2.5G Pico Tank with Custom LED Lighting

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2.5G(AGA?)
Custom LED lighting 4.6W starting but now I don't know, not too eager to measure it anymore)
Canopy (Not Yet)

Filtertration
Ultra White Sand (Super SSB-less than 1 inch)
LR may be 5-10 pounds
One Sun Sun HJ 411 Pico sized Powerhead
Removable DSB in a Pxland Spring Bottle
Cheatos and a kind of Caluerpa

Started: 05/01/07 ??
Cycled in 10 days
Only 3 frags, a snail, and 2 bristle stars were added after the cycle completes


Animal Inhabitants
3 Clown Yellow Goby
1 Clown Green Goby
1 Dwarf Seahorse
1 Engineering Goby(will move it away when it get bigger)

N mushroom to form a forrest
1 Orange Blue Ric
1 frag of some kind of Leather
1 frag of Kenya Tree
N snails (06-21-07)
N scarlet hermits(06-21-07)
N brittle stars(07-21-07)
N amipods(which come from my fresh water tank-I think they are from Coney Island when I collected those shells for the cichilds-they seems to be able to live in both SW/FW)(06-23-07)



2 Temperary visiting fish

 

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05-26-07 Before New Live Stock

 

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06-23-07
About 7 weeks after tank started:

After about a month, the green Palys are getting greener

 

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[MO~IDOL]

Is that the one on top of the counter n smallest on MR?
on a hot day would all the water evaporate? I mean with all the stuff in there it's probably one 1g of water in there. how do u top off?

 

[Wingo LEDs]

Is that the one on top of the counter n smallest on MR?
on a hot day would all the water evaporate? I mean with all the stuff in there it's probably one 1g of water in there. how do u top off?

Yes that's the one.

Not sure it it works out in 100F day. Last week is like 1/4 of a 1Pt Pxland Spring. In the hotter days, I remember it kind of like 1/2 a bottle.

I am thinking of making an ATO reservoir on top of the light and refilling is like inserting cartridges(like refilling an office water machine.)

 

[crox99]

nice. now i want to make mine like yours!!

 

[LeslieS]

I am think of making an ATO reservoir on top of the light and refilling is like inserting cartridges(like refilling an officer water machine.)

cool idea!

 

[Awibrandy]

Wing, can you convince hubby to let me have one in the bedroom?:wink1:

 

[crox99]

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just get one:wink1:

 

[Awibrandy]

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just get one:wink1:

I could easily do that JP. LOL It's just not fair to poor J. I keep spending his hard earned money on corals & fish. Not fair :biglaugh:.

 

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Pics of early stage of the tank is posted.

 

[marki24]

Nice small setup. I am setting my 2.5 as a QT tank for my new clowns today and all i will have in there is a Prizm Deluxe Skimmer running. But i wanted to set it up as a reef but figured it would be hard to maintain it as i live near the roof and my apartment gets quite warm in summer. But good luck and how is the Zebra doing?

 

[Wingo LEDs]

Is that the one on top of the counter n smallest on MR?
on a hot day would all the water evaporate? I mean with all the stuff in there it's probably one 1g of water in there. how do u top off?

As time goes by I find that top off is not an issue because I have spare FW next to the tank and my worker will fill it back up whenever they are looking at the tank. However, this same habit also cause a more serious problem-too much food. I have put a small container of live brine shrimp next to it(thinking that I will be the only one who will take care of the tank-they did not even clean the cafe after I told them:shhh and too many times people are attracted to feed the tank. So, I have to hide all the food, now.

 

[MO~IDOL]

hahaha...u should put up a sign "DO NOTHING"
what about Salinity? and what's the Tem now?