Starting my 3 gallon soon

[Curve]

Okay so I've been wanting to do this for a while and I almost have everything together. I bought the tom aquatics 3 gallon with the 80 gph filter. 3lbs. of live sand and 3 lbs of rock. I am putting together a led fixture thats dimmable with 8 leds. I should be about to support any life I want with 24 watts of leds on this tank. I can't wait to get it going. What should I stock it with?

 

[teddyzaper]

a cleaner shrimp and a seahorse. Add some branch liverock and a bunch of zoas!

 

[ange062]

I've got 19w of LED over my 3g and it's insanely bright. 24w will be more than enough to grow anything you want, just have to be very careful about bleaching!!

I plan to stock a small goby, small shrimp, and mixed zoas. I setup my tank about 1.5-mo ago but have yet to add anything.

 

[Curve]

Im using already cycled water rock and sand so I will be able to start stocking almost imediately. Im pulling water from my 210. I figured it would be to bright so I bought dimable ballast so I can turn it as low as I need to

 

[ange062]

I used cycled rock/sand in mine when I started also. Managed to kill a fireshrimp and a clown a couple of days after adding them about a week after starting my tank. Got to be careful with these pico's, they are way more sensitive then bigger tanks. Just from IME, I wouldn't start stocking for a couple of weeks at least.

 

[Curve]

i figured 2 weeks to be safe. I dont rush into anything anymore my last tank took 2 months to cycle for some reason so Im very aware.

 

[Curve]

water sand rocks and cuc are in and going

 

[reefernutz]

Doing an exotic zoa tank would be awesome.

 

[Curve]

Got my leds in this morning and Im gonna build the fixture this weekend. Ill start posting pictures then.