Hello all reef builders!! I'm making a build thread to track my own progress with this tank and perhaps get some input along the way!
This tank just recently started life, about 6 months ago I bought the tank and stand, and planted it up for a large colony of freshwater cherry shrimp. I've had the colony almost 2 years, and I was hoping to make this tank a green paradise for them. I succeeded, fast. Somehow along the way I got a little bored of it. At the time this tank was the 4th planted freshwater. So this idea struck me.... saltwater. I felt the 20g long was an OK size to start with, and I have an abundance of time. I began reading and researching. I started collecting more equipment. Now I've got a tank full of salty water and a few rocks. And now it's a hurry up and wait kind of party!
Before
After
I'm still waiting on a few things, testing kits, another circulation pump, lighting. But those sound start arriving in the next day or so. Really at this point it's a wait thing. I do plan on getting a few more live rock pieces today, to try to even out the color different in the dry/live rock. I know eventually it will look more even, but there will be a long time of it looking like this, and my ocd will freak out. So off to the lfs!
This tank just recently started life, about 6 months ago I bought the tank and stand, and planted it up for a large colony of freshwater cherry shrimp. I've had the colony almost 2 years, and I was hoping to make this tank a green paradise for them. I succeeded, fast. Somehow along the way I got a little bored of it. At the time this tank was the 4th planted freshwater. So this idea struck me.... saltwater. I felt the 20g long was an OK size to start with, and I have an abundance of time. I began reading and researching. I started collecting more equipment. Now I've got a tank full of salty water and a few rocks. And now it's a hurry up and wait kind of party!
Before
After
I'm still waiting on a few things, testing kits, another circulation pump, lighting. But those sound start arriving in the next day or so. Really at this point it's a wait thing. I do plan on getting a few more live rock pieces today, to try to even out the color different in the dry/live rock. I know eventually it will look more even, but there will be a long time of it looking like this, and my ocd will freak out. So off to the lfs!