Wy Renegades Growout Tank

[Wy Renegade]

Figured I just as well get this going, although I don't think I will be receiving my frags till next week. I'll be going low tech on this one.

About the tank:
Size: 30" x 12.5" x 12.5"; 20gal Long
Sump: N/A
Temp: ranges from 78-80
Age: Approximately 5 years old; reset twice over that time period
This tank is one of the school tanks in my classroom, and over the years has hosted a variety of critters, including at one time a donated Snowflake eel. Most recently, until last summer, it contained a volleyball sized purple bowerbankii, a purple and green Acan, a few random zoa frags and a mantis shrimp. I sent the bowerbankii off to be fragged, and haven't gotten it back yet. Neglected from early last summer till now, the tank became overgrown with hair algae, and aiptasia. I decided to clean it up and use it as the growout tank for the contest.

Equipment:
2 Coralife 21W T5HO lights with stock actinic and 10,000K bulbs
Flow is maintained with two K2s and a maxi-jet 1200 attached to a DIY spraybar
Heater: unknown - so coralline encrusted I can't even determine the brand and I don't remember anymore
Tank will be skimmerless and Top off will be manual with a Kalkwasser drip; I'm planning to try daily water changes.

Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures prior to starting the revival process, but this is what it looks like after 2 hours of algae removal and scrubbing;


Here's a nice shot of a gunk-covered powerhead to give you an idea of how bad it was;


Here is what it looked like four days later after it started clearing up finally;

[ReeferRob]

Awesome to hear your getting in on this man, real cool!

[Wy Renegade]

Thanks Rob, don't know that I expect to be too competitive, but I'm viewing it more as a personal challenge

[Wy Renegade]

Full tank shot from today;


My frags arrived today (still have to sort out the grow-out frags from some others I ordered);








Couple other shots of some things that are growing in the tank as well;

Nuclear Green palys;


My acan;




and My Scoly;

[Sir Patrick]

Awsome tank revival right there!

[Wy Renegade]

Thanks Patrick - what it really needs is a good clean-up crew, but with the pistol shrimp that is almost impossible, as it kills snails almost as quickly as I add them to the tank. Soooo for now, its manual cleaning with a little help from a few asteria stars.

[Skyhigh]

find the rock that he is in and fresh water dip that rock and he will jump out super simple.

[Wy Renegade]

Originally Posted by Skyhigh

find the rock that he is in and fresh water dip that rock and he will jump out super simple.

Thanks Bryan - he is actually living under a rock rather than in it. I can't remove him, as the tank is actually his home and the students get a kick out of watching him eat whenever we feed him. Sooo, I'll just have to work around him.

[keeplearning]

That's awesome. Good luck on the tank.

[Wy Renegade]

Originally Posted by keeplearning

That's awesome. Good luck on the tank.

Thank you.