It’s jarring... 2g jar SPS Pico!

[mcarroll]

Thanks! Best part is with auto daily waterchange with RO/DI around 20% the tank is very little upkeep. Wish I could use tap water but iowa water is some of the worst in the country from agricultural runoff.

If you don’t mind saying, what do you get from the tap For no3 and po4?

 

[hart24601]

It varies by season, but we frequently exceed 10ppm nitrate which is the federal limit so they fire up expensive denitrification plant to blend to 10ppm, but sometimes it spikes above 10ppm.

Phosphate is even more variable but not unheard of to have a couple ppm phosphate.

I don’t bother to check it on a regular basis anymore since I don’t use it, but the water works has real time nitrate source water monitoring. Currently the ph from the water works site is 9.62! They add lime to burn off some organics.

 

[mcarroll]

That's pretty intense!

PO4 is considered a food additive so places I've lived don't even test for it (or at least don't report it), so I've always wondered.

 

[hart24601]

Decided I fed a bit too much previously and wasn’t able to get everything out so I did a “huge” 5g w/c, dumped 1/2g in to stir things up, then siphoned out for 3g or so then filled it back up. Also fed the plate coral one pellet as it looked terribly hungry.

Reshipment of stometella arrived in good shape usps priority mail, tough things, so I have the CC crew now sorted out.

Birds nests all are looking good. One of the encrusting montis has a patch of white on it and I worry about monti eating nudibrachs as they have been going around here recently. So I dipped most of the montis again during the w/c even though I did dip when I got them.

I have increased the kessil to 75% and will watch for bleaching.

 

[hart24601]

If I can find a little ora maxima for not too much thinking about snagging it... I am not 100% sure yet if I will do that, but there are some reports of clams in pico, although I doubt with so many sps

 

[hart24601]

Thanks to Brandon for a link to a clam in a pico!

An amazing read.


https://www.nano-reef.com/forums/topic/355416-another-07-pico/?page=6

 

[Steven Garland]

Have you thought about getting a piece of acrylic from HD and use that for a lid ?

All in all,pretty great start to this jar.

 

[hart24601]

I did think about using acrylic, but the lid that came with it seems to be work well and the silicone makes a great seal with 0 creep so I have not really felt the need for something else unless the acrylic would be better in a way I didn’t think of?

 

[Steven Garland]

I don't blame you there. I can see why you kept the stock lid. The only thing I was thinking was was with the acrylic you could focus more downward into the jar supply more usable light,better blending,high par. But I could be completely wrong.

 

[hart24601]

I don't blame you there. I can see why you kept the stock lid. The only thing I was thinking was was with the acrylic you could focus more downward into the jar supply more usable light,better blending,high par. But I could be completely wrong.

I think you are totally right about the lid. With the a160 though it’s 40w of led so plenty of power for this tiny tank and the tight cluster is totally blended, so no issues there either, but with another light I’m sure using a different lid would be a good call!

 

[hart24601]

I put the two JF stylos on the sand, I might eventually need to give them away although the burning banana is really neat, they have pretty long sweepers and that is a no-no for me in a pico. The B.B. is growing pretty fast.

I just want to make sure they don’t grow on the rock and start killing corals when I can’t get them off!

 

[hart24601]

Ordered a little maxima from divers den. At $99 shipped it’s not cheap, but being tiny I really want their 14 day guarantee if it gets banged up in shipping and dies a couple days later. I brought the kessil to 100%.

 

[Dennis Cartier]

I put the two JF stylos on the sand, I might eventually need to give them away although the burning banana is really neat, they have pretty long sweepers and that is a no-no for me in a pico. The B.B. is growing pretty fast.

I just want to make sure they don’t grow on the rock and start killing corals when I can’t get them off!

Darn I wish you were closer ... or at least in the same country. I would love to get a Burning Banana to go with my JF Superman. I know what you mean about sweepers. I have a Tyree Space Invader Pectinia, and at night that thing is a mass of swirling death with 4-5" sweepers. I have already lost a few frags that were unlucky enough to be in it's path down flow.

Dennis

 

[hart24601]

I am thinking about a Tunze 6040, stinks they are $140 but I will probably get a brs gift card for Xmas. They are a bit bulkier, but the suction cups on the sicce don’t hold as well as I would like and tunze has magnet mounts.

 

[GK3]

Plate seems happy. The glass distorts at the bottom when taking pics, but here is one under full blues and one with bit of white.

What coral is that?

 

[hart24601]

It’s a little plate coral my friend gave me.

 

[hart24601]

Of course UPS says there is bad weather between Minneapolis and Des Moines so the package will not be here today....

 

[hart24601]

One day later and the clam did arrive in very cold water, but it's alive for now! With clams I think paying a bit extra for LA's 14 day guarantee is worth it. Pics to follow.

 

[jasonrusso]

One day later and the clam did arrive in very cold water, but it's alive for now! With clams I think paying a bit extra for LA's 14 day guarantee is worth it. Pics to follow.

They did the same thing to me. The truck had problems. I lost an angler because of it.

 

[jasonrusso]

I am thinking about a Tunze 6040, stinks they are $140 but I will probably get a brs gift card for Xmas. They are a bit bulkier, but the suction cups on the sicce don’t hold as well as I would like and tunze has magnet mounts.

Do you think that the magnet will work on a curved surface?