ABC Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 I have decided to start a pico reef, due to where I live it will be a biotope of what I can legally collect, so it may take awhile to stock this little tank. I think this tank is a good idea because of live happenings my tanks only last about a year. This tank I could shrink wrap it all together place in cooler and move it very easily so hopefully it will be a sucesful pico reef. WHAT I HAVE SO FAR 5 w cobalt heater , inkbird temp contrller 1 Gallon cookie jar Whisper air pump rated for 10 gallon Whisper air pump rated for 20 gallons currently in use 1.5 pound of dry rock About 2 inches of dry sand I do have a battery operated back up air pump for power outages And a Coral Compultion par 30 bulb I let the wife pick out a accent table for it, and she found one she likes but still hasn't ordered yet. Link to comment
HammerLover Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Cute setup! Love all these new pico comings! Although Im not being against it but in my jar I only had a 0.5 inch sandbed so I can have more water. I also reduce a bit of my liverocks so I can accomodate more space and corals However, its up to you on what plans you have. Just giving a suggestion what corals/critters are you planning to keep in there? Link to comment
ABC Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 Cute setup! Love all these new pico comings! Although Im not being against it but in my jar I only had a 0.5 inch sandbed so I can have more water. I also reduce a bit of my liverocks so I can accomodate more space and corals However, its up to you on what plans you have. Just giving a suggestion what corals/critters are you planning to keep in there? thanks for looking, I might take the sand down to about an inch when I do the next few water changes. Due to where I live I'm kinda limited on what I can keep so it will probely turn into a Zola and play garden with some inverts. It should be pretty fun to find critters to stock it. Link to comment
HammerLover Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Sounds good! Keep us posted for updates Link to comment
ABC Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 Time for an update I added three zoo colonies one seems upset a sesere animone and a dwarf zebra hermit crab. I've been kinda worried about adding them two quick so I'm testing water daily and have water ready to go. So far it is going good though, Link to comment
brandon429 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 one very handy part of micro reefing is its the most free of testing if you ever want it to be the weekly full or mostly full water changes reset all params, we only need temp and salt levels to run them including sps, all corals adapt to it and the minor variations the various salt mixes produce. feed/wc feed/wc is all it takes should testing ever get tedious Link to comment
ABC Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 one very handy part of micro reefing is its the most free of testing if you ever want it to be the weekly full or mostly full water changes reset all params, we only need temp and salt levels to run them including sps, all corals adapt to it and the minor variations the various salt mixes produce. feed/wc feed/wc is all it takes should testing ever get tedious Makes sense i guess I always just worry about a new tank going through a mini cycle. Link to comment
ABC Posted November 5, 2016 Author Share Posted November 5, 2016 https://s11.postimg.org/itgxglwn7/IMG_1467.jpg how to do a screen shot A few photos Link to comment
brandon429 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Hey I missed the part about mini cycle I see that was dry rock above. Good call The way to avoid the ammonia spike is to just feed very carefully before the water change so no food rots in the system and wait a bit longer before adding more, what you have in there is fine so far and won't stress the new system For some reason I thought you had all live rock Link to comment
ABC Posted November 5, 2016 Author Share Posted November 5, 2016 Hey I missed the part about mini cycle I see that was dry rock above. Good call The way to avoid the ammonia spike is to just feed very carefully before the water change so no food rots in the system and wait a bit longer before adding more, what you have in there is fine so far and won't stress the new system For some reason I thought you had all live rock All dry rock and sand but so far it's going good. All the creatures looked good tonight the best they have so far. If I do get any ammonia I can change the wAter in about 5 minutes, Link to comment
HammerLover Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 Update pics look good! Cant wait for more Link to comment
ABC Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 I did add a Cobalt 5w heater and a inkbird temp controller seems to be working fine. Also it seems the tank is settling in and cycle is complete. Link to comment
ABC Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 Pictures after water change Link to comment
HammerLover Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Looking nice! BTW what's that little tank beside the pico? Link to comment
ABC Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 Looking nice! BTW what's that little tank beside the pico?That little tank has three of the Hawaiian red volcano shrimp in it. I've had it for a year. It is maybe one cup of water. Link to comment
HammerLover Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Makes me want to add a shrimp bowl beside my reef jar. Though there arent volcano shrimps here maybe I'll go with cherry shrimps Link to comment
ABC Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Not much has happened in the jar to update other than the anemone is crawling around. Last night he moved about a half inch and tonight he has already Moved about a half inch. Being this is a jar there is no powerheads or overflow to worry about. I pushed his Little Rock next to the big one so he could crawl onto the big one if he wants. He might like to be higher where there is more flow and light. My only concern is the heater but he is moving really slow so I think it will be OK. Link to comment
ABC Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 The anemone ended up moving to the back of the tank and attaching to the temp prob, it made it easy to move him to a higher flow area, Then I took some photos. http://rs1286.pbsrc.com/albums/a620/leroybrown2/Mobile%20Uploads/1DE02586-0141-464A-A1FD-9E92B7BD139D_zps5rdqmvri.mp4?w=160&h=160&fit=clip Link to comment
HammerLover Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 That anemone is so cute! Is that an aggregating anemone? Link to comment
MedievalITGuy Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Is the little tank one of those self contained/sustaining systems? I just got one for my wife for Christmas, and it's really cool. Your main tank is looking pretty nice too Link to comment
HammerLover Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Is the little tank one of those self contained/sustaining systems? I just got one for my wife for Christmas, and it's really cool. Your main tank is looking pretty nice too you should try one! Im loving mine already! They arent really that hard but further research wont do harm. Visit reefjar's website for tips and ideas if you ever plan on making one Link to comment
MedievalITGuy Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 you should try one! Im loving mine already! They arent really that hard but further research wont do harm. Visit reefjar's website for tips and ideas if you ever plan on making one The self contained systems, or the Pico vase? Because I'm doing both I've just been too busy/lazy to write up a post on it. Link to comment
ABC Posted December 16, 2016 Author Share Posted December 16, 2016 Is the little tank one of those self contained/sustaining systems? I just got one for my wife for Christmas, and it's really cool. Your main tank is looking pretty nice too The little tank is the Hawaiian shrimp I feed them about twice s month and very rarely do a water change, it has no equipment at all and has been going for over a year. Thanks for commenting Link to comment
MedievalITGuy Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 That right there is the definition of low maintenance! It sounds awesome! Link to comment
ABC Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 That right there is the definition of low maintenance! It sounds awesome!One year ago I mixed s gallon of water for the shrimp tank, that gallon is about used up on water changes. Link to comment
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