Hi all.
wanted to share my new 6 gallon eclipse nano tank. It's been up only a short while. (water used from my reef, filter pads in the emperor were used for several weeks in my reef, as was rock, so after 3 days, no noticable nitrite/ammonia - )
Please feel free to offer criticism (constructive or otherwise).
This is the third nano i have setup (i took the others down to consolidate my tanks, but then had to restart one, just love the look)
Plan on just a softie tank
I have the tank turned backwards, so my emperor 400 can fit as a hang on filter and gives great water flow.
Lighting currently is a 2 corallife 2x9 watt 50/50; 36watts total - thinking upgrade to a 2x24watt from nanocustom.com, but i don't think i need with softies.
8 pounds of live rock (fiji), very porous with good coralline, lots of tube worms.
bare bottom (my first) trying it out.
a couple of frags from my growout rack, xenia, some mushrooms, clavularia, tubipora and gorgonian. Small piece of halimeda and some chaeto are in the tank, along with 1 redlegged hermit, 1 bluelegged hermit, 3 trochus and 1 nerite snail.
I plan on no fish, just inverts, relatively low bioload with frequent trimming of coral (once it is up and running well)
auto top off with minimal amount of kalkwasser/ro
Plan weekly 75%water changes, waiting a month first to let it settle in fully.
Full Tank Shot:
Clavuria:
Blue/Green shroom
Starting to split?
Clavularia & Green Tubipora sp. (closing up for the night, will try for a better shot):
Small tube worm, tons of em and tiny too (chaeto in foreground for scale):
Gorgonian frag (note upper new branch in 1 week in tank):
