Hillerd's 20g nano

Hillerd86 · Jul 6, 2020

Restructured version 2.0 of the nano. More room for coral and existing ones are much happier.

AZReef13 · Jul 6, 2020

Nice looking tank.

Hillerd86 · Jul 13, 2020

Picked this little cane up for 10bucks at the LFS

Mastiffsrule · Jul 17, 2020

Nice, for that nice head you did good. If it does good for another week I would get it to a nice spot into the rock. Keep you numbers solid, they need calc and alk for them to build skeleton.

Hillerd86 · Jul 17, 2020

Mastiffsrule said:
Nice, for that nice head you did good. If it does good for another week I would get it to a nice spot into the rock. Keep you numbers solid, they need calc and alk for them to build skeleton.

Yup moved it near my other candy cane. Hoping they make a cool candy cane cavern over this tunnel. And calc and all are right in the sweet spot

Hillerd86 · Jul 20, 2020

Live sale from yourreef.com was great. Got a handful of new guys coming my way.

michaelmessinaglass · Jul 20, 2020

Nice looking tank! Is it an AIO or sumped?

Hillerd86 · Jul 20, 2020

All in one. It's a nuvo 20.

revhtree · Jul 20, 2020

Hillerd86 said:
Live sale from yourreef.com was great. Got a handful of new guys coming my way.

Nice haul!

Hillerd86 · Jul 27, 2020

Playing with the new camera. Also the YourReef frags are starting to settle in.

Leiph86 · Jul 27, 2020

Do you have more details on your setup? I'm also running a 20 gallon IM all in one - what lighting/filtration are you using? Great looking tank, my frags are arriving next Thursday!

Hillerd86 · Jul 27, 2020

Leiph86 said:
Do you have more details on your setup? I'm also running a 20 gallon IM all in one - what lighting/filtration are you using? Great looking tank, my frags are arriving next Thursday!

Its a nuvo 20 with all in one with the filtration in the back. I've been using the innovative marine 3 pack filters that have the sponge, carbon and phosphate sponges. There are two overflows so I have that on both sides. I also stuff some of the white cotton like filtration stuff around them too to catch extra stuff and add more bacteria hosting sites.
I also got a ghost skimmer in there too. It works pretty well but kinda noisy.
I think the big thing that has helped is I do 2 gallon water changes once a week. Everything seems pretty happy with that. I also don't throw away the filters each week. Just sort of shake them off in the water I syphoned out.
I change them about once a month but not at the same time and not on a WC day. I think that lets the bacteria I left repopulate the new sponges.

Leiph86 · Jul 28, 2020

Hillerd86 said:
Its a nuvo 20 with all in one with the filtration in the back. I've been using the innovative marine 3 pack filters that have the sponge, carbon and phosphate sponges. There are two overflows so I have that on both sides. I also stuff some of the white cotton like filtration stuff around them too to catch extra stuff and add more bacteria hosting sites.
I also got a ghost skimmer in there too. It works pretty well but kinda noisy.
I think the big thing that has helped is I do 2 gallon water changes once a week. Everything seems pretty happy with that. I also don't throw away the filters each week. Just sort of shake them off in the water I syphoned out.
I change them about once a month but not at the same time and not on a WC day. I think that lets the bacteria I left repopulate the new sponges.

Thanks for the extended details - what lighting are you using for the tank?

Hillerd86 · Jul 28, 2020

Leiph86 said:
Thanks for the extended details - what lighting are you using for the tank?

Oh yeah sorry meant to type that. I have an orbit LED light strip. It is okay although friends have told me it's probably not good enough for acros. It's does offer a decent amount of control. I don't even have it turned up all the way and I'm afraid I'm cooking things.
Here are my settings for the main day. It also has Ramp up and dawn/dusk lower settings.
(75%blue, 20%white, 10%green, 10%red)
Also forgot to mention I have a jubao power head too and have a square wave function running on it.