New 20 Gallon Long

[tgruby]

I just bought a used 20 gallon long, wiht livestock which included: 1 false perc clown, bta that it hosts in, small frogspawn, orange center/green skirt zoos, pink center zoos, toadstool leather, few stalks of xenia, medium finger leather,10 or so head candy cane, and a few others.
I know nothing about maintaining a reef tank. What do I need to know. The zoos were open yesterday, but this morning when the lights came on they were closed. Do they normally close at night?

 

[hammerswinger]

yep they close at night

 

[InvaderJim]

My Xenia, Zoas, and Kenya tree's all close up at night.

 

[tgruby]

 

[tgruby]

 

[tgruby]

How do ya post pics?

 

[tgruby]

What kind of testing kits do you guys recommend? And what additives do I need?

 

[tgruby]

I have reef solution, and buffer. I heard the reef solution was very good. It was $25 for a 16 oz bottle. Anyone used it? Should I pick up some calcium too??

 

[BLKTANG]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8963514#post8963514 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tgruby
How do ya post pics?

Photobucket.com

 

[tgruby]

 

[emerald chondro]

How longs the tnak been up?

 

[tgruby]

For me, just a couple days. I really don't know how long the guy I bought it from had it up.

 

[FallenElement]

Could you tell me what light you have over it. Im taking down an aggresive FW 20L tank, moving them to a 40 Breeder and thinking about doing a nano in my 20L. I just nee to know what light to use then I think Im going to mod it so it has built in overflows in the back and hopefully look pretty nice.

 

[Rosseau]

Lighting.

1- how much $$ do you have?
2-what do you want to keep?

 

[tgruby]

I have two 55 watt PC, All-Glass.
Two 96 watts would be nice though.

 

[tgruby]

Only one of my light is on in those pics, and the water was cloudy cus i just set it up.

 

[jonathanws]

what type of filtration are you using? sump? hang on? powerheads? i ask because i'm gonna get a 20 or 30 long and i dont want to run a sump

 

[srieger]

for a 20 long, you can use either lots of LR and LS, a powerhead, powerfilter, aquaclear is the most common, and a good cleaner crew. but doing a water change at least 20% atleast once a week is recomended. if you use a sump as your primary filter, a powerhead, good cleaner crew, you will cut the work you have to put in in half.

i have a 10g. with 27-30 lbs live rock, 2 turbo snails, 3 nassarius snails, a clownfish, yellow tail damsel and a lawnmower blenny. i use a powerfilter and a power head but i do water changes every weekend. i have about 8 colonies of zoas, a 2 head candycane, pom pom xiena and mushrooms and i dont dose with anything excet phytoplex and microvert once a week and they are growning fine. the xiena is branching off and growing, the zoas or spreading alil and the candycane i just got yestuday. but everything is open and healthy. i forget the name of the light i have, but it have a 10,000k daylight and a full atinic and the math comes down to 7.8watts per gallon. ill find out the light and post it tomorrow if that helps anyone....

 

[tgruby]

I also have a 10 gallon sump..with a skimmer..fuge...powerhead..cleanup crew....and only one fish