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Pico Tank (FOWLR)


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I have started a pico tank since last year Nov period, It is a 1 feet cube Ocean Free tank with Gex Hang on filter and Boyu nano skimmer. Actually before that, it is a seahorse tank which I decom.

It has been more 4 months now, everythings are very stable, Regular weekly water change.

Fish may out grow the tank, when it does, will shift it to my nano tank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnaDoN7rHc0&feature=player_embedded

 

 

 

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Neat ,nice and colorful.

-Main Display Tank : 2ft x 1.5ft x 1.5ft c/w sump tank cabinet (Set up by aquarium artist)

-Lightings : 4 sets of 1.5ft mini aqua lumen LED lights (7 high power led 15W)

-Chiller: 1/4HP artica chiller with a standby of HC-100A

-Skimmer : Bubble Magnus 3 (cone)

-Phosphate Reactor

-NP Bio-pellet D&D onceanic hang-on reactor

-Wavemaker : MP10

-Temperature mointor : American Wireless pinpoint thermometer

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nice tank! wow, that are quite a few fishes in there. What is the maintenance regime like?

Weekly about 30% to 50% water cycle. About one pail of water. Always use salt mix. Not NSW, too risky to use NSW for small tank (ich may be inside the NSW). That is one of the reasons why pico tank are difficult to keep fishes.

 

 

 

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10 fishes in a 1 ft cube???

Yes for now, The fish will re-organize when the time come.

Ammonia and nitrite is always zero and as for the Nitrate I do regular water change,

Ich is always a challenge for pico tank if you are keeping fishes. So

1) always use salt mix,

2) Always qt the new fish before added to the pico tank

An outbreak of ich will have serious outcome.

 

 

 

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Yes, cannot add any more live rock, Only can reduce the number of fish when time come.The only flight is between the damsel and chromis. The rest is not. So, I do not want to add anymore rock to it,

Just information on live rooks,

Live rook is good to kick start your tank system's bb, Live rocks provide a natural environment for the fishes and good landscape in the tank,

It is not so effective (in term of remove AN) as compared to good filter media as the live rock (most of them) are not pourous as the filter media.The disadvantages on the filter media is it needs time to cultivate the bb.

 

 

 

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