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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
Sixline wrasse 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.

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