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Drew's 5.5 Gallon Pico Reef


dferrari13

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Hey what's up...been in the hobby for over 18 years at freshwater and about 6 years at saltwater... .I just recently started my 7th tank and it's a 5.5 gallon pico reef.....this tank was left over from when I had originally tried to dabble into saltwater about 6 years ago (this tank quickly got upgraded to my 5 year old 10 gallon reef tank which can also be found on this site). Its located on top of my mini fridge in my man cave....and so far its up and running pretty well for about 6 months now. (3 month cycle, 3 month added inhabitants)

 

So here's an equipment list....

 

-50w cobalt northern heater

-Smart micro ATO

-Aqua Clear 30 filled with

purigen/chemipure blue nano/filter sponge

-Noname Micro pump as powerhead

-Innovative Marine Skye Light

-Custom acrylic top

-Nano Flipper algae scrubber 

-8lbs. Of Carib Sea "life rock"

-10lbs. Of Carib Sea live sand

 

Tank Inhabitants:

-4 red legged hermits

-2 blue legged hermits

-Blue yellow tailed damsel

-Green Clown Goby

-Skunk cleaner shrimp

-Duncan

-Rasta Zoa

-Bam Bam Zoa

- Purple stylophora

-Seriatopora Hystrix

-Jack o lantern lepto

 

 

 

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Going thru some growing pains.....aka new tank syndrome.....got some waste away gel tabs and they seem to be working.....lost a bunch of corals and it doesn't look pretty yet but here's a FTS

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Terrible outbreak of dinos....been battling for months. Grabbed a UV filter...added Dr.Tims Wate Away, im trying to feed more to add nitrates and trying to do alot of manual removal of the Dinos.

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On 7/2/2020 at 9:21 AM, dferrari13 said:

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That hermit is truly adorable. Quick question about your GCG - did he ever nip at your seriatopora? Thinking of adding one to my pico, but I'm not sure if it'll nip at my SPS's polyps. 🤔

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I’m just coming out of a long dinos battle too. I fostered cyano growth so that the dinos would be out-competed, then from that point forward it was the comparatively way battle against cyano lol

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On 10/2/2020 at 10:31 PM, Snow_Phoenix said:

That hermit is truly adorable. Quick question about your GCG - did he ever nip at your seriatopora? Thinking of adding one to my pico, but I'm not sure if it'll nip at my SPS's polyps. 🤔

Nope....ive never seen him nip at anything

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