3gal. Pico. What's in yours? Filtration/stock
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surfnsalt
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Beauty and dude where's my car.. Awesome.This is the tank my water, live rock, and sand came from. Always clean as a whistle when it comes to algae.
I've heard the same thing from some people and do a 25-35% water change every week and all parameters are good, I have purchased several skimmers and that's been a disaster from the hydro slim to the reef octopus nano, too many micro bubbles to say the least, all went back to Amazon. I've just heard good things about a refugium and thought it would be easy to do , as I've said I'm a newby and trying to figure out all the mechanical stuff is hard
oh and I have a Aqua clear 20 hob with pretty much what you have so I guess we are doing something right.!
Will you come to my house and show me how to set that up?This is how I added a refugium to my 3 gal. It's an air tight container that is gravity fed back to the filter. It seems to work great and is growing chaeto like a boss. (At least for a nano)
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I can do a quick build thread for you when I get home from work if you are interested? It was a really easy project to do and it took maybe an hour to finish. Like I said before, I've had great results from it. I trim back the chaeto once every couple weeks now.
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Thanks man, it's a work in progress. I was hoping someone would catch the movie. haha. classic. Heres the display of that tank if you are interested.
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surfnsalt
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Awesome tank. Really. Great photography too. Does the puffer nip at anything. I had one that was a nightmare. Here's my 29bio. Wife says I can do my big bulid in next house. Coming soonThanks man, it's a work in progress. I was hoping someone would catch the movie. haha. classic. Heres the display of that tank if you are interested.
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Thanks man, I love it. That picture is from a while back when I had the puffer still and it did some damage to a couple colonies of zoas and that's when I had it. Now it hangs out in my fowlr tank.. I couldn't get rid of him, such a fun to watch fish. Ugh, I wish I still had my biocube. I'm really interested in drilling one out for a sump and what not. I look forward to seeing your upgrade, I'm in the process myself.
This is my 3 gallon, it's also on my night stand next to my bed. I don't really run anything special for filtration. Just some carbon, chaeto and some live rock in the back and a polishing pad.
Zoa dominant pico? Zoas don't like my tank for some reason. They do Okay but they don't thrive or grow as much as I want them to. Maybe my tank is too clean?This is my 3 gallon, it's also on my night stand next to my bed. I don't really run anything special for filtration. Just some carbon, chaeto and some live rock in the back and a polishing pad.
I keep my tank pretty clean and they spawn like crazy. Zoas have been pretty easy for me to keep. What do you keep you salinity at and magnesium and calcium?
Last time I check was 5 months ago my salinity is usually around 1.025, cal 440, alk is 9. Magnesium is unknown.
I however do a 15-20 percent water change every 5 days. Everything else is doing great and exploding in growth. Just my zoas grow really slow but they do grow. There is one zoa frag I've had for a year that only grew 1 head. Even my blastos welsi grew a new small head and I would consider that harder than zoas.
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I don't like those anymore only have a few left in my 30 gallon tank. Pretty sure I got poisoned by them last year. I was scrubbing algae off of rocks with a toothbrush that had those on them too trying to be careful but I think I got some in my eye. My I was very irritated for two days followed by migraines chills fever and flu like symptoms for 4 days it was horrible. Even though they're so pretty and it's fine if you're careful I just look past them at the store
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