d'Espresso Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Welcome to d'Espresso's Secret 5.5g Pico Tank FTS: October 2009 Established since August 9, 2009 Tank Specs: -5.5 Gallon tank (rimless) -2x32w Dual Sunpaqs w/lunar lights plus RED leds -Aquaclear 70 HOB (modified refugium w/ picotope 9w light custom fitted "growing Chaetomorpha") -50w Heater (maintained at 76-80`F) -12lbs of cured live rocks -1’1/2lbs of live fine sand -Nano Nimble -Manual handed top off using RO/DI Lighting Schedule as follows: -Actinic: 11:00a.m.-11:00p.m. -Daylight: 12:00p.m.-10:00p.m. -Lunar L.E.D.: Always on -Reverse photoperiod lighting for refugium "growing Chaetomorpha": 11:00p.m.-11:00a.m. LiveStock: Mainly Yumas, Rics, mushrooms and zoas, montiporas. My tank is filled with the usual hitchhikers: pods, snails, worms brittle, asterina stars, and feather dusters. Invertebrates: -1 Blue-legged hermit crabs -2 nass snails -1 cerith snail -1 cleaner shrimp Fish: "Ben steeler wheeler" (wheeler Goby) "Sunkiss" Picasso Clown fish (healthy and happy) Soft corals: -Assorted mushrooms -Assorted florida ricodeas -Assorted Yumas -Assorted zoanthids -Green star polyps -Neon green toadstool -Blue clove polyps -Neon candy cane LPS corals: -Hulk green Acan. -Rainbow Echinata Acan. -White cloudy day Acan. -Purple red death Acan. -Ozzi teal Acan. SPS corals: -Orange Montipora -Reverse Sunset Montipora -Undata Montipora i love all zoas and rics. i started with 3 polyps of this tubb blues and now i have about 50 of them. This is all for now, thanks for looking! Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted October 10, 2009 Author Share Posted October 10, 2009 go to sleep! Haha. i will! i made a promise to all the pico reefers that i finish writing out my pico tank thread and post it up by this week. Due as promise to everyone. hopefully you guys will enjoy this one like i am at the moment. time for bed now! good night -david Link to comment
amnestia Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Is that the RSM I sent you? It's gaining back its colors VERY nicely! Link to comment
parishilton Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Wow! Nice colors combination you have there. Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 NICE. How long have you had the SPS in there, and has it been growing? Was the light a DIY project? What made you think of Red LED's, and how and why did you integrate them? Are the colors in the pics pretty true to life? I'm impressed. Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted October 10, 2009 Author Share Posted October 10, 2009 Is that the RSM I sent you? It's gaining back its colors VERY nicely! yes it is the RSM you have sent me. It is worth every pennies! it have taken a long time to recover but I am happy I have purchase the piece from you. Thank you so much! Link to comment
gena Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Very nice! I'm loving all the beautiful colors, fish included. Nice job! Link to comment
davidr2340 Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Damn David!!! Now you're makin' me want one!!! Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted October 11, 2009 Author Share Posted October 11, 2009 The Ric and Yuma island start off with one and now i have 2 Link to comment
badfish816 Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 awesome tank man! glad you're back. Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 Very nice! I'm loving all the beautiful colors, fish included. Nice job! Thank you for the nice comments, yours is beautiful too btw. i love my sunkiss Damn David!!! Now you're makin' me want one!!! DO IT DO IT!!!! thanks dave.. Link to comment
Sushi Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Looks great! Can't believe it's only 5.5g, looks a lot bigger Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 awesome tank man! glad you're back. Thanks for the welcome back.. i am sure glad to be back! i can not resist of not having pico in my home. It's just one of those reason just to have them on your list. lol Link to comment
plainrt Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 very very very nice little tank. Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted October 13, 2009 Author Share Posted October 13, 2009 thanks man, yes it's a small tank smile.gif but everything is happy in there. i feed it 2 times a month only and feed my fish regularly feeding. Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted October 13, 2009 Author Share Posted October 13, 2009 I have been thinking lately that my tank is starting to get crowed and my zoas is showing a lot of growth covering my tank in different places. My point is i would like to share some of my zoas but i have no idea of how to sell them away on nano reef plus i didn't want to sell them to the LFS around me. If anyone interested in purchasing some, i'll probably start off selling my zoas collections and other few corals for a good reasonable price but let me get the names of them first and stay on the look out for my first sale. Thanks, -david I am just trying to make more room in my tank. A few corals to name and put on the sale item: - Orange Bam Bams - Green Bay Packers - Green Implosions - KeddRedds - Oreos - Wam'n Watermelon - Twilight Pink Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 Some new updates Just added this one to the tank today More growth on the mushies showing One of my all time favorite Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted October 15, 2009 Author Share Posted October 15, 2009 Last night I finally got the chance to do a water change the tank. I discovered little small pod and found a mini green crab but it was very quick and went hiding behind the rocks. I also saw alot more hitchhikers which was very interesting to the naked eyes. This morning I checked my tank again before I go to work I have notices 2 more babies Yuma have develope a small bud on one of the rocks. What a good day to start off. Link to comment
Gerber77 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 This is a very sweet little tank. The assortment of coral is awesome keep up the good work Link to comment
Boomboy Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 this is a pretty sweet tank, i love that orange monti on top lots of colour, keep it up this thing is going to look sweet when those corals grow out. Link to comment
badfish816 Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 you let me know when you are ready to get rid of one of those pink and one rainbow yumas.... Link to comment
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