1 gallon pico rebuild

Sorry to hear that. Im still taggin along

 

well the third and final amigo has gone missing i was doing a waterchange last night and didnt see him so i took the rock out because hes usually hiding under there and he wasnt there i looked on the pump to see if he got sucked up but nope not there either so idk where he went but i guess its safe to assume he has parted ways with this earth. but i still think it was because they wouldnt eat and not because the tank is a 1gallon i know it is possible to keep fish in a tank that small with vigilant maintenance so i will try again later on with barnacle blennies i know they will eat. i used to keep some at a lfs i worked at a couple years ago and they were agressive eaters so when i can find some for a good price (the only ones i can get right now are $50 a piece because theyre from equador) i will try again. as for now im going to keep the tank up and running and add more corals when i find small ones that look good

 

i havent posted in a few days so heres an update. when i was setting this tank up i did the math to figure out how much water i need to take out on each water change to get 25% and came up with 4 cups since a gallon is 16 cups. anyway i was doing my water change this morning and realized that im taking out nearly half the water to get 4 cups which must mean the actual volume of water in my tank is at around half a gallon after the rock, sand and pump are accounted for. just wanted to share that with you and see if you guys had any thoughts. now on to the update im seeing growth. today is the two week mark and the zoanthids that have been in since day one are both showing growth

you can see on the ones that i have deemed sunburst zoas there are two tiny new polyps

and i dont know if you can see it but there is a teeny tiny little bit of flesh growing out onto the rock underneath these two

and this is the baby fungia he hasn't shown any growth yet but his tentacles are about as long as ive seen them so im assuming that means hes happy

 

Arg! I've been searching for baby fungias. If you ever want to sell one let me know!!

 

hey whippy i actually wouldnt mind selling one. the frag of four cost me 39.99 plus tax so 10 bucks and pay to ship it and its yours. pm me and let me know and you may have to help me figure out the whole shipping thing. ive bought online several times but never actually shipped out my own stuff. and as for the tank the pump was just blasting the sand out of the corner and i got tired of fixing it all the time,so i decided to put a small frag of GSP that i made a week or two ago there in hopes that it would quell the raging waters. and plus GSP loves tons of flow so it should be right at home there and putting it on the sand bed will make it easier to keep under control so if i ever want to trim or remove it i wont have bits and pieces of it stuck somewhere.

heres the corner after about a day of being blasted by the pump

the gsp before i moved it over to the pico

and in its new home after i fixed the sand

remember the bumble bee shrimp we were talking about earlier in the thread? well when i first posted i had had them about 4 days and wasnt too sure about them but they are doing very well as for their diet i noticed this one likes to hang out near the top of my return pipe and i found out his reason for doing so is that flake food floats behind it during every feeding and he has a very easy time grabbing it and chowing down like a pig

so that answers the question of what they will eat and i may end up putting one in the pico after all but not quite yet and heres one of the other two hiding behind some rock

the third one got away before i could get a pic of it. and i have this little frag of green digi that i was thinking about putting in but im on the fence about it what do you guys think should it go in or no?
oh and one last thing heres a little bit better pic of the growth on the ring of fire zoanthids

 

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well i dont know if anyone still keeps up with this thread but im gonna keep posting like people are for if no other reason then maybe one day ill have this tank looking awesome and ill be able to look through this thread and see how it grew. anyway i had a pretty nice piece of montipora in my 20 long and i accidentally fragged it it was a good 4" around the size didnt change all that much but the shape is all messed up. but thats not what this post is about... im looking at this positively.i came out of it with 2 small montipora frags and i decide to put the smaller of the two in the pico to see how it fares and if this lighting can make it grow. i had a small frag (now the mother colony)in a shallow 5 gal under these lights but it didnt grow much but i didnt do water changes often maybe 3 times the whole time i had the tank set up and i never dosed it with anything so that was probably the main reason it didnt grow. oh excuse some of the cloudy pics i was working in the tank and stirred the sand up

here are the two frags that i broke off the mother colony the one to the right is the one that went into the pico

here it is in the pico. i ran out of glue so i just sat it on the rock hopeing that it will encrust onto it and stay there

this is the mother colony they came from. they both broke of the section towards the top

and the broken section towards the bottom was part of it that was encrusting on to the rock i used to be on. shown below. also you see all those little white dots? those are little bits of the montipora that were growing downwards from the colony and attached to the rock i didnt think that the bottom section would grow because it it was in complete darkness i had seen little nubs under it before but thought nothing of it. i wonder if they will color up and become little frags i almost hope they dont cause then ill have 8 little montiporas and wont know what to do with them. oh and i just put the birdsnest in its spot it wasnt there before.

and incase anyone is wondering about the gsp its opened and doing well

 

Looks good im still following!

 

Looks great!