Hi!
I am planning on building a small 3g SW tank.
Livestock planned so far is:
1 tiger pistol shrimp and a small goby to pair with
Corals when time comes ;)
So I tought of 2 things:
1: 3 gallon with a modded AC50 or 70 that will house a small fuge and heater (possibly carbon if needed).
OR
2: 3 gallon (or a little bigger...lets say 5gallon that I will split and create an overflow area with surface skimming (plexiglass sheet with teeths on the top. Where the fuge, heater, carbon and posibly a nano skimmer. All this hidden behind the black plexiglass wall. I could an small maxi jet (i think of a 400) as a return pump with this design. Ill end the line with a flexible loc-line style nozzle for better flow control.
What setup would you choose?
Any idea for the lighting? Id like to put some SPS in there at some point so i want pretty strong lighting!
thanks
al
what i learned with my daughters pico is.... filtration / water changes, lots of WC's..
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i thought that a singe AC30 modded to fuge would be fine, --- WRONG.
i thought adding a second AC30 with sponges and carbon would be fine, --- ehh, still had dead spots.
i thought by adding a small AC10 power head for more flow, would do it, ---- ehh, i still want more.
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i would measure the size of the tank and add the LARGEST size of HOB filter u can find. and even add a small submersible pump.
--gotta put the little one to bed, ill drop some more info a bit later man.
put an mp40 on it boys......will solve everything
I used to have a 5 gal nano used a skimmer and a koralia nano for lighting I had a 65w pc on it, had no probs keeping sps because the tank was so small I did 80% wc every 2 weeks
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