Micro-Reefs Aquariums Pico

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I was so excited to get this tank delivered today!!

 

Mike @Micro-Reefs Aquariums does fantastic acrylic work and after having one of his frag racks in my hands, I couldn’t wait to see the quality of this build.

 

I’m thoroughly impressed with this tank! 
 

Build progress coming soon!! 

Packaged very safely!!! 

 

Look at everything nestled in there so nicely!

 

Sooo nice!!! Loving how it looks here!

 

 

Super pumped!!

 

 

Of course after that secure and careful packaging, it’s leak free!!

 

 

[The Rainy Day Aquarium]

Are you going to set this up as a cold water tank?

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18 hours ago, The Rainy Day Aquarium said:

Are you going to set this up as a cold water tank?

I think Mike uses thicker acrylic for cold water systems and would need an ice probe. Also no luck finding cold water stock locally. 

 

My wife said I was sleep talking about a bubble tip anemone Pico - guess I’ve been dreaming about endless possibilities haha!! 
 

Any ideas?

[The Rainy Day Aquarium]

Correct I wasn't sure if this was one of his coldwater tanks or not. I agree, coldwater livestock is a rarity. Haha oh boy you must be serious about an anemone! 😂

 

These portrait style tanks are pretty slick IMO. But present a challenge when scaping them. Maybe a floating reef structure of some sort with highlight corals like some hardy SPS up top and some button scolys/zoas or even NPS coral down at the bottom? Oh, and of course that anemone 😉😂

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1 hour ago, The Rainy Day Aquarium said:

Maybe a floating reef structure of some sort

Exactly what I was thinking. I’ve have some rubble and a new aquastik also some rock I can break up and do NSA with. I’ll be posting back soon with updates. Going to use turbo start 900 and algaebarn ammonia for the cycle. I still have plenty left from my LGA 4.1 Pico. 

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Also love tall portrait Tanks as well. This was my 15g tall I started in 2012.

 

 

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Annndddd found a filter for it!! Penguin 75 was a 1/4” too wide so I just took some side cuts and snipped a little excess plastic off the filter.. even more pumped now!! I probably won’t use the bio-wheel.

 

 

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Need to pull up the 3D printer and make a basket. 
 

[The Rainy Day Aquarium]

I'm actually pretty excited for what you end up doing with this tank 😁

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6 minutes ago, The Rainy Day Aquarium said:

I'm actually pretty excited for what you end up doing with this tank

I’ve been dying for another HOB filter tank, this is exactly what I needed. Can’t decide if I’m going to break up old (dead) live rock or go with Marco or ship some wet... it’ll be a cascade scape either way. 

To bare bottom or not bare bottom, that’s the question... I could probably get away with a goby/shrimp pair to stir up the sand. My most productive sand bed is 4” dot dot dot... lol

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Anddddd flow - circulates pretty well with the penguin... I’ll have to mess with it, pretty noisy...

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There’s where I trimmed the filter with side cuts...

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Took about 10 minutes to vacuum 20 pellets... pretty good for the penguin 75gph.. this will have SPS at the top of the scape for sure!!

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Thanks Euro Brace for catching the splash. This helped with evaporation too!!

 

 

[TheNanoReef]

Looks nice! I also have a tank coming in from Micro-Reefs. What are your plans for lighting? My tank is a similar length and width as yours and was wondering what lighting could fit under the hood.

[paulsz]

Nice tank! I was about to get one of micro Reef's nano tanks but then unexpected car costs occured. And soon it'll be holiday shopping season😫 maybe in the new year if still available. They look too good! 

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2 hours ago, paulsz said:

was about to get one of micro Reef's nano tanks

Probably the most cost and quality balanced tanks out there in my opinion. Just stumbled across these, can’t wait for the next builds Mike does...

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3 hours ago, TheNanoReef said:

What are your plans for lighting?

Going to do custom with help of @Reefkid88. Why spend high dollar when you can DIY!!