3G Desktop Pico Reef

[Arkardios]

Finally starting a pico! Been wanting a tiny reef on my desk for a while.

Tank's a 2.5g Dennerle with an AquaClear 20 for flow & filtration and an Amtra Vega Reef 7.2W light.
Heater's an Aquael 25W, though I wouldn't mind going even smaller (and more subtle) with a Fluval P10 or similar...

Used mostly dry rock with a few small rocks taken from my main display. No sand in this one, we'll see how that goes.
Plan for livestock is various soft corals, some mushrooms, and zoas. Lot's of zoas. ;-)

I might also add a pair of hand-raised sexy shrimp. Though they've got some growing to do still.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Following along!

 

[Arkardios]

I added the first corals pretty much instantly, since I was impatient to get things going lol. Just pulled some frags from the main reef and popped 'em in.

The rest (for now ) arrived today!
Fire & ice, gorilla nip + free mystery zoa, more GSP (since the one I already had is a drama queen), and some sarcothelia edmonsoni.

An interesting hitchhiker was a tiny tubeless feather duster. Never seen one naked before!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I added the first corals pretty much instantly, since I was impatient to get things going lol. Just pulled some frags from the main reef and popped 'em in.

The rest (for now ) arrived today!
Fire & ice, gorilla nip + free mystery zoa, more GSP (since the one I already had is a drama queen), and some sarcothelia edmonsoni.

An interesting hitchhiker was a tiny tubeless feather duster. Never seen one naked before!

Glad to see you got coral in there!

 

[Arkardios]

Things are going good. There's a good bit of algae on the rocks & glass and the snails are busy munching all day long.

Evaporation is a real annoyance right now. I have to top off twice a day atm, which I do manually with a squeeze bottle. Don't know if I'll splurge on an ATO just yet.

 

[Arkardios]

I regret putting eggcrate under the rocks... Nightmare of a detritus trap :grinning-face-with-sweat:

 

[davidflagg]

How's it looking so far?

Nice looking shrimp. Do you have to feed them, or do they just clean the glass and egg crates all day?

 

[Arkardios]

Tank's doing very well. I did add a pair of young sexy shrimp and two rhodactis. There's already some really good growth from the GSP.

The sexy shrimp are bothering the zoas a bit, but nothing drastic just yet. Fingers crossed ;)
They get pellets every few days.

Lights are out for me already, I'll post a pic tomorrow!

 

[Arkardios]

Comparing to old pics you can really see the growth of the GSP.

 

[Arkardios]

Been a while. I decided to 'upgrade' to a 3 gal vertical tank, and while I was at it I also removed the two sexy shrimp. They were just bothering the zoas too much. Maybe I'll add 'em again when the zoas have spread and established a bit more, but... I don't know. We'll see. :)

 

[Maxcito]

Love the new look. Thinking about starting a desk tank too. Thank you for the inspiration.

 

[rhizotron]

Cool little setup.

Following along.

 

[Arkardios]

Got my very first LPS coral a couple weeks back. Wasn't sure at first whether they sent me a euphyllia or galaxea, but now that it's grown a bit I believe it's a galaxea.
Second ever LPS arrived today, a duncan. Been wanting one of those for a while. :)
Things are just going really well with this tank.

 

[Arkardios]

Favorite hitchhiker.

 

[Arkardios]

Had it's ups and downs in the last year, mostly summer heat related, but it's still standing. :)