Jellyingabout Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Reserved for FTS updates: 25 April 2015 Tank: 1g candle holder from ASDA Lights: 15W par20 quadspec with a cheap blue fleabay blue LED strip for moon lights. Filtration: DIY canister filter containing heater, biopellets, rowaphos, and floss. Plus a pico algae scrubber (a trochus snail that can't reach the algae on his back haha) Coral Blue stag acropora Green caliendrum Purple stylophora Red montipora digita Trachyphyllia Xenia Velvet mushroom Other smooth mushrooms 6 Quote Link to comment
k4ndyk1ng Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 looks good, get more coral!!! 1 Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 17, 2015 Author Share Posted April 17, 2015 Just added the coral plan above, should place the order to arrive early next week. 1 Quote Link to comment
k4ndyk1ng Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Just added the coral plan above, should place the order to arrive early next week. i'll be following:) 1 Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 17, 2015 Author Share Posted April 17, 2015 First attempts at my DIY cannister filter were promising, i had it all drilled up and assembled but sadly the tupperware box i used just wasn't able to hold the pressure and dribbled a bit. Next attempt on kilner jar, now that i know everything else works. I'll pop my heater and everything else in there and run the tubing behind the mangrove as it grows that way it'll all be hidden. 1 Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 17, 2015 Author Share Posted April 17, 2015 Someone wanted to see the look of the lights if i remember rightly, amazing pop on the greens during the day (and yellows on my lobo before it melted away) Reds don't pop quite as well but still pop better than anything in its price range (only £25) I'm a very happy man. This is taken on a camera phone and it really doesn't do it justice, but even here the greens are looking great. I have it next to the window in the sun at the moment, when the light fades, everything pops incredibly but I can't capture it with a DSLR. Even part of my coraline are fluorescing pink! At the moment my internal filter is casting a large shadow in the jar but that'll change as soon as i get this canister filter drilled up. 1 Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 My SPS Coral frags arrive Thursday Lots of pretty sticks and plates. I'll get the LPS afterwards when the SPS have settled. What do you guys think of the rockscape, pretty basic I know but it is only a jar, I was pretty limited on shape. Again sorry for my rubbish phone camera, I'm getting DSLR this week if i can. Ignor the shadows i'll be changing the filter Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 I tried to rescue some tube dwelling hydras from the back of one of my other tanks. They have posed no issue in the other tank, and grow slowly, they are white under the light but under strong lights they have gone a fluorescent green. I've never came across a hitchhiker as cool Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 So my first frag pack arrived today. 1 Xenia 1 Green caliendrium (a really nice branching frag too) 1 blue acro (that'll be a challenge) 1 purple milka stylo 1 red digi monti 1 dark green monti cap It was such a nightmare glue these into a jar that my hand barely fits in haha but its done. photos will come this evening. I've noticed the hardest this about this tank is getting the flow to stop swirling round in one direction. At the moment i've the very end of the return pipe down the middle and tucked it into itself creating three jets. it seems to be doing the trick but if anyone has any better idea it'd be much appreciated. Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 Photos!! I couldn't get my hands on a DSLR so the colours are not as bright as they actually are, but i did get my hands on a nokia luminar which has been pretty great considering its a phone (i got a bit carried away and uploaded the lot) 1 Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 I really like this! makes me miss my pico 1 Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Its my first one and so far its going well. I figured i'd throw myself in the deep end with the SPS and its turn out quite well. I did just have to pick out a gigantic fire worm that had killed my trochus snail. the plan is to get a clam on the top of that rock when i can find one plus some acans & dendrophyllia 1 Quote Link to comment
Thomas898 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 This is really cool! Makes me want to start a Pico.. Very excited to see what you do to this one, looks like it's going well so far! 1 Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Thanks, i've kept much larger tanks in the past and can honestly say this tiny tank is so much more fun. They are just simple, no horrible dosing/ reactors, no skimmer nothing yet the Coral seem to be loving it, even my acro is settling in now. I got a bit disenchanted with the hobby 3 years into my 200L, it just became stressful to maintain and the costs started climbing to repair it, not to mention the running costs. I could never get it looking full without putting in a load of "filler" coral which i simply didn't have the money for. This pico has cost me less than £50 in total, recycling bits from old tanks, buying nothing but the light and some DIY bits and bobs. And the coral i put in it can be waaay pricer than i would normally justify, simply because there's so much less 2 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 With the SPS in there it will be interesting to see if you can maintain KH and keep it happy. Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 So far so good. KH and Ca have been maintained with a weekly 100% wc. I guess that's the benefit of such a small volume. Huge wc are easy 1 Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Arghhhh!! another fireworm that's evading me. I dunno where they are all coming from?? or how to catch em easily in a tiny jar. Quote Link to comment
NinjaReefer Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Thanks, i've kept much larger tanks in the past and can honestly say this tiny tank is so much more fun. They are just simple, no horrible dosing/ reactors, no skimmer nothing yet the Coral seem to be loving it, even my acro is settling in now. I got a bit disenchanted with the hobby 3 years into my 200L, it just became stressful to maintain and the costs started climbing to repair it, not to mention the running costs. I could never get it looking full without putting in a load of "filler" coral which i simply didn't have the money for. This pico has cost me less than £50 in total, recycling bits from old tanks, buying nothing but the light and some DIY bits and bobs. And the coral i put in it can be waaay pricer than i would normally justify, simply because there's so much less 100 percent agree. I had enjoyed my 2.5 gallon way more than my 46 bowfront. Nothing ever went wrong that 2 min and a 50% water change could not fix. The only thing I really tested was S.G. If something didnt look right I could do a water change faster than a test. hehe You tank is looking great! I personally would leave the fireworms to help clean up, but if you really want them gone here is something I heard about: Put a shrimp or other bait in a nylon stocking on your sandbed at night. Worm go to shrimp, then bristles get caught in stocking. Pull out stocking : ) Never tried it. Let me know if it works. 1 Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 Put a shrimp or other bait in a nylon stocking on your sandbed at night. Worm go to shrimp, then bristles get caught in stocking. Pull out stocking : ) Never tried it. Let me know if it works. I'll give it a go although i barely have room for the sock, even the nano-mag is too big for this jar, i manged to find the worlds smallest algae scrapper though, the beta-mag. Its the size of my thumb nail Some full tank shots, and a shot of the DIY cannister with the heater in it, I think I need a smaller unit for my tank lol Quote Link to comment
braaap Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 You need a yellow tang. Seriously. This is cool. The DIY canister is dope. Nice work. 1 Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 You need a yellow tang. Seriously. This is cool. The DIY canister is dope. Nice work. Thank-you I always dream't of something like this since i was small and now i have it i'm a bit dumb struck about what to do with it, i want to put everything in it, I'm still so shocked it hasn't died yet, instead its going well some of my brand new frags have even grown already!! I did notice one problem though with the size, my trachyphyllia likes to move, never much only a cm here and there but in order to do it he blows himself up huge!!! then pushes himself along. so when he's moving he takes up half the bottom of the tank haha 1 Quote Link to comment
dpoltsdsu Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 That filter is really cool. The jar looks great too. It'll be interesting to see how the acro does 1 Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 yeah, i think i'm just getting stressed because clearly its not the knobbly variety which is just highlighting the lack of polyp extension, i half expected it to extend big long polyps to look way more knobbly but i'm not sure as i have no pictures of the original colony. it was just labeled "blue stag" Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 From the day i got it the acro frag didn't change then last night RTN hit and the whole thing was toast. I'm inclinded to think it was unhealthy when i got it since all the other frags settled in so well. For the frag to RTN due to my water i would have expected the stylophora right next to it to at least close up. Quote Link to comment
Jellyingabout Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 Got me some new critters!! Not really a conventional buy, but mussel fascinate me, I saw these wedged into a zoa rock at the LFS and poached them up And idunno how i did it but i made my camera phone take a good photo, the last picture of the Zoas is the closest picture i have to what they look like in person. Quote Link to comment
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