clownie
Well-Known Member
For the past 15 years I have been playing with reef tanks. It was fun and rewarding , but if any of you have done it...it's expensive! Also, I was getting tired of all the salt creep destroying my wood floors.
So, 6 months ago I set up a 20 gallon high tech planted tank. I hadn't done plants in 20 years or so and i wanted to do a trial run before I went major on it. Well i have been dinking around with getting this started and last weekend (Oct 1,2016) I bit the bullet and set it up. Here's the equipment list: 60 gallon reef ready starphire glass cube tank, 250 gph overflow, 20 gallon oceanic sump( filled halfway so an additional 10 gallons), Filter sock on overflow for mechanical filtration, BRS Bulk Small Particle Lignite Carbon for chemical filtration, 300 gph return pump, LED lighting ( this is a custom unit I had constructed for my reef tanks, I replace about half the 420 LED with 6500 and 10000K), 20 lb CO2 tank with Milwaukee MA957 CO2 Regulator, ceramic CO2 diffuser, and black diamond abrasive for substrate.
Current planting, glosso, Rotala Indica, Bacopa, Stargrass and a few others I forgot the name of! There are no fish at the moment. Haven't quite decided yet...some thoughts are a school of Sawbwa resplendens or Barilius canarensis or Dawkinsia assimilis, some Corys, Hillstream loach or two, maybe some otocinclus. But.....I digress!
Pics or it didn't happen!!!!
Hardscape shots:
Initial Planting:
So, 6 months ago I set up a 20 gallon high tech planted tank. I hadn't done plants in 20 years or so and i wanted to do a trial run before I went major on it. Well i have been dinking around with getting this started and last weekend (Oct 1,2016) I bit the bullet and set it up. Here's the equipment list: 60 gallon reef ready starphire glass cube tank, 250 gph overflow, 20 gallon oceanic sump( filled halfway so an additional 10 gallons), Filter sock on overflow for mechanical filtration, BRS Bulk Small Particle Lignite Carbon for chemical filtration, 300 gph return pump, LED lighting ( this is a custom unit I had constructed for my reef tanks, I replace about half the 420 LED with 6500 and 10000K), 20 lb CO2 tank with Milwaukee MA957 CO2 Regulator, ceramic CO2 diffuser, and black diamond abrasive for substrate.
Current planting, glosso, Rotala Indica, Bacopa, Stargrass and a few others I forgot the name of! There are no fish at the moment. Haven't quite decided yet...some thoughts are a school of Sawbwa resplendens or Barilius canarensis or Dawkinsia assimilis, some Corys, Hillstream loach or two, maybe some otocinclus. But.....I digress!
Pics or it didn't happen!!!!
Hardscape shots:
Initial Planting:
