2 Feet 20 Gallon Frogfish Tank

[samuel88]

Welcome to my aquarium log!

I've been a long time reefer with a 5 gallon tank which has been with me for 3 years (I might share this one next time), and therefore a month ago i decided to keep a frogfish tank as I have tried keeping one in the past in a 25 gallon tank but failed miserably as I made mistakes such as not establishing beneficial bacteria, not having enough live rock, poor filtration, etc. etc. but I find them so interesting and endearing.

So somehow the spark got reignited and I now have a tank with a striated angler in it, i know they can get quite big, but the one i have now is small ATM, and I plan to let him go when he gets too big. Or maybe upgrade my tank so I can keep him.

 

Tank Specs:

Lighting:

1. Dymax 2 Feet REX LED

Filtration:

1. 1400 L/H overhead filter with DIY drip tray > phosphate removal filter pad > filter floss pad > 100ml Purigen > 500ml Seachem Matrix.
2. 440 L/H Eheim canister filter with 350ml Eheim mech ceramic rings > coarse filter pad > 750ml Seachem Matrix > 100ml Seachem Seagel > filter floss pad > carbon filter pad.
3. 10kg Liverock
4. 1 to 2 inch dry sand

Flow:

1. 600 L/H powerhead

Livestock:

1. Antennarius Striatus
2. 3 Halloween hermit crabs
3. Miscellaneous snails, asterina starfish, etc that came with the live rock.

Temperature control:

1. ANS cooling fan rated for 60L to 100L tanks

Maintenance:

Weekly:

1. Feed frogfish either ghost shrimp/mollies/guppy.
2. 10% water change
3. change filter pad on overhead filter if needed
4. dose Seachem Stabilty per instructions

Monthly:

1. Clean out Eheim canister; replace filter pads, rinse media with tank water, replace seagel when water color looks off, etc.

 

I will post up close pictures next time!

 

[samuel88]

Water changes and top offs are also done using tap water treated with Seachem Prime, until i figure out how to remove my RO unit from my RO/DI system that is, then I will switch to DI water.

[vakeros]

How are you feeding the frogfish ?

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