Lifegard 4.1 pico tank

[danieyella]

There's one more mushroom coming for this tank today, but in the meantime here's some action shots

 

[DDenny]

Looking awesome.

 

[danieyella]

FTS now that the glass is clean and everything is happier again

 

[LRT]

FTS now that the glass is clean and everything is happier again

Wow this could be a painting but it not which makes it way better. Organic art lol

 

[LRT]

I wanna take a nap on shrooms in buddhas lap lol. I like what that picture is doing to my eyeballs right now hahahaha dang sorry about dbl post but thats awesome!

 

[danieyella]

Anxiously awaiting this Yuma climbing off the plug. He's not into it apparently

 

[danieyella]

Just got home from mini vacation

Hermit is on that Yuma

 

[fishguy242]

hi,how are yours eyes? and Skeletor? and no not talking about HE-MAN...
i remember the show..but it was lil brother watching ,every day...;Oldman

 

[danieyella]

hi,how are yours eyes? and Skeletor? and no not talking about HE-MAN...
i remember the show..but it was lil brother watching ,every day...;Oldman

Eyes are good! It's weird to wake up seeing.
Skeletor is at the vet now, waiting for an update. I'm pretty certain he broke his toe though.

 

[danieyella]

Photo update on the pico.

Tomorrow I plan to clean up the surrounding area a little better (piping to ato, supplies, etc)

 

[danieyella]

Look who finally relocated from the side of the tank behind the rock to a visible location! (The orange/yellow minimaxi)

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Look who finally relocated from the side of the tank behind the rock to a visible location! (The orange/yellow minimaxi)

Looking great!!

 

[danieyella]

Glass cleaning day!

And some close ups.

 

[danieyella]

The original pico was filled a year ago today.

 

[danieyella]

It's Friday, here's the pico

 

[RC51]

Next week I will be receiving a little 3g cube ( 11.31 in x 11.31 in x 13.375 in) . I plan to set this up as a pico in my home "office" (read: room with my computer and all my weird stuff - I don't work in here, it's my equivalent of a man cave). My office is dark grey (top half) and black (bottom half), with bronze fleur de lis stenciled on the black half of the walls. It's covered in taxidermy and various other oddities. I have 1 large curiosity cabinet, and one small table with my tarantula. I'm keeping the pico in here, even with the lights on - it's a dark/dim room. I want the pico to match the theme well enough, but stand out just a little.

I'm torn on lighting right now, I know the manufacturer lights won't be enough so I definitely need to switch them out. What I *don't* know is if I want to stick w/ just blues or do a blue/white mixture.

Any lighting recommendations? I was looking at the Hipargero LED on amazon, not sure if it's suitable?

Not sure if I'm going to go black sand or bare bottom yet.

Coral-wise I'm still a little torn on which way to go as well, but I've got time. Part of my thinks - corals on the back wall (encrusting montis? cyphastrea?) and maybe a nice acanthophyllia as the main piece, but who knows.

My large tank is primarily zoas, LPS, and softies and I don't want this to just end up being a miniature version of that. I want to put some kind of theme together in my head before I go for it.

Now is the time for recommendations and ideas, so please, throw them at me!


EDIT:
This tank is now a Lifegard 4.1 - I transferred because I was tired of fighting to clean the rounded edges in the front. Effective April 2021.
I run it with an Aquaknight v2 light, yes it grows sps.
I implement the moonshiner method with this tank as well as my large tank.
Media includes: chemipure elite nano & aquachar
Livestock as of April 2021 is 1 Caribbean clingfish, 2 sexy shrimp, 1 hermit, 1 astrea.

Followed!

 

[danieyella]

Followed!

welcome aboard!

 

[danieyella]

 

[danieyella]

Turned off the powerhead, going to see how everyone reacts. Might remove it. There's pretty good flow still from the return. Giving it a few days.

 

[danieyella]

Zero difference in corals with the power head off, aside from temp dropping a degree or so (not a bad thing).

Probably going to pull it Sunday if everything still seems fine.