patrickb
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Well I'm FINALLY getting around to doing a tank blog. Instead of doing a blog for my main display tank, I thought it might be more interesting to do it on the small, 20 gallon tank that I have right next to and plumbed into the display tank. The tank has been up and running for about 2 weeks now. Here's what it the setup currently looks like:
I got the tank and stand about 6 months ago after it was raffled off at a BAR meeting. I didn't win the raffle, Dudley did, but he was willing to part ways with it after I promised him my first born. The tank is a 20 gallon square acrylic tank made Kritter. The stand is made super solid and is made out of plywood and coated with a black lacquer paint. Pretty nice.
As a side note, it took me about 5 months to "earn" this tank from my wife. I got married in September and, as motivation for me losing weight for the wedding, my wife "allowed" me to buy a second fish tank if I ran a 1/2 marathon. I signed up for the SF 1/2 Marathon and 5 months later was at the starting line getting ready to run my race. Unfortunately, I was experiencing food poisoning and feeling like total ass due to eating chicken at a BBQ the night before (I knew I should have just stayed with eating pasta!). Anyways, I ran the half marathon but it took me 1.5 hours longer than I had planned due to my running in and out of bathrooms every mile or so. As motivation, I just thought about fishies and anemones to keep me going.
OK enough about that. Anyways, as I said before, the tank is plumbed into the main tank and therefore doesnt have any dedicated skimmers. Plumped underneath the anemone tank is a 10 gallon square plastic trash can that I filled with about 60lbs of size 0 aragonite sand.
The trash can doesnt have light and is simply meant as place where more biological filtration and where anerobic bacteria could grow thereby helping to reduce nitrates.
The tank is lit by a 21watt Nanocustoms Cree LED light (12000K). The light is connected to a 16 foot paper latern power cord that is hung from the ceiling over the tank
The plan for the tank is to raise and propagate anemones. That is why its completely empty except for a bunch of PVC piping. The idea is for the anemones to attach themselves to the pvc piping, thereby making it easier to remove them in order to clean the tank and to cut them in half with scissors. Those of you who have tried removing anemones from your tank know how hard they are to get off rocks--especially rocks with holes and crevices. This hopefully will make all of that easier.
Well, that about sums up the tank. Let me know what you think and what improvements you would make.
Patrick
I got the tank and stand about 6 months ago after it was raffled off at a BAR meeting. I didn't win the raffle, Dudley did, but he was willing to part ways with it after I promised him my first born. The tank is a 20 gallon square acrylic tank made Kritter. The stand is made super solid and is made out of plywood and coated with a black lacquer paint. Pretty nice.
As a side note, it took me about 5 months to "earn" this tank from my wife. I got married in September and, as motivation for me losing weight for the wedding, my wife "allowed" me to buy a second fish tank if I ran a 1/2 marathon. I signed up for the SF 1/2 Marathon and 5 months later was at the starting line getting ready to run my race. Unfortunately, I was experiencing food poisoning and feeling like total ass due to eating chicken at a BBQ the night before (I knew I should have just stayed with eating pasta!). Anyways, I ran the half marathon but it took me 1.5 hours longer than I had planned due to my running in and out of bathrooms every mile or so. As motivation, I just thought about fishies and anemones to keep me going.
OK enough about that. Anyways, as I said before, the tank is plumbed into the main tank and therefore doesnt have any dedicated skimmers. Plumped underneath the anemone tank is a 10 gallon square plastic trash can that I filled with about 60lbs of size 0 aragonite sand.
The trash can doesnt have light and is simply meant as place where more biological filtration and where anerobic bacteria could grow thereby helping to reduce nitrates.
The tank is lit by a 21watt Nanocustoms Cree LED light (12000K). The light is connected to a 16 foot paper latern power cord that is hung from the ceiling over the tank
The plan for the tank is to raise and propagate anemones. That is why its completely empty except for a bunch of PVC piping. The idea is for the anemones to attach themselves to the pvc piping, thereby making it easier to remove them in order to clean the tank and to cut them in half with scissors. Those of you who have tried removing anemones from your tank know how hard they are to get off rocks--especially rocks with holes and crevices. This hopefully will make all of that easier.
Well, that about sums up the tank. Let me know what you think and what improvements you would make.
Patrick
