Fish in a Picotope

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  1. Kovu

    Kovu Fire Worm

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    Is there any way you can put fish into one of these guys, it is about 3 gallons of water. Also what about coral.
    Here is a link to it.
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  3. Seano Hermano

    Seano Hermano Giant Squid

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    Well they have corals in the tank shown so I guess so. :) They would need to be pretty small though.

    I also don't know of any SW fish small enough to be kept in 3 gallons. Maybe consider just one yellow clingfish? They are pretty interesting looking. I am going to get 3 for my 29g.

    I have seen FW fish in a pico like that before though.

    Search Big Al's Pico Contest & it should come up.
     
  4. gazog

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    I had one for about 9 month on my desk at work, we had a fire and it kinda got cooked but I had a yellow clown Gobie and a really small clown fish in it. Figured on taking the clown out of it as it grew but the gobie would have stayed in there forever because they only get 3/4 of an inch long.
     
  5. Gexx

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    you could invertibrates. idk of any fish though, besides clown gobys. they perch and are very small. perfct for a pico.
     
  6. Kovu

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    Well I think I have decided to go with mostly corals, im planning on upgrading the light to do some sps like encusting montipora, and some zoanthids. The only other things I would put in there is a cleaner shrimp, would that be okay.
     
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    I had one of these tanks. I wouldnt recommend any fish for a tank this small, but I kept an emerald crab and a cleaner shrimp happy and healthy in my tank. I would really recommend a refugium for this tank. It helped mine a ton.
     
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  9. Kovu

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    How would you put a fuge in this small of a tank, would putting some macro algae be good enough.