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Nano 8x6 inches (update 4/21/06 on last page)

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#1 · (Edited)
what do you guys think?

11/21/2005

No filter on yet. Ordered a nano filter, and coralife mini aqualight. It is an ocean free tank thanks to Boun. Substrate is ada aquasoil.

Update 12/03/2005

Got the mini aqualight (18 watts) no filter yet. Things look like they are growing. Soon I will take out some plant species. Any opinions on what I should take out or leave?

Plants
Juncus repens
Polygonum muricatum
Hygro sp red
Hemigraphis trian
Downoi
Utricularia sp.
weeping moss
Ammania sp Bonsai

Fauna
Cherry shrimp
Male endlers

Ian
 
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Raphael said:
Well, you can but it's not recommended, you need a filter to keep it going and you'll find yourself doing water changes very often without one.
That's not really true. In nature there are no filters...everything is a cycle.

Plants will naturally take in ammonia and nitrite. If there were no plants in there- that would be a different story.
 
#10 ·
Raphael said:
Well, you can but it's not recommended, you need a filter to keep it going and you'll find yourself doing water changes very often without one.
the only thing a filter will really be doing is mechanical filtration anyway. But like I said I am getting one. Plus the endlers and cherry shrimp don't have much of a bioload, I put one flake it and they do not finish it totally.

Ian
 
#11 ·
you dont even need a filter. I didn't use a filter on my 75 gallon. If the plants are growing, they are filtering the water. If you do 2 waterchanges a week you shuld be fine. IMO, no nano tanks should have filters. They are too big for such a small tank,and make it look ugly.
 
#12 ·
I made a homemade filter for my 5 gallon... I simply found an empty fish food container, punched a hole in the center of the lid, stuck a tube connector on a tube, put it in through the hole, opened the lid, and added gravel from a cycled tank. You could also add filter floss to this. I then connected the tubing to an air pump.

I careful hid my "filter" in 10 lbs. of gravel. You could get an air diffuser (sp?) to slow down the flow.

No tank should be without a filter, besides betta tanks (since they don't like a strong flow).
 
#13 ·
i have my nano 1 gallon running now for almost three weeks without any filtration or waterchange. it has a 9 watts over it. the plants are growing well. I beginning to see algae on the glass. I think I will have to clean it soon. I did ordered a nano filter from bigals just didn't have time to p ick it up from my friend yet :)
 
#21 ·
ianiwane said:
let me know how that works out Marc. I did not get the nano filter yet bigals was out of stock, they shipped everything but the filter. I did take another picture, let me know what you guys think.
I found this on APC and it was exactly what i had in mind.

http://www.petfrd.com/forum/articles.php?action=viewarticle&artid=87&page=1
http://forum.o-fish.com/viewtopic.php?p=159121&sid=050d852d51e76d5aaf0196154f78780a
http://www.aqugrass.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9668
 
#23 ·
ianiwane said:
i hear you figgy but I am also trying to see what will grow in the tank.

Ian
Gotcha--I do the same!


The filter Marc just posted looks like what you'd get if you followed Goldfishcrazy's homemade directions. As slick as it is, I still wouldn't bother with a filter on such a small tank--just too visually obtrusive to my eye...and you definitely don't need a filter to cycle a tank--if something poops or rots, chemistry happens!

Fig
 
#26 ·
shuks said:
IMO, no nano tanks should have filters. They are too big for such a small tank,and make it look ugly.
figgy said:
just too visually obtrusive to my eye...and you definitely don't need a filter to cycle a tank--if something poops or rots, chemistry happens!
I agree completely.

Just as a data point, I've had a 2.5 gallon tank for a year with no filter, no heater, no water pump. Just good lighting, good substrate, and good plant growth. It's doing great. Very healthy tank.
 
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