Dan's 20L build.

[daninfamous]

Started a 20L been at it a while but now I feel its getting picture worthy

Equipment so far -

20L Painted black back
24" 4x24 T5 coralife nova extreme lights
23ish lbs aragamax sand
25lbs dry rock coming from marcorocks (tomorrow)
5lbs live rock from a fluval edge I have running
2 AC70's
1 korilla nano 240
1 heater
1 digital therm.
1 Sweet dresser stand

Adding water and rock once the rock arrives via fedex tom morning.

Plans

Going to transfer over the yellow watchman goby and pep shrimp from the fluval edge, going to add a 6line wrasse and maybe 1 more fish, then corals finally, thinking acans and some ???..

 

[daninfamous]

Fedex comes today yay.

 

[NiTr0x911]

Looks good so far Dan,decided what kind of livestock your going to put in it?

 

[daninfamous]

Gonna put my Yellow watchman and pep shrimp in it, and a 6line wrasse down the road, corals im wanting acans and not sure, gonna just window shop the LFS and pick some stuff out

 

[NiTr0x911]

Sounds like a plan!Look forward to updates when you do..Happy Reefing

 

[DBreefs]

Hey your tank is a 30 inch right? Just curious how you have your light sitting up there, what it's sitting on?

 

[daninfamous]

a couple pieces of oak i cut to length, im hoping the oak wont rot away too fast until i can think of a better solution.

 

[daninfamous]

water and rocked added, def cloudy, not happy with the scape and i feel like there is too much rock, going to have to play with it and maybe take some rock out.''

(edit // resized both photos)

 

[john miller]

Marco sends some big 'ol pieces doesn't he? When I bought mine I had two pieces (basketball sized) that barely fit in my tank. Instead of taking rock out pick two of the most undesirable pieces and take a hammer to them, brick hammer works great if you have one. By breaking them up it will give you more options while scaping. Smaller sizes can be scattered on the sand bed or used as outcroppings on bigger pieces for more depth.

 

[daninfamous]

I think I need to lay more rock against the back wall, its hard to see in the picture but there is like 2 islands that are almost in the middle if you go front/back, so i am gonna push everything a bit back more, i was trying to use the rock to break up a little bit of the flow from the ac70's because otherwise they scatter the sand bed.

 

[daninfamous]

Clearing up and a pic of the *island* i was talking about

 

[dogstar74]

I like your rock formations. That left end rock is kinda close to the front glass, and may make it difficult to clean the glass off. Otherwise looks good.

Cheers,
Aaron

 

[Amb]

I like your set up, and have a similar one planned. My question is though, do you find that the 24" fixture lights the far edges well enough?

I know there's no 30" fixture from big brand names, but I was thinking about biting the bullet and going overkill and getting a 36" fixture, just to make sure I had my far edges lit.

Otherwise, it looks awesome!

 

[daninfamous]

Been away from my own thread too long.

Added a intank media basket and purigen/chemipure elite to one of the ac70's added carbon and the filter sponge to the other.
Added a couple zoa's that are doing very well
transfered the yellow watchman goby and shrimp.
transfered some of the rock from my fluval edge one is turning nice light green and purple/pink.

have a very slight hint of hair algie coming and going. need to do a 5 gal water change soon just been so busy

i know i know, thread sucks without pictures, they are on my phone and suck but ill up them soon

 

[daninfamous]

on the 24" light fixture, its a 4 bulb and it seems to light the edges well enough, and if anything ill put some corals on the edge that maybe like less light.

 

[daninfamous]

Pictures

 

[dogstar74]

Did you change your aquascape up a bit, and open the middle area more? It looks good.

 

[NanoReefNoob]

ya i agree i like the scape you have going there. from the pictures it looks like it is alot bigger tank.

 

[TjwBlake]

awesome.. you pretty much have the same setup that im looking at with a 20 i have! nice to see the potentials for it

 

[daninfamous]

Yeah I rescaped it and took a piece or two of rock out, Wanted more sandbed for my goby to play with and didnt want the tank to look so full.

Im still considering tanking one more piece out on the top left side. Or breaking it in half and putting half back in.

The frags I have are growing like crazy, I didnt know they grew so fast.

Each one has atleast 6+ heads than when I got em.