Hello all who find this...
I am new to saltwater and decided I would break the rules and go nano. So my choice of poison has been the JBJ Picotope. It is a mini 3 gallon bowfront. It has been running for 4 months now and seems to be doing great. My filter is a small HOB that came with the unit and I added a aquaclear 10 powerhead that is on a timer coming on and going off every 15 minutes. It has a little hydor heater that keeps at a comfy 82 degrees. The light is a corallife fixture I got off of ebay and has a 10k daylight bulb and an actinic bulb. It has 6lbs of live sand and 3lbs of live rock that I purchased from ebay also. The live rock was actually refugium rubble that I super glued together. I do about a 2000ml water change every 3 to 4 days and replace it with a synthetic salt mix, swapping that out once a month for seawater I purchased a my LFS. (read it was good for trace elements) I test for NH3, NO2, NO3, & pH everyother day and check my S.G. (1.026) and salinity (35%) daily.
My Inhabitants so far:
1 Artemia snail (or at least I think that is waht they are called)
4 Margarita Snails
6 Nassarius Snails
4 Tiny Blue Legged Hermit Crabs
1 Skunk Cleaning Shrimp
1 Clownfish
1 Feather Duster Worm
1 Unconfirmed Frogspawn Coral (please help confirm I.D.)
a touch of Green Caulpera and Red Grape Caulpera
So I think that is all the technical stuff. If I have missed anything please feel free to ask and I will try to answer as best as I can. I am open to all advise and suggestion on improving things or on future coral choices. I am also trying to figure out a good way to fassion a canopy top for this tank. Here is an attempt at photos...I hope you enjoy.
ok so I dont think I am smart enough to figure out the posting pictures thing so any help would be welcome with this matter as well