nanotank

plural nanotanks

1. An extremely small tank (in various senses).

   Exporters explained the current fads for 'nanotanks,' or very small home aquarium systems will favor culturing small-sized species.

   2014 August 1, Susan L. Williams, Noel Janetski, Jessica Abbott, Sven Blankenhorn, Brian Cheng, R. Eliot Crafton, Sarah O. Hameed, Saipul Rapi, Dale Trockel, “Ornamental Marine Species Culture in the Coral Triangle: Seahorse Demonstration Project in the Spermonde Islands, Sulawesi, Indonesia”, in Environmental Management, volume 54, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Springer Science+Business Media LLC, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1350, column 1

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   These folk must have gone to considerable trouble and expense getting their nanotanks programmed for the ingredients. Maybe they bought some from an actual farm.

   1993, Poul Anderson, Harvest of Stars, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 49

   The Eclipse has some sort of problem with the light switch and the light fixture may have to be replaced. If so you can order them from the manufacturer, Marineland. (Or retrofit it with a spiffier light and make a coral nanotank!)

   2004 July 7, jenn, “FS in Seattle: 2 small SW tanks”, in rec.aquaria.marketplace (Usenet)

   Synonyms: microtank