New Pico Tank Build

[spanko]

If you are gonna go with a firefish, go Helfrichis. Nemateleotris helfrichi

 

[meowzer]

Originally Posted by nissan577
http:///forum/post/3214115
are you gonna get it then????

When have you ever known me to make a quick decision
Originally Posted by spanko
http:///forum/post/3214121
If you are gonna go with a firefish, go Helfrichis. Nemateleotris helfrichi

What's the difference???

 

[nissan577]

true

ill ask you in a week

 

[nikesb]

the difference is probably about 80$ haha. but they look cooler imo than a purple firefish

 

[socalnano24]

Isn't the helfrichis one of the deep water fire fish that are like hundreds of dollars?

 

[socalnano24]

Originally Posted by nikeSB
http:///forum/post/3214348
the difference is probably about 80$ haha. but they look cooler imo than a purple firefish
yeah I definitley didn't have that in my budget for a fish, I tend to spend my money on corals.

 

[dankbardy31]

The tanks looking good! We are seriously thinking about getting one and for once just taking it real slow and not adding any live stuff for a while. Brooke wants to eventually do seahorses in it. We went to a lfs that had a pico with a ton of seahorse in it.

 

[socalnano24]

Thanks man. A horsie tank would be awesome. This one started it's life a an attempt at a copepod tank. So it had a litle bonus of time for it to cycle from that original setup.

 

[curry]

Nice! The corals are awesome!!

 

[socalnano24]

Originally Posted by Curry
http:///forum/post/3216678
Nice! The corals are awesome!!
Thanks

 

[dankbardy31]

so whats the new coral of the week?

 

[socalnano24]

The new coral of the week is Neil's broke and needs to pay off some debt. That and I'm waiting on my tax return to see if I'm going to combine the 24 and the pico into my 40. Which could be even more exciting!
However I FINALLY found some cerith snails locally. I've never been able to find em in OC at a LFS. So I threw two in the pico and a few in the nano.

 

[socalnano24]

So the good news is work is busy, hence hwy I haven't been on here alot. The bad news is I got NO tax return which means no 40 gallon start. I was waiting for that to get it started. Anyways here's some new pics of the pico. Everyone is pretty happy.

Let me know what you guys think. Did a bit of rearranging the other day, and put in a half unit of Chemi pure elite in exchange for the typical filter/carbon in the biowheel, earlier was having some cyano issues and it cleared up!

 

[meowzer]

Looks good...do you just have the one fish? Are you going to add any more rock? IMO a little more on top would be great too....I like caves

 

[socalnano24]

Thank you meowzy and yes it is just the one fish.
I had originally wanted to add more rock but wasn't sure what rocks the corals were going to come on. So I guess it could be time for a few new pieces to add some depth and caves.

 

[nissan577]

+1 on the rock. but i must say the tank is like woah bro!

really nice and the zoas and rics with acans are sweet! are you feeding the acans????

 

[socalnano24]

Thanks dude! I am looking for some more unique ric's to get, so far I have the most generic colors.
As far as the acans go, I feed them mysis shrimp about once every two weeks but the food gets stolen by the cuc and the sexy shrimp about half the time.
I think I should ramp that up a bit and need to start feeding them at night when they're feeding tentacles are more exposed.
BTW - I took mom's advice and got another 1 1/2 pound of live rock
I'll upload some pictures in a minute

 

[nissan577]

sweet cant wait! maybe you will need more

anyway try feeding them 3 times a week. i do that with mine and my acan is always having new babies!!!!

 

[socalnano24]

So in order to avoid any die off, I just brought my own container to grab the rock. Hand picked premium fiji

 

[socalnano24]

I think it looks much better, could possibly even use another rock even a tonga stick on the right