JohnL's 20 Gallon Nano Reef
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You should be able to grow anything you want in there. Any thoughts on your stocking plan?
I want to get some Aquacultured Live Rock and some biodiversity established. Then sps frags and a few small cultured fish
Cool, I never spent much time with sps and prefer lower lighting, lower flow of LPS with softies. Having said that, some one traded me a green monti and some kind of acro tort recently. The monti has grown like gang busters and looks fantastic but the acro has headed for brown town. I moved the acro to within an inch of my surface and a higher flow zone so we'll see what happens. Most of the day is only about 100-150par in my tank with a peak of an hour with 300 par. Not ideal for an acro.
Look forward to seeing your progress!
Look forward to seeing your progress!
Thank you, me too ?. Do you have any recommendations on par meters?
Apogee are the gold standard. The SQ-420 is good value if you don't mind not having a physical meter but needing to plug into USB instead. I personally use a Seneye Reef. There's some argument about accuracy with certain versions ( V4 specifically) but they're past v6 now if I recall and whatever issues have been resolved. They update firmware automatically anyway. I would consider the seneye the best value but you also need a computer/laptop near by. Considering you basically set up your lights and then put the meter in a drawer, it might be a best option to just rent one from BRS ( or any retailer who rents them) or even get one from a local reef club.
Thanks for the good information. ?
Thank you Dawn. The cycle is complete. I'm expecting some aquacultured-live-rock today so it may spike again. If the levels are OK next week, I'll place an order with ipsf. I'm also going to add a hang-on refugium next week. It's really nice to have a tank again.
I replaced the dead rock with 15 lbs of live rock from KP Aquatics. Very nice rock with coralline algae and orange sponge on most pieces. The rock at the top right was purchased from a lfs (Pets Warehouse). The smaller pieces on the sand were gifted by a lfs (Advanced Marine Aquatics).
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Looks like a brittlestar and an astrea snail . You are keeping them, ya? Tank looks great.
Yes, definitely keeping them. My first animals ?
What refugium is that? Everything is looking great. Moving fast, watch your ammonia.
