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May I introduce my 20 Long - I think it is complete!


jdsabin1

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Showtime! :)

 

This thread contains pictures of my tank taken August 30th (today). The contents of this tank was transferred from an Eclipse 12 tank that I had up for several months. This 20 has been up for a little over a month now I believe. If you are interested in seeing pictures of my tank inhabitants closer, here are some threads you can click on to check them out (I hope this works anyway).

 

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http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...&threadid=16246

 

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...&threadid=16396

 

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...&threadid=16720

 

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...&threadid=16053

 

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...&threadid=15733

 

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...&threadid=16086

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The pictures in this thread will be graphics intensive. I optimized them for size but some of them are still over 100k. If you have a slower connection, this thread may frustrate you. Sorry in advance!

 

Here are specs and information about the tank. Please PM me if you have any questions. Perhaps someday my tank can be featured here on Nano-Reef.com. I do know that without this site in particular, I would not have been able to keep it going so thanks to everyone who was kind enough to answer my questions along the way. Also thanks to FlyGTI for giving me the inspiration for the 20 long tanks and for selling me your spare20 long for $15. I have lost 3 corals over the last 9 months (2 open brains and a large candy cane coral ... all in all not too bad. I also had an emerald crab die on me ... RIP).

 

20 long AGA

(2) Metal Halide 175 Watt 20K XM pendants

Aquaclear 150 HOB (with Rowaphos and carbon in media bags 24/7/365) attached to an Aquaclear surface skimmer

(1) 200 GPH AquaSweep PH

CPR 18" AquaFuge (stuffed full of several different types of macroalgae, pods, crabs and brittlestarfish, powered by a Rio 400)

Jali 13 watt PC over the fuge that is lit 24 hours a day

Lee's Small CC skimmer using a Rena Air 100 pump

100 watt EBO-Jager heater (in CPR AquaFuge)

35 lbs. Fiji/Florida LR

40 lbs. LS (estimate I assume including the LS in my fuge)

 

1 Royal Gramma

1 False perc

1 lawnmower blenny

1 Peppermint Shrimp

Snails (several but no turbos)

Several blue legged hermits (small guys)

 

Ricordeas

Mushrooms

Zoanthids

green star polyps

Anthelia

Clove (2 varieties)

SPS:

salmon Acropora millepora with yellow tips, yellow Acropora sp., green Acropora millepora, purple tipped Acropora nana, super green Acropora sp. monti digi, birdsnest, and some capri

bubble coral

frogspawn

4 mini-carpet anenomes

2 tulip anenomes

blastomussa merleti

blastomussa wellsi

sun coral

green fungia

fox coral

large zoo polyps

xenia

scolymia

squamosa clam

crocea clam

maxima clam

platygyra brain

favites brain

red/white feather duster

candy cane coral

 

Using IO salt with a 3 gallon water change weekly with gravity at 1.025

I have *always, and I mean always* used RO/DI water without fail

Auto-topoff from Physh1 from Nano-reef.com

I try to keep my tank as close to 80 degrees as I can. It does vary however between 78.5 to 81 degrees based on the weather and what we're doing with the central air or heat in the house.

Dose with B-Ionic every other day to keep calcium at 420ish

Golden Pearls - 2X weekly

9 hour photoperiod (noon to 9 daily)

 

Feed: pellets to fish 2X day (with an occasional treat of zooplankton for them)

frozen brine shrimp to sun coral, bubble coral, scolymia every other day

 

Any other questions feel free to PM me :).

 

First up are pics of the tank as it looks on my desk and also some different angles I haven't done before.

 

24j.jpg

 

1j.jpg

 

16j.jpg

 

23j.jpg

 

26j.jpg

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Thanks guys! Gil ... your Minibow has been a big inspiration as an FYI. Some of the stuff in my tank is a direct result of yours. My squamosa clam for example was *your* idea. :)

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ps. Great zoo collection u have there. Beautiful pinks. That striped candy coral. Nice. Very nice clams as well. You da mang, mang.

 

Got my vote for featured nano.

 

Gil

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very nice tank.... can i ask you why you went with 2 mh? was one not good enough? you inspired me to start a 20long but i only have 1-175watt mh wit 20k bulb.. i really like your set up... very nice.. very nice...

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Originally posted by bertz_maru

very nice tank....  can i ask you why you went with 2 mh? was one not good enough?

 

Since the 20 long is such a 'long' tank, one pendant was going to give me too much light 'falloff' on either side and I wanted to make sure I had enough for clams and SPS along my entire tank.

 

One would work just fine though with the right coral placement.

 

Thanks!

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It's a stubby guy .... only 12" tall. The dimensions of a 20 long are 30 x 12 x 12. Lots of surface area and the tank appears bigger than it actually is. I fell in love with the tank style when I was over at FlyGTI's and saw his.

 

:)

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