Starting up my Fluval Edge 6 Gallon Tank :)
- Thread starter Mike Phan
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Just got some Coral LEDs to upgrade the light fixture in the tank.
going to add
2x strips of 445 nm Blue
2x strips of 420 nm UV Purple
2x strips of 10000K White
2x strips of 14000K White
All going to be mounted in the underside of the cover. Let see if that might be too much light or not. Can't wait until i get it by Friday i hope.
going to add
2x strips of 445 nm Blue
2x strips of 420 nm UV Purple
2x strips of 10000K White
2x strips of 14000K White
All going to be mounted in the underside of the cover. Let see if that might be too much light or not. Can't wait until i get it by Friday i hope.
puffermike
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These setups are always very sharp looking. Nice work mate!
puffermike
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It would be awesome if we could get some work in progress - do it yourself lighting pics for this. I've always been interested in starting one of these tanks.
I'm thinking of a clown fish a bubble anemone. The tank is too small to add too much stuff in there. Also thinking of a Mandarin. Currently my live rocks has a bunch of pods in there and I'm letting them multiplying right now before i add fish.
I also have some Polyps and Kenya Tree that i will be putting in there. I will have to see what i can put in there without crowding the fishes.
I will post up some pictures when the light strips comes in. I will surely post some DIY pics for it
I'm actually going to connect the LED Strips to a dimmer control just in case it is too bright. Currently the stock LED that is in the tank is too weak to supply lighting to the whole tank.
Sean99
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Did you say a Mandarin fish? If you did I would defiantly strongly advise you not to get one for a six gallon tank because those fish are very picky feeders. They usually eat only pods and they need a lot of them, I would not recommend it for such a small tank as there isn't going to be enough food for them to eat, so basically they will slowly starve to death. I know you said that you are waiting for pods in your tank to multiply, but sadly there will still not be enough food for a Mandarin, all of the pods would most likely be gone in a couple days. Unless you can manage to target feed them some food, which is almost impossible, but it's still possible. You can still get the fish if you'd like but I just wanted to warn you first.
thanks for the advise, i actually also have a 72 gallon bow front with a sump. in my sump i also have pods growing in a the sump. i was thinking of grab a bunch of them twice a week and dump them in my 6 gallon. Do you think that should be ok? if he's not plump within a couple of week i can always throw him in my 72 gallon which has a bunch of pods flowing through the sump. 72 gallon been running for 3 years
if you still think it's a bad idea, then i will take it into consideration and not add it.as long as my 72 gallon
which is only 3 years. I was into fresh water before that. I still have my 36 gallon cichlid tank (which they breed like crazy) i use their babies to trade for fish food at the lfs. They are nice cichlids also. 2 albino and 2 convics
Sean99
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The smallest tank I'd recommend for a mandarin is 50 gallons but other people have been successful with smaller tanks. I've never had any cichlids before though, although I'm not sure why. I used to have freshwater too when I first started keeping fish, Then when I gained experience I went with saltwater as I found it to be more diverse. The most important thing I've learned I'm my four years of reef keeping is patience, even if you think you've waited long enough for something, wait another week just to be safe. My first reef tank I had on my own was when I was 11, and you wouldn't believe the amount of reading I had to do in order to convince my parents to let me get saltwater. That was just over four years ago and I still learn so many new things about everything in the tank. It's sort of like you think you know everything there is to know about your tank, then something amazing happens that you never knew about.
Got my Fluval Sea LED's and it looks a lot better. I was going to mount the LED in the Hood but the Filter is in the way so i took the hook off and use the arm that came with the LED's looks good. I'll figure a way our later if i want to mount the LED in the hood at a later time. all my corals seems to like the LED better and my Clowns are loving the tank also. I have a little yellow watchman goby also in the tank. He loves to hide but he's actually out today taking a picture, you can see him on the lower right hand corner. I'm going to wait a little longer to add a bta in there for the clowns.
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