Tideline AIO 20gal

[Rach77]

Have had this tank going for 6 months. Unfortunately Lost an acropora millepora due to a lighting change, I since learned my lesson and changed lighting back to the original settings. One AI prime 16. I have added a 400gph filter with UV.
Inhabitants are a cleaner goby, a bonded pair of black and white ocellaris clowns that have been rock cleaning, and a pair of springeri damsels. Multiple snails and blue leg hermits, and a coral banded shrimp. Two rock flower anemones, one small haddoni carpet anemone.
Corals include: long polyp toadstool leather, pipe organ tubipora, frogspawn, montipora, green duncan, lava flow leptoseris, two types of zoa's, trachyphyllia and cyphastrea.

 

[EmmettPeck]

Love the tank! I appreciate your confidence in trying millepora within a 20g. I've always struggled with my small tank to maintain sps beyond birdsnest/pocillopora due to pretty drastic alk and salinity swings (from my understanding)

May I ask, what UV are you running? Is it nestled in a back sump area, or do you have it in the front compartment?

 

[Rach77]

Love the tank! I appreciate your confidence in trying millepora within a 20g. I've always struggled with my small tank to maintain sps beyond birdsnest/pocillopora due to pretty drastic alk and salinity swings (from my understanding)

May I ask, what UV are you running? Is it nestled in a back sump area, or do you have it in the front compartment?

It is a filter with the light built in 254 nm I believe, got it off of amazon, due to the size I had to put it in the front, I purchased it with the plan of upgrading to a 150. No UV light exposure to the fish, fully enclosed. With that lighting mishap I did, the montipora is coming around. The leptoseris is probably my favorite and other than the zoas, it has probably grown the most. The problem I have mostly is with evaporation, I top off water twice daily to avoid salinity swings. I'm not automated with that yet. Corals are new to me this time around. Had fowlr before.

 

[Rach77]

Love the tank! I appreciate your confidence in trying millepora within a 20g. I've always struggled with my small tank to maintain sps beyond birdsnest/pocillopora due to pretty drastic alk and salinity swings (from my understanding)

May I ask, what UV are you running? Is it nestled in a back sump area, or do you have it in the front compartment?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Have had this tank going for 6 months. Unfortunately Lost an acropora millepora due to a lighting change, I since learned my lesson and changed lighting back to the original settings. One AI prime 16. I have added a 400gph filter with UV.
Inhabitants are a cleaner goby, a bonded pair of black and white ocellaris clowns that have been rock cleaning, and a pair of springeri damsels. Multiple snails and blue leg hermits, and a coral banded shrimp. Two rock flower anemones, one small haddoni carpet anemone.
Corals include: long polyp toadstool leather, pipe organ tubipora, frogspawn, montipora, green duncan, lava flow leptoseris, two types of zoa's, trachyphyllia and cyphastrea.

Great looking tank!

 

[Rach77]

Couple night photos. Carpet likes to open up at night

 

[Rach77]

Acquired a dream fish today. Tank upgrade gonna come sooner than expected. Blue spine naso unicornis

 

[Rach77]

Acquired a dream fish today. Tank upgrade gonna come sooner than expected. Blue spine naso unicornis

NEVER getting a fish shipped again. Once he started moving, was swimming in upside down circles. Lasted less than 72 hours

 

[Rach77]

Combined the coral banded shrimp today. Getting along well so far.

 

[Rach77]

Tank pics. Shrimp are hanging out together.

 

[Rach77]

Maybe I got lucky and they're male/female. They hang out together, hunt together and clean each other

 

[Northern Flicker]

Maybe I got lucky and they're male/female. They hang out together, hunt together and clean each other

Super cool. I love these shrimp too.

 

[Rach77]

Got coral banded babies going again. I think the fish eat them.

 

[Rach77]

I started a new tank the day after Christmas. A 55 gallon FOWLR. Transferred fish from another tank and Bought one new fish, a Niger Trigger. The little fella is about 2 inches and likes to lay down and eyeball everything in this floating log. It's quite comical