Last Christmas I bought my wife a Fluval Chi. She just wanted a couple of fresh water fish in the Master Bedroom. I soon found that the filter system on those are garbage. With an open top, the water level would drop too quickly and having to treat tap water and top it off every day was a pain. Long story short, it has been sitting in my driveway for several months.
So, for Christmas this year, I gave her a Aqueon QuietFlow AT10 in tank filter and picked up an attractive LED desk lamp from HD. The plan was to go back to fresh water again but with the new filter it would make it a bit easier. However, one of her favorite fish was a Lawnmower Bleeny we lost when I had the brook outbreak in my 125. The other day I noticed Spike was looking to sell a Molly Miller which I believe my wife will really like.
So this build has turned into a SW Nano build.
For a while at least, we will have no coral. Just the one fish. Depending on how it goes, I may add another cool nano fish at a later date and/or upgrade the lighting and add some easy corals. We will see.
No pictures yet because the tank is sitting on the kitchen counter full of tap water and vinager so I can get it cleaned up nice. Over the next couple of days I need to pick up a little bit of live rock and some sand. May take some sand from the 125 but it already needs to be replenished a bit so I might as well kill two birds with one stone. Because I want to get the fish from Spike sooner than later, I am going to try to pull this off without a cycle. The key will be the rock. I do have two media bags of matrix that have been sitting in the sump of the 125 and may stick them in with the rock for a week just to help ensure the rock is seeded well.
For top off I will keep a nice sealed container of RO next to the tank so she can easily add just a bit each day. I would like to come up with a nice ATO set up but I am concerned on how it will look.
So, for Christmas this year, I gave her a Aqueon QuietFlow AT10 in tank filter and picked up an attractive LED desk lamp from HD. The plan was to go back to fresh water again but with the new filter it would make it a bit easier. However, one of her favorite fish was a Lawnmower Bleeny we lost when I had the brook outbreak in my 125. The other day I noticed Spike was looking to sell a Molly Miller which I believe my wife will really like.
So this build has turned into a SW Nano build.
For a while at least, we will have no coral. Just the one fish. Depending on how it goes, I may add another cool nano fish at a later date and/or upgrade the lighting and add some easy corals. We will see.No pictures yet because the tank is sitting on the kitchen counter full of tap water and vinager so I can get it cleaned up nice. Over the next couple of days I need to pick up a little bit of live rock and some sand. May take some sand from the 125 but it already needs to be replenished a bit so I might as well kill two birds with one stone. Because I want to get the fish from Spike sooner than later, I am going to try to pull this off without a cycle. The key will be the rock. I do have two media bags of matrix that have been sitting in the sump of the 125 and may stick them in with the rock for a week just to help ensure the rock is seeded well.
For top off I will keep a nice sealed container of RO next to the tank so she can easily add just a bit each day. I would like to come up with a nice ATO set up but I am concerned on how it will look.
