2.7g Pico Pest Tank Office Build

[DracoKat]

Tank is a year old this week! Whoo!

nothing exciting to show for it since the last update, lol

 

[Dassem]

Im so happy this is still running, been following you since you first posted on nanoreef! (Im the rope btw) im in loce with the little yellow goby ♡♡♡

 

[DracoKat]

its still running! Many times I think about restarting it, then I think.. I want to see which corals will ultimately take over the tank, lol

 

[Dassem]

its still running! Many times I think about restarting it, then I think.. I want to see which corals will ultimately take over the tank, lol

I believe gsp will XD im still half half on my mixed reef i always wanted to do a full mushroom tank with a xenia back wall and some kenyas. But its too late now hahah

 

[DracoKat]

Updated shot from today

 

[Dassem]

Updated shot from today

Man i love the density of corals, someones gotta do a colorful kenya tree/ mushroom tank.

 

[DracoKat]

 

[DracoKat]

blah, quality of the image downgraded badly here

Edit: Fixed the quality of the images

 

[Emmanuel Zamora]

Is this little still growing?!

 

[RamsReef]

I hope so lol love it.

 

[Emmanuel Zamora]

Same here, about to start me one also!

 

[Sipec]

Update?

 

[sideofabarn]

Easily my favorite nano.

Please tell us your maintenance and feeding schedule. Also, manual topoff or ATO?

Many thanks for the knowledge

 

[BranchingHammer]

Still growing @DracoKat?

 

[DracoKat]

Aww thank you all! I appreciate the comments!

It's still growing! Had a bit of an issue water quality since the company changed the water cooler, nitrites spiked and nearly killed everything.

but now I started buying distilled water and manually topping off, everything perked back up.
I have not done a water change in 3 months in this tank- everyone says I need to water change at least twice a week in a pico, but if everything is growing and testing shows in range, why?

I feed once or twice a day with frozen food. danged goby does not like pellets, lol.

My YCG did die, sadly. But I found a black clown goby and he has as much personality as the yellow.

here's the latest tank shot as of today- cellphone which makes it hard to capture the colors as it really is. You can see some loss from the water issues.

 

[BranchingHammer]

Nice

 

[DracoKat]

This awesome little tank's been shut down a year ago due to lack of time at work to upkeep it. It had fallen down hill again and I had decided to break it down then. I took the tank home and converted it to an easy planted betta tank.

Had the betta for a year, but no passion for fresh water tank. I got the bug and decided to rehome my betta and gifted the plants for my father and converted the tank back to a pico tank. I gave the rocks a good cleaning a year ago, and reused them all in a new aquascape in the tank. I used an old filter I had stored, it's not a 50, but modded it to hold floss in the back- I may purchase a 50 later on to have more water volume and space. It gives nice flow!

Today it's wet.

What corals would you put in this tank? Should I make it another pest tank? I can't decide!

 

[count krunk]

GSP, xenia, zoas, and mushrooms would look great and be a lot easier to keep growing

 

[Sipec]

Nice to hear from you, I think about this tank every now and again
As for stocking feather duster worms could be interesting, although it may be a bit small
Maybe some of those if they fit and some shrooms

 

[Kehy]

Not gonna lie, this is one of the tanks that convinced me to try salt. I'm glad to see it getting a new life