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[Ms. Joanne]

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!

 

[Reefer Matt]

 

[Jedi1199]

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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[Peace River]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!!

 

[Dreminon]

Welcome to the Salty Crew

 

[PeterEde]

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.

Welcome to R2R

 

[death-by-reef]

welcome 2 the reef

 

[death-by-reef]

im looking 2 get into pico keeping, is it fun?

 

[PeterEde]

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
https://www.hamzasreef.com/Contents/Calculators/

 

[kingoftheHiLLpeople]

Welcome!!!

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[reaper93]

Welcome!

 

[Reef and Dive]

Welcome to the best reefing forum in the world!

 

[CoralB]

Welcome !!! :cool:

 

[Rp8]

Welcome aboard!

 

[G Santana]

Welcome to the R2R

 

[4FordFamily]

Welcome home, you will love it here!

Keep us posted with lots of pics! :)

 

[ShepherdReefer]

Hello and welcome to the channel.

 

[Rmckoy]

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

 

[tharbin]

Welcome to R2R!