Peninsula 20 IM

[Southpawzzz]

It has just finished cycling and I am soon to add a fish in About a week.

20 gallon innovative marine specs

Light: Kessil a-360
Water movement: 2 530 gph power heads with stock return pump.
Mechanical filter: pinkie in custom caddy
Biological filtration: rocks and sand 20 lbs each, chaeto lit by the IM chaetomax, and reef glass nano PS, and some matrix in the custom caddy basket.

I plan to add a six line wrasse, a clownfish, an orchid dottyback and one more fish of some sort I don’t quite know yet so some ideas would be great! It will be a lps dominated.

This is my first thread on keeping a tank so any tips to make it better would also be very helpful !

 

[jsker]

Hey very nice start

 

[dbl]

Looks really good, but then I'm a sucker for a peninsula. The main tip for your build thread is to keep it updated, which I am personally terrible at. It's always fun to go back and look at your own progress and observe the changes along the way.

Looking forward to watching this one mature.

 

[JoshH]

Looks like a great start and a great tank... Following along

 

[Southpawzzz]

I have just added my first fish! It is a onyx percula clownfish. He is very happy and has been in for about 2 days. He is doing very good and I can see him picking at pods and eating his food already.

The skimmer is doing very well it is going to need a cleaning it is producing a pretty wet skim so I am going to get it dryer if I can.

My chaeto has all bleached out from the chaetomax refugium light...[emoji36] I started with too little and I think it was to small so it bleached out so I will get some more soon.

I added some copepods at the very beginning and I look around the tank now and there are everywhere! There are so many and I can see my clown pick at them throughout the day (it’s very cool to watch!)

The tank is doing very good overall but any tips would be great!

 

[dbl]

Congrats on the first fish....things are looking good. As for tips, slow and steady wins this race and keep your hands out of the tank.

 

[Southpawzzz]

I have some sad news... the fish decided the carpet was were he wanted to be... my clownfish was a jumper, I thought that clownfish didn’t jump so I was gonna get a lid on it next week when I added my other fish. But I was stupid and didn’t put it on earlier with him...[emoji24][emoji36]

 

[dbl]

So sad...sorry to hear that.

 

[Mebeknob]

How noisy is that skimmer?