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Captian Shellnutt's 20 Gallon Wonderland


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captianshellnutt

Tank Started in late October 2008

 

Equipment

20H

2 Koralia One powerheads

Heater

Sunpod 24" with stock bulb

Marineland Canister filter

 

Livestock

25lbs Fiji liverock

20lbs of Livesand

 

Inverts

  • 4 Astrea Snails
  • 4 Nerite Snails
  • 1 Peppermint Shrip (Nebuchadnezzar)
  • 1 Emerald Crab (Hezekiah)

 

Corals

  • Green button zoa frag
  • Sunrise horizon zoa frag
  • Finger Leather
  • Kenya Tree
  • Pale Green Pallys
  • Green Star Polyps
  • Ricordia Yuma (green and purple)

 

Fish

  • Six line wrasse
  • False Perc

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captianshellnutt

Three weeks into tanks exsistence I have added a clean up crew to deal with the exploding green hair alge outbreak.

 

Water parameters

Temp: 78

PH 8.2

Amonia: 0

Nitrites: 0

Nitrates: 0

 

Salinity/SG: 34 10.024

 

 

I scrubbed the live rock with a toothbrush and added the CUC along with an 8 gal water change seem to be working

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captianshellnutt
Looking good any more pictures?

 

 

Adolfo

 

Picks coming later tonight, I am waiting for the emerald crab to come out of hiding

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captianshellnutt

Weekly water change and tests done

 

Temp 78

PH: 8.6

Salinity/S.G.: 32 1.024

Amonia: 0

Nitrites:0

Nitrates:0

 

All is well. I hope to begin adding a coral or a fish in December after a month of stability.

 

First Coral ideas: Zoa Frag, Ricordia,

Possible fish: Clown fish, Clown Goby, Six line. Maybe a Flame angel?

 

What do you all think?

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Trying out a new way to post pics lets see if it works

 

 

It didn't work, lets try again

 

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Yeah!!!!!! it worked, here are some more pics

 

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I think I have developed my fish list. The following fish will be added to my tank

 

First: Yellow Clown Goby

 

Second: Single clown vs Pair of Clowns (still undecided)

 

Third: Six line Wrasse

 

Fourth: Possibly a Flame Angel?

 

Is this too much for a 20H? Should I leave out the flame angel?, What about a pirate ship?

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Looking good man! I would hold of on the angel. Maybe too small of a tank. The other fish should be fine. Get some surface agitation going! Point one of the powerheads towards the surface to get some wave/rippling action to help gunk from floating on the surface. ;)

 

Oh,I've been thinking of adding a pirate ship but i cant find one that looks good. If you do find a good one go for it! :D

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captianshellnutt

Where in VA are you?

As for surface agitation I am going to get a HOB refugium, in the meantime, I will take your advice and get some movement up top with the power heads

 

I have read that the flame angels nip at softies, so I am thinking that I am not going to add it. I don't know though, they are realy cool

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I have heard there are some nice LFS in NOVA.

 

Stragely enough, Roanoke has a realy good LFS. One might thing Christiansburg with VT there, but they have just a couple of stores with very little. Anyway thanks, for the feedback

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Zoa Frags before and after

 

Shortly after LFS rescue

 

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After Two weeks of TLC in the Wonderland

 

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And that frag originaly came from this...

 

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New pics are here

 

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All right, I remember how to post pics, here come some more!

 

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Here are more pics!

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latteslave

Looks nice - love the Yuma. How much flow do you have in there?

 

The six line looks tiny compared to the perc.

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AdriftQuasar

Looks like you are off to a great start. Be sure to keep that GSP in check so it doesn't overgrow your tank.

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