Nemesis Pico 1.5 Gallon DIY - Tankcastrophy - sprung a leaker.

[Sunstar]

I thought I would pre-emptive the looking goods :3

 

The little sucker has been a lot more work than I had thought it would be.

[.Newman.]

of course, picos are a lot of work if you start getting advanced with things like LED lighting and crazy corals I learned my lesson.

[Sunstar]

I have an even smaller body of water... 2 Cups. In a betta bowl. No flow at all, but It gets a 100% waterchange nightly. Either fresh from the mixing bucket or from the 2 gallon. It's under a 50/50 bulb I removed from the initial nemesis nano project has Macro algaes live rock some excess palys and my little parasitic Isopod. I s hould put a tang in it.

[.Newman.]

lol a tang fry might fit. how is the isopod doing w/o a host?

[Sunstar]

it seems to be one of those that scavenge. I was told it was a parasite. a Cinilid or something to that effect.

 

 

I throw in bits of brine shrimp. I see the creature rarely. but it's still alive.

[.Newman.]

that does look more like a parasitic one. maybe its special in that it can survive w/o a host.

[Sunstar]

Speshul <3 I removed it. but I did not feel right killing it. So I tried to make it a sort of habitat and feed it periodically. Seems to take food quite happily.

[Builder Anthony]

Ya im in the same bucket with a drommible crab.

[Sunstar]

a what crab?

[.Newman.]

a sponge carrier crab lol.

[Sunstar]

 

I got several new corals this afternoon. Added them and I will monitor progress to make sure everyone is happy.

[WRH]

I got several new corals this afternoon. Added them and I will monitor progress to make sure everyone is happy.

I see a new Monti plate coral or two in there. What else? This is looking really quite amazing you know. The macros you have in there work so well in the scape.

[.Newman.]

LED Shimmer: Your Camera Captures It Well

[Sunstar]

Not really sure the names. the fellow I bougth the frags from also couldn't remember saying he was bad with names. Some plating stuff, green Monti I have a tiny smidgen of purple monti somewhere else, chalice, hammer, blue and green candycane (losing one head of the green) acropora kenya tree and some other softy bits and peices. zoas. A few types of macro algae.

 

I really like how the grape is growing along the base of the rock. I need to prune the prolifera as it is living up to its name and being prolific.

 

Not sure if the LED shimmer is good, I wish I could get truer colours for the corals.

[.Newman.]

It looks like a quality FTS to me. I forgot how to set my camera up so that it can catch the changing blue-white shimmer in my pico. I noticed my FTS got more static water conditions.

[Sunstar]

I use a tripod and set the shutter to a fairly slow speed. At contest end, I want to get my mums camera to see if I can get a better pic.

[Sunstar]

Things looked really happy today:

 

[brandon429]

I mean that is 10 out of 10 nice tango man.

[.Newman.]

they sure do! though placing so many SPS branchers so close to one another could be a bad idea, no?

[Sunstar]

Could be, but I am monitoring it closely.

[Sunstar]

Once my migraine has passed, my one project will get underway...

[Sunstar]

Oh While I am heading out to Sayal way, hopefully tomorrow I want to make an inquiry about a tank glass cutting.

 

 

The Nemesis planned after the contest. Will have a sump and whatnot.

[alfiefive]

do you really think that your tank nearly crashed because one snail died?

[WRH]

do you really think that your tank nearly crashed because one snail died?

What gave you that impression?

Two factors went into their cause, I believe. One is the death of the Nassarius snail. Hermit was eating it. The second is missed food from feeding the sun coral.

It's only a 2 gallon tank, less the occupied space of rock and sand, maybe around ~1.5 gallons. It wouldn't take much to foul it, especially in the first 37 days of the tanks life. The feedings of that large black branching sun coral weren't helping.

[Sunstar]

I did remove the sun, and avoid feedings until things stabalised. removed the snail or anything that could rot and quickly cause the tank to foul. 2 gallons is total tank volume. it is MUCH less since there is sand + rock... The honest answer with the crash was some impatience. I needed to slow down. I have learned the tank's rythems more or less and now I can work with it rather than against it. I want to add some black sun, but I am gonna do a smaller head or two rather than a huge branch.

 

To remedy having nothign to clean out hard to find snail deaths, I added some more life. such as fire/bristle worms, pods and whatnot. More macro algaes. More frequent smaller watechanges. It was a learning experiance.

 

Death of snail + Food waste = whoopsie.

 

I got the parts for two ATO's.