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04-22-2008, 10:33 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: CA Age: 22
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|  My 20h nano
After battling with my 10g square tank I decided to move everything over to a 20 gallon high tank...
I also bought a ac50 and made it into a fuge pretty sweet little new toy i got also was a seio 620.
Here is the setup
20H AGA
AC50 - Modded
96w coralife (enough light?)
Rio 90 Powerhead
SEIO 620 powerhead
Marineland 200w heater
25lb live rock and about 15 lb live sand
Occupants so far...
1 Clown
1 Fire fish
bubble tip anemone
I'm praying nothing gets disturbed and dies through the move but here is a picture so far... 
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65 gallon 66# TONGA branch 45# LIVE sand Cycling.
20Gallon High 28# Live Fiji Rock 10# LIVE sand. Reef. | 
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04-23-2008, 01:54 AM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: May 2006 Location: CT Age: 29
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Congrats on the upgrade! I have a 20H as well. I use the Coralife 96W as well as an actinic bulb and my BTA has done so well that it's split twice. As time goes by you might want to consider turning your 10 gallon into a sump/fuge. I found that it was a way to get all of my equipment out of a small tank. Also, are you skimming?
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20 High (started 5/18/06)
20 lbs live rock and 3" sand bed - Remora w/ MJ1200 & Prefilter - 10 gallon sump/fuge - MAG7 & SCWD return - 65W 10,000K PC - 15W Actinic - Red-legged Hermits - Cerith Snails - Nassarius Snails - Royal Gramma - 6line Wrasse - Maroon Clown - Wheeler's Goby - Bubble-Tip Anemone - Green Star Polyp - Button Polyps - Frilly Brown Mushroom - Green Bullseye Mushroom - Kenya Tree Coral | |
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04-23-2008, 08:24 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Looks great.
Nice system.
Good job.  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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04-23-2008, 08:25 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Looking good....  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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04-23-2008, 08:30 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Dec 2007
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ok completely ot but, baxter i love that pic of your regal
now back on topic, gl with the tank  i agree about using the 10 gal | |
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04-23-2008, 08:34 AM
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| | Giant Squid
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Your gonna need more light in my opinion.. I have 72 watts over my 5.5gal.. Your watts to gallons ration would be around 4.8... I would suggest at least 8-9watts per gallon... I'm pretty new myself.... So take it for what its worth..... | |
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04-23-2008, 08:38 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Originally Posted by baugherb  Your gonna need more light in my opinion.. I have 72 watts over my 5.5gal.. Your watts to gallons ration would be around 4.8... I would suggest at least 8-9watts per gallon... I'm pretty new myself.... So take it for what its worth..... | im new as well, but i thought that it was only 4-5 watts/gal | |
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04-23-2008, 10:42 AM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
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Here's a direct copy of a post of mine from another thread:
WPG as we used to know it no longer applies. With the advent of T5s and MHs and the like, there is no fair comparison between the two other than things such as PAR and lumens, not watts per gallon.
For anyone who is out of the know, T5s are VERY comparable to MHs and have been documented to even color up acropora!! They use less wattage and have the same results. So where a 55w T5 might equal something like a 175w MH (this is just an example, I don't know if it's true...simply for illustration), put both of those over separate...say...20 gallon tanks. The one with T5s is going to come to 2.75 WPG whereas the one with MHs will come to 8.75 WPG.
That's not fair, considering they will both have the same results.
As long as all you want are softies, NO clams, NO SPS, and I doubt many LPS would do, then that light should be ok. Otherwise, get something better. _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, Mandarin Dragonette, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA  | |
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04-23-2008, 05:36 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: CA Age: 22
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added a 36w t-5 fixture today...18watt 10k day 18w true actinic blue adds a ton of light
also forgot to mention i have a 18 watt coralife fixture above my fuge do you guys think all this wattage is enough??? | |
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04-23-2008, 06:07 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: May 2006 Location: CT Age: 29
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Which T5 fixture did you get? I've been considering upgrading to one, but haven't had the time to do much research on different brands. | |
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