12 gallon nano cube

misenplace101

misenplace101

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Just got it today and love it. It's all stock. What upgrades should I be doing? I will be changing out the return tomorrow with a rio. What else? The led mood light is not working... I guess and led upgrade is in order too.


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scotty

scotty

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I see a lot of people cutting out baffles to fuge the back. Great mod area for cubes is on nano-reef.com. they will have everything already ddetailed out.

Droided
 
misenplace101

misenplace101

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Scotty, thanks for the link. At this time I'm only interested in upgrading the hood to be sps friendly.


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The reefer

The reefer

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U can get all the led components from bill at reefledlights.com. I have a nano cube led hood from a friend who bought it from him.
 
misenplace101

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I'm seeing Bill tomorrow to pick up the kit. I hope I'm able to fit it under the hood and keep the stock look.


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scotty

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rapidled.com
reefledlights.com

both make great kits that are semi-plug and play. heatsink and everything is designed to fit right in the plastic hood.
 
misenplace101

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Thanks Scotty... That's good to know... I've seen some other led kits and it ended up as a hack job cause it didn't fit.


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The reefer

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Well from my understanding u do have to put a fan on top of the heatsink to dissapate heat and since it's a small space to work u do have to cut the hood on top for the fan. But u can install a fan cover after. Im in the process of making a fan cover at work
 
misenplace101

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I'm not sure yet... I will post as soon as I get then tomorrow. He has a couple of different options and I will decides then.

That's not bad if I have mount the fan on top.... Do u have any pics?


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The reefer

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It's not done to my liking cuz i didn't do it but I'm Gona make a nice fan cover from stainless steal from work
 
The reefer

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I will take pics of the cover when it's done I have to form the metal, drill and then paint black first and I'm a lil busy at work so when i get a chance i will finish it up. I made a fuge HOB of tank light I'll post pics when i get home
 
misenplace101

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What size cube do you have? As soon as I get the LEDs I'll put cheeto in the middle section of the filter.


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The reefer

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I have a 12 g nano. And yes I will put cheato also. I'm actually gona measure the second chamber and make a media basket. I have pieces of acrylic plastic already I just need to cut and glue
 
The reefer

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Nice tank. Those acan is nice. I saw sum 1selling sum but didn't wanna sell separate. Man that's a big frogspawn for a 12g. R u gona put a koralia nano in there?
 
misenplace101

misenplace101

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Thanks... I think its the same person, He wanted to sell the whole setup. The frogs are huge, I ended up fragging it cause I broke when I was re aquascaping this morning...now I have a bunch and hoping to get rid of them to someone who wants them.

I actually put a koralia pico and it blew sand all over with the rotating head. I replaced the return to a rio 900 and getting a lot of flow.... I will wait and see what happens when I start stocking up the tank.
 
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