Nano's 5G Pico project

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  1. nanoreefwannabe

    nanoreefwannabe Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    :biggrinbo:biggrinbo BORN YESTERDAY:biggrinbo:biggrinbo

    Finally after months of intensive planning and hand crafting my tank is done wet and running...

    A little project background and set up info then the pics...if you bore easy skip to the pics, but i promise to keep this short..

    in the beginning all i had was this:
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    and a plan:
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    after an hour here and an hour there i had this, home made 12x12x12 cube for a sump:
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    some drilling and hammering and a couple more hours i had this:
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    then i laid out and made an LED array:
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    brought it all inside case it was too cold to paint and i ended up with this:
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  2. Matt Rogers

    Matt Rogers Kingfish

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    I love this. 8)
     
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  3. nanoreefwannabe

    nanoreefwannabe Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    then another couple hours later it looked like this:
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    then i decided to wet test in the middle of the kitchen...
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    then it was setup in its new home:
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    and now the water has finally cleared enough to see in it..
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    hope you all enjoyed let me know what you think...
     
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  4. SnooknRedz

    SnooknRedz Vlamingii Tang

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    Thats sweet!! What do you plan on keeping in there??
     
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  5. jonjonwells

    jonjonwells Great Blue Whale

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    I'm thinking a Sohal Tang would look great in there. hehe

    Looks very good. What did you make the pendant out of? PVC cap?
     
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  6. nanoreefwannabe

    nanoreefwannabe Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    green macros of some sort, red macros of some sort, rics, zoas, acans, chalices, purple cespitularia, and a green slimer, three sexy shrimp, a cleaner shrimp, and a blood shrimp as well as two pompom crabs...

    i am just not too sure about any aggression between all the different shrimp and the crabs though...

    but sadly that is all so far away...:(

    and from what i understand finding sexy shrimp and pompom crabs in Ontario is next to impossible..:(

    yeah the light is 1/2" PVC with a 6" PVC cap, i used an electrical reducing bushing to get the pipe nicely into the 6" cap and i cut the ring of one end of another bushing to create a trim ring where the PVC pipe comes out of the marble top...i also had to heat form some PVC to fit inside the cap so i could thicken the wall where the armature attached and where the LED array is screwed to it..
     
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  7. Jay Reef

    Jay Reef Feather Duster

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    awesome tank man! I love it!
     
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  8. nanoreefwannabe

    nanoreefwannabe Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    LOL my LFS had a couple 1/2" hippos in...i am sure one would fit for a couple hours before it went stir crazy and made the big jump...
     
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  9. civiccars2003

    civiccars2003 Great Blue Whale

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    Well done. Can't wait to see some livestock. Make sure you provide plenty of pictures.
     
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  10. nanoreefwannabe

    nanoreefwannabe Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    me too....and surprisingly, so does the wife, and it doesnt even have any coral or stuff in it yet......
     
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