Microbialhydra Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 I am starting to build my first Pico reef jar and my second reef and I'm using a 2 gallon jar Link to comment
ReefJar Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Awesome! Looking forward to your progress! Link to comment
Microbialhydra Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 I glued the back panel in and painted the epoxy black today Link to comment
aquarium Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Cool little tank! I love the media rack. Im curious to see how this works out, I have one of these jars laying around somewhere.... Link to comment
Microbialhydra Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 I just added live rock, salt water, and sugar fine sand. Also I added a small 10 watt heater and a external digital thermostat. Also I want to add a bag of purigen under the filter floss Link to comment
Keepswimmin Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 You must like doing water changes. Cool idea though. Link to comment
Microbialhydra Posted December 11, 2015 Author Share Posted December 11, 2015 You must like doing water changes. Cool idea though.I'm just gonna do a 1 gallon water change every week which isn't much work Link to comment
picozoa Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Changing the water in my 3 gallon is the easiest thing ever after having a 75g before. 5 gallon jug for water vs 20 gallon trash can and multiple 5 gallon buckets. Huge pain in the butt. I'm not even bothering mixing my own these days. I've been doing 50-80% water changes every week just because it's so easy. I'd skip weeks at a time on my 75g and just dosed and skimmed rather than deal with it. So count me in as "liking" to do water changes on my pico. Link to comment
Microbialhydra Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 On a side note I also have a freshwater Pico that I keep 2 neocardina David culls in Link to comment
Microbialhydra Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 My dad just sent me these pictures Link to comment
gkarris Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 You are awesome! Love your Pico Jar and you have a beautiful FW Planted Tank and really neat FW Shrimp Bowl... I just redid my jars and did a small shrimp bowl a month ago - will need to post them. Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Looking good, love the overflow. Nice shrimp, do they breed? I'm trying to get a colony of cherry shrimp going in my 5. Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Where'd you find a 10w heater? Also, what are you using for light? Nice to see another Pico Jar. Link to comment
Microbialhydra Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 Where'd you find a 10w heater? Also, what are you using for light? Nice to see another Pico Jar. The heater is just a constant on betta heater. And the light is a quad bulp t5ho that is about 2 feet above the jar the light also lights my fluval spec 5 shrimp tank Looking good, love the overflow. Nice shrimp, do they breed? I'm trying to get a colony of cherry shrimp going in my 5.That shrimp tank hasent been up long enough for them to breed but I'm line breeding blue shrimp and cull out about 30 shrimp a month because they aren't blue because the blue shrimp are still throughing. Also if you want to breed have no fish in with them and put a prefilter on the intake of the filter Link to comment
Microbialhydra Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 I recently got a yellow clow goby and it was eating for for about 4 days but I just tried flake and to my surprise it ate the flake like no tomorrow Link to comment
Aaronskates92 Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 What are u using for the back panel? Link to comment
Microbialhydra Posted January 31, 2016 Author Share Posted January 31, 2016 What are u using for the back panel?A cut and drilled peice of 5 inch pvc I painted with krylon fusion Link to comment
Aaronskates92 Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 And where did u get the jar? Link to comment
Microbialhydra Posted August 13, 2016 Author Share Posted August 13, 2016 It's been awhile since I posted an update on the jar. It's still going great but the mantis I had in it got stuck in the filter and died. I have since glued in some mesh so nothing can go in the filter again. I have also gotten a second mantis and a couple new corals. Also planning to set up a 0.55 gallon Pico in this little acrylic tank on my global spec v Link to comment
brandon429 Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Hey that is neat great job Link to comment
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