A 2.5g pico

[pandora32]

Heres my 2.5g pico i set up tonight. I used a top fin 20 i had laying around and have a 25 watt heater i also had laying around. Used water from my reef as well as the rock. I got the sand from a friends mantis tank. The light is a coralife PC. Let me know what you think. Thanks go to rothany for the inspiration.

 

[Rothany]

Hehehe love it. 2.5 pico reefs are awesome . What are you using for filtration.

 

[chickenofthesea]

PICOnation strikes again! I am seriously working on a logo. I will post it when I'm done, LOL.

 

[pandora32]

Shirts hats bumper stickers! We are takin over! Lol! Im just using a Top Fin 20 power filter. You can replace the carbon in the bag with fresh carbon or whatever. It says it has a 100 gph pump, but i doubt that. Maybe ill take the pump off and check its flow.

 

[pandora32]

I tested my parameters yesterday. Mag was a lil low. So i dosed it. Calcium and dkh were a lil low as well so i dosed for these as well. Well i should say...overdosed! Time for me to do a 50% water change...1 1/4g...lol.

 

[pandora32]

Did my water change a couple days ago. MUCH BETTER!! Glad nothing was in it when i overdosed my tank. Parameters look grat now as well as temp and sg.

 

[pandora32]

Put some corals in lastnight. Tell me what you think. The corals are from my display. I like the closeup of the orange plate coral.

 

[user 26995]

Those are very pretty!
Looking great!

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[pandora32]

Thank you lorrie

 

[pandora32]

Bummer for my pico. It crashed. Got real busy at home and job hunting and the lil guy didnt make it. I didnt loose any corals but they were pretty bad. They are back in my big tank now getting their color back. I took the acro validia (i remembered lorrie!) to the shark reef and eric has it in his display now. It was pretty brown when i took it but is a LOT happier now in his tank.

 

[Krish]

Sorry to hear...Unfortunately, the smaller the tank, the harder it is to maintain/keep stable.


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[Bobby brown]

Any update on your pico today?

 

[pandora32]

Sittin dry in the closet. Funny you ask, i was just thinking about setting it up again, only this time using a aqua clear dilter modded for fuge use. Run a softy pico instead of trying it sps.

 

[Bobby brown]

Sounds awesome! I hope this encourages you to set it back up!