40 ounce PNW Pico reef office tank
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Video update - you can see how much flow the little tank gets when I turn on the pump about a third of the way through.
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My office pico reef tanks
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Tank looking ok. Switched to all for Reef to try to keep alkalinity up. Sps surviving but a little pale and not really thriving. Hopefully with a change of dosing I can keep alkalinity more stable and see some more robust color. I also dose small amounts daily phytoplankton, daily coral aminos, and weekly microbacter7. I had some very pale filaments algae and I added some copepods and that cleared up. Overall, I think it’s doing all right at 3 months in
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Added some more copepods (galaxy pods from algae barn - mix of 5 different types). I also regularly dose phytoplankton. I’m convinced they are a reason why my small tanks stay relatively algae free.
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At the 6 month mark today I decided to break it down. The corals were still hanging on and my little cosmic goby was doing great, but it’s too small to really let it go for a week or more at at a time and that meant if I was taking a week off work I was having to come in. My 3.5 gallon Pico tank at work has no problem with going a week and it’s easy to have an ato and automatic feeder for that tank, but I decided I didn’t want to keep coming in on vacations just for the little tank. I moved the coral and the little cosmic goby to my other tank. Maybe some day I’ll set the 40 ounce up at home. It was a fun experiment and a great little set up.
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