New 20g long build

[CollegeTyler]

The wrasse came around and hes doing great, have both fish eating X pellets the smallest ones, and also flakes, and frozen reef prime. Heres some pics of "Timothy Leary"

The first ones a little blurry I was shaking with my moms camera Its a canon elos 30D. The bottom pic is pretty cool.

 

[Butchhe]

Sweet little wrasse. What type is it?

 

[CollegeTyler]

Mystery wrasse, not rare just uncommon, they have a bunch of them at aquacon.com and they are actually on sale for half price 50$ which is a pretty good deal. The only thing is he is kind of aggresive towards the firefish but it seems like they are getting more and more friendly with each other as time goes by.

 

[CollegeTyler]

The firefish has manned up and doesnt take crap anymore, the fishys are getting along pretty good. and on a good note i finished the hood! It seems so much nicer now!

 

[CollegeTyler]

Got a few corals courtesy of a buddy of myne, heres a snapshot,

Frogspawn, some branching corals, two encrusting corals, and a cool finger coral.

 

[crobattt]

I wanna set up a 20 long so badly arghh

 

[Chipie]

Very nice collegeTyler. I'm building a stand for a 20g long and was wondering how high to make the canopy. How high did you make yours? Looks really nice.

 

[ReefHawaii]

very nice setup

 

[CollegeTyler]

Its 8 inches, tall i used an 8inch wide 8 foot long piece of furniture wood. Got a nice rock with prolly 15-20 green ricordeas, and a cool little yellow nose prawn goby. Ill post a pic soon when i dont feel so lazy.

And thanks guys!

My zoa' frag is splitting as well, it went from 3 to 5 heads!

 

[cableguy69846]

Tank looks great man. I will be following for the rest of the journey.

 

[hustlah]

Nice sump, water heights in middle chamber? (refugium)

 

[CollegeTyler]

Hustlah, im not sure what your asking but from the bottom of the sump to the top of the water line in the sump it's about 11 inches.

Updates:

Thanks for following along, the sps is taking off, and my little shrimp goby died after 3 hours of acclimation, and then i put him in the tank and he floated, i was upset but i think it had to do with the LFS water being gross.

 

[saltyphish21]

nice looking tank

 

[CollegeTyler]

Tanks doing pretty good, unfortunately the hood isn't quite high enough, and I came home to my mystery wrasse dried up on the floor in front of the tank. Might be time to look for a new little critter to add to the community.

 

[CollegeTyler]

Some new pieces, and i got a good shot of the starfish at the night cycle. I've been debating new livestock ideas. I've done some research on firefish and I understand that more than one of the same spieces should not be kept together. So I was thinking I have the purple, how would the red, and helfrichi's firefish all get along with the purple firefish?

Thanks and stay tuned for some more good updates!

 

[CollegeTyler]

been awhile since an update but here goes. I keep having fish jump out!?! getting tired of coming home to finding them on the floor dried up. Soon im going to invest in building some sort of screen cover. The tanks doing great and is just now finally starting to really take off. Coraline is dominating, im having some issues with my refugium algea growing in the tank, im trying to just control it, but luckily its not growing too fast. Need a berghia nudi to take care of my serious aptasia prob. Lots of growth, and colors are popping better with my new megachrome 21K bulb. Heres pics. Enjoy! :beer:

Sorry for the somewhat cloudy water, i just cleaned the glass. Need to razorblade off the green and purple algea on the sides and bottom front.

 

[CollegeTyler]

New update, a little rockscape changes, getting ready to dump in some sps and a new piece of live rock.

Also built a pretty sweet little LED bulb refugium light setup for the tank.

 

[JEC11718]

mr clean magic eraser, original ......will help u with algea on front and side glass. I didnt believe it either till i tried it. Josh----yes inside the tank!

 

[CollegeTyler]

Unfourtunate disaster with a brown slime that took out all of my ricordea, Added a new clam, and here are pictures. BTW bought a kent marine scraper, best 20$ ive ever spent on a cleaner.

 

[Hyperion1337]

just a heads up, dont buy from aquacon again you search the forums to see why not. Plus I'd recommend removing that achilles tang lol b4 the tang police go all crazy. The tank looks great and has come a long way!