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Well, I just got hold of the tank that will be taking up space in the living room of my new house, its a 39x16x10" tank, interesting shape I know, very shallow which means I can save alot on lighting and it will fit perfectly into a space in the new place.
Stock from both my 15G and 12G Nanos will go into the tank that will be filtered using the new Tunze Reefpack 200 which consists of a surface skimmer/filter and a protein skimmer.
I am planning on raising the live-rock off the bottom of the tank with egg-crate, but equally I would like some sand in the tank, As I believe that deap sand beds do work if you have a thick enough layer. Does anyone have any ideas on how to support the rock so that it gets maximum water flow, but equally have an area of deep sand in the tank somewhere? I was thinking perhaps I would make a small 2" divider and divide off a foot of the tank at one end to put the sand bed in, then have the rock next to it using up the other 27".
Lighting will almost certainly be provided by a dual compact T5 55W unit that I am hoping to get quite cheap, and It will sit nicely on a stand from a Fluval DUO DEEP 1000 that my friend has.
I will of course keep a diary like I did with my original Nano, but I hope this to be even better as I have more room to play with and the low-profile shape should look good..
Pics will follow as soon as the tank is in situ (8th August probably).
Ben
Stock from both my 15G and 12G Nanos will go into the tank that will be filtered using the new Tunze Reefpack 200 which consists of a surface skimmer/filter and a protein skimmer.
I am planning on raising the live-rock off the bottom of the tank with egg-crate, but equally I would like some sand in the tank, As I believe that deap sand beds do work if you have a thick enough layer. Does anyone have any ideas on how to support the rock so that it gets maximum water flow, but equally have an area of deep sand in the tank somewhere? I was thinking perhaps I would make a small 2" divider and divide off a foot of the tank at one end to put the sand bed in, then have the rock next to it using up the other 27".
Lighting will almost certainly be provided by a dual compact T5 55W unit that I am hoping to get quite cheap, and It will sit nicely on a stand from a Fluval DUO DEEP 1000 that my friend has.
I will of course keep a diary like I did with my original Nano, but I hope this to be even better as I have more room to play with and the low-profile shape should look good..
Pics will follow as soon as the tank is in situ (8th August probably).
Ben
. If you want to prop your rocks up off the glass and still allow for a deeper sand bed, you could either stack a few layers of eggcrate, or I've seen people use a bunch of PVC pipes chopped off to say 2" or however deep you want the sand bed and then have the rocks rest on those "pillars" of pipe.
