3.7g Pico

[tpallas]

Any update pics Alan?

[Cris]

I'd like to see too.  I want to do a pico

[AlanM]

Here's this morning.

 

Sorry for the dirty glass. 8)

 

It's lots of zoas, a few ricordia, a little bit of SPS, and a bunch of snails and bristleworms.  The fish didn't make it, the hermit crabs also die.  I don't think there is enough for them to eat and the tank doesn't do well with lots of nutrient additions.  I just run some floss in the filter area and sometimes a small bag of carbon.  I do a half gallon water change every 2 days.

 

 

 

[tpallas]

Looking good. What is the SPS, is that a digitata? How is it faring in the tank....are you adding 2 part or something like that?

[AlanM]

Yes, bubblegum digi on left and anacropora on the right.

 

They don't grow much, but I figure they get some of what they need from the water changes.  I had a birdsnest in there too but it croaked in the crash.

[Cris]

looks great

[AlanM]

10 minutes ago, Cris said:

looks great

 

Thanks.  I'm staying on top of a little bit of aiptasia with Aiptasia-X from Red Sea.  I'm pretty good at getting the white goop right in their mouths.  I'm also staying on top of a little bit of bubble algae (valonia) by physically removing it.  If it was red valonia I'd keep it because I think it's pretty, but the green stuff has to go.

[AlanM]

I'm getting lots of side polyps from the zoas already, so thanks to the members who sold them to me.  They were healthy!

 

I lost a fruit loops frag somewhere.  Amazing that a rock with zoas on it can go completely missing in such a small tank, but it's nowhere.  Bizarro.  I do like the tiny fruit loops polyps, though, so at some point I'm interested in getting a nice sized frag of that and some more ricordia colors.  The green ones are multiplying and seem to be doing fine.

[Origami]

Looks like it's coming back, Alan. ;-)

[BowieReefer84]

Alan, you still have this tank running? Any others?

[AlanM]

Hey, yeah, I do have it.  Just a few snails and zoas. 

 

I'm considering an 18" cube or Isaac's 20g peninsula, but haven't pulled the trigger on anything.  I want something small and around 20-30g total volume.