7 gallon nano reef

[discretekarma]

Right now I have a 180 reef set up with a sump and mag 24. I also have an empty 7 gallon eclipse hex and wanted to know if I could plumb the 7 gallon in to my other system and have several clowns, anemone's, a few small pieces of live rock. I planned to just drill the back of the eclipse and run an overflow to the 180's sump and then just split off the return line from the mag 24 back to the nano.

 

Thoughts? Ideas?

 

Thanks so much.

[davelin315]

I would say that "several" is too many for a 7 gallon. I would just use it as a refugium or dedicate it to VERY small fish. It's a lot to ask of a fish to live in a 7 gallon aquarium, especially if it's more than one, maybe 2. Gobies are probably your best candidates or perhaps tiny ocellaris clowns.

[Grav]

My suggestion on having a nano is to set it up as an independant system. Sure plumbing it into a larger system seems easier (water stability, filtration...) but to me the kick of a nano is making it work. You learn stuff too.

[discretekarma]

Would it work to put 1 or 2 small pieces of live rock and a pair of tiny ocellaris clowns? Would a small BTA be ok in there or no way?

 

 

 

 

I would say that "several" is too many for a 7 gallon. I would just use it as a refugium or dedicate it to VERY small fish. It's a lot to ask of a fish to live in a 7 gallon aquarium, especially if it's more than one, maybe 2. Gobies are probably your best candidates or perhaps tiny ocellaris clowns.

[discretekarma]

You can delete this. I didn't realize that there is pretty much the EXACT same post on New to the hobby. EXACT.

 

http://www.wamas.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15272

 

Sorry and Thanks.

[Grav]

Not EXACT, yer not getting my clever wit in that old post!!

 

I had a 6 gal Nanao with minimal filtration that was able to keep 2 clowns for years. The lighting was a bit low for a BTA (as was the space) but I was able to keep low light corals. Depending on what you put on top of it and how you keep it cool... anything is possible.

 

I had a Rose BTA in my 9g Nano Wave for a while and it did fine, but I decided to go almost totally Zoa.