Jarred Darque
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ok. I am about to turn my FW 5 gallon into a SW tank. I am looking for a lighting upgrade right now (BTW< it is a 5 gallon hex tank) The filtration isnt the best, but I will be supplementing with power heads (I am prolly gonna run two small power heads and position them to have a circular current flow horizontally aorund the tank). I am looking at aobut 2 inches of live sand, and about 7.5-10 lbs of live rock. this enough or need I go with more?
Probably a cleaner shrimp and some turbo snails, is there any type of fish I can put in there? Most of the ones I have seen at liveaquaria.com where about 3 inches in length minimum and they said 10 gallon tank, however, I know for FW, tehy overrate the min tank size normally.
One of the fish I would like is a cardinal fish, but live aquaria says this 3 inch fish needs a 30 gallon tank..for a 3 inch fish? but I can udnerstand a 5 being too small though.
there are some cool looking 1 and 2 inch fish that liveaquaria lists as a 10 gal min, but I was wondering if a 5 would be ok if properly maintained?
example http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=181
A protein skimmer is out of the quistion on this tank cause of the hood set-up
Probably a cleaner shrimp and some turbo snails, is there any type of fish I can put in there? Most of the ones I have seen at liveaquaria.com where about 3 inches in length minimum and they said 10 gallon tank, however, I know for FW, tehy overrate the min tank size normally.
One of the fish I would like is a cardinal fish, but live aquaria says this 3 inch fish needs a 30 gallon tank..for a 3 inch fish? but I can udnerstand a 5 being too small though.
there are some cool looking 1 and 2 inch fish that liveaquaria lists as a 10 gal min, but I was wondering if a 5 would be ok if properly maintained?
example http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=181
A protein skimmer is out of the quistion on this tank cause of the hood set-up