Ecopico!

First I would like to make a shout out to haloist for posting an awesome and inspiring thread on his Ecopico set-up. I'll try and be as detailed as possible and show some subtle differences between our two tanks.

Delivered!!



Ecopico Reef comes with extra goodies.



Well thought out packing



Everything out of their boxes.



Closer image of the accessories.



In position with proposed fuge.



Different view.



Adding live sand and cycled from my other tank.



Waiting to clear.



Still waiting.



Somewhat clear.



First aquascape.



Close up of my small duster.



Current aquascape side-view.



Current aquascape other side-view.



Front view.



One of my critters.




Now this is over a period of two weeks. I used cycled water/new water (60/40 mix) with live sand from my other tank. The blue cup looking thing are some small mushroom frags i got from a friends tank. I acclimated them and set them in a cup with crushed coral. Once they attach to some of it, i'll move them over and glue them down somewhere. I have not tried to get the "propsed" fuge installed. I had some leaks here and there that showed up at different times and I don't have time to fix it yet.


Stock:
1 - Blue Spotted Goby paired with a snapping shrimp.

Coral:
Some type of Mushroom (i'll get a better pic once they get put in place).

Clean up Crew:
1 - Emerald Crab
2 - Blue leg hermits
2 - Nassarius snails
2 - Cerith Snails
1 - Turbo Snail

The only other fish me and my wife want is a Black and White Ocellaris.

Accessories:
Standard LED Lighting (Three strips for reef package)
Standard Filter (might add a small bag of carbon)
Marina i25 Internal Filter (replaced carbon filter with cheato) - $12.99 (Petsmart)
Marina Submersible Mini Aquarium Heaters 25w - $19.99 (Petsmart)
Black Background - $?.?? (Petsmart)
Two Little Fishies Nanomag - $9.99 (Fosters)


That's all I have at the moment. Please enjoy and feel free to hit me up with any questions. Oh one more thing, I was playing around with my camera and forgot to adjust the lighting, so the pics seem a little darker than they should be.

 

Looks good man! I wish I could see it before you leave but oh well. Now I think I wanna do one but you know I have a soft spot for pico's... lol if you see any stray frags hanging out in my tank feel free to grab some to get you going.

 

hey, that looks awesome! can't wait to see more pics!

 

Well done, can't wait to see what you add in.

 

Nice setup; I love the 'scape. Subscribed.

 

nice, very cheap. how filter the water? and the flow?

 

Water flow and filtration are both provided by the in-tank filter that is hanging on the back wall of the tank. I believe the pump in it runs at about 80 gallons per hour.

It appears OP also added in an Aqua C HOB protein skimmer? I can't tell for sure. The pump that comes with the tank is on the right(back) and the skimmer is on the left(back).

 

moar!

 

Actually, there are two filters. The one the system came with and a Marina i25 from PETSMART. I removed the carbon and filled the space with Chaeto. The heater is tucked away in the far left corner.

 

This weekend I'll be moving to South Florida for a few weeks, then off to Kansas from there. I'll get more pics once I get to Florida. There are a few tweeks to the 'scape that I want to do to for my goby/shrimp. They keep excavating because there's no real cave, so I'm going to make one! Till then folks.