3 Gallon Nano

[Mark Toub]

Two of my fellow reef enthusiasts at work convinced me to turn my fresh water desk top Eclipse 3 tank into a Nano Reef tank.
It is a collaborative effort between the three of us.

We all have Reef Tanks at home but we have no experience with a nano reef this small.

So far we have:

2 inch sand base
4 pounds of Live Rock (with misc. hitchhikers from my home tank)
1 Blue leg Hermit
4 Small Mushrooms (Various colors)
1 Small Long Tentacle Toadstool
2 Cerith Snails
2 Spaghetti worms
A small bunch of caulerpa
A frag of pulsing Xenia

I am changing out a Gallon of water a least once a week (with water from my home tank)

I had a Yellow Tail Damsel, but he kept stirring up the sand, which jammed the impeller for the filter over the weekend. The tank went without filtration or circulation for at least 24 hours.
The only inhabitant that is showing any sign of stress is the Xenia but I'm holding out hope.

I hope to add a small clown in the near future.

I'm open to ideas.

Any comments or Ideas?

 

[ywszeto]

Did you modify the lighting at all? I currently have a 5 gallon eclipse that houses 2 percula clowns, a sally lightfoot crab, an arrow crab, a cleaner shrimp, a sea urchin, a chocolate chip starfish, a scarlet hermit crab, and a green brittle starfish. I have transferred a few stalks of xenia from my 75 gallon reef into the eclipse tank. The xenia seem to be doing well. They adhered to the two pieces of live rocks I have in the tank.