5 gallon Pico 2 month old

[LAreefdude]

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to get your input. I am new to the hobby of Saltwater/reef. For more than a decade I was with Freshwater and very successful planted tanks. However, about 2 months ago I had a 5 gallon laying around so I decided to do a Pico tank to see how it works out. Currently, I have a Lomnie Asta 20 light on it with 60% intensity. Aquaclear 20 filter hang on the back + Marineland Magnaflow 360 (30 gallons) canister filter. I have carbon and Phosguard inside the canister as well! Livestock - 2 clowns (small 1inch or less), - Hermit Crab, 2 snails (1 is Nazareth TBD on the other) I have 3 corals. on picture #1 I have dragon eye Zoanthids, # Candy Cande Coral (green), and #3 is a Leather/toadstool (green tentacles) I do feed a very small amount of reef roids Once a week. And I dee 30 percent water change about a gallon of water change a week as well. The tank is 100 percent cycled No nitrates absolutely 0. My question is, I am going to upgrade in the future. However, just curious if my system is good for right now to make these corals grow? Its been about 3 days since I have added the candy cane and the Leather. Your feedback is much appreciated it

 

[brandon429]

yes, well done. what you do is input the corals and shoot feed at them before your water changes weekly and it will drive up coral mass and you'll have fun.

 

[brandon429]

Im sending you a message of a reef tank exactly like yours than covers about 100 questions start to finish and provides a literal roadmap of how you turn that reef above into no algae, stacked with corals. And Daniel is barely on month 3. sent.

 

[brandon429]

heck Ill post it here. This is the best nano reef bringup from dry rocks Ive ever seen in 21 yrs of online nano reefing.

Cycling a new Biocube 32

Hello all! My name is Daniel from Florida and I’m starting to get into the reef hobby. I have been cycling my tank for two weeks now and logging it into an app. I have recently been gifted a live rock with some good amount of coralline on it. I also got some water from and established tank. My...

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every nuance a nano could throw at you-dissected. 12 pages takes 15 mins to read it'll save you hundreds of dollars to employ these tricks and learn the art of nano reef cpr.

there are other ways besides that way.

that way is just the best way

your tank is equal to his, they're equals in potential, see his opening post pics.



most fun

how many reef test kits is Daniel using to attain those results he he (temp, salinity only, not tough, pick any brand of water you want, change to any brand of water you want, it doesnt matter, your action weekly matters)

 

[Katrina71]

Uh...the pico Master is here.

 

[LAreefdude]

Im sending you a message of a reef tank exactly like yours than covers about 100 questions start to finish and provides a literal roadmap of how you turn that reef above into no algae, stacked with corals. And Daniel is barely on month 3. sent.

Received, thank you

 

[LAreefdude]

heck Ill post it here. This is the best nano reef bringup from dry rocks Ive ever seen in 21 yrs of online nano reefing.

Cycling a new Biocube 32

Hello all! My name is Daniel from Florida and I’m starting to get into the reef hobby. I have been cycling my tank for two weeks now and logging it into an app. I have recently been gifted a live rock with some good amount of coralline on it. I also got some water from and established tank. My...

www.reef2reef.com

every nuance a nano could throw at you-dissected. 12 pages takes 15 mins to read it'll save you hundreds of dollars to employ these tricks and learn the art of nano reef cpr.

there are other ways besides that way.

that way is just the best way

your tank is equal to his, they're equals in potential, see his opening post pics.



most fun

how many reef test kits is Daniel using to attain those results he he (temp, salinity only, not tough, pick any brand of water you want, change to any brand of water you want, it doesnt matter, your action weekly matters)

That is amazing | however, would there be a problem If I am running Phosphate reducers in my filter 2 months in ? I had some algae on the glass and it went away for good. The algae happened during the cycling period.

 

[brandon429]

yep we dont use po4 or nitrate media there, and many people do still use them...thats whats so tricky about reefing in general, the yes vs nos

its possible to make it work using phosphate adsorbing gear, we just dont use that way we cpr feeding action + water changes to drive coral mass... to get those results, and prevent dinos.

if while you are adding corals things go wrong, veer back on track using that fallback method above.