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    Posted: April 11 2010 at 9:21pm
I recently sold my 20 gallon tank and gave my corals, sand, rock etc to some relatives.

Already I'm going into withdrawals!  I'd like to do an easy micro.  Something I could move to another spot in the house if need be.  Here is my plan:

Marineland Eclipse System 3(three Gallon) using the included filter and lighting for now.
Hydor 2 to 5 gallon Heater
I can easily get some of my LR and sand back from my relatives.

I'd top off the evaporation with kalkwasser(pickling lime) and every week or two do a quart water change.

The plan is to have this be shrimp and crab tank.  Maybe a cleaner shrimp and arrow crab and of course a few cleaning crew members.  I may do one royal gramma as an only fish, I'll see how it goes.

In the future I was thinking of adding a Rio mini sun led  light to the setup.  Anyone have any experiance with these?

Am I nuts?  Any input or suggestions are appreciated.

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I have a three gallon shrimp and crab tank! I think you'd be better off going with smaller inverts - arrow crabs can get pretty big, same with cleaner shrimp. I did sexy shrimp, porcelain crabs, and a clown goby.

Also I would say that the 3 gallon is the hardest tank I have to keep good looking. It can fluctuate so much in a such a short period of time.
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if you step it up to the 5 gallon you will be doing a lot better. plus a bit more volume. you should get a powerhead as well. atleast if you go with the 5 gallon, the custom fitted filter hits 65 gph so it depends on what you want to get gph wise
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Thanks for the replies so far.  I'd love to go the 5 gallon route since it costs the same as the 3 gallon, but if the tank and hood dimensions given are correct, it is to tall to fit on the dining area countertop where we plan on putting it.  I only have about 14.5 inches of height to work with.

Jwoo, can you give me some more details on your tank?  Lighting , filters, etc a pic or two would be sweet as well.  By your phrase "hardest to keep looking good" do you mean you had no issues keeping livestock just hair algae issues?


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