Sharing my 20g

[drmikelangelo]

here's my 20g, still needs alot of improvements

My tank is just months old. It has a 20 gal sump/refugium with a Macro aqua 65 skimmer (similar to a coralife super skimmer), sulfur denitrator, and a 150w DE MH 6500K iwasaki. comment and suggestion would be gladly appreciated

[jervismun]

Welcome to SRC!!!

Nice... how many months? Coz ur LR looks quite matured Mind showing a full shot (entire setup) to let us appreacite your tank more

Keep posting

[Altantis]

here's my 20g, still needs alot of improvements

My tank is just months old. It has a 20 gal sump/refugium with a Macro aqua 65 skimmer (similar to a coralife super skimmer), sulfur denitrator, and a 150w DE MH 6500K iwasaki. comment and suggestion would be gladly appreciated

Welcome.

A very good start with proper equipment... not like mine

[Qxnviolet]

hi, welcome to SRC!~ Care to show some close-ups of your tank?

[jervismun]

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[cdckjn]

here's my 20g, still needs alot of improvements

My tank is just months old. It has a 20 gal sump/refugium with a Macro aqua 65 skimmer (similar to a coralife super skimmer), sulfur denitrator, and a 150w DE MH 6500K iwasaki. comment and suggestion would be gladly appreciated

where are you from? from your pic, seems there to be two powerhheads, one for input, one for ouput to sump/cansister???

Good work. Keep more pics coming.

[drmikelangelo]

Thank you for the warm welcome

jervismun

my tank is just 4 months old. ill try to take a picture of the whole thing.

Altantis

cdckjn

im from the philippines. the 2 powerheads are for flow only, behind the one on the left is the output to the sump with a surface skimmer and behind the powerhead on the right is the return from the sump.

here are some more pix (with some macros for Qxnviolet)

This is how it looked when i started:

these are the macros

ill try to get updated pix of my set up soon. thanks for the comments

[Qxnviolet]

Nice and healthy corals!~ Keep up on the updates! By the way, where are you from? Is it easy to get LS/corals over there?

[drmikelangelo]

Qxnviolet

thanks Im from the philippines. Its not that difficult to buy corals here but only the common ones, variety of corals is very limited here and most of them are caught in the wild only few people do frags. there are new laws that prohibit selling and owning of some coral species so if these push thru it would bet more difficult in the near future.

[Altantis]

I ready ready like your colourful macros... too bad I don't know how to frag

[godzillaliu88]

is that a brain.? it looks a lil bleached in the pic

[Qxnviolet]

Hrmz, from the close up of the brain, i mst day it looks pretty alright to me. It isn't one of the super coloured ones but i think it looks pretty healthy!~ Nice camera skills too!

[jervismun]

Love the yuma macro... ur's is a common yuma? Or will fluorence under actinic? Mine looks brown under MH, spotted orange under actinic.

And welcome to Singapore!!!

[drmikelangelo]

godzillaliu88

ill check if it is. havent seen a bleached LPS yet so i have to do some research

Qxnviolet

thanks

jervismun

this is kinda common here, the macro was taken under MH only. but the full picture was taken under actinics. Thanks for the warm welcome

im planning to add a clam and some zoanthids if i find any tomorrow

[jervismun]

So u're into Zoos too... check out my thread below

[drmikelangelo]

jervismun

i saw your Zoos. i like their color. unfortunately when i bought my they where all retracted because the stores here dont have proper lighting im still waiting for them to open up to see what colors they have, fingers crossed

[jervismun]

jervismun

i saw your Zoos. i like their color. unfortunately when i bought my they where all retracted because the stores here dont have proper lighting im still waiting for them to open up to see what colors they have, fingers crossed

Emm... not a very smart way of buying Zoos... so how? Any pix update? U found any clam?

[drmikelangelo]

i had no choice, i had to rely on what our friendly coral guy tells me about the color of the zoos. they already opened up, not very colorfull maybe ill swap some of them. yup i found a crocea its color is brown with a green border, its doing ok, in just two days it already attached it self to a liverock, it doesnt want to move anymore . I dont have new pictures yet, im planning to add a small mangroove tank, if all goes as planned, ill be getting my propogules in a week or two. Hows the weather there? Its scorching hot here, around 40+ deg C at noon, so keeping our tanks cool is our no. 1 priority right now. Happy reefing

[godzillaliu88]

40c?????

i think u should have a chiller for your tank right?

40..... i'll rather die.

[drmikelangelo]

godzillaliu88

yup i have a 1/10 hp chiller

here's my crocea and some new zoanthus

[godzillaliu88]

in a 40c enviroment still can keep such a pretty tank.

keep it up. hope to see more updates

[drmikelangelo]

thanks

[drmikelangelo]

thanks

[drmikelangelo]

Hey guys does anyone know of an internet site that would send livestocks to the philippines?

[drmikelangelo]

Update

new LPS given to me by one of the reefers here . Can anyone ID this LPS.

close-up of the polyps

Here's one of the hitch hikers from the LR, still growing, looks like a favites sp. to me, what do you guys think?

Here are the other new additions to my tank:

a black sponge. it attracts detrtitus, i occasionally use a turkey baster to blow it off the sponge. i hope it survives

A few mor LPS

Here's my fuge w/ light from MH of main tank