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I want to know what we win if you pick our idea!
Here are mine:
-(as per your request) "sculpt" a mermaid using strategically placed corals. ie anemone for hair, zoa's for scales, etc.
-Same as above but make a sea monster.
-or Titanic
-Put whatever you want in the nano and hang it from the ceiling in a fishing net.
-Construct a body and use the nano as the head and fill as you please.
-Mandarin Goby, Serpent stars, purple mushrooms, and frog spawn (don't look at if you feel nauseous)
-fill it full of rock and see what grows.
-Bristle worm paradise.
-Place it neatly in a larger tank and allow it to become part of the reef.
-Place it in a barred box and fill with 4 stripe damsels.
-Find a large taxidermy shark and display it in its mouth, then it won't matter what you put in it.
-A shell phone.
-Put a warning sign on the tank and place a can of tuna inside.
-sand dollars...then it will always look empty.
or
-Decide that you don't really like any ideas posted and just give the nano to me.
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 12:28pm |
Camille-
I'm stunned! Honestly I don't even know where to begin. Those suggestions are fabulous. Notice we have 200 people in this club, yet only a couple could come close to your imaginative ideas.
I'm truly thankful for all that you posted.
Adam
edit- notice how everyone described ideas for inside the tank... you are truly rare for describing outside the tank
Edited by Adam Blundell - January 29 2008 at 12:30pm
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 12:37pm |
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What do I win?
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 12:42pm |
Is love and appreciation enough? That is what my parents always told us we'd win. 
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 12:48pm |
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I teach middle school and I have learned that normally that doesn't cut it, but for you okay.
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 2:33pm |
you are truly rare for describing outside the tank
Tanks have an outside? Dang. I knew I missed something ....
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 2:54pm |
Speaking of outside... Maybe we should start with a cast of Adams head, then pour molten glass into the cast. This should give us a nice, oh 5 gallon tank to start with  Obviously we'll use hair algae for hair... maybe some blue shrooms in the eyes... and then put in a single frogfish... Yes that would be an interesting nano...
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 3:33pm |
Create a room in your house with no windows or lights, or just paint the room black, get your nano, and put any of these bioluminescent creatures in it!
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 3:38pm |
ok so make sure they're bio-luminescent SEA creatures.
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 4:32pm |
For a small tank...my 10g...
Sand bed with a fair amount of live rock.
Then stuff it full of feather dusters of different sorts and colors. Some pink, red, green, blue, orange...some underneath that like shade (Christmas Tree worms), some out in the open sand bed, some in between the rocks. Just everywhere.
Then with a bit of water turbulance, the tank will be full of motion.
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 4:55pm |
Also...
1. A tank with some live rock (with a cave you can see into) nd keep a pair of mated Reef Lobsters.
2. a little bit of live rock and a bunch of Pom Pom Crabs. Can you keep several/many together?
3. abalones and oysters.
4. several rocks covered in glove polyps or other fast growing encrusting polyps tht will take over everything. Then put lots of serpent star in there.
5. a planted tank with lots of types of algae and a little bit of rock. Then put in a bunch of pipefish. Some pipefish (Corythoichthys haematopterus) will even eat the dreaded "red bug" that pester corals.
6. have a planted tank, then acclimate fish that normally you only see in the freshwater world...Mollies (black, dalmation, lyretail, etc), Columbian Shark (Arius jordani), gobies, scats, and/or puffers.
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 5:20pm |
THERMAL VENT 30 gallon nano
I liked the idea of a the night tank..... run a tank in your freezer with lights out......place a few metal piping that shoots out boiling water and run the water back trough an extremely long metal piping to recool it. Have some microorganisms and deep water shrimp and maybe a deep water dwarf angler (i just made this fish up, but if youve followed me this far in my post on my deep thermal vented nano tank. Then im sure you can get over this small thing) You can only check it out every once in awhile with night vision glasses or with a blue moon LEDS.
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 5:21pm |
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Oh yeah, i forgot to add it probably is going to be extremely pressurized to imitate their natural environment. So there are only to small peep holes with extremely thick glass where you can look in.
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 6:24pm |
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12gal JBJ nano-cube2 inches sand, shaving brush algae, upside down jellies....'nuff said
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 6:30pm |
 mermaidcamille wrote:
I want to know what we win if you pick our idea!
Here are mine:
-(as per your request) "sculpt" a mermaid using strategically placed corals. ie anemone for hair, zoa's for scales, etc.
-Same as above but make a sea monster.
-or Titanic
-Put whatever you want in the nano and hang it from the ceiling in a fishing net.
-Construct a body and use the nano as the head and fill as you please.
-Mandarin Goby, Serpent stars, purple mushrooms, and frog spawn (don't look at if you feel nauseous)
-fill it full of rock and see what grows.
-Bristle worm paradise.
-Place it neatly in a larger tank and allow it to become part of the reef.
-Place it in a barred box and fill with 4 stripe damsels.
-Find a large taxidermy shark and display it in its mouth, then it won't matter what you put in it.
-A shell phone.
-Put a warning sign on the tank and place a can of tuna inside.
-sand dollars...then it will always look empty.
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-Decide that you don't really like any ideas posted and just give the nano to me. |
Great idea Camille! 
Mike
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 6:59pm |
Okay Adam, last one.
- How about a 12 gallon with one large killer Acro and about 12 Clown Gobies of varying colors.
- Garden eel display would be cool too.
- I would pretty much switch religions and worship you if you could round up a 24 gallon nano with an Olive sea snake in it.
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 7:09pm |
So I lied.
Here's one more that I thought up when i was like 15 years old.
Modify one of those antique bubble gum machines to hold like a 5 gallon nano. When you put in a penny and turn the knob, it dispenses flake food into the tank. Put whatever you want in it, I just think it would be really cool.
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Posted: January 29 2008 at 7:40pm |
Jamison wrote:
- I would pretty much switch religions and worship you if you could round up a 24 gallon nano with an Olive sea snake in it. |
Don't you already do this?
Mike
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: February 01 2008 at 11:19am |
Closed!
Thanks to everyone who participated in Adam's Nano Challenge.
I have submitted all the entries. There will be a follow up post on Monday (probably from me) with an update on the challenge. Thanks again to everyone.
Adam
ps- in case you want to know I have turned in my ballot and here is how I voted as the best entries....
5- Kevin/Cody- Camoflauge Aquarium
4- Shane Heil- Top View Seagrass Aquarium
3- Camille Grimshaw- Mermaid Body Aquarium
2- Jamison Hensley- Great Barrier Reef of Death
1- Susan Matney- Punch Fountain Aquarium
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Posted: February 01 2008 at 11:20am |
oh- and the Thermal Vent Tank and the Poisonous Sea Snake tank would have easily taken my top vote if I thought I could get the equipment and animals to do it. Two truly great ideas!
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