PICO IQ5 Tank in Office

[desideria]

To start the monday, I added in this other Ric to the pico from my main tank.. Today is the Beginning of Week 9 of pico

Clam doing very well... regular dosing of bits of CA, MG and KH on top of the weekly WC of about 1.5L using matured tank water.

[Ketchup]

i think the pico is doing better than our main tank.. lol

[pokmingsheng]

i think the pico is doing better than our main tank.. lol

HAHAHAHA... you almost made me burst out laughing...

[peacemaker]

FTS!

[Ketchup]

FTS!

actually i think thats abt the FTS liaoz... lol edit: only thing missing i think is the anemone and the firefish?

[peacemaker]

Lol... Fun to keep picos, huh?

[jackywongto]

Here is a top down view of the tank to end the week... Week 8 endeth!

The sides look dark but actually it ain't. THe big blob on the bottom left hand side is actually green mushy. haha

Pico doing very well Desi.

[desideria]

Thanks jacky. It's a slice of my slice of ocean from home... added another Ric today... will take a pic of my row of Rics later. hee hee

[TayHongSiang]

Pico doing very well Desi.

the cat no more,..now the botak mouse comes out to play....muahahaha!...just teasing...nice to c u back

[desideria]

ok some pics to mark the 59th day of this tank's existence.

Top down view with blue and white LEd

Side view with only Blue led on ( used some paper to cover the 2 white LED lol)

Side view with Blue and White LED :

Iphone 4 cam does not do justice to the colors.. I"m still ka chiowing one of my office colleagues who is a camera nut to bring her DSLR to take macro shots of my tank. HAHAH

[peacemaker]

Are the white and blue LEDs of the PAR38 controllable now...?

[desideria]

controllable with post-its!!

[peacemaker]

Lol!

[jackywongto]

the cat no more,..now the botak mouse comes out to play....muahahaha!...just teasing...nice to c u back

**SMACK...... Botak is correct.... but definitely NOT a mouse!

[jackywongto]

controllable with post-its!!

wahahaha..... darn funny......

My wife is going to ask me why I am smiling to my PC already .....

[desideria]

FTS as of today..

Ketchup wants me to bring home the sunkist.. hhmmm...

Having algae problem.. will be turning off the light from Friday afternoon and turn it back on MOnday. Also will replace the chemipure and rowaphos in the IOS on Monday during the next water change.

Have also decreased my photoperiod from 8 hours down to 6. Hope that helps.

Already changed 1L of water today after I scrubbed some of the rocks and clipped off some algae using my scissors. HAHA... couldn't tahhan anymore!

[tunicate]

Any clean up crew in there to work on the hair algae?

[desideria]

Last update before I leave office for 2 weeks.. leaving the pico in the hands of my colleague to care for with an emergency fellow Reefer colleague to fall back on in times of need. LOL, already left behind a bottle of RO/DI water, food etc with instruction to just feed twice a day with a couple of pellets and top up water on Mon/Wed/Fri. Have removed the rock of sunkists and purple fission back to the main tank at home.

FTS as of today

Top Down

Mini Maxi

BTA

Did a Major water change yesterday, plucked out as much algae as possible, cleaned the walls... will HAVE to buy some algae eating critters when I get back in 2 weeks time...have cut down the lighting to 5.5 hours a day.. so hopefully that helps a bit.

Good luck little tank.

[peacemaker]

Send the Horde to kill Murphy.

[desideria]

peacemaker, the horde must have EPIC.. no LEGENDARY ( orange color right?) gear ok.... cannot be normal greens or even blues....

[desideria]

After almost a month away and coming back once every 2 weeks for a MAJOR 50% WC each time, my PIco has survived ... thanks to my team mate for doing top ups and feeding my one and only fish.

Can't find my pom pom crab but other than that my snails and lone fish is alive!

Top down shot can see the Rics on the sand.

[ambystoma82]

i think u need to becareful on the bta, he might parachute anytime on your rics...

OMG the rics are reallyyyy huge in your pico... what size is the largest in it now?

try keepin a abalone to solve your algae prob, they hv no issue with pumpheads..

[desideria]

UPdate of my pico in office.. after much Searching.. finally found a small algae blenny to help munch on the copious amounts of algae.. and this morning the little one is already doing it's work munching on the rocks!

trying this small long tentacle plate coral.. will monitor it's progress in my Pico, if it doesn't respond well to the environment, I' will shift it to my 4 footer back home.

[tunicate]

Sis, your rock very man leh...so hairy. lol

[desideria]

LOL I KNOW!!!!!!!! now have teeny tiny algae blenny to munch munch.