My 20 gal

[fishman1069]

I had to put the 125 on hold for a lil bit and decided to setup a 20 gal tall I had laying around. I actually had everything to set this up and with a free bag of salt from a buddy, I started the cycle about 3 weeks ago. The sand and rock I used still had some bacteria in it so the ammonia part went real quick. My nitrite spiked for about 2 weeks and just dropped of the other day. While I was going thru the trites, my wife came home with a water bottle that had 3 minnows and 5 grass shrimp in it. It turns out she collected them with my kids at the local harbor and figured she would throw them in the tank! (Shes lucky it wasn't my 125:wink1 I figued they would die because of the nitrites but they actually made it thru So I guess we are gonna turn this into a lil local tank and see how it goes. I'm planning on getting my 8 yr old son involved so maybe he can learn something.

It has a hob filter loaded with rubble and a generic maxi jet for flow. I added an ATO for more stable salinity. I still need to to something with the rock.
Heres a couple of crappy pics:teeth:​

 

[Awibrandy]

Awww, that was so cute! Nice little tank btw.

 

[fishman1069]

I figured i update thus since i finally put some new livestock in the tank. I picked up some snails and a tube anemone last night. Since. I havent found a decent fixture for this tank yet, i figured i go with the tube nemesis too settle my coral fixation for a lil bit. Thus mltning i woke up and found the nemesis eating the last surviving killie that my wife made me put in the tank when i was cycling. The poor little guy survived high nitite levels only to be eaten by something it would of never encountered if my wife didnt lluck him from the sound lol She is pissed and blames the whole thing on me. She thinks i boight the nemesis just to eat her fish lol.
Im still hunting for a decent t5 fixture for this tsnk. Ive seen a couple in the marketplace but everyone is so far away:banghead::banghead: I have 4 frags in a buddys tank waiting for me thanx to Awi. I might just buy a new fixture this weekend.

 

[fishman1069]

Still no light:what: I added 2 blue w/yellow tail damsels. Ive always liked damsels just never wanted them because of their bullying capabilites. I figured i can have some in this tank since im not putting any other fish in there. I might be adding a hob reef octopus skimmer to this tank to step it up a notch.

 

[fishman1069]

Finally got a light!! Its a Tek 4 bulb. Right now i have a blue+, purple+ and 2 wavepoint actinics. Im going RP get anither blue+ to replace one of the wavepoints.
I was also able to finally get my frags that peteyboyny has been holding for me. They were given to me by Awibrandy before Sandy came. Heres a couple of crappy pics from my phone

 

[Awibrandy]

Yay, the babies are finally home...

 

[ifarmer]

great progress.
maybe too much rocks you have there perhaps?

 

[fishman1069]

I picked up a couple of more corals for this tank. I grabed a 10 head frogspawn and sone king midas zoas on xmas eve The wife wasn't to happy about that but she got over it. My buddy Pete (peteyboyny) threw me some zoas and my first fuzzy stick lol i dont think thus tank is clean enough for sps but we will find out. I started running some pura complete to try and clean up the water some. Heres some pics

 

[mbg75]

Pat. I got zoos, paly, gsp, etc for ya. Whatever else I can dig out.

 

[fishman1069]

Thanx Mike! Lmk when is a good time to stop by

 

[mbg75]

Thanx Mike! Lmk when is a good time to stop by

Hit me with a text.

 

[fishman1069]

Ok, I'll hit you up when i get home from work today

 

[fishman1069]

Boys much going on since the last update. I have a cyano outbreak thats starting to piss me off. I started dosing hydrogen peroxide at 1ml in the morning, way before the lights kick on and 1ml at night before i go to bed. Ive been doing it for 4 days now and im noticing a difference. All livestock is doin great so far also.

 

[mbg75]

Cyano solution would get rid of it in one shot.

 

[fishman1069]

I'm still fighting cyno:banghead: I've tried red slime remover twice and chemi clean 3 times. I'm done putting crap in my tank. I'm just gonna siphon it out every week like I have for the past 5 weeks. I added some corals,mostly zoas. Here's some pics

 

[mbg75]

If its cyano, the Cyano Solution will get rid of it in one day.

 

[TheSherm]

Where'd you get those zoas in the last set of pics??? Must haves

 

[fishman1069]

I got them in Pets Warehouse in Copiauge (sp?) They only had a couple if crags left last week, I'm sure they're all gone now. Kevin said he has a small frag to grow out, so I guess he'll have more available in several months

 

[fishman1069]

Some new pics with new corals

I just ran outta space for tapatalk hosted pics. I guess I gotta start using photobucket again lol
More pics to come

 

[fishman1069]