Oh Dear What Can The Nano Be?

[trev]

ive had my little nano for a couple of years but i've never really made it inot anything good to grace the hallway.
so after a few lagae blooms i stripped it down and will be putting the LR back in soon. but i cna't decide waht else to put ion there in the way of corals, fish and other inverts.

tank spec is: 9 galls. 150W 20k halide, mj500 circulation, fuge/sump/alage lit during night.

i did try sps frags from my main tank but they didn't last very long, not sure why, cos they were fine in the main system.

picture to follow.

[shaun2]

maybe they were on simmer with the halide.

[trev]

no temp hasn't been a problem, it stays quite low cos the hall is away form any direct sunlight, infact it never gets any light ecept for the great big blue halide!!!!

forgot to say soz about the poor piccy, this is how the tank looks now with no rock just sand.

[ThomJ]

Hello, Ive got a small tank 24 x 15 x 15. Mines got a 150 watt halide aswell, Ive currently got a very large gren brain coral as my focal piece, with the rest of the tank space filled with bright green euphyllia colonies. Looks wicked with just the actinic light!!!!
What about having one large coral, maybe a large blue acro with a small group of yellow gobies living in the branches...
Or maybe a lovely medium clam with a small group of neon gobies.
Or Pulsing zenia with a colony of sexy shrimps and pair of blue striped pipefish.
Personally I love nano tanks, I think they look best when you set them up as species tanks rather than miniature coral reefs..
HTH Tom ;)

[trev]

i vowed never to buy a brain or plate coral, but might consider it. lfs has a load of gold neons in but they want £15 a time, i only paid 6 last time i bought some.

thanks for the ideas, keep em comming.

[ThomJ]

What about placing a piece of braching live rock in the tank and attach a few small colonies of green zenia and add a group of 4 blue neon gobies. Maybe a small clam to help with nutrient removal. After a few months of feeding the live rock will become a lovely green "tree" of swaying polyps!
Humm all this talk is tempting me to start another tank!!! :D Tom

[trev]

great ideas, well after a few cans of wife beatert last night started to put the old live rock back in, so only time will tell what i do with it. been thinking about growing a star tree, would sell like hot cakes!!!

thanks again tom

[SCOOB]

a pair of red sea horses and some sea whips.ooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhh :wub:

[trev]

very nice, but unfortunately the chances of me finding some at all even half dead ones round here are practically none.
i think i gona go for a calm on the bottom, then green shrooms, with probably some frags from my other tanks on the upper section.
im in the middle of stickin the rocks together so will take a piccy when im done.
cheers