My 1/2 Gal Pico

[genix]

About 3 weeks old now. I used sand, rock, and frags from my established tanks and had no cycle. I wanted to keep this setup as simple as possible so i used readily availible components. Marina 1.87L Betta tank, Elite Mini powerfilter, Coralife 10W 50/50 bulb, and a $10 desk lamp.

Inhabitants so far:
-2 sexy shrimp
-1 blue leg hermit
-1 nassarius snail
-xenia
-zoos
-green hairy shroom
-striped shroom
-frogspawn
-green star polyps

 

[55semireef]

That frogspawn wil definately outgrow that tank and same with the Xenia. Other than that looks good.

 

[genix]

thanks. to be honest...i am having more fun with this tank than my new 30 cube, or my established 30 tall. i love all my tanks but this pico stuff is fun! it might be because it doesn't cost a lot of time or money for big results. and the cool factor is huge!

 

[edwing206]

sweet tank

 

[binaryterror]

That tank looks awesome!

 

[BLKTANG]

Cool lookin little tank.

 

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

very nice skills indeed...

 

[mr pink floyd]

how do you keep the temp in it?

 

[Halmotors]

You know, honestly...your nano is the first I could actually call "cute".

 

[genix]

thanks for the comments, everyone.

floyd, there's no heater, so i just rely on stable room temp. right now temp fluctuates between 72 and 82. i'll start a reverse lighting schedule soon.

 

[genix]

a new plate coral, boxer crab, and zoo frags. i've been doing 40% w/c every two weeks. nitrates are zero. frogspawn frag hasn't grown and doesn't open very fully. i blame this on massive temp swings (10 degrees F). i carefully feed the boxer crab one or two single brine shrimp every few days, and sometimes the sexy shrimps will take one as well.

 

[kiknchikn]

Very cool. Keep the pics comin!

 

[GSMguy]

that is sick i want to do that

 

[InvaderJim]

That's really cool. Makes me want to put black sand in my tank.

 

[Scott523]

Is the live rock the only filtration?

nice tank!!

 

[genix]

nah, i've got an elite mini submersible filter in there. had to mod the impeller to reduce flow. now i kinda wanna try some zoos with no filtration but LR, lol.

 

[siren]

looks like you're having lots of fun! Whats the yellow thing in the back right corner?

 

[genix]

ah yeah it's lotsa fun.

the yellow thing is an orange yuma ricordea. i had fragged a large polyp into four pieces about 2 months ago. one piece floated away and i didn't find it until a couple weeks ago. it bleached from lack of light, but is now regaining some of its colour.

 

[cyenna]

what do you use for heating?

 

[genix]

nothing.