20 gallon nano reef - coming back after 4 years gone.

[bill.doerfler]

After 4 years of not having a tank, I'm back. I will post to document progress here.

Stats:

20 gallon glass aqaurium
Home made stand and canopy
Cheap a#@ petsmart filter, just to get it going. Refugium to come later
Koralia nano circ. Pump
Mr60 28w x 3 dimmable led light

Tank has been running a month with a mix of dry and tampa bay cultured rock.

Sal. 1.024
trates 10
Trites >5
Amm 0
Ph 8.2
Temp. 86

Livestock:

ORA occellaris clown
Six line wrasse
3 scarlet hermits
1 orange chestnut turbo
3 cerith snails.

 

[bill.doerfler]

 

[Reefrookie220]

Cool pic! You may wanna rethink that six line, if you have plans for future additions. In that small of an environment they become aggressive like they are huge or something.

Looks awesome, I feel you in the divorce. Nice comeback though.


Also a temp of 86 can be borderline danger zone lol

 

[pondman]

Nice tank you have.i agree lower your temp some I run mine at 78 seems to work. Overall welcome back to the hobby.

 

[Retro Reefer]

Looking good.. Nice work on the stand, I agree with others try to get your temp below 80 deg.. Mine ran hot for a while (82-84) and now that it's holding 78-80 everything looks much better. IMO a lot of the "nasty's" seem to thrive at higher temps

 

[2xal]

I would try to get your temp down around 77

 

[bill.doerfler]

Lol...sorry, that should have said 76. Big dumb thumbs! Also, appreciate the insight, but after nearly 30 years of keeping tanks, I think i can deal with the six line. Had many and never had an issue.

Thanks for the positive comments. Much appreciated.

Some new additions:

 

[bill.doerfler]

Reminiscing a litlle...and also to show that im not completely full of crap...

 

[bill.doerfler]

Couple more....one day I'll get back to this scale.

 

[bill.doerfler]

Just an update and some new additions. Really starting to come together.

 

[bill.doerfler]

Really like this pic

 

[bill.doerfler]

Before and after. Same section of the rock. Coraline is really taking off.

 

[bill.doerfler]

Sump/fuge installed. Much cleaner look in the tank now.

 

[bill.doerfler]

Fuge with light and sandbed added.

 

[bill.doerfler]

Geez....no comments?

 

[Chrisfish]

I'll comment, lol really nice tanks, your new one and previous. I really like the rock scape in the new one, I can't see exactly what the middle branching one is but I really like how it looks. Is it also live rock? I just started a 30 gallon nano reef and truly enjoy it and love looking at others, thanks for sharing it.

 

[Chrisfish]

I'll comment, lol really nice tanks, your new one and previous. I really like the rock scape in the new one, I can't see exactly what the middle branching one is but I really like how it looks. Is it also live rock? I just started a 30 gallon nano reef and truly enjoy it and love looking at others, thanks for sharing it.

Oh and I'm not really an equipment kind of gal , more fish and corals but the sump and fuge looks great.

 

[bill.doerfler]

It's a piece of acropolis sp. That i grew in my previous tank. Been dry for a few years. I guess I'd consider it "live" now...lol

 

[bill.doerfler]

Acropora. ..stupid autocorrect

 

[reef_grrrl]

Nice build! Following along! Your previous tank was gorgeous. I have a 20g too.