Ideas for 5 Gallon Nano Tank?

[MysticSea]

I have a 5 gallon nano tank that has been established for almost 3 years and my of my corals are slow growing. So before they expand more I wanted to know anyones thoughts on how you would design for such a small set-up? I don't have a certain aquascape yet it looks like a mini reef patch. If your interested of my corals I have:
-Blue Sympodium
-Green Star Polyp
-Red Pulsing Xenia
-Variety of Mushroom corals
-Hammer Coral (this one is my center piece coral)
-Gold Leptastrea
-Blue and Green Montipora

I have a few others but these are my main ones. Keep in mind that most of them are the size of frag plugs and those that grow a certain size or frag from main colony I give or sell.

 

[andrewey]

Do you have a picture of the current set up? You'll have to trim the monti (and remove/export the xenia/GSPas it grows), although if it's stayed small after three years, I'm not sure that warning is directly applicable to you.

 

[ecexotics]

i love your selection , definitely would stay away from the more aggressive corals like torches and chalices and favias, because it will become very beautifully crowded very quickly and the last thing you want to see in your prized tank is coral warfare. i hope it goes well! i'll have to send a free zoa frag once it's set up !

 

[MysticSea]

Do you have a picture of the current set up? You'll have to trim the monti (and remove/export the xenia/GSPas it grows), although if it's stayed small after three years, I'm not sure that warning is directly applicable to you.

Thanks and yes I have given about 4 frag peices of my GSP and the red pulsing xenia is so slow that I have only gotten one frag to sell. Now it looks like it will split into three so figures crossed.

 

[MysticSea]

i love your selection , definitely would stay away from the more aggressive corals like torches and chalices and favias, because it will become very beautifully crowded very quickly and the last thing you want to see in your prized tank is coral warfare. i hope it goes well! i'll have to send a free zoa frag once it's set up !

Thank you I have a chalice that has the orange eyes and green body with some blue edge and its definitely a bit fast than some of my others. haha

 

[MysticSea]

Do you have a picture of the current set up? You'll have to trim the monti (and remove/export the xenia/GSPas it grows), although if it's stayed small after three years, I'm not sure that warning is directly applicable to you.

Here is the current set-up.

 

[andrewey]

So here's one idea you can play around with- make two structures. The first would cluster the four big pieces of rock on the left into one tower with the frogspawn up front. You'd have to bring the chalice down, but it would give some height to the left cluster. The right structure would use the mushroom rocks in the back right, the xenia rock up front, and the arch would either be on the top or to the side. Overall, this would give you a bit more negative space in the tank, draw your eye up a bit to make the tank seem larger, and create areas with a bit more shadow to add depth. This would also increase the height of the monti to try and give it some more light while leaving the euphylia closer to the substrate for slightly lower light/flow.