Adam's Nano Challenge 2

Well this may not have the surprise factor, and the cat may be out of the bag, but lets try...

Here are my first couple of votes:

#1 I'd like to start a nano with as many yellow clown gobys as I can find (like 10 or 20), so pretty much a couple of acros and then a ton of yellow gobys

#2 same concept as above but with a bunch of chocolate chip stars, and a variety of corals (I've never had one eat a coral before so I'd like to find out how or how not reef safe they really are)

#3 Dwarf seahorse tank, I'd put like 20 of them in a nano and watch them grow and breed.  Along with this, I would like to try to hatch "sea monkies" in the tank and see if I could get live food to constantly hatch in the tank.

#4 no rocks, no corals, just a bunch of upside down jellyfish



Edited by superman1981 - February 13 2008 at 1:27pm

How about a small octopus in a 24 or 29 gal nano cube?  That would be way cool... I read online that 29 gal is a good size for small octopus... I just really want one thats all 

I think a tide pool nano would be awsome.  Have it filled around3/4th so 1/2 full and make a little barrier so that youu can have a pint size beach in it and have a few thing that you find in the tide pools.  Like crabs that you find on the beach, sand crabs,  and some really little fish that you would find.  Not sure what fish though.  But with this have a little wave maker that pops on and off all day and night to simulate some waves so the sand crabs could feed like they were in the wild. I think this would be cool.  with a 70 watt halide or something. 

Edited by dustponds10 - February 13 2008 at 1:58pm

Hanging nano.  You could hang a nano from the ceiling and run all the cords through the conduit it is hanging from.  Anything would look sweet in it, but maybe you could put in a bed of green and colorful zoas so it looked like a hanging flower basket.

Mated pair of Leafy Sea Dragons with the algea and sea weed that they hide in if one would fit in a nano - if not than Nano sizes need to include what ever size would hold one

New idea, I call it the birth of television tank... We decorate the outside of the nano to look like a 1940's TV, rabbit ears on top and all.  We paint the back and sides black so that only the front (tube) is exposed.  Then use white substrate, the blackest rock available, corals that are black, gray, or white, or maybe SPS skeletons and black and white clowns 

Coral ideas:
silvertip xenia
black sun corals
a gray colored condy
gray colored mushrooms..

Oh yeah for snails, those ones with the black and white striped shells

cold water anemone.

cold water filter feeders and grow phytoplankton to feed them.

Mangrove Biotope.

Jellyfish.

cold water bivalves

Black mangrove biotope

Beach. Very shallow or no surface water. have sand-dwelling animals (ie, like the crabs that dig holes on Hawaiian beaches).

Floating coconut.

Oil spill. Set up a reef tank, then dump in oil.

Global warming. Keep the tank warmer than usual.

Phytoplankton, just green water



Edited by Adam Haycock - February 13 2008 at 2:00pm

a perfect circle of glass with Zero edge water over flowing on all the sides down to a refugium. something like 24" or 30" in diameter. a metal halide pendant also round that hangs from the ceiling. have the glass made with no seams. then when you put live stock in it they wouldn't feel trapped they could just swim in circles.

Edited by bannshy - February 13 2008 at 2:06pm

marine iguana