5 gallon budget friendly and upgradeable.
Aquarium Profile and Equipment
- What type of saltwater aquarium is this?
- Mixed Reef
- Total Water Volume
- 5
- When did you start this tank?
- Aug 7, 2025
- What is your aquarium made of?
- Glass
- Aquarium Length (inches)
- 16
- Aquarium Width (inches)
- 8.5
- Aquarium Height (inches)
- 11.2
- Aquarium Overflow/Drain
- All In One Tank
- Aquarium Sump
- NO Sump
- Aquarium Stand
- Night stand
- Aquarium Controller
- NO
- Protein Skimmer
- NO
- Aquarium Reactors
- None
- What types of equipment are you using for water flow and circulation?
- Wavemaker
- Water Flow and Circulation Equipment List
- Hygger hg-951
Built in filter with 55gph pump
Pawly-2202 filter
- Aquarium Lighting
- LED
- Lighting Equipment List
- Upgraded stock light to
Fluval marine nano 4.0
- Lighting PAR and Goals
- Near 400 on the upper level of rocks dropping off to high 200 range on the sand bed.
- Auto Top Off or ATO
- NO
- Aquarium Heating and Cooling
- I am using a heater or heaters
- Water Temperature
- 78
Aquarium Water Chemistry and Parameters
- pH Level
- 8.3
- Specific Gravity
- 1.026
- Alkalinity
- 9dKH
- Salt Brand
- Nyos pure
Aquarium Natural and Mechanical Filtration
- Substrate
- Other
- Substrate Level
- Other
- Live Rock
- 6
- Live Rock Type
- 5 lbs carib seas south seas dry rock
1 lbs of wet live rock from fish store
5 lbs hawaiian black
- Nutrient Export
- Macro Algae
- Carbon
- Water Changes
- YES
- Water Change Details
- .5 gallon twice a week until I know more of what the tank does when I do things.
Aquarium Tank Inhabitants (fish, coral, invert etc.)
- Fish List
- Goby
- Total Fish
- 1 yellow clown goby
- Coral List
- SPS Coral
- LPS Coral
- Soft Coral
- Total Corals
- 3
- Invert List
- Crabs
- Snails
- Total Inverts
- 9
- Livestock Detail
- 2 nerite
1 trochus
2 nessarius
2 emeralds
2 blue legs
Corals:
Blue light torch
Green tip orange birdsnest
Toadstool leather
- Livestock Quarantine
- No Quarantine
- Favorite Coral
- Birdsnest
- Favorite Invert
- Emerald
Aquarium Nutrition (fish, coral, invert etc. feeding)
- Fish Feeding Frequency
- One Daily Feeding
- Coral Feeding Frequency
- A Few Times Weekly
- Fish and Coral Feeding
- Pellet
- Frozen
- Other
- What brands of foods are you feeding?
- Emerald entree
Coral max
Omega one marine pellets
- Auto Feeder
- NO
