (A. granulosa)

Seriatopora:

• Green Birdsnest (Seriatopora hystrix)
• 'Bird of Paradise' Birdsnest (Seriatopora caliendrum)
• 'Ponape Birdsnest' (Seriatopora aculeata?)

Montipora:

• 'Superhero' (unknown species)
• 'Sunset' (M. danae?)
• Orange Setosa (M. setosa)
• 'Ultra Blue' Digitata (M. digitata)

Others:

• Metallic Gold Pavona (Pavona maldivensis)
• 'Fallen Horizon' Leptoseris
• 'Strawberries and Cream' Leptoseris
• 'Molten Lava' Leptoseris
• Pink Stylocoeniella
• Red-orange Blastomussa wellsi
• Mint-Green Pavona (Pavona descussata?)
• Leptastrea (Leptastrea pruinosa)
• 'Ironman' (possibly Lithophyllon sp.)
• Assorted Ricordia Mushrooms (Ricordia yuma, Ricordia florida)
• Various Rhodactis inchoata sp. Mushrooms (purple, orange, green, red, etc.)
• Assorted Zoanthids/Palys (Speckled Fire & Ice, Oxide, Sparkling Apple Cider, Sunny D, Mohawk, Petroglyph, Gold Maul, Rasta, Blue Hornet, Red Hornet, Utter Chaos, Bloodshots, Shadow Prince, Tyree Orange Rainbow, etc.)

Fish:

• ORA Captive Yellowline Cleaner Goby (Elacatinus figaro) - 1
• Two Spot Bimaculatus Blenny (Ecsenius bimaculatus) - 1
• Green Banded Goby (Tigrigobius multifasciatus) - 2

Crustaceans (non-CUC):

• Peterson's Anemone Shrimp (Anclyomenes petersoni) - 1

Inverts (CUC):

• Collonista snails (Collonista amakusaens)
• Limpet snails (unknown species - white, small 3/8" max)
• Bristleworms (Eurythoe complanata?)
• Blue Legged Hermit Crab (Clibanarius tricolor) - 1
• Dwarf Zebra Orange/Black Hermit Crab (Calcinus laevimanus) - 2
• Mini Brittle Stars (Amphipholis squamata?)
• Mysid shrimp
• Margarita snail - 1

Thanks for looking

Very nice!

 

[Fishninja]

Are your rics sitting on the sand bed or are they attached to liver rock? Beautiful tank!

 

[mkutsch]

`~90-135 PAR when the lights are at peak. Peak lighting is only on for 3 hours, though, so the rest is ramp up/ramp down making 9-1/2 hrs. total.

Thanks.

It does look like it's 5" long, doesn't it? In reality, they are both nearly 2" long, end-end.

I've got a soft spot for gobies. And pipefish. Mostly pipefish though.

 

[Nano sapiens]

Very nice!

Thank you, Dana! Shooting for year 10

Due to your informative articles, I have a much beter understanding and appreciation of corals/false corals' pigmentation when I view something colorful like this (right side):

 

[Katrina71]

My heart skipped a beat with that last picture.

 

[Nano sapiens]

Thanks.

I've got a soft spot for gobies. And pipefish. Mostly pipefish though.

So do I! Pipefish are awesome! There are a number of rarely imported commensal species that live in in Plate Coral (Heliofungia), Galaxia, etc. that would be awesome to observe in the right aquarium:

https://fusedjaw.com/aquariumcare/pipefish-reef-aquarium/

https://reefbuilders.com/2016/12/19/galaxea-pipefish/#

 

[Nano sapiens]

My heart skipped a beat with that last picture.

Glad you like it!

 

[litenyaup]

Very nice

 

[Nano sapiens]

Very nice

Thank you!

 

[Nano sapiens]

Are your rics sitting on the sand bed or are they attached to liver rock?

Beautiful tank!

Whoops, missed this. The Rics are all attached to live rock. Rics don't like to float around on a sand bed, so they'll always look for something hard/permanent to attach to.

And, thank you!

 

[Nano sapiens]

FTS (Dec 2017) @ 9 - 1/2 Years:

Updates: Not much has changed in the system as a whole since the last update last July (same maintenance routine, same basic equipment). Only 'excitement' was a Salifert Mag kit that gave incorrect results towards the end of it's life so I ended up with 1500+ mag for a few weeks (only casualty was a Blasto, but unknown if the high Mag was truly the cause). Fish wise, I lost a little Two Spot Blenny, likely due to old age. A few months ago I received an incorrect order from an online vendor, so instead of three tiny Eviota Gobies I ended up with four boisterous Barnacle Blennies (two Panamic and two Eyebrow). I decided to keep them all, so the tank now supports eight fish (four Barnacle Blennies, two adult male Green Banded Gobies, a Yellow Striped Cleaner Goby and a Hasselts Goby), along with a Pedersons Shrimp and two Hermits.

 

[JoshH]

Beautiful tank, really goes to show you don't have to have a huge tank to have an awesome slice of the ocean.