What to put in a small Eclipse tank...

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MattP725

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My gf has a 5 or 6g eclipse tank that I bought her years ago and I was thinking of a small setup for our room. I don't want to buy more equipment so it would have to be something that could do without a skimmer. What should I get? I was thinking possibly an invert tank? Opinions?
 
i agree, esp if you dont watn to have to run a skimmer, but you could put some pretty cool shrimps or lowlight soft corals in there and it would look nice.
 
I have a eclipse 12 and I have some base rock in it... pretty dead though. abotu a ince sand bed, heater, Rio 50 powerhead and 2 damsels. With some herlits and snails...

I do weekly 2 gallon water changes and everyone is WAY happy. I took out the floss top filter and replaced it with fluval cerimac cylenders...
 
oceanrider.com, they are pretty high matinence- ex the usually require live mysis shrimp as food, but they are really fascinating. hippocampus zosteri is the kind your lookin for, those are the dwarfs.
 
ok i have a small one gallon tank that isn't in use right now could i set that up as a salt water for this one - http://oceanrider.com/seahorsesdetail.asp?Variety_ID=7 and if i were to put in like 2 pounds of lr and 2 pounds of ls would that be enough? and if i get another tank like this could i set it up the same way but rase the food, small brine shrimp and Vibrance? would i need special lighting?
 
Shrimp goby + pistol shrimp are neat to have because of their symbiont relationships they form. They would be a very light bio-load also
 
Lots of shrimp gobies are small. A popular shrimp goby is the Hi Fin Goby(Stonogobiops nematodes) and it's adult size is around 2". Another goby that I like is the Yasha Hashe (Stonogobiops yasha). Here is a brief article of these two goby I just mentioned.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-01/hcs3/index.htm.

Having a species dedicated tank for these guys are cool because these goby can be shy at times.
 
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