John's Nano Reef

[johnrt]

Hi all. I'm new to the salty side of fish keeping, having kept fresh water before. My tank is about 6 weeks old now. My intention is o run this tank for another 12ish months or so when I plan to move house, which will let me build something much bigger. I wanted to get my reef feet wet in the mean time, so have a look!

Cheers

[Pandapuffer]

Looking good so far, any chance of getting some tank specs for it? :thumbsup:

[johnrt]

another pic!

[johnrt]

Thanks for the reply! Tank specs are as follows:

Main Display 60l capacity containing 5.5 kilos live rock & live sand bed

CPR AquaFuge 11litre capacity conaining Mineral Mud & live sand DSB live rock and cheto (fuge lit 24/7 by 11watt flurescent lamp)

x1 maxijet 400 for water movement, x1 maxijet 400 to feed fuge and seaclone 100 skimmer.

Lighting 21watt T5 white and 21watt T5 blue actinic lamps

Corals: Zoanthids, Xenia, Yellow Polyp x2 and Green Hairy Mushrooms.

Live stock: x6 hermit crabs, x2 Turbo Snails 1 blood shrimp and a varity of hitch hikers!

[johnrt]

Mushrooms

[johnrt]

Zoanthids - growing nicely since I got them!

[johnrt]

Blood shrimp

All Hail Shrimpto

[Twistedpro]

hi john, love the tank looks really good, you have some nice looking zoo's in there

[Warrington-guy]

Looks good. Looks very like my tank with stock.. keep up the good nano work

Martyn

[ThomJ]

Looking good! I agree lovely looking zoo's. The mushroom center piece looks tasty to! looking forward to seeing some updates!

Tom :thumbsup:

[johnrt]

Spent my Christmas vouchers at STM today, I bought:

[johnrt]

and.....

[johnrt]

lastly a full tank shot...

[djb1971]

Nice new additions - I hope you thanked santa :P

They've made the tank look different again :thumbsup:

[johnrt]

Thanks, it's starting to get somewhere near how I imagined. Meet Neville....

[djb1971]

is neville new? I can't recall him in your piccies :thumbsup:

[johnrt]

Yup he's new, tank bred clown, settling in very nicely and already eyeing up my torch coral as a place to live. :thumbsup:

[johnrt]

New digital camera for christmas, so lots of new pics!

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/428/1911/1600/mystery-crab2.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/428/1911/1600/brittle-star.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/42/80340269_18550154e6.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/42/80185693_73c4fc7df6.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/38/80185692_8ee0766ebc.jpg

[zimreef]

Looks like you have a very nice nano developing! Really good new pics - looking pretty good so far!

The pics are very clear and colour rendition looks very good, particularly under just 42W of light! What's the camera (and lens if applicable)?

Cheers :thumbsup:

John

[johnrt]

The camera is a Pentax Optio S40, total bargain at £75 from Amazon.

The pics are taken on super makro setting with no flash, the starfish was at night with the only light being ambient from the room.

Glad you like the pics!

[zimreef]

Yep, think you're right about a bargain! :thumbsup:

John