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November 22nd, 2008
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| | Fish Helper
| 1 gallon pico
my friend is give me a 1 gallon tank and I wanna make a pico reef,
i have lights to use and i was just wondering if anyone had suggestions for corals/ inverts | 
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November 23rd, 2008
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| Hmm maybe an anemone. They can be really hard in some species.
Some inverts may be some shrimps or snails and myabe an urchin?
Happy To Help!
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November 23rd, 2008
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| Quote:
Originally Posted by matt  Hmm maybe an anemone. They can be really hard in some species.
Some inverts may be some shrimps or snails and myabe an urchin?
Happy To Help!
From Matt | hmmm, i didnt think of an urchin, i was thinking some very "lively" live rock and maybe some mushrooms
Also, i read that sexy shrimp need 30 gallon tanks, but i often see pico reefs with sexy shrimp in them, can someone clear this up for me? | |
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November 23rd, 2008
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| I wouldn't go with an urchin in that small of a space. They're difficult to keep alive, and they're also wanderers. They filter the sand for food, would quickly run out, and would try to leave the tank to find more.
I would say pick between one and three non-aggressive corals that you like the looks of (think about colors that look good together, if you want), and a single, small cleaner shrimp and maybe a snail. | |
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November 23rd, 2008
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| can you get a 1 gal pico and just put in live rock to see what comes from that? would that be entertaining at all? | |
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November 23rd, 2008
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Originally Posted by sirdarksol I wouldn't go with an urchin in that small of a space. They're difficult to keep alive, and they're also wanderers. They filter the sand for food, would quickly run out, and would try to leave the tank to find more.
I would say pick between one and three non-aggressive corals that you like the looks of (think about colors that look good together, if you want), and a single, small cleaner shrimp and maybe a snail. | yeah thats more along the lines of what i was thinking, I was going to do like that guy did with his saltwater vase ( here if you didnt see the post http://joshday.com/picoreef.htm ) | |
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November 23rd, 2008
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Originally Posted by Shawnie can you get a 1 gal pico and just put in live rock to see what comes from that? would that be entertaining at all? | That's definitely a possibility. There would probably be less diversity because of the small amount of live rock, but it would also give you a chance to see more of the small denizens of the live rock. | |
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November 23rd, 2008
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| yeah, i would really like that i think. i can just pour some distilled water, mix it with some salt, see if a LFS will give me a scoop of sand, and let it cycle for a week or two
then ill get my rock and stuff | |
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November 23rd, 2008
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| | Fish Mentor
| If u r buying bulk LR or items always try and bargain
From Matt   | |
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November 23rd, 2008
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Originally Posted by matt | random... lol
i will | |
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November 23rd, 2008
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| One thing is for the 1g the amt of live rock you would need you could get away w/ the high dollar live rock that is really loaded w/ living stuff. That will be cool. Mine was loaded down with all kinds of critters, I even ended up w/ a hitch-hiked clam. | |
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November 23rd, 2008
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Originally Posted by steveangela1 One thing is for the 1g the amt of live rock you would need you could get away w/ the high dollar live rock that is really loaded w/ living stuff. That will be cool. Mine was loaded down with all kinds of critters, I even ended up w/ a hitch-hiked clam. | WOW, now thats what i had in mind haha.
Would i need to add iodine or any trace elements with such high quality rock? | |
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November 24th, 2008
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Originally Posted by NanoAddict WOW, now thats what i had in mind haha.
Would i need to add iodine or any trace elements with such high quality rock? | I have been looking at a lot of nanos and Picos on another site and reading what they do, I saw one 3g Pico that was awesome!! to say the least, that person didn't dose his tank at all, if you use a good quality salt from what I read you shouldn't have to dose. I noticed that w/ my 14g that my calcium stays at 450 w/ my salt w/o dosing. I haven't checked the other trace elements, but I do know that the iodine must be up where it should be, my shrimps have molted and done great, which they need the iodine.
This site was so cool because it showed the tanks from the live rock set up, to the nasty hair algae stage, all the way up to the beautiful corals. It really made me not feel like my tank was so ugly (I just got past the "algae" stage). I am just now starting to ad corals, so it will be months on end getting my "beautification" process going.
That site even listed their lighting methods, what and how they fed, etc. | |
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November 24th, 2008
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| | Fish Mentor
| Search it on youtube and you can c all the other pplz ideas then u can build from that
From Matt | |
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November 24th, 2008
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| Could you give us some examples, Matt? Most of us know how to do YouTube and Google searches, so a general "do a search" isn't really a helpful post. However, if you have seen a particularly beautiful pico idea, please feel free to post it. | |
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November 24th, 2008
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| Here is a great example of a 3g pico. This is a picture I pulled from another site.  | |
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November 24th, 2008
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| wow it looks great!!!
they always look bigger than they really are | |
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November 24th, 2008
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Originally Posted by Hypnox Here is a great example of a 3g pico. This is a picture I pulled from another site. | Quote:
Originally Posted by NanoAddict wow it looks great!!!
they always look bigger than they really are | Cool. They do always look a lot bigger than they are. I suppose it's the magic of single-celled, colonial creatures.  | |
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November 24th, 2008
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Originally Posted by Hypnox Here is a great example of a 3g pico. This is a picture I pulled from another site. |
Is that purple stuff in he top right hand corner of the live rock coralline algae?
That is a really nice tank.
From matt
P.S. I no that tank isnt yours | |
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November 24th, 2008
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Originally Posted by matt Is that purple stuff in he top right hand corner of the live rock coralline algae?
That is a really nice tank.
From matt
P.S. I no that tank isnt yours | I believe that that is a type of monti actually. He has a 50w MH fixture over that tank. | |
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