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tankjunky
10/14/2009, 02:41 PM
Well I started the hobby with a 20 gallon cube a few years back and after that I soon upgraded to a 80 gallon tank wich has been thru major remodeling ever scince I got it. My dad is giveing me some 250 watt MH pendents for my 80 and corals that one of my fish would love to eat so im makeing a tank for that fish.

So my plans for the tank is just a 20L with a 4 bulb, 65 watt CF ficture. Filtration is going to be a corner overflow with a maxijet 1200 on the bottom of it with a rotateing head and probably a K1 on the other side. Wher im putting the tank I dont have much room for a skimmer but I plan on having it softy dominated anyway. As for corals, like I said, mainly softys, but I plan on having it zoa dominated with a few tree like corals to liven things up a bit.

I plan on beging construction of the hood tomorrow, I also have 4 rocks im going to be puting into the tank, Im going to be giving 3 of the rocks a bath in some muratic acid to kill off the pest algae that is going on them.

And so nobody is too bore here is a pic of the tank and wher it is going to be
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020201.jpg

tankjunky
10/16/2009, 02:05 AM
So today I spent a lot of the day making the hood and wireing the lights up. I also got 2 moon lights into the hood along with the 4 CF bulbs. So here are a lot of pics. . .

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020204.jpg
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020205.jpg
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020206.jpg
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020212.jpg
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020211.jpg

tankjunky
10/16/2009, 02:10 AM
Here are some of the corals that I have and am going to put into the tank

Raptors Rainbow
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020192.jpg
?
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020202.jpg
Only going to get a frag of these
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020203.jpg
sold to me as luner eclipse
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020207.jpg
peach zoas
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020208.jpg
AOG plus the rock they are sitting on
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020209.jpg

I also have a long polyp neon green toadstool frag, some golden red shrooms, and a tree leather I might put in also.

affordableocean
10/16/2009, 05:41 AM
wow that live rock is really purple...nice coraline growth.

tankjunky
10/16/2009, 10:57 AM
Thanks, im hopeing to get that dark purple coralline onto the soon so be "dead" rock

tankjunky
10/23/2009, 10:30 AM
So I got the rock all dead and put into the tank about 3 weeks ago and this is what it looks like now

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020224.jpg

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/tankjunky/P1020225.jpg

Ther are a few small spots of corraline on the dead rocks

Sinful Aquatics
10/23/2009, 10:35 AM
Its looking good. Good luck

tankjunky
10/23/2009, 02:23 PM
Thanks, and plans have changed, im going to try to get it LPS dominated