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Put in the sand today! free of hitch hikers, hopefully.

 

best to get the largest tank possible when first starting out, and led's over that tank are far from what you say irrational. it actually would make more sense to go led's because it is cheap for such a small tank, i have a panorama module over my 5 gallon tank and i can grow anything. you could get a little off brand led strip light and grow plenty of soft coral and save loads on bills.

im sure you have already decided to ditch the clowns and the nem but ill just say again you couldnt really even keep one in that small of a tank. you could maybe do a pair of clown gobies or something. as corrailine said i would start with very simple corals to begin with.

also an anemone will not fit in that tank unless its a mini maxi. and if they die your tank is pretty much gone as in a small tank like that theres no coming back from that. no room for error in the pico tank biz.

 

okay so I'm getting a frogspawn frag this week! I need some help putting it in. Here's a pic of my tank, with the sand in. Where should it go?!

 

I have a 5g with an AC70 and koralia nano, its been running since September. It's got LED lighting. I love it but definitely glad it isn't what I started the hobby with... No fish, 3 sexy shrimp, 2 snails, 2 hermits and various coral. Good luck. Keep up with the topoffs, the amount if topoffs still amazes me although its a small tank.

 

Cool! I'll take a look at yours!

 

New development: There's a vermitid (sp?) snail on some of my live rock, should it stay, or go?

 

New!

Okay I bought 2 baby hermit crabs, and they're goin' to town on the algae in my tank. A friend of mine gave me 3 frogspawn frags, and a candycane frag (I think that's what it's called anyway). Check em out!

 

Not sure if anyone is following (or cares), but i got an astrea snail! I'm getting a handful more this week, very cool looking creatures. I'm seriously considering going all invert, these little guys are cool!

 

Congrats on your new adds! Astrea snails are my favorites.

The best snails for that hair algae are turbo snails - they demolish that stuff in no time! For a 5 gallon you could have just one.

 

Well the Astrea i have in there now has a shell about the size of a quarter around. Should I get more or just get a Turbo and keep em both?