eddiesylas
Premium Member
This aquarium has been on a few different threads. I am going to highlight some of those posts as part of a build thread here.
I would like to house Dwarf Seahorses. As with many other aspects of this hobby the correct start will prevent loss. Without prior experience with horses I am (per usual) turning to this site for advise an guidence.
I completed [original] construction in December [2011]. I had trouble with the sand bed being anoxic. After replacing the HOB filter with a 425 Hydor Nano and installing an Mame Skimmer, O2 levels in the water column increased and the problem quickly resolved itself. After moving and starting over with this set up in October [2013] I am ready to go in a new direction. The tank has been fairly stable lots of pods and good chemistry for three or four months now.
Technical Details:
Pico Tank:
10 gallon 16x8x18 (~7.5 Gallons of water)
15 total pounds rock and sand (@ 1.5 lbs/gal)
Rock: (8)lbs. Cultured rock
Sand: (7)lbs. sand (½ tank @ 4" deep)
Flow: 420 GPH Hydor Koralia Nano
Lighting: DIY LED w/ Arduino Controller
Filtration: Purgeon and filter floss in a (Coke bottle) air bubble filter
Skimmer: DIY "œMame-style" skimmer from cut glass with Rena 300 air pump
Heater: 75 Watts (@ 2.5 - 5watts/gallon)
Original Post [2011]- "The concept of this Pico is to be a sea grass and coral aquarium. The goal is to balance chemistry (nitrate and phosphate) for good grass growth without creating an environment unsuited to Coral health. The more dynamic interests in the tank are planned sexy shrimp and their hosts."
For the most part I have achieved this but never did get those sexy shrimp (Thor amboinensis).
Current inhabitants:
Stylophorea (Birdsnest coral) sp.
Montipora capricornis sp.
Zoanthids
Gracilaria Hayi
Botryocladia sp.
Halodule Beaudettei (Seagrass!)
Cladophora
And a few other macros...
Clean up crew (detailed here only because many threads stress the importantance of knowing what does well with Zosterea):
Micro Brittle Stars/ Mini Stars/ Ciriths large and small/ Stometella/ nassarius snails/ bristle worms/ various other sand bed worms/ cryptic sponges/ Dusters etc.
I would like to house Dwarf Seahorses. As with many other aspects of this hobby the correct start will prevent loss. Without prior experience with horses I am (per usual) turning to this site for advise an guidence.
I completed [original] construction in December [2011]. I had trouble with the sand bed being anoxic. After replacing the HOB filter with a 425 Hydor Nano and installing an Mame Skimmer, O2 levels in the water column increased and the problem quickly resolved itself. After moving and starting over with this set up in October [2013] I am ready to go in a new direction. The tank has been fairly stable lots of pods and good chemistry for three or four months now.
Technical Details:
Pico Tank:
10 gallon 16x8x18 (~7.5 Gallons of water)
15 total pounds rock and sand (@ 1.5 lbs/gal)
Rock: (8)lbs. Cultured rock
Sand: (7)lbs. sand (½ tank @ 4" deep)
Flow: 420 GPH Hydor Koralia Nano
Lighting: DIY LED w/ Arduino Controller
Filtration: Purgeon and filter floss in a (Coke bottle) air bubble filter
Skimmer: DIY "œMame-style" skimmer from cut glass with Rena 300 air pump
Heater: 75 Watts (@ 2.5 - 5watts/gallon)
Original Post [2011]- "The concept of this Pico is to be a sea grass and coral aquarium. The goal is to balance chemistry (nitrate and phosphate) for good grass growth without creating an environment unsuited to Coral health. The more dynamic interests in the tank are planned sexy shrimp and their hosts."
For the most part I have achieved this but never did get those sexy shrimp (Thor amboinensis).
Current inhabitants:
Stylophorea (Birdsnest coral) sp.
Montipora capricornis sp.
Zoanthids
Gracilaria Hayi
Botryocladia sp.
Halodule Beaudettei (Seagrass!)
Cladophora
And a few other macros...
Clean up crew (detailed here only because many threads stress the importantance of knowing what does well with Zosterea):
Micro Brittle Stars/ Mini Stars/ Ciriths large and small/ Stometella/ nassarius snails/ bristle worms/ various other sand bed worms/ cryptic sponges/ Dusters etc.