th08tu
Aquarium Advice Freak
Hi everybody! after a long break from the hobby due to some health issues, I am back! (I know it's not that exciting for you, but it is for me )
Anyways over the past weekend I decided to take my ten gallon "reef" and upgrade to a 20 Gallon reef, using the ten as a sump. So I picked up an overflow, cleaned out the twenty, moved the rock over, plumbed the overflow into my ten underneath, and let it run. The trick was to do this without killing any of the livestock, without causing a cycle, and still being happy with the end result. So here is what I have:
Hardware:
Aquaclear 40? powerhead
HOB overflow
Rio return pump
20 gallon disply
10 gallon sumo
2 - 50 W heaters
Coralife 65W 24" with 10000K bulb
Coralife T5 HO 24" with 10000K bulb and Actinic
Livestock
2 False Percs.
1 Lawnmower Blennie
1 Yellow Coral Goby
1 Giant Cup Mushroom Frag
1 small (15 polyp zoo colony)
2 ricordea frags
Clean up crew of assorted snails and crabs
Chaeto in the sump
Here are some pics:
More to come of course, just been crazy round here.
Anyways no post would be complete without questions! So here they are to:
Am I overdoing it with the lights? PC and T5?
When should I remove the carbon? I put it in place simply to protect myself in case of a small cycle because it was a new tank, with some new sand and a little more base rock.
Because of my neglect when I was ill, I developed a small algae problem in the ten, if you can't tell from the pics. It was on the rocks and glass. So I left it in the ten, thinking that that way all of the algae would grow in there. Yesterday I also added a large ball of chaeto to the sump, which isn't in that picture. Do you think the combination of the above will help the growth of algae in my display tank, or should I start cleaning off the rocks?
My ricordea has gone almost white. You can see it in the third picture. I can still see a hint of the green, however I really have to look, should I just wait and see or is there something I can do to help it out?
Thats all I can think of for now, but I know I will have many more questions and I promise there will be many more pictures!
Anyways over the past weekend I decided to take my ten gallon "reef" and upgrade to a 20 Gallon reef, using the ten as a sump. So I picked up an overflow, cleaned out the twenty, moved the rock over, plumbed the overflow into my ten underneath, and let it run. The trick was to do this without killing any of the livestock, without causing a cycle, and still being happy with the end result. So here is what I have:
Hardware:
Aquaclear 40? powerhead
HOB overflow
Rio return pump
20 gallon disply
10 gallon sumo
2 - 50 W heaters
Coralife 65W 24" with 10000K bulb
Coralife T5 HO 24" with 10000K bulb and Actinic
Livestock
2 False Percs.
1 Lawnmower Blennie
1 Yellow Coral Goby
1 Giant Cup Mushroom Frag
1 small (15 polyp zoo colony)
2 ricordea frags
Clean up crew of assorted snails and crabs
Chaeto in the sump
Here are some pics:
More to come of course, just been crazy round here.
Anyways no post would be complete without questions! So here they are to:
Am I overdoing it with the lights? PC and T5?
When should I remove the carbon? I put it in place simply to protect myself in case of a small cycle because it was a new tank, with some new sand and a little more base rock.
Because of my neglect when I was ill, I developed a small algae problem in the ten, if you can't tell from the pics. It was on the rocks and glass. So I left it in the ten, thinking that that way all of the algae would grow in there. Yesterday I also added a large ball of chaeto to the sump, which isn't in that picture. Do you think the combination of the above will help the growth of algae in my display tank, or should I start cleaning off the rocks?
My ricordea has gone almost white. You can see it in the third picture. I can still see a hint of the green, however I really have to look, should I just wait and see or is there something I can do to help it out?
Thats all I can think of for now, but I know I will have many more questions and I promise there will be many more pictures!