My 20 Gallon reef

dwilliams87 · Mar 7, 2013

I've received my canopy from rick, just waiting on some blocks to mount. While I'm waiting I wanted to do a quick write up of what coral and fish are currently in the tank.

FISH---
Snowflake Clown
Six-Line Wrasse
Chalk Bass
Fox face
Bristletooth Tang
Red Mandarin

CORALS--

Zoas-
Super Saiyans
Fruit Loops
BBEB
Rastas
Tootie Frooties
SC Orange Rainbows
Sunny D's
Darth Mauls
Blue Hornets
WWC Pandoras
Everlasting Gobstoppers
Candy Apple Reds
Blue Lagoons
Devils Armor
Purple Hornets

Montiporas-
Holographic
Seasons Greetings
ATL Meteor Shower
Pink Sandollar
Jedi Mind Trick

Favias-
Jasons Mask
Mias Pot of Gold
Raptors Peace

Chalices-
Hollywood Stunner
Raspberry Monster
My Miami
Tyree Mummy Eye

8 Acans
Frogspawn
Green Open Brain
2 Birds Nest

That's all.lol

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larangcon · Mar 7, 2013

Nice collection of corals

dwilliams87 · Mar 7, 2013

Thanks man. That's not even half of what I have.lol Just what's in that tank. I'm addicted.

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schooleyosis · Mar 7, 2013

You have a Foxface in a 20 gallon???

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dwilliams87 · Mar 7, 2013

Sure do, why not? He's nowhere near the size of yours. Lol. Once he gets bigger I'll pull him out with my redneck fish trap. Solo cup on a string, done caught a naso that way.lol. By the way, here's a FTS.

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dwilliams87 · Mar 7, 2013

Both the tang and the fox face are very small. I first got them to deal with the hair algae. I don't have any problems with that anymore. Also, with all those fish in my tank I'm able to keep my nitrates under 10ppm all the time. I've checked it as low as under 5.

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schooleyosis · Mar 7, 2013

Lol. Where did the man eating meat coral fit into all of this?

I can picture you fishing with your solo cup now'

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dwilliams87 · Mar 8, 2013

The meat coral was in my frag tank. It got too big for my 20 gallon early on. I would set on my couch with the string in my hand, and as soon as that naso went in, SNATCH!!! Right up to my mesh top! You have to read that in a redneck voice.

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schooleyosis · Mar 8, 2013

Git er done!

solar · Mar 10, 2013

dwilliams87 said:
The meat coral was in my frag tank. It got too big for my 20 gallon early on. I would set on my couch with the string in my hand, and as soon as that naso went in, SNATCH!!! Right up to my mesh top! You have to read that in a redneck voice.

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HAHA thats great!

dwilliams87 · Mar 10, 2013

After helping Greg do his lights, I decided that I wanted to add some T5s to my tank. I found a great deal on a Icecap 430 ballast with harness and end caps. All I need is some reflectors. I am going to keep the LEDs and supplement with the T5s. I also got me a Icecap 660 to go on my frag tank. The LEDs have definitely changed the color of my acans and I want to bring those beautiful rainbows back to their greatness. So I will be redesigning the light rack and using the acrylic canopy that Rick is building to enclose it. Hopefully I'll be able to build it in the next couple of weeks.

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calvo15290 · Mar 10, 2013

Iv been looking for some Devils armer zoas can we work something out?

Andrew calvo

schooleyosis · Mar 11, 2013

Sounds like a fun light build. Take some photos of your progress to share with us please.

dwilliams87 · Mar 11, 2013

I'm not really fragging anything right now, I'm letting things growout fro a little while. I'll let you know when that changes.

calvo15290 said:
Iv been looking for some Devils armer zoas can we work something out?

Andrew calvo

dwilliams87 · Mar 11, 2013

schooleyosis said:
Sounds like a fun light build. Take some photos of your progress to share with us please.

I am planning on it. Im a little worried about getting too much light on the tank. I want to add 4 t5's but I already have 36 LED's. What I'm actually thinking is take the 18 whites off or just cutting them off, so that I'll have 18 Blue LED's and the 4 24'' T5's. I have about 8 geismann and ATI bulbs laying around the house so that won't cost me anything. I know 6 of them were used for less than a month. Hopefully I'll get to complete this 2 weekends from this last weekend. Crazy busy latley.