I was hopping around the lfs’s today and came across a 1g lifeguard Aquatics pico tank, Impulsively it had to be mine
I have had a few tanks over the years but nothing this “pico”, my current set up is a waterbox peninsula 25 and I have always regretted not making a build thread for it or any other tank I have had for that matter.
Well if I am going to try my hand i might as well start small (literally) so here is what I have so far.
Tank
Lifeguard Aquatics
Quiet One 200 (came with)
That’s all I have for equipment so far, I need to do research into some suitable heaters and evaporation control (recommendations welcome)
I will most likely make a plexiglass cover to help with evap and maybe just top up manually.
The over flow chamber is quite small and the pump takes up the majority of the room so a heater would have to be pretty small.
for the scape I have some extra caribsea life rock left over from my current tank, my immediate plan was to try to conserve space with the dimensions I have to work with.
I decided I would use the corner overflow as the focus for the scape and
I wanted to be able to remove it easily if needed, I took an old DVD case and chopped it up smashed a few pieces of rock made some dust to cover the cracks and began gluing it on, a few Jack and cokes later and below is what I came up with. It may be the Jack but I am pretty happy with what I have so far.
I have had a few tanks over the years but nothing this “pico”, my current set up is a waterbox peninsula 25 and I have always regretted not making a build thread for it or any other tank I have had for that matter.
Well if I am going to try my hand i might as well start small (literally) so here is what I have so far.
Tank
Lifeguard Aquatics
5.90" x 5.90" x 7.87",
LightLominie LED Aquarium Light, Nano Asta 20 ( on order)
PumpQuiet One 200 (came with)
That’s all I have for equipment so far, I need to do research into some suitable heaters and evaporation control (recommendations welcome)
I will most likely make a plexiglass cover to help with evap and maybe just top up manually.
The over flow chamber is quite small and the pump takes up the majority of the room so a heater would have to be pretty small.
for the scape I have some extra caribsea life rock left over from my current tank, my immediate plan was to try to conserve space with the dimensions I have to work with.
I decided I would use the corner overflow as the focus for the scape and
I wanted to be able to remove it easily if needed, I took an old DVD case and chopped it up smashed a few pieces of rock made some dust to cover the cracks and began gluing it on, a few Jack and cokes later and below is what I came up with. It may be the Jack but I am pretty happy with what I have so far.