Blah still waiting for my protein skimmer and filter, I love living in the middle of nowhere.
So I'm slowly beginning to work out what I want the tank to look like, I'm going to snitch a few pieces of rubble from my reef tank, and add another 1.5kg of liverock from the bunch I have curing at the moment, which will be sued as decoration, there won't really be enough to act as a filter.
Tank will have a small skimmer which apparently can skim up to a 250l tank, I highly doubt it, but it should work for my little 65l tank, filter is the 950l/ph filter, but I'm still trying to decide what will be in the compartments. The filter has three separate compartments, one will def have carbon, one will have filter floss/sponge but I'm not sure what'll go in the third one. I'm not usre if i wnat to use phosphate remover, as if I get an urchin it will be eating the algae, phosphate remover will remove it's food....
The substrate will be straight river sand, which was already in the tank, I'm just gonna wash and boil it multiple times to remove any junk thats collected in it.
Stock I'm still not completely sure on but it'll be something like
2-3 small fish
3-5 hermit crabs
1 urchin (one of our local varieties which I'll collect myself, yes it is legal)
5 zebra top snails
5 black nerite snails
I'm also playing with the idea of getting a tunicate, but I'm not certain on their care yet...
So does all that sound good?