Mike G
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Decided a while back the bedroom needed a tank, today I set up a 20L nano, it'll be mostly zoas and a few acans most likely when it's done. Still need a skimmer at some point.
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Decided a while back the bedroom needed a tank, today I set up a 20L nano, it'll be mostly zoas and a few acans most likely when it's done. Still need a skimmer at some point.
I love the 20L tanks!
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I really like how the rock work is set up.
Nice setup you will have plenty pf places to mount your colonies.
You really shouldn't need a skimmer for anything smaller than 40g though. As long as you have good filtration/surface flow, do weekly water changes, keep the sand bed clean, and run something like Purigen or ChemiPure Blue the organics should not be an issue.
On mine I do about a 15% water change every week and vac the sand bed once a month and everything is doing really well. I'm running a 306 with 1/2 coarse Bio-Home ultimate media in the bottom two trays, with 2 pouches of ChemiPure elite, and 2 100ml bags of Purigen on the top tray. the ChemiPure is replaced every 6 weeks and I swap out and regen the Purigen pouches every 2 months weather they need it or not.
Running that setup my levels stay really stable overall with Sal 1.021, alk at 11-12 dkh, ph at 8.1, cal 420. Ammonia at 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrates .25-.5 depending on the kit, and phos 0 -.025. I dose with SeaChem Trace twice a week and Kent Mg three-four times a week to maintain 1400ppm. That's what I'm doing on my 40 and have seen really solid growth with my zoas. In the past 2-3 months 4 of my colonies have taken off like weeds. All but one colony has shown very rapid growth with multiple new heads over the past three months since adding them.
You really shouldn't need a skimmer for anything smaller than 40g though. As long as you have good filtration/surface flow, do weekly water changes, keep the sand bed clean, and run something like Purigen or ChemiPure Blue the organics should not be an issue.
On mine I do about a 15% water change every week and vac the sand bed once a month and everything is doing really well. I'm running a 306 with 1/2 coarse Bio-Home ultimate media in the bottom two trays, with 2 pouches of ChemiPure elite, and 2 100ml bags of Purigen on the top tray. the ChemiPure is replaced every 6 weeks and I swap out and regen the Purigen pouches every 2 months weather they need it or not.
Running that setup my levels stay really stable overall with Sal 1.021, alk at 11-12 dkh, ph at 8.1, cal 420. Ammonia at 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrates .25-.5 depending on the kit, and phos 0 -.025. I dose with SeaChem Trace twice a week and Kent Mg three-four times a week to maintain 1400ppm. That's what I'm doing on my 40 and have seen really solid growth with my zoas. In the past 2-3 months 4 of my colonies have taken off like weeds. All but one colony has shown very rapid growth with multiple new heads over the past three months since adding them.
Can't wait to see your progress!
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Mike G
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It's got the new tank uglies right now, as soon as it clears up I'll post a new picture
How is this coming along?
