FuEl's 5 gallon pico reef

[Zac]

You can try Fauna Marin Power Trace 1-4. This is available from either MarineLife (only 250ml bottle in stock) or Iwarna (both 250ml and 500ml bottles in stock). The dosage is a maximum of 10ml/100L per week. This dosage can be lower depending on your nutrient concentration and your amount of corals. For your JBJ 28 Gallon tank, your maximum dose will be about 10ml per week after taking water displacement by rocks, sand, etc. You start with around 2.5ml per week and slowly increase the dosage while observing how the corals respond. So a single 500ml bottle will last you more than a year. That's about $11 per month on trace elements if you get Power Trace 1-4 in 500ml bottles.

Dosing frequency simply means splitting up the dose needed to maintain your Ca/kH/Mg levels into many smaller doses. For example for my 5 gallon pico tank, I am currently dosing 16ml of Part A & 16ml of Part B a day. I split this dose into 24 dosing intervals, meaning each dose at any one time is around 0.66ml. If I only set 4 intervals to dose this amount, each dose will be 4ml. 4ml of sodium bicarbonate into 5 gallons of water at one shot will cause a sharp rise in kH and such shock to corals do not promote optimal growth.

You can opt for Balling Light Method, the trace elements are added in to you Ca/Mg/kH solutions and you do not have to dose the trace elements individually anymore.

http://www.reef-support.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=4

Thanks so much for the useful info

[FuEl]

Some photos as promised. Suffered some abuse during Aquarama period but slowly recovering. Skimmerless still.

Top shot of left side. One of the blue LEDS blew, the corals are browning a little due to spectrum shift.

Right side a little better due to more blue spectrum.

[FuEl]

One of my favourites, quite tough. Survives the occassional 29 degrees temperature spike.

Top down shot of right side. Some STN during Aquarama but should recover.

[rustee]

TLF C-balance is the best, works like a charm. Simple and effective. Nice tank junkai! keep up the dosing with C-balance and don't even start with the balling when everything is going fine!

[FuEl]

Updates..

[FuEl]

[yikai]

maybe i should do a write up on your 5 gallon pico reef on reefbuilders

[FuEl]

Some trimming & "replanting" done...

[FuEl]

maybe i should do a write up on your 5 gallon pico reef on reefbuilders

I'll get flamed.. I let the acros grow over each other.

[yikai]

I'll get flamed.. I let the acros grow over each other.

i really like this tank though.

will discuss with jake if it's worth a post.

[Milch_Tan]

Updates..

Wow, Junkai! that is a fantastic looking nano SPS tank! tempting! amazing looking tank!

[peacemaker]

Not gonna add one more PAR38? The spotlight effect is still present.One more in the middle will be perfect.

[FuEl]

Crystal clear water just 24 hours after using "It's Clear".

[yikai]

can i write this up on reefbuilders?

i think a pico tank with so many SPS is freaking awesome.

[FuEl]

Sure but no rare fishes in my tank after two Stonogobiops xanthorhinica jumped, leaving only only a nocturna goby and a neon eviota. Invertebrates 3-4 black squat lobsters with yellow stripes, 1 red squat lobster with yellow stripes.

Been using Blue Treasure SPS salt for the past 2 weeks. I guess as long as salt mix is prepared properly there's no real issue.

[yikai]

no need to have rare fish lah.

i need to branch out and write about other things than rare fish though.

ok but the article might not be up too soon because i'm backed up with a few unreleased ones now. but i see if i can push it up. you got any updated shots? full tank, top down etc.

[FuEl]

Give me 2-3 weeks to bring the colors up. My hang-on filter recently died so the tank was without flow for a day, some corals still recovering from stress...

[yikai]

ok let me know when you're ready! the world needs to see your pico sps reef.

[yikai]

http://reefbuilders.com/2012/03/08/sps-pico-reef/

here's your pico reef on reefbuilders.

thanks for helping me with the specs of your tank for this article.

[Firestarter]

Sorry to dig up this thread.

Just curious to know if the tank is still running?

If it has been decommed, may I know why?

This tank has been my inspiration to achieve success with my 2ft SPS tank since I've started keeping SPS.

[Admiraltian]

Nice big tank you have bro

It's only 5 gallons.