5 gal micro reef

mark-24

mark-24

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I know, I know, I'm crazy, but I'd love to give it a try. In an earlier post I said that I have a small 5 gallon acrylic flat back hex tank with a little whisper filter good for 10 gallons. But the problem of lighting comes in, so I'm thinking about a SeaLight by CSL it's 8.5"x4.5"x2" (I have limited space), 27watts, 6700K, and is $60. I know that it is a bit pricey, but I then told my dad "Well we could setup a 55 gallon reef tank, but we'd have to buy the tank, the stand, hood, PC/VHO/MH lighting, either an awsome skimmer or a refugium, water, ls, lr, and then all the livestock." So I think he likes the idea.
Currently all I have in there is about 4lbs of ls (want to get more), alot of small piece of lr (want more), 4 pepperment shrimp, a ton of small feather dusters, alot caulerpa algea, and a small sea cuke. Right now, I'm just thinking about some 'shrooms and polyps. So what do you think? What corals would work under 27watts in a 5 gallon tank that are pretty peaceful?
-Mark
 
artskoi

artskoi

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I have a 6 gal. Eclipse tank set up with live sand and LR.I fixed the built in filter so the water flows through a little foam for mechanical then through Cel-Por block then through a Bio-Wheel.Working good.I would stick with just soft corals.Polyps,mushrooms,colt coral,Ricordia,cauliflower coral or finger leather.That should be enough choices for a 5 gal
 
iceburg98

iceburg98

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I've got a 7 gal reef
currently with:
various mushrooms
various polyps
Pulsating Xenia
Torch coral (newly added)
trumpet coral
3 astrea snails
porcelin crab
catallina (blue stripe) goby
citron goby (newly added)
10ish lbs or LR
15ish lbs(3") LS
Everything's doing great and the corals are growing like crazy (fortunately my LFS will let me bring in pieces for credit)
I've got a 27 watt 50/50 blue/10kk white - so there ya go... :D
 
iceburg98

iceburg98

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oh yeah - the only mechanical filtration i use if filter floss - i let the rock and sand take care of everything else (and weekly water changes)
 
car guy

car guy

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you cna put almost anything with 5 watt per gal. except for clams, and your tank is too small, some acrapora,leathers,shrooms, and polyps would all do well
 
iceburg98

iceburg98

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delphin - your tank looks nice.
I don't have any pictures as of yet, but i plan to get some soon. I had an evil crab that killed two of my fish, so i'm just waiting for some of the algae to clear up from that (had a small ammo/trite/trate spike - fortunately everything else survived)
Maybe i'll just go in and try to clean some of it up -lol
Do you already need to have the pics online to post them? I'm not too sure how that works on this BB.
 
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