Howzit guys.
I decided to start up a thread dedicated to my tank, I have been fascinated by some of the amazing progress made by guys on this forum and I must admit if it wasn't for this forum I definitely wouldn't have even started up my tank.
I come from a tropical fish keeping background, had some seriously large tanks in the past but ventured into marine in my fist year of varsity, and without doing the proper research and trying to run it on a shoestring budget I failed miserably and landed up packing up the entire hobby for a good few years.
Anyway im not sure what sparked the interest again but I decided to get myself a Nano just to ease into it and hopefully upgrade once I feel more comfortable. The sheer volume of information out there is overwhelming so I'd rather just take it slow. I went for the Amw 102. It was a toss up between that and the boyu but from what I was told the skimmer and lighting on the Amw 102 was better.
I bought it 2nd hand from a fellow reefer on the forum but didn't realise the lead time that would come along with actually getting the tank wet.
Purchased a RO unit but only after realised I needed the DI attachment to get my tds to zero, and it just seemed this was one example of many things to come that I had to learn along the way.
Anyway to cut an already long story short. Here are the details of my setup.
Aquaria Amw 102- 120l Nano
Custom built stand
Red sea reef base aragonite
2 X sun sun jvp 110 wave makers
Standard T5 lighting and filtration that comes with the tank (skimmer, sponge, dsb, bio balls, ceramic rings and carbon)
7.8kgs live rock that was purchased yesterday
Here are a few pics of the initial setup.
And most importantly thanks for taking the time to check out my thread, hope you are all ready for a whole lot of questions!
(Apologies if the pics aren't rotated for some reason no matter how I rotate them they come out sideways)
I decided to start up a thread dedicated to my tank, I have been fascinated by some of the amazing progress made by guys on this forum and I must admit if it wasn't for this forum I definitely wouldn't have even started up my tank.
I come from a tropical fish keeping background, had some seriously large tanks in the past but ventured into marine in my fist year of varsity, and without doing the proper research and trying to run it on a shoestring budget I failed miserably and landed up packing up the entire hobby for a good few years.
Anyway im not sure what sparked the interest again but I decided to get myself a Nano just to ease into it and hopefully upgrade once I feel more comfortable. The sheer volume of information out there is overwhelming so I'd rather just take it slow. I went for the Amw 102. It was a toss up between that and the boyu but from what I was told the skimmer and lighting on the Amw 102 was better.
I bought it 2nd hand from a fellow reefer on the forum but didn't realise the lead time that would come along with actually getting the tank wet.
Purchased a RO unit but only after realised I needed the DI attachment to get my tds to zero, and it just seemed this was one example of many things to come that I had to learn along the way.
Anyway to cut an already long story short. Here are the details of my setup.
Aquaria Amw 102- 120l Nano
Custom built stand
Red sea reef base aragonite
2 X sun sun jvp 110 wave makers
Standard T5 lighting and filtration that comes with the tank (skimmer, sponge, dsb, bio balls, ceramic rings and carbon)
7.8kgs live rock that was purchased yesterday
Here are a few pics of the initial setup.
And most importantly thanks for taking the time to check out my thread, hope you are all ready for a whole lot of questions!
(Apologies if the pics aren't rotated for some reason no matter how I rotate them they come out sideways)