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Originally Posted by SaltWaterKitty Good luck on your build!! I have no experience with any of the options so I'm sorry that I can't help but I'm definitely tagging along to see where you go with this! Kat Haha no worries, any interest is always appreciated too! Always nice to have observers...

ok, you two stop bickering, this is an interesting pico tank thread, lets keep the information and tips rolling, without BIAS! All the informative posts on pico tanks are awesome, keep em rolling. I'm very curious :)

ok cool, haven't heard from many that keep em. I'll have to check out what a kenya tree is, haven't heard of it.

glad things are going well. take a new picture wiht your inhabitants when you get a chance.

Ok, thanks for the input. I'll have to consider that. I wonder if its one of those situations where he would only resort to predation of tank inhabitants if he ran out of food. Also maybe I could introduce him last, after other shrimp members were established? Either way, thanks for the tip :)

Ok, so here's my GBTA and its split

I just set up a 5.5 gallon tank with about 20 watts of PC lighting and a HOB filter. It should be fun setting up; I am going to use some of the advice from this thread. Hopefuly won't have to break it down completley as for a 3 gallon would.

Ok, I'll have to look into sexy shrimps a bit more, I'm gonna dig up my invert book and see what is says about sexies.... according to my invert books; sexy shrimp in nature are found with LPS or an anemone, and are best kept in groups of 3. They are reef safe; however may feed off the mucus of...

Holy cow that's alot of stuff. I suppose I could add more corals to my list. I'll technically have around 4watts per gallon with my lighting. Wasn't planning on anything sps; what do you think the 50/50 pc bulbs could support? (there's 2 10 watt ones)

Ok I did not know sexy shrimp weren't reef safe. Maybe it's just an issue in a smaller tank where live rock is a premium? If I go with the Shroom option it'd be an only Shroom tank with multiple varities but that one seems kind of boring.

Ok. Good to know. I'm not super technical either. I try and go off personal experiences and based off others when I can. I don't think I would be keeping sps's though in thus small of a tank. Not sure if the lights could handle it.

Ok. Good to know. I'm not super technical either. I try and go off personal experiences and based off others when I can. I don't think I would be keeping sps's though in thus small of a tank. Not sure if the lights could handle it.

Originally Posted by meowzer You do realize that they will kill sps......I have lost a few due to clown gobies in my 225G Needless to say....I no longer have clown gobies in my 225G Actually I had no idea. How come?

Yah I like how they perch on corals!

Oh yah and a koralia nano would be a good idea for extra flow

I wouldn't recomend keeping clams under anything but mh lighting. Otherwise I think sps are out of the question. Dunno about lps personally. But all soft corals and maybe some monticaps should be fine

I don't know whther there is a difference between a freshwater ph buffer and a marine buffer. But IMO try to use products formulated for marine set ups. Especially since ph is also based on multiple parameters in a saltwater tank beyond just alkalinity.

Your ph will probably not increase on it's own. Most add a ph buffer periodically to being their ph up. Try to get it to a minimum of 8.1. However this may take several days as you don't want a sudden jump in ph. 5 or 6 hermits should be a good start, along with 4 nassarius snails and 4 cerith...

It's my understanding that the branched "live rock" is not technically live rock and is coral fragments too. I notice the same thing

Wow sounds like quite a cleaning job. I'm having some nuisance cyano issues as well. But it only seems to form on one of my rocks. Has anyone else experienced cyano that only forms on specific rock types? I think it may be a piece of dead coral not true live rock