Experimental Tank!

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Hiya!

I've decided the best way to see if I can cope with the salt water world is to try it so...I have a nano-tank set up happily since October. It's 3.5 UK gallons...well I did say small!!!
It contains four kilos of live rock and about a centimetre depth of live sand. There are all sorts living in it! Two tiny snails (still not sure what sp.) came in with the live rock and growing remarkably well and my ammonia/nitrite and nitrate levels are all a happy 0.
My big question is...can I keep any corals in the tank???
My next question (and very cheeky) is does anybody have an fragging's they don't want that they might be willing to send me as I'd like to 'grow' my little tank for interests' sake more than anything.

Thank you in advance for any replies. :good:
 
Hiya!

I've decided the best way to see if I can cope with the salt water world is to try it so...I have a nano-tank set up happily since October. It's 3.5 UK gallons...well I did say small!!!
It contains four kilos of live rock and about a centimetre depth of live sand. There are all sorts living in it! Two tiny snails (still not sure what sp.) came in with the live rock and growing remarkably well and my ammonia/nitrite and nitrate levels are all a happy 0.
My big question is...can I keep any corals in the tank???
My next question (and very cheeky) is does anybody have an fragging's they don't want that they might be willing to send me as I'd like to 'grow' my little tank for interests' sake more than anything.

Thank you in advance for any replies. :good:


Yes, you can keep coral in it. My first and only sw tank is a pico just like yours, except 3 gallons less than that.

Edit: find the right light and you can grow some softies. I rarely use my light now though because i just give it natural sunlight. It makes your tank look all orange and yellow, but its better for the coral.
 
Corals don't move so you can keep practically any coral in there with the right attention to light and water changes. Plus keeping them trimmed.
 
depends on what corals lynden, there is this type of coral that moves, read about it some fishkeeping magazine, fungiids or something....
 
Heh yup, and although often listed as "corals", mushrooms are actually a type of hardy anemone and thus are mobile as well ;)
 
Sorry to pick your ass Ski but mushrooms are under the class Zoantharia and order Corallimorpharia, and are thus not true anemones.
 
Thanks for the replies...so 'shrooms are mobile?

Anyone feeling generous and willing to send me some bits?? :rolleyes: They're almost certain to die on me... :blush:
 
I kept three shrooms for a year...they birthed some three other shrooms that didnt go much further from their parents. Maybe a cm. I've kept a rock with about 40 shrooms on it for about 4 months. So far about 4 of them have packed up and moved. All within 5 or so inches from the colony. Wouldnt expect them to stray too far into other corals.
 

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