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latteslave

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I have a 20 long and have been looking for a nice stand. Any suggestions? Not looking to spend too much but has to be able to support the weight and if it could fit a sump (considering i set one up down the road) would be great. Thanks :happy:

Honsetly, you could either build one to your specs - or buy one. Any stand that fits a 29gallon standard will fit the 20 long.

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This is my 20L

Tek 24" 4x24

Nano Ramora Skimmer

50w stealth heater

Ac70 mod into fuge w/ cheato

Vortech mp10

 

Live stock

1 clown fish

1 chalked bass

1 cleaner shrimp

some hermits and snails

little bit of zoas

green ricordia

sunpolyps

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Okay! I finally got around to posting up my tank on this thread - here we go.

 

FTS

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Specs:

 

Lighting: 2 20k and 1 12k Par 38's

 

Sump: 15 gallon baffled long was to accommodate mantis fuge. I just put a modded par20 over the tank to let some coral grow out.

 

Livestock: 1 tiger stripe goby, 1 pink-streaked wrasse, 3 sexy shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp, 3 pom pom crabs, 5 porcelain crabs, and a bunch of assorted snails.

 

Flow: Mp10 and QO1200 for a return.

 

:wizard:

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my 20L, aquaclear 50, fluval surface skimmer,k-nano, pc lighting 10,000k 8,000k 6,500k true actinic03 1tomato clown ,1 firefish, cleaner shrimp, green star polyps, lotsa shrooms,post-41400-1273097956_thumb.jpg kenya tree about 20lbs live rock

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tundrashaul

20 long AGA display, with a 10 gallon AGA made into a sump/fuge.

 

2 1" bulkheads-1 drain that remains 1" to sump with no valve, level can be adjusted by turning elbows in tank up or down.-1 return than was reduced to half inch.

 

Mp10-es for flow

 

Eheim 1040 return pump

 

100 watt marineland stealth heater

 

Bubble magus Nac-3+ skimmer with homemade silencer

 

30" Aquaticlife 4xT5 Light with built in digital timers and moonlights, stock bulbs for now

 

20-25 lbs of dry rock from Reef-Cleaners

 

20 lbs live reef sand

 

Custom stand made by my Father

 

Livestock.

lawnmower blenny

 

occelaris clown pair

 

Pink birdsnest

 

Kenya tree

 

Trumpet coral

 

Green star polyp

 

Green palys

 

Poccipilla

 

frogspawn

 

CUC

 

SUMP.

 

Mangroves and chaeto

 

 

FTS 5/14/10

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01/08/11

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Sump

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I'm thinking of joining the 20L club in August. I'm moving into a new apartment (for at least 3 years) and am planning on upgrading my 5.5 AIO to a larger custom AIO. I was going to use a 29 we had at home but the tank's about 15 years old so I'd rather start fresh :happy: . I wanted to go bigger but I decided with my space and budget a 40B was going to be too big. So it was between the 20L and the 30B and quite frankly I haven't been able to find 30B's or their stands in stores anywhere in Alabama. I'm still not sure exactly what I'd want to do :huh: so I figured I'd let you chaps sway me :P . I know I can get a good deal on a TopFin 20L and a decent stand at the local PetSmart (I've heard mostly good reviews about TopFin, usually I only buy AGA/Aqueon). I'll keep y'all posted. :)

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automatik_33

Finally made it here! Still cycling though.

 

Frag-gle Rock:

 

20 Gallon Long (glass)

2 Koralia Nano's (425gph)

1 100W Eheim Jager Heater (In sump)

Glass-Holes Overflow and Return Kits

Mag 3 return

Tek 24" Fixture (2 ATI Blue+, 1 ATI Aquablue, 1 KZ Fiji Purple)

25 lbs LR

35 lbs LS

 

Livestock:

True Perc

Yellow Watchman Goby and Pistol Shrimp

 

Coral:

Toadstool Leather

Acans

Frogspawn

GSP

Paly's and Zoas

 

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jaygalindo

What do you guys think the best size t5 lighting is for a 20L. How is the coverage with a 24" fixture or is the coverage the same as the 30" since they use the same bulbs? Would 36" be overkill i don't think I would mine the 3" over hang.

 

Thanks

 

A soon to be member of the 20L club...X2

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latteslave

Jay - the 30 inch fixtures generally use a 24 inch bulb. The nice thing with the 30 is that it fits the tank with no messing...

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jaygalindo

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Equipment List

 

1 20L AGA tank, drilled with 2 1" external durso overflows.

Sump with fuge made by Tenecore. 36"x24"18"

1 Mag 5 running wide open for return.

1 ETSS Reef Devil Deluxe Protein Skimmer ran by a Quiet One 4000HH

2 200w Heaters

36" 4x39W Fishneedit.com T5HO Fixture

2 maxi jet 900 powerheads

Custom Egg Crate 2 Tier Frag Rack

 

My future plans are to add a second 20L and a 40B which will be running off the same system.

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jaygalindo
Looks like your off to a great start!

 

How's the skimmer working for you?

 

Its a beast! Pull a ton of crap. Definitely bigger than I need but It will allow for my future add ons.

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New 20L Started 6/4/10

Currently cycling.

 

What I got:

- Koralia Evolution (750gph)

- 30" Coralife T5HO

- 100w Stealth Pro

- 25lb LR

- 20lb LS

- 2 occ. (I guess they are a pair now.)

- YWG with paired M/F pistol shrimp

- Yellow Polyp

- Green Mushrooms

- Green Zoas

 

FTS

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DimePieceReef

I plan on transfering everything from my 10gal to my newly purchased 20L by marinaland. :D My initial plan was to drill it to a sump. Now Im reading that not all tanks can be drilled if the glass is tempered :angry:. I went to theyre website and it doesnt say anything about the tanks being tempered. Has anyone had expierence with drilling a marinland? I plan on drilling the back panel. Thanks reep peeps.

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Whats the dimentions on a 20g long

 

Mines 36x12x12 ---

Im shure its not a 20L but .. how different is it?

In between a 20 long and a 30 breeder

20 L 30x12x12

30 Breeder 36x18x12

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