my six gallon

[forestal]

Hi all.

 

wanted to share my new 6 gallon eclipse nano tank. It's been up only a short while.

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/invert 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 corallife 4x9 watt 50/50,

 

8 pounds of live rock (fiji), very porous with good coralline, lots of tube worms. 5 more pounds from seacrop.

 

bare bottom (my first) trying it out.

 

a couple of frags from my growout rack, xenia, some mushrooms, zo's, tubipora, clavularia, and gorgonian. Small piece of halimeda and some chaeto are in the tank, along with 1 redlegged hermit, 1 bluelegged, 2 trochus, 3 nassarius, 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/di

 

water changes 50-75%/week (no fuge/sump)

up 3 weeks now, starting with small diatom bloom but otherwise so far so good

 

Full Tank Shot: (before backing and additional live rock)

after backing and liverock addition