The 3-L design has been successfully used to study the larviculture of the forktail blenny, Meiacanthus atrodorsalis and the Green Mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus) to settlement stages, and has been adopted for studies into the physiology and effects of climate change on larval Clown anemonefish, Amphiprion percula (McLeod et al., 2013; Table 1 ). This tank design was particularly effective when investigating early larval stages (0–10 days post hatch) of M. atrodorsalis to quantify the effect of rotifer density on larvae, and determining the age at which M. atrodorsalis larvae had the capacity to transition to larger prey, such as Artemia nauplii (Moorhead and Zeng, 2011 ). While obtaining accurate daily larval counts is difficult in larger tanks, the 3-L design is small enough and shallow enough to quickly count larvae with non-invasive visual