Marineland Contour 3 Pico Reef

[booth2010]

Hello everyone, it has been over a year since I have really been active on here. Bought a foreclosed house last April which took a lot of my money and time and my son was born last July which took the rest of my time and money lol.

I have decided to set up a pico tank on my desk at work and I think I am going with a Marineland Contour 3 tank. I will be upgrading the light to an A80 Tuna Blue Nano by Kessil. I don't plan on upgrading the pump unless it dies.

My question at this point is: if I have 1" of live sand and 3-5 lbs of live rock in the display, what should I put in the back chamber? I was thinking just filter floss and maybe chaeto or live rock rubble.

For livestock I was thinking:

Yellow clown goby
Dwarf feather duster
Taro Tree Coral
Maybe a small rock of some sort of polyp or the green grass looking coral who's name escapes me
And last but not least the smallest CUC package from reefcleaners.

I will more than likely start a build thread once I start. Thanks in advance for the help and ideas.

Edit: Change of plans! The height of the Marineland Contour 5 without the stand is 14" so I will be going with that one. Woo 2 extra gallons lol

 

[brett_schn]

The grass looking thing is green star polyp (gsp)

 

[LetItReef]

I have the 5g. The chamber is narrow. Rubble rocks will work. I used to have one stalk of Mangrove.
I have media sponge in there now.

 

[booth2010]

GSP that's it! Thanks.

That's what I figured, does the water flow into the chamber from the top? I saw on another forum someone mentioned the intake was on the bottom which made no sense to me.

 

[Tuffyyyyy]

Rubble in the back chamber might be the easiest. That or filter floss. Adding cheato will add a whole new thing you have to worry about.