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25 April 2015

 

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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

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

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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 :)

 

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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 :)

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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.

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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)

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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

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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!

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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 :)

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 :D

 

 

 

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

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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

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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"

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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.

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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 :D

 

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.

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