Its not exactly NANO but restart after 6 years

[abhishek@1985]

Hi friends,

Well it has 6 years since I owned a small nano 20 gallon reef tank back in India. Then moved over to the States , new job , got married and almost forgot I had a hobby or rather a passion called "Reefing" for 6 years until May 2016 when I luckily came across some new websites on reef .. It sparkled my passion for reefing again !!
Made wife agree by showing some of the great , amazing tanks here promising that someday I can have something remotely close to one of the great sps reef tanks . Can't believe she fell for it

So here we are - after collecting equipments for 6 - 8 months :-

Tank - 30 in x 30 in x 18 in undrilled with Lifereef overflow (Found the back glass to be tempered after buying it
Sump - 20 in x 20 in x 12 in acrylic cube sump with self built baffles of acrylic
Skimmer - Deltec SC1350
Bio Filteration - 2 liters of Siporax + 2 liters of Seachem Matrix + Brightwell aquatics dimpled bio block
Reactors - 1 Bahsea reactor filled with siporax and matrix + 1 MRC reactor for Aquaforest Carbon .. will later add phosminus and zeomix if needed.
Return pump - Jebao DCP 6500 pump . The pump is so quiet I could hardly hear it.
Wavemaker - 1 gyre xf 130 + 2 Tunze 6055 on 7095 controller + 1 inch seaswirl (Love it !!!)
Auto top off - Tunze 3155
Rocks - Reefcleaners dry rocks
Sand - Tropic Eden Mini and Reef Flakes (Amazing sand !!! Wayyyy better than Caribsea since I used it 6 years back )
Doser - GHL doser 1 with self made dosing containers from Menards bottles
Controller - Reef Angel Plus (Loved the Open Source !!!)
Light - Hamilton Bali sun reflector with Radium 250 run on M80 (The one thing I always had a dream to own - A radium MH run on magnetic ballast)..

Going all Aquaforest . Started with Aquaforest Prodibiotic salt with Bio S for cycling .
As of now, on 12th day of cycling .

Plan to go for full blown sps with mostly montipora species , stylophora, seriatopora and Poccilopora ..

 

 

 

Regards,

Abhishek