20g Stocking

20G can give you some wiggle room on what to add. I have a pair of Maroons, anemone, cleaner shrimp and a small 4 stripe damsel in my 20G.
On another note, 175W MH is a ton of lighting for such a small tank, if you are talking a 20G long. You are borderline on burning your tank inhabitants with too much light with that, assuming you keep the light close to the surface of the water. I won't even get into raising the tank temp either.

 

dont forget a goby to keep the sand clean!!!

 

MH is a pendant style it hangs from a brace on the ceiling. So I can adjust it to what ever hight would be appropriate. The ones on my FW tanks are about 15" above the water.

 

Ok that will be good.

 

Found 29g on sale for $20 lastnight so moved everything out of the 20 into that one with another 20# of live sand. Wish I could of found another 37 instead it looks short next to my 37.

 

See....it's starting.... Seems like we all start small and end up going big. Might as well save some money and skip the interim tanks and get a 300gal!! Haha! I personally have gone from a 10gal to 20gal to 65gal and now looking into a 150gal. It's like a disease, just can't stop till I'm broke ;D.

 

I did the same thing with my FW tanks. The problem is the wifes brain doesnt work that way so I have to go up a step at a time. Besides in this way I get to stockpile tanks without her relizing just how many i have .

"you can only have 3"

ya we will see got 5 right now she doesnt relize it.

 

HAHA! That's so funny how we have to cloud our spouses with this hobby. I mean, my wife enjoys the end product, BUT, if she found out how much I've spent on my aquarium....well, I think that would put a end to this hobby.