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03-18-2008, 05:26 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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|  Scott's (OmarD) 12 Gallon NanoCube Thread
Scott's (OmarD) 12 Gallon NanoCube Thread
The purchase and establishment of this tank was due to one of the most bizarre SW aquarium events I have yet to have seen posted here on 3Reef or elsewhere.
A year or so after moving 55 gal to 125 gallon, I added a matched pair of perc clownfish. Sometime thereafter one "disappeared" as sometime fish magically do. An after a while later the 2nd went. Could not find them in tank or out, so assumed they fell prey to the unknown fish killer/eater that seems to inhabit all newer tanks. 
They were soon replaced with a juvenile pair of Maroon's which finally mated up as nature took its course.
Last spring I for some reason decided to try an experiment that I had read about on other forum. --- I left lights totally off for 3 days which was supposed to rejuvenate corals and rest fish.  load of crap. Took days for leathers to perk bank up...and worst of all my prize six-line was missing.
Found no sign in tank or out, but decided to give the overflows a check (which I delinquently had never thought of checking out before as tank has full canopy and it has to be dismantled to get to back.
I found the sixline happily swimming about on one side. But amazingly I found a mature mated pair of perc clowns in other. 
This is like more then 3 years after they went missing!!! - I could not believe my eyes, and actually at first thought they must be from some Maroon offspring that wound up in overflow.
After rescuing all the fish from the overflows (and cleaning the gunk in them that had gathered over the years) - I returned them to the main tank. Of course, every fish in the tank immediatly jumped on the two slow swimming percs, and I barely got them out in time before serious damage was done.
Anyway hence the need (and justification to wife) why I got the Nano.
Was on sale at DFS at the time for $89 and with the old 15% off "dodge" coupon was a great bargin. The Tank
The original 12 gallon Nano Cube features a compact fluorescent light fixture with 24-watt 50/50 lamp, splashguard, energy-saving "flicker free" electronic ballast, flip-top canopy, and a submersible 106-gph pump for a thriving mini-biotope July 2007 Water/LR/Corals moved over directly from main tank. March 2008
[/center][/i][/b][/url] _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (Davis Family Reef Aquarium - Home Page/Reef Log) (Best Photos of 2008!)
Last edited by omard : 06-30-2008 at 08:01 AM.
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03-18-2008, 06:05 PM
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| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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Wow, thats awesome about finding the clowns........... _________  | 
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03-18-2008, 06:09 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk Age: 21
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Looks awesome man!  Love those clowns!
Evan.
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40g with 10g sump with 40 lbs liverock, 1.5" deep livesand bed.
Fish - halloween hermits, blue leg hermits, left-handed hermits, emerald crabs, assorted snails, chocolate chip star, 3x strawberry conches, tuxedo urchin, electric flame scallop, gold stripe maroon clown, carpenter's flasher wrasse, 6line, yellow tang, yellow watchman goby, white seabae anemone.
Coral - Yellow polyps, Kenya Tree, Purple Acro, Pink Birds Nest, Hammer coral. | |
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03-18-2008, 06:46 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Wake Forest NC Age: 34
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This is th ebest story I've yet! How cool to find your Percs! Is that a damsel(green w/blue spots? Green Jewel?) Nice Nano, I'm jealous. | |
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03-18-2008, 06:55 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Age: 34
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That is crazy about the clowns that is the most amazing story WOW!
Love the tank,great home for the those guys 
WOW dot dot dot wow. HA _________ 
"Naa nah"
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03-18-2008, 06:59 PM
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| | Sleeper Shark
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
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Congrats dude, that is totally crazy and AWESOME! Karma for your luck......Kinda like "BONUS!!!!!!!!!" _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
R.I.P. Big Blue 12/02-10/22//07
p.s. I'm a woman! 
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03-18-2008, 07:00 PM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
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3 years those clowns survived in the overflow??? OMG!
....words fail me......seriously. Oh and nice nano too! _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, Mandarin Dragonette, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA  | |
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03-18-2008, 07:37 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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WOW that is one heck of a story and tank also!! Congrats on finding them and having a great tank!! +1 to you! _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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03-18-2008, 08:57 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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Originally Posted by Brandon1023  3 years those clowns survived in the overflow??? OMG!
....words fail me......seriously. |
Really closer to 4 years.
Enough light and food going into overflow to keep them sustained.
What I am actually more surprised at, and I would not have done if not so befuddled...that they survived being suddenly thrown into a tank full of very hostile fish trying to beat them up after being in solitary confinement for that long. Incredible they did not just belly up from shock! --- Just can't imagine it!!!!.....
Both my overflows are covered with filter material now.
But if a fish goes missing, will be first place to check.
Thanks all for tank comments.
Rgds,
Scott | |
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03-18-2008, 09:20 PM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tulsa, Ok Age: 28
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that is an awesome story
I'm so using this example to justify another tank sitting around _________ 24G JBJ Nano, 20# Live Sand, 40# Live Rock
Rose BTA, Kenya Tree, Frogspawn, Xenia, bubble coral
Blue/Green Chromis, 2x Black & White Percs, Dragon Goby
58G Oceanic, 60# LS, 60 LR, Lots of goodies | |
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