Stercus Accidit 20g Build

I will add moonlighting eventually, when I free up more funds. Right now I am trying to get some stock in the tank before Christmas.

I am planning to build a complete canopy for the top of the tank out of the same material I used for the stand. I'll add a couple PC fans to keep the heatsink cool when I do.

Here is a pic of my shrooms and finally caught my clown in a pic...he is camera shy, but loves to come up and get face to face with me. It's so hard to see the true colors on a camera phone, shrooms are red with blue dots and the biggest opens up to almost 4"

 

That is gorgeous. Do you have a camera that's not your phone? I'd love to see some higher quality pictures if that's possible. Camera phones have improved significantly over the past few years but don't really capture the quality a reef deserves.

 

Wow!!

 

Unfortunately not right now...I used to be seriously into photography and cannot for the life of me remember why I sold all my gear. I really miss it allot. (I think the wife is trying to get me something reasonable for Christmas) If not, I'll borrow a DSLR from a buddy.

Thanks bud! ;D

 

No probs

 

After seeing this latest pic from my phone...I am dead set on getting a new camera in the next few months. Waiting for the after Christmas sales I guess.

I picked this guy up from my LFS this afternoon. He loves the tank, and hopefully I'll get to order my other two fish in the next week or 2. He is more red in person, and once my light gets here it will be even better. Red Mandarin

 

I know other will chime in, and I hate to be the first...

That mandarin isn't going to fare well in that 20. Unless you can get it to eat frozen or pellet food there is no way it will have enough pods to eat. I really want myself but I won't even put one in my 40B because I don't have nearly enough pods for it. You can try to add pods to the tank, but it will take 1-2 bottles per week every week. At $10ish per bottle that's going to get expensive. Again, sorry to be the one to have to break it to you.:-/

 

Thank you...

I should have added in the post:

I have had a Mandarin in a 20g before and he did very well. I add pods when needed and dose phyto to feed them and keep the numbers up in the fuge and the DT. I also have this one eating flake foods that I get to the bottom of the tank. He will be trained on frozen as well. I am not going to buy a fish that I cannot take care of properly and I thank you for the concern.

 

Ok. Sorry if I came off a little berating, that was not my intention. I know some LFS's will sell anything to anyone often times at the expense of the livestock.

Best of luck getting him to eat frozen food.

 

I love the red shrooms and the mandarin. They look awesome.