pico

Purchased in late July, used for 4 months and still under warranty for another year and half. This little thing packs a punch! Saw my mushrooms split, hammers and duncans grew some more heads. All in all it's a great entry level light for beginners. I ran it at 80% blues and 20% whites for 8...

Morning Friends, Today I start my R2R journey as I build the perfect little reef for my home office. I am of course talking about the Eshopps Deskmate 4.8 gallon aquarium. Alright, I may have not been 100% truthful, but I didn’t lie. I’m starting the R2R documentation of my tank build, the...

Hello all! I’m new to the forum, however, I’ve read plenty of discussions to help me on my reef tank journey. Figured I’d officially sign up! To introduce my tank: I’ve got a fluval evo 13.5 that is a few months out from the one year mark. Plenty of ups and downs, but for my first ever tank...

1) Fiji Cube 20 Peninsula Pro 2) Innovative Marine Fusion Pro 2 20 gal 3) Innovative Marine Fusion Pro 2 Lagoon - 25 gal Peninsula was the preference, but I like the build and look of the IM and the extra width of the IM lagoon.

I'm looking into getting a Lifegard Aquatics 3.8 gallon tank, I've never had a tank before but my dad has had multiple successful tanks and I know what I'm doing. I want to grow some softies, but mainly LPS maybe SPS. I don't know what light to get or what wattage I should be looking for. The...

Hey Reefers, Just started up a new pico build with the Reef Casa Flat 6 that was designed up in Canada by Fragbox! The ultra shallow lagoon style should make for a nice unique desktop tank. Equipment List: Tank - Flat 6 from www.reefcasa.com Lighting - AI Prime HD16 Return - Reef Casa Pump...

This is my second saltwater tank and first build on reef2reef (also posting on another forum). I’ve been doing freshwater for 30 years or so (as long as I can remember), and started a 20 gallon nano about a year and a half ago. I used a Waterbox Clear Mini 6 to build a custom AIO using 1/8"...

For a 4 gallon reef with simple contents, like zoas, pods, and perhaps a frogspawn, what would be an ideal pump? I'm looking for minimum sizes here. Do I have to look out for a potential overheating problem? Is an airpump preferable at this size, or does it not produce enough flow for corals?

An update on the small PNW Custom nano tank I set up about a month ago. This time I put a $1 bill next to it for size reference as some people thought I made a typo when I said it was just 40oz! Started off with very frequent water changes, now plan on doing just one 50% change every week. It...

Hello everybody tuning in on my build thread! I am new to the reef2reef forums, and I am going to be building a 2 Gallon pico reef in a Jar. Follow along as I slowly but surely bring this ordinary Jar to life! Why? There are a few reasons on why I am looking to build a reef in a 2 Gallon Jar...

Let’s get a real time look at what a small pico tank looks like if you neglect it and don’t do your regular water changes. I’m going to test it today with my Hanna and than do a 50% water change, wait an hour and check again. I’ve been pretty busy at work and haven’t done a great job taking...

Hi, I’ve kept reef tanks before but have little to no knowledge on predatory fish. I’m interested in keeping some kind of predatory fish, like a wasp fish or frog fish but like I said have no idea what would be good for a 10 gallon tank, or if there is anything at all. Any fish you all would...

I have a pico that I've been keeping corals and nems succesefully for months (zoas, ricoria, rock flowers) and I really want some sort of invert but I keep killing my shrimp and I have no idea why. Tank is definitely cycled, ammonia and nitrite is at 0 and nitrate in the tank is lower than the...

Hey guys and girls! I was wondering: I have 6 sexy shrimp in a aquamedic armatus XS pico tank with a couple of mushrooms, sand and rocks. I am looking for pellets or other kind of food to feed the sexy shrimp but have not yet been succesfull. My problems: - If i feed, some pellets or mysis...

Eshopps Deskmate 4.8 System: 4.8 Gallons Launched 7/1/23 ATO: Prism Mixed Reef: Soft, LPS, No SPS Corals: 8 Fish: 1 - Nearly naked Clownfish (George) Cleanup Crew: Blue Leg Hermits, Nassarius Snails Return Pump: Sicce Nano w/VC Single RFG nozzle Skimmer: Bubble Magus MiniQ nano BioMedia...

Hey all, looking to set up a small jar pico for my desk. I was originally going to use a PAR38 tuna blue bulb, but I can only find them for $80 CAD here. Any other bulbs or pico friendly fixture recommendations would be appreciated.

So, The pieces I have been waiting on have arrived - pump and outflow accessories - and I'm going to try my hand at rebuilding the AIO chamber of the tank I have. The tank is a 3 gallon Marineland contour AIO that I ripped the back partition out of in order to give the tank a larger display...

SO. Some of you may know from previous posts and comments that I have a desktop freshwater betta tank that housed a betta, shrimp and plants. It was a gift to myself when I started working from home, and it's been a lovely little tank. I've had it for threeish years now, and have done a few...

This is a problem I've been having with this setup pretty consistently. Nutrients are always on the ultra low to zero side and no amount of feeding is helping the situation. I initially thought All-For-Reef was the cause due to its carbon dosing effect, but this time I'm using ESV B-Ionic and...

Tank is a Fluval Spec III 2.6g (10.8" L -- 11.8" W -- 8.7" H) I took these readings with an Apogee MQ-510 that I borrowed from the local fishie store. This light seems to be a bit controversial. Some love it - others hate it. My opinion? It's an amazing light that gets a bad rep from people who...

A couple months back, I was taking a stroll through the local dollar general. Well, one of 5, because when there’s one dollar general, there’s another. While looking in the sale section, I noticed a jar, a unique one at that. It was tilted sideways and looked a little..odd? Different? Strange...

Wow. First of all, hello to every single member on here. I have been browsing these forums since ... 2013 When I was 15. In a sense, you all taught me to be a better reefer and I've gone through the last 10 years of my life growing and learning with all of you. I feel honored to be posting here...

Hi everyone, Longtime lurker, first time poster. I've had my tyree toadstool for about a year now. I started with a 5g tank, and boy did he grow quick! In July I set up a 10g IM Nuvo. I let it cycle for a couple months, added some hermits and a goby, a couple zoas, all is well (nitrates are a...

Hello, I retired my 10g last year as I was moving a lot and was to big to easily move. I’m comfortable moving tanks without destabilizing it to much so not worried about that. I want to get into desktop reef tanks. I’m wanting 1gallon but no bigger than 2.5 gallons. Any recommendations for AIO...

Hello! I started reefing 2 years ago. When I was still living in Brazil. At that time, I was learning a lot with youtube videos. Berlin method is widely promoted, so for a new guy, I thought this was the only way to reef. My first AIO lasted a bit more than a year until I had to move to the US...