3 gal pico (build thread)

[dingusplease]

Hi MASA!

This is my first post here, but I have had my 3 gal pico for a few months now.

 

[dingusplease]

I currently have a ton of softies, a few lps, and an orange montie.

 

[dingusplease]

Stock list:

Xenia
Frogspawn
Hammers
Orange Monti
4 types of unidentified shrooms
Rhodactis shroom
Neon green toadstool
Kenya tree
white zoas
green zoas
red zoas
purple palys

 

[dingusplease]

sorry didn't finish that last post:

brown palys
blue-ish acan
red mushroom

 

[dingusplease]

I'll post more details on the tank and pics later!

 

[butcherman]

Welcome to masa

 

[Charl_Stanhope]

Welcome to masa, post some pics. Sounds like an awesome pico.

 

[shan]

Welcome. Very full system you have there. Show us some pics

 

[D3m0n369]

Welcome to masa! Waiting for the pics. You're killing us with anticipation.

 

[dingusplease]

Thanks everyone for the welcome and comments! I have a ton of pics, here are a few I took today:

 

[dingusplease]

Hmmm, let me try that again (still learning how to upload haha)

 

[dingusplease]

Stock list updated and edited

2 Pulsing xenia
1 purple xenia
1 green star polyp frag
1 rhodactis mushroom
1 unidentified green mushroom
2 green zoanthid frags
1 red zoanthid frag
1 purple death paly frag
1 toucan zoanthid frag
1 neon green toadstool
1 Kenya tree
1 brown paly frag
1 small hammer frag
1 large hammer stalk
1 orange ricordea
1 orange monti frag

1 green clown goby

1 skunk cleaner shrimp
3 nerite snails
1 blue leg hermit
1 red leg hermit

1 ball of chaeto macroalgae

 

[dingusplease]

More pics from early setup and so on:

 

[dingusplease]

I've really enjoyed reading about everyone's tanks on this site! You guys have some cool tanks! I like to think I've surpassed "noob" status in terms of reefkeeping, but I have certainly learned a lot from everyone on here.

 

[makharold]

Tops tank dude

 

[D3m0n369]

Tank looks great! Is that a hair algea problem you have?

 

[dingusplease]

Thank you! And yes, I do have a gha problem (I've been working on it constantly, you should've seen it a couple weeks ago. It was terrible! I have a few blue legged hermits, no phosphates, and since I added an extra 9w light fixture the growth has all but stopped.

Any suggestions?

 

[D3m0n369]

You have to bring down you're phosphate levels to starve the gha of nutrients. In a pico i think dosing nopox will do the trick. Thats what i would do. Another option is running a phosphate reactor but i think thats overkill for a pico.

 

[D3m0n369]

Sorry. Did not read you're post correctly. Are you sure the phosphate level are zero?

 

[D3m0n369]

Look at @bryan's thread. He trashed his red sea max tank instore on purpose. And fixed it just by dosing nopox