Got a PICO reef? Show it off here!

mkutsch · Feb 8, 2017

saixiong08 said:
just finished cycle fluval spec v

Hey, did you change your light from the stock light? Gonna get one as a replacement.

Rick.45cal · Feb 21, 2017

Pico update...

mkutsch · Feb 23, 2017

Oh yeah, nice! Mine just finished cycling, but it's still too low in salinity to add any inverts or corals.

brandon429 · Feb 23, 2017

Rick

I guarantee you that is a bulletproof reef setup solely off pics of the rock. you can take that rock, set it in your seat on a towel next time you go grab a drive through burger, eat the burger drive home submerge the rock and it will not recycle. ive allotted 20 mins for all that btw only enough time for one burger nofries. if you plant corals all on that, one lifting allows you to keep the bed perma detritus free that tank can be as old as Pauls w a little hardware luck. burn off offenders...that's a fully accessible setup.

Rick.45cal · Feb 23, 2017

@brandon429 It will be easy to care for. The sand gets stirred frequently (by me). No fish as of yet (I wasn't planning any, but maybe someone knows one that wouldn't be unhappy in a tiny tank. I don't know what I'm going to put in it coral wise. There's a rock with some goochester zoas that came intermingled with some big green palys. I don't want the green palys escaping into the main display so they are the pico's first residents. The green palys don't look very happy (this is not neccisarrily a bad thing IMO).

@mdbannister so when the rock turns pink, that means it's ready for a homewrecker, right?

taintstick · Mar 8, 2017

Here is my update, tonight going to add a few more shrooms.

mkutsch · Mar 8, 2017

Awesome, love shroom gardens.

mkutsch · Mar 8, 2017

Rick.45cal said:
@brandon429 It will be easy to care for. The sand gets stirred frequently (by me). No fish as of yet (I wasn't planning any, but maybe someone knows one that wouldn't be unhappy in a tiny tank.

Ehhh, you know gobies, tiny ones, survive in tanks like that... or a six line or somethin. Good luck!

ChronicRage · Mar 8, 2017

Fluval Spec V
New tank. Not much in it yet.

mkutsch · Mar 9, 2017

I forgot, yet again, to take pictures of my spec v... I have a striped fang blenny, CUC, and six line wrasse; I've been trying a baby bleached torch branch for a few weeks to see how it does--it's gonna be a euphylia garden--and it's been doing great. I also have some KILLER Dragons breath macroalgae--it really is awesome looking, I fully recommend it even for the display.

ChronicRage · Mar 9, 2017

mkutsch said:
I forgot, yet again, to take pictures of my spec v... I have a striped fang blenny, CUC, and six line wrasse; I've been trying a baby bleached torch branch for a few weeks to see how it does--it's gonna be a euphylia garden--and it's been doing great. I also have some KILLER Dragons breath macroalgae--it really is awesome looking, I fully recommend it even for the display.

Take some! lol

mkutsch · Mar 9, 2017

You all must know of how I pride myself for taking the 'worst quality picture' award...lol.
Anyway, I added a baby Rhodactis that finally attached to a rock. I won't be adding any more cause I'm at an all out war with dinoflagellates, and two fish don't help-- the dragons breath does, hah. Anyway, my blenny is getting to bed so I should probably follow suit.

mkutsch · Mar 9, 2017

Of course there was an unwanted photo that I can't get rid of... ehh, whatever. But hey, anyone know what that sps is under the monte, it looks to be a stylo or pocillo but it's polyps go out really far.. also, they're big, too, and the growth of the sps itself is kinda thick and stout. Much appreciated!

Best Fish-Jake · Mar 10, 2017

repurposed 2.5 gal Berta tank- currently contains 1 barnacle blenny, 1 green banded goby along with a peppermint shrimp, toadstool leather, ricordea mushroom, and some assorted macro algaes

taintstick · Mar 10, 2017

mkutsch said:
Of course there was an unwanted photo that I can't get rid of... ehh, whatever. But hey, anyone know what that sps is under the monte, it looks to be a stylo or pocillo but it's polyps go out really far.. also, they're big, too, and the growth of the sps itself is kinda thick and stout. Much appreciated!

Could be a hydnopora...

taintstick · Mar 10, 2017

Added about 25 shrooms on different rocks last night. Still need to do a little cosmetic work, light repositioning and going to get much cooler shrooms to replace the norms. Got the xenias attached to the glass corners and growing.

mkutsch · Mar 11, 2017

Cool! What types of shrooms? Ric yumas/floridas, rhodactis, etc.

taintstick · Mar 11, 2017

Honestly I want them all lol, but to be specific Florida and Rhodactis. But I want to get the shrooms are by people from here on R2R. I want that tank to sport the R2R finds. Showing types of shrooms that people have in their tanks from all over the country.

jazonPartij · Mar 11, 2017

mkutsch · Mar 17, 2017

taintstick said:
Honestly I want them all lol, but to be specific Florida and Rhodactis. But I want to get the shrooms are by people from here on R2R. I want that tank to sport the R2R finds. Showing types of shrooms that people have in their tanks from all over the country.

Yeah, I don't really like the orange ricordias cause I cant ever get the middle color to stay vibrant. But I love blue and purple and green-- I tried to make a shroom garden but failed, aiming for hammer/torch/frog/octo. So much movement and color.