20Long mixed reef with Pics

[saltyvt]

Most of the rock and corals are over a year old from other tanks, i just never had enough room for more then one fish in my 8. I will be picking out a few new friends soon1
Thanks!

 

[bjoe23]

all i can say is WOW!

I have a 29 up now (1 month old)
i have a 20L under it with nothin in it. i dont no wat i should do with it. you made a strong case for another SW tank

 

[saltyvt]

Thanks!!!

You know that 20L is just yearning to be filled with fish and corals!

 

[saltyvt]

Just bought a SCWD and two U-Tube returns. I plan on make a nice little closed loop. I have a Rio 2500 left over from a pervious tank, it runs at 796GPH so it should be perfect for this project, this will eliminate the power head from the tank, I need to condense my heaters to one, and that should remove everything from sight in the display tank!!!!

 

[wangotango]

Very nice

. Hard to tell that it's only a 20.
-Justin

 

[chowtownreefer]

whats the messurement of the 20L?

 

[saltyvt]

Thanks!!
20L are 30" long, 12" high, 12" deep

 

[saltyvt]

Well completed my Closed loop with SCWD. Works great, bit of pain piping but worth it. Also picked up a nice ORS blue digi, pics to follow!!!

 

[reef diver]

Is that a nanocustoms fixture you have on your bio cube or did you do it yourself.

 

[saltyvt]

Neither it was a sunpod 70 MH. Worked well while i had it.

 

[saltyvt]

Update!
So heres a new FTS, plus some shot of my german blue/green. The camera is acting up, it washed out the FTS, and isn't showing the blue in the frag. Everything is doing well, I am having an out break of algae, partly due to the location in the room, near the window. I am going to invest in more CUC to take care of it. While cleaning the other day I accidently "fragged" my monti, so I attached it to another rock. The closed loop is doing well, creates a really good flow. I found a pair of nudibranch. They are brown in color, with little furry antenna. So Far I have watched them closely, they don't both with corals, they spend most their time on the glass cruzing around. Will oust them if I see any problems.

 

[brandon7491]

that acro looks more like a blue tort than a german. n e ways i would dispose of the nudis because they could be monti eating nudis and i bet u dont wanna lose that monti. if u can try and post a pic here or on -- then we can identify it. great looking tank though man keep up the good work and those steady params

 

[saltyvt]

Your right, i mixed up the names, it is a ORA Blue tort. Thanks! I will snap a photo of the nudibranch, I tried looking through pics, but got tired after the 10th page, with over 3000 species its a pain to look up.

 

[saltyvt]

Well today was test day. Realized my Calc was 750!!!! Yikes!!! So I will be backing off the calcium. Alk is 3.5 and Ph was low at 8.1. Everything is doing well despite my readings. Updates soon!

 

[j.p]

salty wow nice tank and ur avatar.... that would be crazy! lol

 

[saltyvt]

Thanks! couldn't resist that avatar, haven't seen other with it......... yet. So I have been bringing my calcium down slowly, its now at 550, close to normal again. I picked up some GSP for cheap, and reserved a pair of black ORA clowns for after the holidays. FTS when I can pull myself off the couch. I am on Vacation and have no plans on leaving my couch other then to refresh my cocktail.........

 

[azul1994]

Amazing pictures, and tank!

 

[saltyvt]

Hooray!! I finally slowly brought my Calcium down to ~490. Tomorrow I will do a 5 gallon water change and restart my new and improved dosage procedures. Now I have an out break of algae due to my high calc.

 

[vti eg6]

How hard is it to maintain? im looking to set one up within the next few weeks.
People at the LFS kept on bullshitting me to purchase a 35G+
Tank....
Any help is appreciated.

 

[jrthomas40]

thats a good lookin tank...did you stay with the T5's or the MH...i never seen a T5 look so good...