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Equipment
Live Rock and Sand
Fish
Snails
Crabs
Shrimp
Corals
Other Animals
Plants and Algae

Six Gallon Nano Reef Photos - on their own page.

My Nano Reef Blog - details about the entire process

The current inventory of this tank is below.

Equipment

• Six Gallon Nano Cube Reef Tank with single 18 W lamp
  
• Moonlight fix added 5/2/09 to the old hood which was fixed and put back on. From here
  
• Visitherm 25 W heater set to 75 degrees F
  
• Filter contains sponge, a mesh bag of carbon, and a small amount of RowaPhos in a mesh bag
  
• Maxi Jet 600, 160 gph pump added 6/19/09 to replace pump with which it came

This is where I got the tank:

Less than two weeks after I got the tank, the fans and fluorescent lights failed! Read Page 5 of my blog for details.

On 9/9/08, the replacement lid for the 6 gallon nano cube tank finally arrived! The mushroom coral was without light for 19 days! It took them 18 full days (11 business days) to ship what they said would take 7 to 10 days! It was not easy to get the lids switched out but I managed to do it. Now, I have to wait for algae to grow before getting any more animals and hope the lid does not fail again!

Live Rock and Sand

Added 8/6/08:
10 pound bag of Australian gold live sand
2 pounds of live rock - one 1 pound piece, one dead brain coral, one dead clam, and two smaller rocks moved from the 3 gallon tank

Added 8/12/08:
4.5 pound live rock

Fish

1 Brown clown goby added 2/1/09. Fireman is red.

Previously one Green clown goby added 9/27/08. I named him Larry. Larry died on 11/25/08. ;-(

Snails

2 Nassarius snails - added 8/12/08.

4 Astraea snails - added 9/27/08.

Crabs

Previously one Emerald mithrax crab - moved from the 3 gallon tank on 8/6/08. Grabby died on 12/12/08 for no apparent reason.

1 Unknown reef crab - moved from the 3 gallon tank on 8/6/08.

Shrimp

2 Peppermint shrimp added 8/5/10.

Previously two Sexy shrimp added 9/27/08. Dip is the male; Dot is the female. They vanished/died in June and July of 2010.

Corals

1 Mushroom coral - added 8/12/08.

1 Tiny yellow polyp that was on a rock that originally had two mushroom corals I had gotten (the mushrooms died but I moved the rock to the 3 gallon tank and then this 6 gallon tank when I discovered it had a polyp on it.). This did not survive.

On 10/4/08, two nano coral packs arrived. From those, I added the following 12 corals:
1 Green Ricordia mushroom
1 Orange and purple Ricordia mushroom
1 Brown/purple with white spots mushroom - have had many "babies"
1 Brown/purple with blue spots mushroom - have had many "babies"
1 Brown mushroom
1 Green mushroom - have had many "babies"
1 Purple mushroom
1 Green large polyps (three heads)
4 Small green zooanthid colonies on live rock

On 9/12/09, I added an arm of the green star polyps from the 12 gallon tank to the 6 gallon tank. On 12/12/09, I put in two tiny arms of the green star polyps from the 12 gallon.

Other Animals

1 Tube worm - feather duster-like worm that comes out of very long white tube on the dead clam.

Various small worms and bristleworms.

Fireworms - three removed so far; there may be more, at least one.

Some neat amphipod and isopods.

Plants and Algae

None yet aside from some diatoms and fuzzy short algae that came with the live rock from the 3 gallon tank. Some Caulerpa started growing on one of the rocks in late September.

Some green bubble algae (contaminant from the 12 gallon) and more rare red bubble algae later showed up.

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