My discount 20L (PICS)

Hobster

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I got tired of all the maintenance of my 75g SPS so decided to take it down and sold all the corals, clams. (what a job!) I still have a 15gal nano but wanted to have another tank. I decided on a 20L as I already have a 2 x 65w PC light that would fit. I also had a Aquaclear 20 from a previous tank. From my 75 I had a CPR 18" HO refugium which would also fit. Now all I needed was a tank and stand. The tank was $30 at Pet Smart (yuck) and at a local builder supply liquidator store I found a brand new upper kitchen cabinet in red oak for $25! I had to add a plywood top and stain it, I also banded it with red oak to hide the end grain. I put and extra reinforcement strip on the back and painted the back with some house paint as it was exposed particle board.
I have 2 Rio Seio 600s which I could have used but bought one of the new Tunze Nano streams with magnet. So even with buying that, less than $200 for the whole set up. I put some LR from the old tank and a few frags i found on the bottom. The tank will be all softies in the long run.

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what are you running for filtration ?
it looks like a skimmer and a hob filter.
I am going to be setting up a 20 long soon.
and I am going with just mushrooms.

Ron
 
Re: My discount 20L (PICS)

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8897694#post8897694 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Hobster
I also had a Aquaclear 20 from a previous tank. From my 75 I had a CPR 18" HO refugium which would also fit.

I have 2 Rio Seio 600s which I could have used but bought one of the new Tunze Nano streams with magnet.

Thats his filtration... :)

Steve
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8901811#post8901811 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by angelfishman145
what are you running for filtration ?
it looks like a skimmer and a hob filter.
I am going to be setting up a 20 long soon.
and I am going with just mushrooms.

Ron

No skimmer, just the one Tunze Nano, a AQ 20 (for carbon) and the CPR hang on refuguim. I changed out the little Rio pump it came with and put a MJ600. A total of around 800 gph.(40x) which sounds like a lot but it really isn't. The Tunze at 600gph spreads it out and I have it bouncing off the front glass and it "crashes' where the AQ overflows.
 
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