20 Gallon

[ricky1414]

Looks like my 20 gallon is back in service, as my 10 gal started to leak at one of the edges. here are the specs:

20gal high
Custom stand and canopy
35 lbs LR
2" Sand Bed
2 Seio 620s
CPR BakPak 2R w/Combobox attachment
1 150w Phoenix 14k MH in PFO Pendant, 65w PC
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1 Four-line Wrasse
1 peppermint shrimp (not eating aiptasia BTW )
8 assorted snails
5 blue leg hermits
bunch of zoos, lps, and sps
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tank temp 77
SG is 1.025
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates less than 5ppm
Calcium approx 460
water changes and topoff are RO/DI

Will post some pics in the near future. Been busy with work and school.

 

[Anonymous]

Breatheren...a fellow 20gal nano keeper My monti cap died...bastard..but i have blue tip acro, brown monti, and a brown green monti...Dood you will be impressed with the CPR..I love it..Need to post some pix...Id love to see it...Im thinking of adding a T. Crocea to my tank here in the real near future....I also need to finish my fuge (which this weekend im gonna go get a 5.5gal...my ten doesnt fit under the stand i have)...

 

[ricky1414]

LORDNIKON, these are for you

 

[ricky1414]

Some more, the film should be taken care of by new cpr skimmer with surface skimmer.

 

[ricky1414]

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[Anonymous]

the unknown polyp looks to be xenia or pom pom

 

[ricky1414]

That's what I thought. My lfs threw it in for like 2 bucks with my purchase. They said it had little to no polyps on it. They were wrong, it seems to be getting bigger everyday.

 

[Anonymous]

yes xenia will grow like a weed..Nice pix too...

 

[ricky1414]

Two new additions, one is a light orange plate coral with lime green tentacles, the other is an unknown anemone.

 

[ricky1414]

new additions

 

[ricky1414]

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[Anonymous]

cool i have about 8 new frags of SPS to my tank i need to add..im waiting a couple weeks before i post them..i wanna make sure they dont bleach...so ill get them up soon

 

[Reef Guy11]

Sweet looking 20 gal ricky. I am toying with the Idea of setting up my 30 gal as a small reef. My 135 is doing great. The only problem is that I need to some how get another Chiller, the heat in the Desert suck royally. The tank with the Chiller is at 82 during the day but cool down to 78 at night. It is a Artica 1/10 hp, It does great when it is not 110 out. 8O

Hey Lord You still working on that Fuge Huh are you doing it different then I explained to you. I know that was probably confusing the way i explained it but it will save heartache.

 

[ricky1414]

Thanks ReefGuy1! I haven't had any problems with heat since going with the 70w DE. The temp hovers around 77 degrees with the light on, and I was around 80-81 with the pc lights. Since it is only 70 watts, I am most likely gonna have to keep the sps corals near the top portion of the tank. I recently had to move the monti cap to a different location in the tank as he was growing at a pretty steady rate. Real estate is hard to come by in such a small tank.

 

[ricky1414]

two more

 

[ricky1414]

Clarkii

 

[ricky1414]

08/17/04

 

[bubbletip1]

Nice work...tank looks great!

 

[ricky1414]

Orange Monti Cap

Orange Monti Digitata

Top down of Monti through surface turbulance

Montis with flash only

Actinics only

Four-line Wrasse

 

[Anonymous]

Ricky we need to talk about frags :wink: Ill PM ya