My new 20G Thread

Well, after seeing as how everyone else on here has a tank thread. I may as well make one.

A lil about me:
Im 21, almost done with my engineering degree, then off to grad school for a global management-mba

I love fish. ever since i was a lil kid i had a tank in my room. The first tank I had was a .75 gallon freshwater tank. I was able to breed some guppies in it believe it or not haha. Then I had a 20 gallon tall freshwater tank for over 5 years. Then i added a 10 gallon half assed salt water tank to my room. That was a mistake. Thinking i could have coral on a budget of only 50 bucks for some salt mixture and a 10 gallon tank with sand...oops

Well, i decommissioned my 20 gallon tall freshwater tank, bought a beefier stand, and converted to salt. After one month, here are the results: (Thanks to all your help from 3reef. I no longer listen to the lfs that tries to get money out of me every trip)



Featherduster



Clove polyps



My favorite view of the tank



Xenia baby frags



My mushroom and leather. My favorite two



My spotted goby. This guys awesome. Hes like a coral inspector. Everytime something moves, he'll circle around it for over an hour checking it out. Almost as if to critique me on my decisions.



Green dragon eye polyps (lfs store name haha) and my goby



My cooling fans


the tank





My engineering goby



My coral beauty. This photo doesnt do her colors justice.



I hope you guys enjoyed the photos.

As of now, I am done with adding any more fish. I did everything one by one to make sure that my bio load kept up. No big problems at all so far.
The tank matured very quickly b/c of the amount and use of liverock from day one. I am using cc substrate right now and was wondering and contemplating about using sand. This process would be lengthy as i would be adding maybe 1/4 cupfulls of sand every three days not to spike another cycle. We will see what happens.

Thank you 3 reef for always being there for me. Tank or not tank related, this has been a wonderful experience.

 

cool tank.

 

Looks Great!

 

Thank you guys

 

Hey! Your tank looks great! Very clean and elegant design I like that!

 

Nice pics, love your rock setup.

 

Thanks Camilsky

 

Thanks. It took forever to balance everything safely.

How would you guys recommend adding more branch tonga rock without spiking a cycle?

 

Nuke it. The rest of the LR should seed it in no time.

 

So just throw it right in then huh?

I want to add some height to the tank in order to have a placement area for higher light demanding corals