Whitefish JBJ 24 Gallon Nanocube

[WhiteFish]

I love the nano tank pictures in this forum. They are really gorgeous.

It have been 7 months since I pick up this hobby.
Below is my humble tank

Any comments are welcomed

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p438/lweepin/Whitefish_Nano_July08.jpg

[sanddune600]

looks very nice i like your frogspawn mine is not that nice i also like the orange plate behind what i think is a electric blue hermit.

[Reefer07]

I see you have a couple good looking lobos as well. And is that a bubble coral all the way on the right?

[WhiteFish]

Below is a photo collage of the progress of my nano tank for the past 7 months.

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p438/lweepin/collage.jpg

[nanO352]

Very nice tank! Are you still using the stock pc lights?

[dteske]

Great tank and I love that photo collage. Any mods to the system?

[WhiteFish]

Thanks for your kind words.

The only change is the stock pump which broke down after 2 months. The shaft got rusty. I change to one with similar flowrate.

Everything else is original. I did not even add a chiller. I do not want to spoil the compact look of the cube and and incur extra electical bill. However, this pose a problem to me during hot weather. I was forced to add a fan which means that I have to top up about 1 litre of water everyday for evaporation loss.

It also means that I cannot add too many high wattage equipment into the tank.

No skimmer means that I have to do 10% water change every week. Nitrate is always constant at 10 ppm.

So it was a trade off between looks, electrical bills, convenience and the limitation on the types of LS.

I think this make this hobby more challenging and fun:D

[WhiteFish]

Time files...almost 1.5 year since I have my first post.

During this time, I went overseas for 6 months and left the tank under my wife's care. Unfortunately, most of my corals did not survive my absence.

Recently, I decided to re-start my tank again.
I still have the same goal of trying to use the simplest/basic equipment to create a marine aquarium that I like.

What do you think compared to my previous scaping?
Any comments are welcomed.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=89649&stc=1&d=1258203896

[dclaassen]

I like it fine but I really liked the open middle 'cave' area of your first setup. Once again though that's just personal preference and this one is awesome as well!

[WhiteFish]

New updates

I have modified to LED lights and added more corals

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=91038&stc=1&d=1259333713

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=91039&stc=1&d=1259333861

[WhiteFish]

Top View

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=91049&stc=1&d=1259336126

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=91048&stc=1&d=1259336080

[WhiteFish]

Photograph from the side

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=91050&stc=1&d=1259337494


http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=91051&stc=1&d=1259337545

[reeferboy83]

sweet tank! Nice reefscape!

[WhiteFish]

It has been a long time since my last update.

I believe I stock up corals too quickly and did not monitor my tank's pH.
The pH dropped to 7.8 and resulted in few of my corals going up the lorry

I have since adjusted back the pH to 8.2 and added some new corals.
Below were my recent FTS.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=100132&stc=1&d=1265511262
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=100133&stc=1&d=1265511296

[theyammieguy]

Love the clove polyps.