2.5 gallon pico from the begining

[jason the filter freak]

So here it is the replacement for the 3 gallon project that failed miserably.

 

 

So far it is:

2.5 Gallon by perfecto

T5 lighting

50 watt Hydor heater

Fluval 2 intake filter

Hydor Rotating Deflector

Acrylic Splash guard mod

1 digital thermometer

 

Residents:

2 neon blue hermits

1 Zebra hermit

2 Red Tipped Hermit

2 Cerith snails

1 Turbo Snail

2 Mini Stars

 

 

After nearly 20 hourse of running the filter, with the heater, and lighting on (all 20 hours)

I haven't seen temps above 82.5 (this makes me happy)

The eclipse had hit 88 in a matter of a few hours with the lighting off.

 

Pics on the build comming soon.

[Connor]

when are u thinking of adding some corals or other livestock

[Sugar Magnolia]

That's pretty cool! I never would have thought about orienting it in that way, totally different view of the tank. What's the wttage on the T5? How high over the water is the lighting?

[Guest Undercoverdork]

i have a acrylic 2.5 gallon i was thinking about setting up. Ill keep my eye on this thread to see how it goes.

[jason the filter freak]

I'm up for another DIY project and after the miserable failure of the 3 gallon eclipse project. I turned to this... it's been almost 2 weeks set up now and it looks great, though not nearly complete.

 

It's going to be just a softie tank

So far:

Yellow star polyps

2 Kenya Tree, one a frag from raff (the bigger), the smaller a random frag from the freebie table at the meeting

Green-ish Mushrooms

Not so green, green star polyps

Zoas

 

Non Corals:

1 Scarlet Hermit

1 Neon Blue hermit

1 Green, red tipped hermit

1 Nassarius Snail

1 Cerith Snail

1 Unknown Conch

2 Feather Dusters

1 Unknow Snail like creature (pictured next to feather duster below, can I get and ID?)

 

Fish:

1 Watchman Goby

 

Equipment:

1 Fluval 2 intank filter (loaded with purigen), connected with a Hydor Rotating Powerhead deflector

1 Hydor 50 Watt Heater

1 Digital Thermometer with temp logging capibility

1 10 watt t5 (will be replaced with higher rated PC light)

1 2.5 Gallon AGA Tank

 

 

 

Purigen Fits Perfectly in these trays

 

Got this guy tonight from PetCo tonight for FREE normal price is 34.99 due to having advanced fin and mouth rot. I'm going to see if infact Kordon Rid-Fungus can be used on a fully functioning reef aquarium including inverts and corals

 

 

 

The manager at petco told me that he was eating these

 

I really didn't belive it but... what do you know!!

 

 

It was so cool! He ate is directly out of my targer feeder only moments after being aclimated to my tank.

 

 

Heres some equipment for the tank and what else I use on the tank.

 

 

 

[jason the filter freak]

I didn't realize i already had a thread going here can this one be combined with my newer one. Or if need be it can be shut down, if not no biggie

[Sugar Magnolia]

Looking good so far Jason. Good luck with that little fish, hopefully it'll pull through. Not sure about the unknown snail like critter. Possibly stomatella varia.

[treesprite]

looking good. I hope the fish gets well soon.

[davelin315]

Merged for you, although it's slightly confusing now!

[treesprite]

Jason, should I assume from all these projects that you didn't get the 75?

[jamesbuf]

Looking good. Where'd you find that T5 unit?

[mexicanjavafish]

Jason I love that tank!

Edited July 8, 2007 by mexicanjavafish

[jason the filter freak]

Jason, should I assume from all these projects that you didn't get the 75?

 

I have the 75 aga with an over flow built in

and a 6 x 54 t5 unit

and a giant grey seas aquatics kalk stirrer

and a knop c calc reactor

and a sequence dart pump

and a super squirt compact

and a titanium heater

and 100 lbs of agonite

 

all sitting in my closet :( I can't convince my parents to let me set it up

I'm also missing these components skimmer, controller, and stand/canopy combo

 

 

Looking good. Where'd you find that T5 unit?

 

It came with a 5 gallon hex i got in a random tank tear down

[treesprite]

all sitting in my closet I can't convince my parents to let me set it up

 

Jason, that really sucks :(

[jason the filter freak]

I'm going to move to a remotely ballasted PC lighting system on this tank. For soft corals, and maybe an LPS howmany watts should I be looking for here?

[jason the filter freak]

Here is an updat, sorry for the crappy pics they're from a cell phone.

Tank occupants:

Mushrooms

Gsp

Cheato

Orange Banded Prawn Goby

Hermits

Stomatella

.5 lb live rock

2 lbs live sand

 

Lighting:

6700k t5

 

Equipment:

Mini power head 60 gph

Hydor 50 watt heater

Fluval 1 intank filter, with purigen and a modified spray bar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[treesprite]

Thanks for the update. Wasn't their supposed to be a mantis in here at some point?

[jason the filter freak]

with the prawn goby in there... if some one doesn't take him soon (he's in the trades section) I might add a pistol shrimp, but the mantis was to go in the 5.5 gallon.

[jason the filter freak]

wow the fuval 1 got clogged about 2 days ago and I was too lazy to take it out, but holy crap it took such a short period for the cyano to eat my tank. The shrooms and gsp and what not are ok but no i have a neat red lawn over all my argonite.

[treesprite]

what, you don't like the pretty color?

[jason the filter freak]

Went to the CMAS meeting last night and calibrated my Refractometer as well as having my water params tested in my now super ghetto rigged 2.5 which is now just a just for fun exp till i get my main tank up and running.

 

It had been roughly 3 weeks since my last water change and here are the readings

Mind you this is a tank that

Runs just two power heads one being a fluval 1 intank with purigen

Has 0 supplementation just argonite sand

Gets topped off when ever via dixi cup with tap water

The only thing I've ever personally tested for on this tank is salinity

 

Results:

Mag 1020

Dkh 12.5

Spec Grav 1.028

pH 8.3

Ca 390

Nitrates (Not a surprise) 40 (I'm going to start doing weekly or bi weekly water changes to correct this, but see just how much such a little tank can take (bi-weekly first))

[gastone]

I would do 100% water changes weekly on a tank that size.

 

Garrett.

[treesprite]

I would do 100% water changes weekly on a tank that size.

 

Garrett.

 

That would make the tank very unstable.

[Sugar Magnolia]

That would make the tank very unstable.

Why do you say that? I used to do weekly 2 quart water changes in my 2.5 gallon. In fact, Anthony Calfo does weekly 100% water changes in his nano.

[treesprite]

I guess Im mostly thinking of ph and temperature. In little 2.5 QT I do like 50% every 2 days, in 5g I do 50% every 3 or 4 days. It probably makes a difference that there's no liverock or sand though.