I was lucky enough to bring a PAR meter home for a few hours to test my readings so I thought i would share for other #Eshopps #picoreef #aiprime owners. I was able to find that the diffuser from 3D Reefing dials back the numbers by about 25%.
Couple things to note:
Light is 6" from surface...
Pico reef has made it to one year! I really like this tank and it is doing awesome. I may have to trim the sinularia leather soon.
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...and see some more robust color. I also dose small amounts daily phytoplankton, daily coral aminos, and weekly microbacter7. I had some very pale filaments algae and I added some copepods and that cleared up. Overall, I think it’s doing all right at 3 months in
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...snails from them to to add to the tank.
Ended up using Dr. Tim’s and nitrocycle to kick start the bacteria population. I also added some pre cycled small marine pure blocks to the sump.
Planning to add a few more corals next week.
Some more pictures for scale
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...fish (Biota raised hairfin dwarf goby and a neon blue goby), sexy shrimp, and a couple different types of snails.
Featuring multicolored ricordea mushrooms, ultra rock flower anemones, an alien hands sinularia leather coral, a white polyp toadstool coral, and a duncan coral.
#picoreef...
Added the first fish. A Biota raised hairfin dwarf goby. He is *tiny*.
A four ricordea mushrooms, an alien hands sinularia leather coral, a white polyp toadstool and a duncan coral.
Also did the second water change. Currently planning 2 gallons (~75%) once a week.
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