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Acropora Reef Possibilities?

April 26, 2017acropora Possibilities Reef

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Acropora Reef Possibilities?

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Hey Everybody, 🙂 I’ve been toying around with the idea of setting up a micro-reef in a spare 5.5 gallon tank I’ve had laying around for awhile. I had a very successful set up for about a year with a 5.5 gallon tank housing a single blue damsel, a Firefish dart goby, some mushrooms and a bunch of Halimeda that I harvested regularly for nutrient export. I was surprised at the diversity in such a small system, in the likes of sponges, worms, amphipods, snails, small brittle stars, etc. I eventually tore the system down and moved the Firefish to my main 75 gallon mixed reef and sold the damsel back to the LFS. The tank has been laying idle for awhile (after a brief stint as a freshwater fancy tailed guppy tank on my desk) and I have decided to finally try another micro-reef. My LFS has a small compact fluorescent fixture for 5.5 gallon hoods that is 10 watts at 6500K (comparable to 30 or something like that in incandescent lighting) which I was thinking about getting two of. I wo