My 10g Nano

It looks like you have an emporer 400 as a filter.

For your setup, this might just work.

Let me explain what I mean...

I use 10g tanks in my garage for QT purposes. It's a little colder than I'd like it down there, but stays usually in the 60s.

Anyway, when I used a maxijet 1200 as the flow in my QT tank, I wouldn't need a heater. The maxi produced enough heat to keep the tank in the mid 70s.

The Emporer 400, when used as flow (all filtration removed) didn't heat the water at all. I had to actually go buy a heater to get it up to the temp I wanted.

Point being, you've a lot of light over a small amount of water, which will inevitably heat the tank. It's a good thing to have a filter that doesn't, in this case.

With the Emporer, there are a few things to watch for, though...those pads get filled up with crap very easily and need to be rinsed out. When I used mine, I didn't use the bio-wheels (known to be nitrate factories) or the carbon/sponges. I just took some rock rubble and put in them. The spray bars I replaced with hoses that go down into the rock rubble section.

Anyway, food for thought. Looks like a good start, none-the-less.
 
Subliminal said:
It looks like you have an emporer 400 as a filter.

For your setup, this might just work.

Let me explain what I mean...

I use 10g tanks in my garage for QT purposes. It's a little colder than I'd like it down there, but stays usually in the 60s.

Anyway, when I used a maxijet 1200 as the flow in my QT tank, I wouldn't need a heater. The maxi produced enough heat to keep the tank in the mid 70s.

The Emporer 400, when used as flow (all filtration removed) didn't heat the water at all. I had to actually go buy a heater to get it up to the temp I wanted.

Point being, you've a lot of light over a small amount of water, which will inevitably heat the tank. It's a good thing to have a filter that doesn't, in this case.

With the Emporer, there are a few things to watch for, though...those pads get filled up with crap very easily and need to be rinsed out. When I used mine, I didn't use the bio-wheels (known to be nitrate factories) or the carbon/sponges. I just took some rock rubble and put in them. The spray bars I replaced with hoses that go down into the rock rubble section.

Anyway, food for thought. Looks like a good start, none-the-less.
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Yeah eventualy once I get enough time on my hands I want to mess with it more, maybe even make one side a refegieum. I didn't know you could remove the spray bar, will defenitely be removing that then.
 
Yeah, what's that like 15W/g. You could definitely fry some corals with that.
 
Looks like it could work out nicely. What "kind" of corals, exactly, were you planning on putting in that tank. What raises this question is 1) that is good lighting for your average 10g tank and 2) you have an awful lot of rock in there. Most people with that sort of lighting on a tank of that size go for sps or something with similar needs. In all cases, they need room to grow. My recommendation is to thin out your rock slightly and make some room for things to grow and fishes to swim. Also, as already mentioned, you'll want to remove the "bio wheels" from your filter. I recommend using it for running carbon.
 
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