I won this little tank at our last frag swap and finally got around to taking it out of the box and setting it up a few weeks ago.
I also won the Marco rock that is in it...lol... well a small part of the rock I won anyway. The rock had been cycling for a long while, but by the time I finally got it to look the way I wanted, I'd managed to undo all of the benefits of pre-cycling the rock.
The sand is new and was seeded with 1/2 cup of sand from my 120g tank. I plan to use the stock filter that came with the tank although I switched out the ceramic media insert and added carbon there instead. If necessary in the future I will put 1/2 carbon and 1/2 GFO in there. The plan is to maintain the tank strictly through water changes and a low bio-load (like I have a choice with a 6g tank..lol). There is a heater hidden behind the rocks and I may add a nano Koralia after I see what the flow is like with the corals added.
The tank be monitored by an ACJr controller. The room has A/C to benefit all of the tanks (and me
) in the warmer months.
The stock light is still on there and will probably support low level coral, though at some point I will likely get something stronger - or at least with some blue in it - from Wingo. I'm not looking to go as far as a Par38 bulb as i think it would destroy the simple look I am going for.
All of the corals will come from my other tanks and the original plan was to do the tank with all pink corals, but I have a few others that I'd like to use in there. The mix will be mostly zoas, mushrooms and a small leather or 2 and a piece of my purple sponge.
I am really on the fence about livestock...I currently have 2 Percs that I would like to put into this tank. They are about a year old and only 1 1/2" long. Currently they reside in a 50G Tenecor AIO tank BUT they live in a tiny corner of the tank (there are 2 pair of percs in there, each living at opposite ends of the tank). The tank has 2 narrow 'alleys' at either end that are 1" wide X 6" long x 18 inches tall..and they only ever come to the very edge of their 'alley' to eat, so a 6G tank may seem like a mini ocean all their own.
I really want to take the 50g tank down but can't incorporate these fish into my other tanks as they both have clowns in them already..and I've had them since they were tiny, so I'd like to keep them.
Does anyone have a pair of percs in a tank this small that have thrived? I know 20G is suggested.
Here is a pic of what she looks like so far:
(oh, the media bag had shrimp in it to restart the cycle, it has since been removed)
Thanks for looking!
I also won the Marco rock that is in it...lol... well a small part of the rock I won anyway. The rock had been cycling for a long while, but by the time I finally got it to look the way I wanted, I'd managed to undo all of the benefits of pre-cycling the rock.
The sand is new and was seeded with 1/2 cup of sand from my 120g tank. I plan to use the stock filter that came with the tank although I switched out the ceramic media insert and added carbon there instead. If necessary in the future I will put 1/2 carbon and 1/2 GFO in there. The plan is to maintain the tank strictly through water changes and a low bio-load (like I have a choice with a 6g tank..lol). There is a heater hidden behind the rocks and I may add a nano Koralia after I see what the flow is like with the corals added.
The tank be monitored by an ACJr controller. The room has A/C to benefit all of the tanks (and me
) in the warmer months.The stock light is still on there and will probably support low level coral, though at some point I will likely get something stronger - or at least with some blue in it - from Wingo. I'm not looking to go as far as a Par38 bulb as i think it would destroy the simple look I am going for.
All of the corals will come from my other tanks and the original plan was to do the tank with all pink corals, but I have a few others that I'd like to use in there. The mix will be mostly zoas, mushrooms and a small leather or 2 and a piece of my purple sponge.
I am really on the fence about livestock...I currently have 2 Percs that I would like to put into this tank. They are about a year old and only 1 1/2" long. Currently they reside in a 50G Tenecor AIO tank BUT they live in a tiny corner of the tank (there are 2 pair of percs in there, each living at opposite ends of the tank). The tank has 2 narrow 'alleys' at either end that are 1" wide X 6" long x 18 inches tall..and they only ever come to the very edge of their 'alley' to eat, so a 6G tank may seem like a mini ocean all their own.
I really want to take the 50g tank down but can't incorporate these fish into my other tanks as they both have clowns in them already..and I've had them since they were tiny, so I'd like to keep them.
Does anyone have a pair of percs in a tank this small that have thrived? I know 20G is suggested.
Here is a pic of what she looks like so far:
(oh, the media bag had shrimp in it to restart the cycle, it has since been removed)
Thanks for looking!
