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Hi everybody. I came here because I wanted to share my journey into Picco reef keeping; more accurately, because I could not find enough information anywhere, I decided to just go for it and share as I go. The photo and video posted this morning is of the tank 6weeks in cycle. no chemical or additives just a piece of rotting shrimp. The first water change is schedule in October which will be the 8th week (2nd month) here I will change 50% of the water in preparation for the addition of the clean-up crew and yes, I will share photos and videos as often as I can. As it is such a small tank I have not yet decided how to solve the top off issue; one thing that I will not do is but an ato, the last one I had malfunctioned and proceeded to dump 3 gallons of ro/di water into a 3 1/2-gallon nano reef tank and obviously flooding the floor!
 

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Hi everybody. I came here because I wanted to share my journey into Picco reef keeping; more accurately, because I could not find enough information anywhere, I decided to just go for it and share as I go. The photo and video posted this morning is of the tank 6weeks in cycle. no chemical or additives just a piece of rotting shrimp. The first water change is schedule in October which will be the 8th week (2nd month) here I will change 50% of the water in preparation for the addition of the clean-up crew and yes, I will share photos and videos as often as I can. As it is such a small tank I have not yet decided how to solve the top off issue; one thing that I will not do is but an ato, the last one I had malfunctioned and proceeded to dump 3 gallons of ro/di water into a 3 1/2-gallon nano reef tank and obviously flooding the floor!


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Hi everybody. I came here because I wanted to share my journey into Picco reef keeping; more accurately, because I could not find enough information anywhere, I decided to just go for it and share as I go. The photo and video posted this morning is of the tank 6weeks in cycle. no chemical or additives just a piece of rotting shrimp. The first water change is schedule in October which will be the 8th week (2nd month) here I will change 50% of the water in preparation for the addition of the clean-up crew and yes, I will share photos and videos as often as I can. As it is such a small tank I have not yet decided how to solve the top off issue; one thing that I will not do is but an ato, the last one I had malfunctioned and proceeded to dump 3 gallons of ro/di water into a 3 1/2-gallon nano reef tank and obviously flooding the floor!
To maintain salinity stability I see no other way but an ATO. I was doing manual TO and my salinity moved daily. In a small tank that fluctuation will be more.

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Hi everybody. I came here because I wanted to share my journey into Picco reef keeping; more accurately, because I could not find enough information anywhere, I decided to just go for it and share as I go. The photo and video posted this morning is of the tank 6weeks in cycle. no chemical or additives just a piece of rotting shrimp. The first water change is schedule in October which will be the 8th week (2nd month) here I will change 50% of the water in preparation for the addition of the clean-up crew and yes, I will share photos and videos as often as I can. As it is such a small tank I have not yet decided how to solve the top off issue; one thing that I will not do is but an ato, the last one I had malfunctioned and proceeded to dump 3 gallons of ro/di water into a 3 1/2-gallon nano reef tank and obviously flooding the floor!
Here's a page I found. It has a salinity calculator that should be helpful
 

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Hi everybody. I came here because I wanted to share my journey into Picco reef keeping; more accurately, because I could not find enough information anywhere, I decided to just go for it and share as I go. The photo and video posted this morning is of the tank 6weeks in cycle. no chemical or additives just a piece of rotting shrimp. The first water change is schedule in October which will be the 8th week (2nd month) here I will change 50% of the water in preparation for the addition of the clean-up crew and yes, I will share photos and videos as often as I can. As it is such a small tank I have not yet decided how to solve the top off issue; one thing that I will not do is but an ato, the last one I had malfunctioned and proceeded to dump 3 gallons of ro/di water into a 3 1/2-gallon nano reef tank and obviously flooding the floor!
Hi and welcome .
many years ago I started my systems the same way .
Ato can be safe if they’re setup properly .
newer ones seam to be almost fail safe .
that being said I have had the same tunze ato for years and never any issues .

feel free to share pictures of your build , and if you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask .
Now is the perfect time to Look into starting a build thread .
makes it easy to document your progress along the journey
 

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