Tygibson Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Hello I'm new to the salt water hobby and have a marineland contour 5 set up. I've tried looking for pictures of any contour 5 nano reefs but there isn't very many so I figured I'd post mine and see if anyone has any advise or feedback? And maybe others with the same tank can post some pictures of their set up 1 Quote Link to comment
Simulated Fish Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I know the shape makes it difficult to scape in so that makes it less popular. Your tower scape looks awesome though! What have you stocked it with so far, age of tank? DETAILS! lol to nano reef @Tygibson Quote Link to comment
Tygibson Posted May 14, 2017 Author Share Posted May 14, 2017 Thank you! And right now I have a small black and white clownfish, 3 hermit crabs, two mushroom corals, a small Kenya tree, two bubble tip anemones, and a couple heads of hammer corals. the tank is about 4 months old now, I bought it about a month ago from the fish store and they had already had it set up and established for about 3 months before I bought it. I swapped the original lighting with the fluval sea full spectrum nano LED. When I first purchased the tank it just had a plain white piece of live rock so I swapped it out for the nice rock I have now and I just got the corals a couple days ago Quote Link to comment
Simulated Fish Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 That's quite the colony, I love LPS Quote Link to comment
Tygibson Posted May 14, 2017 Author Share Posted May 14, 2017 I am wondering if i should take out the barnacles and the one smaller piece of live rock at the back of the tank because they take up so much room and it will be hard to clean the gravel when I'm cleaning the tank. Do you think the tank would need those or do you think I would be okay to take them out? Quote Link to comment
Simulated Fish Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 You have plenty of rock in the tank, removing them would be fine. Barnacle is a good hiding spot for fish though. Quote Link to comment
Tygibson Posted May 14, 2017 Author Share Posted May 14, 2017 Alright cool, thank you. And about the barnacle, yeah that is a good point but my clown hasn't even went near them yet so that's why I was thinking about taking them out Quote Link to comment
Clown79 Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 You can take the barnacles out. The clown will probably never be interested. Nice looking tank btw Quote Link to comment
Tygibson Posted May 15, 2017 Author Share Posted May 15, 2017 I took them out and I think it looks a little less cluttered. and thank you! 2 Quote Link to comment
andrewmedic08 Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Did you guys change? Filter, light and pump thinking of building one Quote Link to comment
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