So I'm about to start my new project and was curious as to what you guys/gals thought......
I'm gonna start a 5 gallon rimless open-top glass cube "semi-nano reef" set-up (which is actually a decent size little cube).... I was suprised.
Anyway, I say "semi- reef" because I won't be housing any hard or soft corals, no sponges, no nudibranch's, etc. etc.- and anemone-wise I'll probably only have a couple smaller Candy's and a feather duster or two. It'll be built on very carefully chosen smaller pieces of live base rock and contain a substrate base of about a half inch of live sand. I was in my local shop today making calculated decisions as to what I'm gonna stock it with:
Top Water / Mid column dwellers:
(1) 2.5 inch Coral Beauty Angelfish
(2) small Pajama Cardinals (beautiful fish but hoping thier smart enough to stay away from the Candy
Anemones)
Lower Column / Bottom dwellers:
(2) small 1.5 inch blue Scissortail Goby
(1) 1.5 inch Tiger Watchman Goby
(1) 3/4 inch Six Line Wrasse [OR] (1) small 1.5 inch juvinille Red Coris Wrasse (which should be fine with
no live corals in tank.. am I right?)
Inverts:
(2) small Indian Ocean Condilactis (Candy) Anemones
(1-2) small Feather Duster worms
(1) small Fire shrimp approx. 1 - 1.25 inches
Feed Back??
Filtration, Lighting and Heating:
Main Filter- Fluval 105 tri-module Canister filter
125gph(two modules with Bio-media and one module with filter media) haven't decided exactly what yet (ideas welcome) my only concern is that the output back into the tank may be too strong??? Probably not but... well, we'll see.
Lighting- 2 separate clip on mini aqua light fixtures
One with white trichromatic
One blue actinic
Heating- Marineland 10watt Shatter Proof submersible
Presets to 78* F (feedback on this please) several other aquarists have expressed to me that this would be perfect for this tank, but I would like your opinion as well
I will not be mixing my own salt for this tank. It's so small that I'll be buying one -two gallons pre-mixed water from my trusted shop for water changes.
I want to share the whole process with everyone here, and will be photographing everything as i go along, as soon as I start (probably next week)
I'm gonna start a 5 gallon rimless open-top glass cube "semi-nano reef" set-up (which is actually a decent size little cube).... I was suprised.
Anyway, I say "semi- reef" because I won't be housing any hard or soft corals, no sponges, no nudibranch's, etc. etc.- and anemone-wise I'll probably only have a couple smaller Candy's and a feather duster or two. It'll be built on very carefully chosen smaller pieces of live base rock and contain a substrate base of about a half inch of live sand. I was in my local shop today making calculated decisions as to what I'm gonna stock it with:
Top Water / Mid column dwellers:
(1) 2.5 inch Coral Beauty Angelfish
(2) small Pajama Cardinals (beautiful fish but hoping thier smart enough to stay away from the Candy
Anemones)
Lower Column / Bottom dwellers:
(2) small 1.5 inch blue Scissortail Goby
(1) 1.5 inch Tiger Watchman Goby
(1) 3/4 inch Six Line Wrasse [OR] (1) small 1.5 inch juvinille Red Coris Wrasse (which should be fine with
no live corals in tank.. am I right?)
Inverts:
(2) small Indian Ocean Condilactis (Candy) Anemones
(1-2) small Feather Duster worms
(1) small Fire shrimp approx. 1 - 1.25 inches
Feed Back??
Filtration, Lighting and Heating:
Main Filter- Fluval 105 tri-module Canister filter
125gph(two modules with Bio-media and one module with filter media) haven't decided exactly what yet (ideas welcome) my only concern is that the output back into the tank may be too strong??? Probably not but... well, we'll see.
Lighting- 2 separate clip on mini aqua light fixtures
One with white trichromatic
One blue actinic
Heating- Marineland 10watt Shatter Proof submersible
Presets to 78* F (feedback on this please) several other aquarists have expressed to me that this would be perfect for this tank, but I would like your opinion as well
I will not be mixing my own salt for this tank. It's so small that I'll be buying one -two gallons pre-mixed water from my trusted shop for water changes.
I want to share the whole process with everyone here, and will be photographing everything as i go along, as soon as I start (probably next week)