20 gal high with a DIY refugium

[drdripp]

First tank, more details to come. DIY refugium that drains into the tank from the left side: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/homemade-refugium.1000113/

Day 1:

Day 18:

Day 55:

Day 63:

Live:

 

[blaxsun]

Seems a bit hazy...?

 

[drdripp]

Yeah I cleaned the canister filter yesterday, and did some tank maintenance today too. Have been having diatoms recently.

 

[drdripp]

You might notice that the arch from day 18 is different from the one from day 55 onward. That's because it fell apart while I was cleaning the tank. I hadn't glued the rocks together. I took most of them and put them in my DIY refugium, and switched them out with a single, large rock that creates an arch with the first rock (from day 1).

 

[drdripp]

Livestock:

• 2x ocellaris clownfish
• 2x blood red fire shrimp

Equipment that I have on the tank:

• Aqueon 20 Gallon High
• Aqueon Glass Cover for 20 Gallon High
• DIY refugium, details here
• Aquamaxx Bullet-1 HOB Protein Skimmer (in refugium)
• Oase Biomaster 250 Canister Filter
• GHL Profilux 4 (recent addition)
• Fluval 3.0 Marine light
• 2x Sicce Voyager Nano Stream Pump
• Air stone (only used occasionally as needed)

 

[drdripp]

You may have noticed that the sand is a little darker. I took a trip to the Atlantic recently and got some sand and water from the shore. As a well as a hitchhiking clam!

 

[drdripp]

Upgraded the tank. Switched to a 17 gal Fzone tank, with clearer glass. Plumbed a sump with a Reef Synergy Shadow v3 overflow. The refugium below is lit up in the photo by a timed light on reverse daylight cycle. The stand is an Imagitarium Preferred Winston Tank Stand. Here are the results: