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Looks like I goofed badly and rushed the move of my 3yr old 20G to a 3 week old cycling 30G that wasn't ready. I'm seeing diatoms covering 60-70% of the dsb and some LR. All shrooms, polyps and BTA are looking as fine as they were in the old 20G. I'm just worried about the diatom outbreak but...

I have finally transferred over everything from my 34 month old 20G to my new 30G tank. The 30G is filled with 100lbs of generic HD playsand and since I didn't want any of my old 20G's CC, I slowly went thru all of it looking for whatever I could move over. Here's some of what I found: Cup...

My 20 gallon long started out with a 20W (I think) NO bulb in a perfecto plastic hood. I've since stuffed 2 55W pc's into that tiny hood with a radio shack 4" fan blowing into it. Seems like a decent retrofit that's been working fine for the past 3.5 years. It certainly isn't anything to brag...

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote Yep. Already checked them out back in 98 or 99. Seems like not much has changed since back then and I've been too lazy to change the water that often. Corals seem healthy so I just dosed trace elements and kept the skimmer...

You might be able to pull that off, but I'd alternate more often; maybe 2 days on the 30 and 2 days on the 20. Are you adding new rock or anything? If you're not adding rock you could just move all the stuff over at once without too much problem I would imagine. If you're adding rock you might...

Looking to transplant an established (3-4yr old) 20 gallon tank to it's new home - a 30 gallon tank. I’m currently using a CPR Bakpak 1 on the 20 gallon and will be transferring it to the 30 gallon since it’ll probably be able to handle the 30 gallon just fine. The bakpak has been on the 20G...

I've had my stripped out skilter 250 running on my 20 gallon for about 3 years now. There is some sand in the bottom of it and it is really full of pods and other critters. I also have my heater in there and drip kalk into the skilter. In some ways, it's like a little HOT sump/refugium. I would...

I've been running my 20 gallon sumpless, refugiumless for over 3 years now. The only thing that even closely resembles a sump/refugium is a stripped out skilter that houses my thermometer and quite a few critters. Probably holds 1 gallon or so. Everything in the tank has been doing quite well...

Tank will mainly have soft and hard corals in it + my 4 yr old anemone from my 20 gallon. I'm leaning towards a cheap 30 gallon, nice stand and no sump. I don't think I want to bother with plumbing and seeing that the 20 gallon's been doing fine for 4yrs now without a sump, I will try to go...

I've had my little 20 gallon for about 4 years and finally have some space for a bigger tank. I was thinking of a 40+ gallon with a built-in overflow. I don't really want to go too big (55+). Any suggestions on what size tank and what lights to get? Current setup: 20 gallon long 2 55w PC's...

I purchased one about 2 years ago from my LFS. It did well for about 3-4 months until my percula clowns started making it a host. This apparently bothered the flowerpots too much and they slowly began to die off and eventually did after a month or so. After reading up more on them, I would...