Well I thought the pico owners should have thier own thread. Please list equipment, FTS, when started and location. Pico is sub 5 gallon.

Here is mine.

Started March, 2008 and located on my desk at work

Current Dual Satellite 36Watt
Rio Nano Skimmer
Rio 50 PowerHead
DIY Battery Powered ATO

Bonsai's Picotope

Born June 2nd, 2008 and resides in my office, on my desk, at work.

I am running:

• Current USA 2x18Watt Satellite
• Custom Glass Lid
• AquaClear 70 Refugium mod with AC20 impeller
• Tahitian Moon Sand

Current inhabitants include: 2 Trochus snails, a couple zoa frags, GSP island, Ricordia Rock, and various other little frags.



Thanks for looking!

Welcome to Club Picotope Member number 002

woooo bonsai you know I love that tank

Custom built 2.8g tank
70w mh (20k ushio bulb)
koralia nano + AC20 with chaeto
cheap'o heater
nimble should be here soon

this is a pic from right after things were just added
started june 2008

That tank is too cool not to let in. Welcome to club picotope. Matty is member 003

Steve

so is this a club for sub 5 gallon tanks or for the JBJ item called "The Picotope"... I'm confused...

OK fixed the thread to be all PICO's under 5 gallons. have at it guys.

Steve

dang! cant join cause mine is just over by a gallon...

take a gallon out and take some pics.

Steve

3g with built in sump

This is a old picture but i only changed the aquascape, has a small CuC and porites hitchiker.

ha! wish i could but i have my now happy toadstool pretty high up. it took about 3 weeks for it to open...

Welcome to the Pico Club. Nano-Nater is officially member number 004. Nice clean tank.

Here's mine:

Started about January 2008

1.6 gallon custom acrylic cube
5 gallon HD bucket sump/fuge
Quiet One 1200 pump (sump)
Tetra 50W heater (sump)
Custom 64W LED lighting

Nice Zoas

Welcome to Club Pico evil. You are Member number 005

I'll add mine..its on its way out tho...getting a 3g bow today, also making a 5g sump.

this one...2gallon hex
no filter, no heater...
10watt coralife 50/50.
one little powerhead.
snail.
hermit.
zoas
gsp
and one head of frogspawn
all fraged from my 10g

Welcome to Club Pico Wrasse. you are member number 006 with that crazy looking frogspawn

Ok, heres mine.

2.5 gallon AGA
18w Current Satellite
Aquaclear 20
Visi-Therm Stealth 25w Heater
3.5 lbs LR
2 lbs LS

Jewbilee is number 007. Welcome to Club Pico. Nice clean tank I love it.

yea.... 007.... Bond, James Bo... no... I wont do it.

jewbilee's membership has been revoked. 007 is available again. J/K

Randy's Picotope

Born July 18th, 2008 and resides in the upstairs loft.

I am running:

• Current USA 2x18Watt Satellite
• *soon*Custom Glass Lid
• AquaClear 70 Refugium
• Tahitian Moon Sand
• 10W Marineland heater(unbreakable one)
• Digital thermometer
• Topfin thermometer(thought the digital was bad)
• Portable Refractometer

Current inhabitants include:none, 4+Lbs of liverock.

No actinics in this shot

I have to say ... and keep in mind that I'm a little biased ... but JBJ Picotope + Black Tahitian Moon Sand = Sexytime.

Yea it's pretty sexy I do agree, but I have sexy shrimp

Zoantsinmypants is member number 008. Welcome to Club "Sexy" Pico LOL.

Yeah, i saw your thread, and thought it was the best picotope/nano reef i have ever seen and had to order one, so the next week i placed an order on dr foster and smiths website lol

Here's my 3g picotope:

Been up for almost 3 months now.

Dual Satellite 36w dual actinic and 50/50 light fixture
AC70 filter
3 pounds of live rock
25w stealth heater

Thanks for the kind words.

Holy smokes fiction that tank rocks. For three months that thing is filling up nicely. Welcome to Club Pico you are member number 009

Steve

can i be lucky #10

2g Tom Pico:
- Fully Stock
-chaeto in HOB, also modded stock filter and put filter floss in
-10wtt marineland heater(shatterproof)
- 3lb LS, 4lb LR lots of softies

3g JBJ Pico
- AC70 fully modded/ fuge( w/ submersable fuge light)
-Current 36Wtt Dual Satellite
-10wtt marineland heater (shatterproof)
- 3 lb. tahiatan moon sand(black)
- 5lb. Premium LR
- Custom glass lid ( on the way) (thanks Bonsai)
- stick on therm
- ( will inhabit only the rarest of the rare Palys/Zoas

*** i only use Tropic Marine Pro Salt & RO/DI water***

Yea you can be 10 digg just edit this post you just did with the info to save your spot.

Steve

As far as corals go - that is by far my favorite Picotope here. Well done!

+1

thanks hscsceo

o and yes i agree fictions tank is just

So, in a month when I have to move everything from Virginia to New York when I go back up to school, am I safe to just remove the LS that I have in my tank (which I'm starting to think is just CC) and add in Black tahitian moon sand? Will this cause a cycle?

I think you might get a small bump in the cycle. I think I'd test every day or two and watch it for sure. Keep your LR submerged and during your trip and run a pump if you can.

Steve

If you remove all the rocks/corals and suction all the water out then add the new clean sand, everything should be fine and no cycle should occur.


You could always do small water changes the next couple days after wards, just in case you're worried about it.

They nice thing about it is that I can dismantle all of it and have it all back up in under 18 hours.

Heres my plan:
Bag any corals that are not attached to anything
LR with not coral will be placed in the bottom of a small bucket that will be filled with the tank water as I slowly take out water to reveal rock. The rock will go in as the tank water lowers to it.
LR with corals will be placed in the same bucket but propped up so that they cannot roll and crush the corals.
And... thats about it...

So when it comes to reassembling, all i would have to do is pour in water, rocks, and sand and im good right?

You could buy a battery operated air pump, I believe batteries last around 6hrs in them.

Yea, I'll probably end up doing in that bucket everything going in.

But will I be ok with the black moon sand to just put it in?

The biggest issue will be cloudiness created from the new sand I think? Like if you could let the water clear up before you add the corals, that might be the best way?

yea, What I was going to do was add the water and sand in whichever order is best and then once its all cleared, begin putting the LR back in as well as any of the bagged corals I have

What fish do you have in there at the moment?

A tail spot blenny, which is the coolest fish I've ever had!

It has really vibrant small orange,yellow and blue lines on its head and wide eyes. It's constantly swimming around picking at the rocks and the snails shells, it will actually swim into your hand. I'm surprised they aren't mentioned more often from people with pico tanks.

I have a 2.5g
AC20 HOB
coralife 2x18w 50/50
1.9lb LR


nothing stocked yet, it's only 2 days old!

PICS PIRO PICS

Its humble, but I am satisfied with it so far

Hey Piro Welcome to Club Pico You are member number 011. Nice tank can't wait to see it fill up.

steve

3 gallon bow
5 gallon sump
coralife mini fixture

got everything but the baffles for the fuge...

not started yet..by next week for sure.

3 gallon Picotope est. Nov. 2007



Lighting: 36W Current Dual Satellite
Filtration: AquaClear 70 fuge with chaeto and Chemi-Pure Elite + Rio 50 powerhead
Heater: 50W Hydor Theo
Corals: green-striped mushrooms, Ricordeas (Florida and yuma), zoanthids (ten varieties), palythoas (three varieties), green star polyps, daisy polyps, pulsing xenia, Blastomussa merleti, orange fungia, galaxy coral, orange Montipora cap.
Invertebrates: sexy shrimps, mithrax crab, blue-legged hermits
Fish: green clown goby

Lil wrasse that is an interesting tank. We need more info. Look at the 1st thread for required info. Looking forward to it. Just edit your post.

Steve





Your tank is nuts. I don't even have words LOL. You are member number 012. This might be my favorite tank now.

Steve