After lurking for the past year and a half, I figured it's time to connect with the community by sharing my tank and experiences.
A little bit of background information:
I officially entered the reef keeping hobby a little over a year ago after my brother gifted me his 56g FOWLR tank with hob equipment. From there things quickly progressed into a full-blown 40g breeder build which ran for about a year until I was forced to tear it down due to moving into an apartment about a month ago. My current setup is what happens when you downsize from a 40g to a 20g without downsizing the equipment...
The details:
Equipment:
- Petco 20g long
- Reefbreeder's Photon V2 24"
- Gyre XF330
- Aquamaxx HOB 1.5
- Eheim Jager w/ Inkbird
- Tunze osmolator ATO
Livestock:
- sixline wrasse (the inspiration behind my username)
- black ocellaris clownfish
- bangaii cardinal
- cleaner shrimp
- BC lemon hammer acropora
- yellow tip austera
- green slimer
- BC secale
- red monti cap
- JF jack-o-lantern lepto
- duncan (my first coral)
- a couple frogspawns
- bi-colored hammer
- candy canes
- assorted zoanthids
Hopefully this thread helps others in some way, whether it be providing actual useful information or serving as a guide on what not to do...
Pictures to come later this afternoon.
A little bit of background information:
I officially entered the reef keeping hobby a little over a year ago after my brother gifted me his 56g FOWLR tank with hob equipment. From there things quickly progressed into a full-blown 40g breeder build which ran for about a year until I was forced to tear it down due to moving into an apartment about a month ago. My current setup is what happens when you downsize from a 40g to a 20g without downsizing the equipment...
The details:
Equipment:
- Petco 20g long
- Reefbreeder's Photon V2 24"
- Gyre XF330
- Aquamaxx HOB 1.5
- Eheim Jager w/ Inkbird
- Tunze osmolator ATO
Livestock:
- sixline wrasse (the inspiration behind my username)
- black ocellaris clownfish
- bangaii cardinal
- cleaner shrimp
- BC lemon hammer acropora
- yellow tip austera
- green slimer
- BC secale
- red monti cap
- JF jack-o-lantern lepto
- duncan (my first coral)
- a couple frogspawns
- bi-colored hammer
- candy canes
- assorted zoanthids
Hopefully this thread helps others in some way, whether it be providing actual useful information or serving as a guide on what not to do...
Pictures to come later this afternoon.