Woohoo, total newbie, just starting a 4 gal Finnex. Mixin' up water tonight for Saturday LR and sand setup. Loved it when the LFS guy laughed in my face --I'll show him! Small is beautiful...

haha I'd say small is nano. Pico is Beautiful

Steve

The Sex Machine

my setup: (pretty much exactly what fab is running)
3 gallon Picotope started April 4, 2008. 36w Coralife Light, Aquaclear 70 HOB filter Fuge mod with chaeto and chemipure elite and stock picotope light on reverse cycle, Hydor 50w heater, ranco single stage temp controller with a $6 target fan (I dont have A/C and now I am topping off three times a day, about a gallon and a half per week!)

Livestock: 5 sexy shrimp, 2 blue leg hermits, 1 ricordea florida, 4 ricordea yumas (i started with one), 1 purple mushroom, 5 green striped mushroom (I started with one of these too), kenya tree coral, green star polyp, several kinds of zoas including some new people eaters.

Here is an older photo, before I upgraded to the AC70. I will try to take some new photos soon.

That mushroom with the stripes is HUGE!

That's about as big as it inflates. The coolest thing is the four babies that have come off of it already. The ricordea to the right can actually inflate even bigger than the green striped mushroom!

Welcome Daveysmart You are lucky member 013. I love that mushroom it looks really happy there, Nice tank keep us updated.

Steve

just got mine and started yesterday......

nice tank plainrt please post all the info from thread one to get your official ID number

Steve

Here are a few pics of my .97 I keep on my desk at work.

lol sorry

its a 2 gallon tom deco
stock light pump and everything for right now
3.5 ish pounds lr and not sure how much sand really...
Started 8-2-08
It is on counter in my kitchen

plainrt thanks for posting that info you are member 014 Nice looking tank

Steve


shawnken that is a nice tank. really clean and beautiful. you are member 015

Steve

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JBJ picotope 3gallons
AC70 mod fuge w/1lb rubble rock
Current dual satallite 2x18watt light
50w hydor heater
about 6.5lbs of live rock
3lbs? Caribbean live sand

Cuboy!! You are member 015 please keep us posted on your tank as it progresses

Steve

nice I got paired up with shawnken. so do we flip a coin for 015? or paper rock scissors!

HHAHAA I missed that. Make it 016

I want in on this
here's my thread

Recent pic:

I know I'm already number 006....
but my new pico is running now, now can I get a number???

3gal bow
5gal sump
18w cf fixture
1 chunk of live rock to seed the sand
started TODAY!!!

Click to view attachmentmy new pico setup.
2.5 gallon AGA
5 pounds of live rck
2 pounds of sand
two hermit crabs
coralife 50 50 lighting
set up at 5 pm on 8/5/08

Jigsaw look at the first post for the info we need for your tank. Thanks for the link but it makes it easy for everyone if the specs are here. Nice tank btw


Lil'wrasse cool (love that name btw) nice to see two tanks. what the heck lets give you a number for each tank. Your new tank is 017. keep us posted

Picopie to Club Pico. You are member number 018. I like your tank. Please keep us posted.

Steve

Hey guys this is member number 004,

I already posted my pico but I have a Recent picture I took hours ago.

Aaack...my tank has been up and running in my home office since Sunday. Neither of the two LFS in Santa Barbara have any live sand in stock, soooooooo...I'm still waiting to load and cycle. I'd like to join the OCP even though I only have salt water circulating right now (SG 1.022, yeah).
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4 gal Finnex, standard equipment (probably will upgrade lighting eventually)
Marineland 50 w Stealth Heater
1w LED moon light
Marineland Mini-Jet 404 adjustable pump for added flow up top
Instant Ocean salt

Planned:
6-7 lbs LR, 4-5 lbs Fiji Pink Aragonite Sand
CUC - 2 Nassarius snails + 1 or 2 other snails & maybe a dwarf Zebra hermit
3 Sexy Shrimp or 2 Fire/Blood Shrimp
Mushrooms (red, purple, green stripe) and a couple of Zoas

haha oh sorry, I'll post it all tomorrow, helps to read the 1st post

You guys have some great little tanks!!! I'm really wanting a "pico", but I'm affraid <5g is to small for me. I'm probably going to end up with a DIY 10g AIO instead. It will house a bunch of shrooms, zoas, and rics. I've got another project I want to tackle first though, so it won't happen for a while.

Come on Glenn do IT!!! Put a 3g picotope on your wifes nightstand. She will love it!!

Steve



Nanonater I love it. That coraline algae looks so pretty against that black substrate.

FijiMaxi that looks like a good start keep up us updated. to club picotope you are member 019

Come on guys show us your tanks I want to get 1000 posts out of this deal. There should be 500 pico's out there easily

Steve

my new pic
which way do you like better

OK, finally got some sand and rock today (a little Fiji, a little Tongan, a little aquacultured). The main piece was 3.6 lbs and in a very cool arch shape. Here's the result:

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SG=1.023, temp 76.5. Lights set for 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (Still futzing with the moonlight mount; set for 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.). I removed the carbon filter from the HOB unit...Anybody got any suggestions for me besides sit back and wait?

I'm gona try to get in on this. Over all it's a 6.6(24"x8"x8") but it has a 5" false wall sump, and the water level is 1/2" below rim (making it 19"x8"x7.5") puting me at 4.93....YES I"M IN!!

2x24watt t-5HO (1x10,000k-1xactinic)
2.5in sand bed
3lb LR (more to come)
My emerald crab snuck in on a rock from my 20gal.
Red mushroom frag
green zoa frag that was floating around in the 20gal.
cheato bundle in sump







So what do ya think? can I join?

Sory, started yesterday 8-07-08

hopefully i wont get ###### for this...

.19 gal tannk/jar
aqaulifter (3 1/2 gph)
20 watt 50/50 coralife
DIY filter (filter floss, carbon, amonia remover)
digital thermometer

wana add/make...
custom lid
DIY nano canister
DIY spray bar

Update on my Finnex 4...Day 4. Been spending HOURS looking at the rock with a magnifying glass. I've got hitchhikers: 3 or 4 tan/brown/white fan worms; an olive drab isopod; and 2 or 3 probable Aiptasias (really tiny...should I try to "juice" them now or plan on a peppermint shrimp later?). There were several "dead" segmented worms at the bottom of the LR transport tub, so I threw them in the tank...only a couple of them weren't dead! They revived and wiggled under the rock and sand.
Water is still very clear, with little white specks flitting around ('pods?). Tested today: SG=1.024; pH=8.2-8.3; Ammonia=.025/8-9 percent; Nitrite=.05ppm; Nitrate=10-50ppm. Doesn't look like much is happening, but PATIENCE is a virtue. Debating whether to toss in a piece of raw shrimp, or just wait for Nature to take its course. Will my HHs survive the cycle?

Most hitchikers will survive, but some won't. Don't bother adding raw shrimp into the tank. You are already started on your cycle, so just wait it out.

I'm joining in!

Here's an FTS of my 2.5g with built in sump.



Hope you guys like it.

Hello,

Here are the specs for my tank which was started in April and now resides in my living room.

• JBJ Picotope
• AC 70 Filter modified into a fuge with Chaeto and Chemi-Pure.
• Hydor 50W heater
• Current USA 2x18W Satellite Fixture
• Approx. 4 lbs of Live Sand
• Approx. 4 lbs of Live Rock

Latest pics which are posted on My Thread:

WOW I took a week off for work and come back to find 5 new tanks on this thread. Great job guys.

Fijimax to Club Pico you are member 020

JBreef to Club Pico you are member 021

Rusty Trombonist to Club Pico you are member 022 with your microtope lmfao

Bossybly to Club Pico you are member 023

F1_Racer to Club Pico you are member 024

Thanks guys keep up the good work. We are nearly 25 tanks deep into my 500 tank goal . GIVE ME MORE.

Steve

Cycling, Day 10 (yawn). Have seen spaghetti worms, baby fan worms, lots of 'pods, and something that looked like an olive drab isopod scurrying across the LR. Faint beginning of diatom bloom on the sand. Question: Does anyone know what creature walls itself in under the LR with grains of sand? The other day I watched as individual grains of sand levitated and stacked up beside the rock at sand level. Could not discern tentacles or claws or anything like that doing the work. Ideas? Hope it's not a mantis

Walls itself? I'm not sure what you mean. Nassarius snails dig under the gravel and "burrow" but wall?

wow way to derail this thread.... nice job...

Born Yesterday!

My 3 gallon JBJ Picotope.
Aquaclear 70 refg. mod.
Custom acrylic cover
So far just sand, lr, macro, & saltwater.

Coralite 12" dual lights to come!

Can't wait until cycle finishes...

I have just updated this post...

Okay I will join in here too.

Here is my 1 gal pico

It has : Coralife 18 watt 9" fixture, 9 watts true actinic 9 watts 10,000 daylight
Mini filter that it came with
15 watt heater

1 crab
Orange Florida Ricordea, Pink Yuma Ricordea, blue shrooms, green star polyps, 3 different colors of zoas, feather duster

Some stuff was taken out of my 10 gal that had been running for the past 4 years. I kept the small frags and added some new stuff since then, the tank has been going for 4 months now, I do very minimal water top ups each day, water changes once a week.

I have had no issues with this little tank and quite like it.

Enjoy......

Member 011 update

One month old today.



for FULL detail of everything about this tank, see the thread link in the sig.

This is my 3 gallon Pico. Light is a Coralife 18 watts 1-9 watts 10K and 1- actinic. Filter is a Marineland Penguin 100 BIO-Wheel Power Filter. Tank was installed on July 4, 2008.

[quote name='luisgo' date='Aug 20 2008, 09:20 PM' post='1774991']
This is my 3 gallon Pico. Light is a Coralife 18 watts 1-9 watts 10K and 1- actinic. Filter is a Marineland Penguin 100 BIO-Wheel Power Filter. Tank was installed on July 4, 2008.

May I ask you, how do you like this light fixutre?? Any issues with it??

I see you have a fan behind it, with it raised above the tank like you have does it still produce alot of heat??

Amy

Amy, I like the light fixture. Nice colors and good intensity even when it is 4" over the water level. I think it is ok for zoas and soft corals, not for SPS or clams. I have a candy coral (LPS) and is doing fine.

One thing I like about the fixture is that it floats in the water!. Once it felt on the water and it was floating for several minutes! Don't try this but is a safety future I like.

The problem with the heat is that I live in Puerto Rico and average temperature during the day is close to 90F! in summer. I have the fan in a timer running from 9am to 11pm. This keeps my water between 79F and 84F.

bump

Well I now have the same fixture over my 1 gal. I absolutley love it. I don't seem to have an issue with heat. In the summer we have central air and right now the air is nice and cool ready for fall time and the day heat is very nice and just warm.

Say can I ask you what are your measurements for that 3 gal??

Length
Width
Height

Love your tank by the way, looks very nice and healthy....

Ok I want in on the action Here is my 3 gallon toms.
Born 2/28/08






Excuse my terrible picture taking, I also only scrub my tank clean once a month because it's plastic.

3 Gallon Toms
Rio nano skimmer
Custom 12 inch 3 bulb T-5 fixture 2 10000k 1 420nm 8 watt bulbs
Modified stock powerfilter for fuge. Cheato and mangroves.
Cheapo heater

Corals

Green bubble
Red trachphilia brain
Tyree green toadstool
Suncoral 18 heads
Kenya Tree
Purple/ blue yuma
Green striped mushroom
purplemushrooms
Zoas

Inverts

Skunk shrimp
Purple Reef lobster
3 baby nassirus snails
1Tonga nassirus snail
2 Turbo astrea snails
2 Blue leg hermits

Fish

1 Starry blenny

okay so heres my new one since my nice little cube cracked...
she's still cycling so no corals or cuc yet.....cant wait.

.66 gallon ikea bowl

10 watt coralife 50/50 bulb
whisper 10 hob (liverock rubble only)
1lb. livesand (est.)
2lbs. liverock
no corals, still cycling.
re-born on 6/13
local: sacramento,ca.

full tank


closer


oh and smitty your tank is awesome!

Man I've been so busy with my other tanks I haven't taken enough time to look at this thread. You guys are doing great.

sspark - you are member 025 I'm partial to picotopes. Can't wait to see this one grow out.

amy - to Club Pico you are member 026 I love your GSP

luisgo - to Club Pico you are member 027. That is one cool tank

smittycoco - HOLY BUBBLEMAN!! to Club Pico you are member 028. That thing is stuffed, I love it.

Pismo_reefer - to Club Pico you are memeber 029. Very clean looking. can't wait to see it grow out.

So we are at 29 tanks. 471 to go. Lets do it people !!!

Steve

Here is an update to my tank =]

I hope that goniopora lives cuz it looks so cool.

Thanks !

I absolutletly love bubbles So you can imagine how excited I was to score this bad boy for 25 $ After waiting for one in my size to come in.

Holy crap I forgot to add in my Blue tuxedo urchin With Fire zoas.