UNS 45S Pico

[3rd Coast Reefer]

Aquarium: UNS 45S
Tideline 3.5 Gallon
Stand: Night Stand
Light: Spectra Aqua Knight V2
Lominie Asta 20
Filter: Nicrew Slim HOB Filter
Heater: AquaMiracle 50W
Salt: Red Sea Coral Pro
Inhabitants: (3) Thor Amboinensis aka Sexy Shrimp

 

[Gumbies R Us]

What are your future plans for the tank?

 

[3rd Coast Reefer]

What are your future plans for the tank?

Short term I'm needing to add some more flow to the tank. I am trying to decide if I will do a small wave maker like the ZKSJ, a larger HOB modified as a makeshift fuge or a DIY canister filter.
Long term would be successfully breeding the sexy shrimp and have a thriving colony of these cool guys. My daughters love them so if the breeding is successful I would like to create picos for their rooms.
I am undecided on which corals will be going in here, it'll probably be whatever catches my eye at the LFS.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Short term I'm needing to add some more flow to the tank. I am trying to decide if I will do a small wave maker like the ZKSJ, a larger HOB modified as a makeshift fuge or a DIY canister filter.
Long term would be successfully breeding the sexy shrimp and have a thriving colony of these cool guys. My daughters love them so if the breeding is successful I would like to create picos for their rooms.
I am undecided on which corals will be going in here, it'll probably be whatever catches my eye at the LFS.

That would be neat to turn it into a sexy shrimp breeding tank. We have a small little return pump on our pico that has some amazing flow on it (I don't know the name of it, it came with our pico).

 

[3rd Coast Reefer]

That would be neat to turn it into a sexy shrimp breeding tank. We have a small little return pump on our pico that has some amazing flow on it (I don't know the name of it, it came with our pico).

My original plan was to do the flat 6 by reef casa but it would've taken up the majority of my night stand. That would've made flow so much easier to deal with since it's an all in one and comes with the pump like yours.

 

[3rd Coast Reefer]

Goniopora, Favia and Acan were in my 40g but the goby in there constantly drops sand on these so I decided to move them to the pico. The goni got beat down pretty bad and I know it looks ridiculous in this small of a tank but if I ever manage to catch the goby they will be back in the 40g.

 

[3rd Coast Reefer]

I recently lost the sexy shrimp inhabitants and the tank felt like it was lacking life so I went on a search to 4 different LFS and finally found 3 more. These little guys add so much character and movement to the tank. I wanted to build more of an Acan garden so I went shopping and added 3 acan lords. Saw a blastomussa merletti, and a rock flower anemone that I thought would fit the build so those were added too. I moved the corals around a bit and readjusted the light since the acans were moved from the sand to the rock structure and I think I'm happy with the placement. This little pico has become my favorite and I'm itching to start another just don't have any place for it at the moment. Here is a bit of a photo dump of newly added corals and FTS of the pico.

 

[Tahoe61]

Very nice. Congratulations on the new corals.

 

[3rd Coast Reefer]

Very nice. Congratulations on the new corals.

Thank you!

 

[3rd Coast Reefer]

Tested alk last night for the first time in a month or so and it was at 7 dkh. Started dosing All For Reef at .50 ml per day to try and get this up to 8 dkh.

 

[3rd Coast Reefer]

Upgraded the tank to a UNS 45S. This opens up the scape and will allow me to clean the glass a little easier. Everything has handled the switch well hoping they all remain happy. Thinking I probably should've put a frosted tint on the back but I think I'm going to try a GSP wall.

March 7