New rock scape for my 26 gallon nano’

[NonstopSoda]

This is the before ^. I decided to finally change up my rock scape on my 26 gallon nano tank! I’ve been thinking about it for a while but I didn’t wanna wreck everything for it to look worse but the top rock had gotten unglued and I worried that it would fall over and break my glass or crush my coral so I changed it today!

^ this is the new scape that I’ve made! I crushed the top rock so I could have more room and design, moved all the rocks more toward the back wall so would have more open sand bed in the front for more coral. Over all I love this new scape and it’s opens up so much more space for more frags .

The fish are settling in just fine and the corals are starting to open back up, my twin spot goby is already hard at work making a new burrow!

 

[Dread Pirate Dave]

I wish I had more open sand bed area. I like it!

 

[eliaslikesfish]

I wish I had more open sand bed area. I like it!

was just thinking the same thing… great for some lps

 

[NonstopSoda]

was just thinking the same thing… great for some lps

I made the sand bed bigger just for this reason! I really want to get a trachy and more scolys.

 

[MDAquatics]

Looking good! I also love a little more space in the sand.

 

[Flameback Pair]

@NonstopSoda yeah you don’t have much choice with cube shaped tanks. Pretty much have to go with a single pinnacle for aquascape on a cubicle. This is my first try with my KP Aquatics ocean rock. Still cycling, no livestock yet, and skimmer won’t stop overflowing. Do you have a build thread for this tank?

 

[NonstopSoda]

@NonstopSoda yeah you don’t have much choice with cube shaped tanks. Pretty much have to go with a single pinnacle for aquascape on a cubicle. This is my first try with my KP Aquatics ocean rock. Still cycling, no livestock yet, and skimmer won’t stop overflowing. Do you have a build thread for this tank?

Lookin good! I like the bare bottom and a lot of hidey holes for the tank. Unfortunately I do not have a build thread although I wish I was able to go back in time and make one , this tank is about 2.5 years old now and has gone through a bunch of changes, currently just started keeping coral in it again and I just recently started posting frequently on R2R a few weeks ago.

 

[Flameback Pair]

Lookin good! I like the bare bottom and a lot of hidey holes for the tank. Unfortunately I do not have a build thread although I wish I was able to go back in time and make one , this tank is about 2.5 years old now and has gone through a bunch of changes, currently just started keeping coral in it again and I just recently started posting frequently on R2R a few weeks ago.

@NonstopSoda since you don’t have a build thread could you take a moment here and tell us about the tank? Like size, equipment, and especially livestock list?

 

[NonstopSoda]

@NonstopSoda since you don’t have a build thread could you take a moment here and tell us about the tank? Like size, equipment, and especially livestock list?

Of course! It’s an Aqua top 26 gallon nano, I use a Kessil a160 Blue tuna about 11 inches above water level. I have the standard equipment that came with the tank like the clip on protein skimmer and the bio filters in the back, a standard heater and a hygger nano wave maker. The tank is stocked with my 2 year old clown and spotted mandarin goby, the new additions are a twin spot goby, a fire shrimp, and I got a baby yellow coris wrasse but he’s getting a little too big for my liking now and also taken a liking to killing my smaller snails, he’s about “1.2 inches” so I’ve been trying to get him out of the tank and rehomed. I also have a wide variety of CUC such as hermits, nassarius of several sizes, ceriths of several sizes. As for coral I have a large colony of pulsing xenia, a large patch of gsp contained on a small rock that I might move to the back wall to grow. A small frag of Halle berry Zoas, an ultra button scoly, encrusting starry eyes leptastrea, an indo yellow hammer and a monsoon splatter green hammer, long tentacle red goniopora, a green Duncan, and three large green hairy mushrooms.

 

[NonstopSoda]

I don’t use any fancy equipment for this nano I top off by hand with fresh RODI and I manually dose every morning

 

[NonstopSoda]

Here’s a more recent picture after everything settled down and adjusted to the move! The corals are much more open and most fish out and about except for my mandarin who is eating copepods behind the rock

 

[Flameback Pair]

@NonstopSoda I have a 160 Kessil blue tuna too. How are you controlling yours? I’ll use Kessil’s Spectral controller.

 

[NonstopSoda]

@NonstopSoda I have a 160 Kessil blue tuna too. How are you controlling yours? I’ll use Kessil’s Spectral controller.

Currently I’m just turnin the dials by hand when I need to change intensity and color and I have it plugged into a timer very old fashioned when it comes to reef keeping but I am going to invest in a spectral controller soon cause it would make my life much easier : P

 

[Flameback Pair]

@NonstopSoda I could probably sell you my spectral controller. Im thinking about using my VDM module for light control.

 

[NonstopSoda]

@NonstopSoda I could probably sell you my spectral controller. Im thinking about using my VDM module for light control.

How much? :0

 

[Flameback Pair]

Well I bought it brand new from BRS about 10 days ago and paid $99.00 for it. It has a magnetic screw on bracket/holder. Don’t remember if I kept the original box but I’ll look around for it. It came with the cable for the 160 and a K-Link cable for other Kessil lights but I didn’t need that one and gave it to my friend who recycles copper wires and other things. Why don’t you make me an offer?

 

[NonstopSoda]

Well I bought it brand new from BRS about 10 days ago and paid $99.00 for it. It has a magnetic screw on bracket/holder. Don’t remember if I kept the original box but I’ll look around for it. It came with the cable for the 160 and a K-Link cable for other Kessil lights but I didn’t need that one and gave it to my friend who recycles copper wires and other things. Why don’t you make me an offer?

Currently in the financial trenches cause all my bills line up perfectly this month to take all my money plus my two cats have their yearly vet appt this month also! If possible $65 would be awesome if not I could also do $ 75-80

 

[Flameback Pair]

Where are you located? Shipping for something like this is around $10. I could do $75 plus $10 S&H for a total of $85.

 

[NonstopSoda]

I’m in Northern California in the Bay Area, that sounds good! I’ll pm you when I’m ready to buy : ))

 

[Flameback Pair]

Lived on Alemeda naval base when I was a baby. Uncle lived in Half Moon Bay. Friend in Concord. Dad almost got job in Prineville. Glad to say we’ve been in Montana for 44 years now.