Coffee93's 6.6G Pico

[Coffee93]

Hi everyone

Start: 01/11/2010


Equipment

1. 6.6 gallon tank
2. 1 Narva Blue 11w + Blue LED's
3. koralia nano
4. 11lbs Live Rock
5. 4lbs Live Sand
6. Purigen - 50ml
7. Carbon - 30ml
   

Livestock

1. Tubastrea Faulkneri
2. Zoanthids
3. Red, Blue and green mushrooms
4. Kenya Tree Coral
5. Protopalythoa
6. Rhodactis
7. Xenia umbellata
8. Actinia Equina
9. 2 feather duster worms
10. pair of Amphiprion Ocellaris
11. Skunk Cleaner shrimp
12. 3 sexy shrimps

Photos:

 

[vfa-14]

WOW, those are some awesome pictures!!! Any of the full setup?

 

[eweinig]

Nice pics! +1 on the FTS, please.

 

[Coffee93]

FTS:

 

[timjoemak]

GEEZ how do you keep the tank so clean??!!

 

[Coffee93]

timjoemak I use Purigen - 50ml(it works really good), Carbon 30ml, water changes: 2 liters(0.5 gallon) per week. Salt - Reef Crystals. When I change the water i dose few drops of BioDigest/Bioptim. I clean the glass everyday. I have about 15 little sand snails(nassarius)
Maybe little more about Feeding

For clowns, shrimps and Sun Coral:
brine shrimp, krill.

For corals:
live phytoplankton (4ml daily),
Grotech Vitamino M(Vitamins and Amino Acids) 0.8ml 3 times/week,
Prodibio ReefBooster once every 2 weeks(about 0.1ml)
Vitamin C - 1 drop/week

 

[duncantse]

Do you put purigen first so the water flows though the purigen first?

 

[Coffee93]

bags with purigen and carbon are hanging near the circulation pump, because I don't have sump etc.

 

[aquadonkey]

Beautiful tank!! And great photography too.
Do you have any trouble with the sexies picking at the feather duster worms?
I have a 7G tank with 3 sexies and just added two mini-feather-duster-worm-colonies and it looks like they're getting eaten

 

[Coffee93]

thanks for compliments!
aquadonkey My sexies don't eat feather duster worms, but sometimes they eat zoanthids (only when I don't feed them for long time)
Try to feed them once a day (or once per 2 days) and they should stop picking at the feather duster worms

 

[kelso1980]

WOw! what an inspiration!

 

[map95003]

Great looking nano, I like the layout.

 

[cwazy clown]

the color contrast in those pics is INTENSE>

 

[Coffee93]

My Sun Coral, Tubastrea Faulkneri

 

[Coffee93]

In last Saturday I sold Sun Coral (because water in my tank was really dirty - I fed this coral very much) Now I have more than 100 tiny polyps on the live rock - sun coral spawned eggs 1 month ago I think about LPS Coral on place of Tubastrea - what do you think about favia/favites? (or maybe Bubble coral)

 

[Coffee93]

New photos:

 

[ange062]

amazing pics and especially amazing tank! Going to purchase a Tokina 100mm 2.8 macro lens tomorrow, thanks!! lol

 

[rad1]

nicely executed. great pics too!

 

[mantis1437]

Beautiful Pico! I never had any success on these tiny tank. Keep up the good work.

 

[duncantse]

Beautiful tank!