3 gal picotope (build thread!)

[dingusplease]

Photos! About the ATO, I've only had it for a few days, but so far I love it. I've had to do a bit of tweaking with the magnet holder for the sensor, since the water level is so close to the rim, but other than than it's been working perfectly.

It was really easy to setup, just plug it in, attach the switch and pump, turn it on, and you're set.


Anyways, here are some photos of the new corals. I actually left out some of the in tank shots of the zoas because most are still closed. The Duncan is my favorite





Bleached millepora! So sad it was bleached from shipping apparently



Photo bombing anthelia (with closed up galaxea :p)



Devils hand and green finger



Duncan



Before going into the tank, this is everything:



Before new coral:


With new additions, but you can't see anything that's on the peak in this pic unfortunately

[NanoNewb]

Looks great! Send me some zoa frags to make room for more stuff! Haha!

[dingusplease]

Originally Posted by NanoNewb

Looks great! Send me some zoa frags to make room for more stuff! Haha!

Thanks! I'll have to do that one of these days

[BigRedsReefs10]

Looking good as always. Nice pick ups, sorry to hear about the monti

[DaveMc]

Looks great Dingus

I will take a frag of each

[dingusplease]

Thanks , I'll be sending out frags one day haha

[DaveMc]

Originally Posted by dingusplease

Thanks , I'll be sending out frags one day haha

Hahaha

[Autumnsky]

You have a huge pile of fun right there!!! Can't wait to see the new additions all settled in.

[dingusplease]

Now is the fun part, getting to see them all settle in and open up

Gluing is quite a pain in such a small tank, around a whole bunch of other corals (to give you an idea, I had to use 12" tweezers to position each zoa frag.)

[dingusplease]

I'd just like to remind everyone about the POTM competition! Only two entries so far, it'd be great to see some more, got to keep it alive! Any photo of a SW is eligible

[10gal_nano]

Originally Posted by dingusplease

I'd just like to remind everyone about the POTM competition! Only two entries so far, it'd be great to see some more, got to keep it alive! Any photo of a SW is eligible

Great looking tank! What is POTM? How can I enter?

[dingusplease]

Thanks 10g , POTM stands for photo of the month, it's an AA competition that's been running for quite a while now. Every month, users can submit photos to the month's contest thread, and the previous month's winner will choose a winner of the photos submitted. It's a lot of fun!

You can find the contests forum under community forums>contests, and the current contest is June Saltwater POTM. Any photo is a good one!

[10gal_nano]

Ok. Thanks! I'll do that later

[dingusplease]

Picked up 80% of this tank's SPS today, including some encrusting monti's

2 frags orange BN, at $5 each





In that last pic, you can see the superman monti

And my favorite, the rainbow montipora! I still am in amazement at the assortment of colors on one coral - there are clear reds, oranges, greens, blues, and violets.

[dingusplease]

Sorry, I meant green BN's

[Macscale]

It's awesome how ever frag looks like a colony in the pictures in such a small tank.

[bribo12]

Geez and everyone says I'm out of room haha! Looks like some nice pieces, love the rainbow monti

[dingusplease]

Originally Posted by Macscale

It's awesome how ever frag looks like a colony in the pictures in such a small tank.

It's weird, the perspective looking at a tank in pictures and in person is always completely different! And yeah, sometimes I refer to certain frags in this tank as "huge", and then when I look at someone with anything over a 10 all he corals seem gigantic haha.

[dingusplease]

Originally Posted by bribo12

Geez and everyone says I'm out of room haha! Looks like some nice pieces, love the rainbow monti

There is always room in any tank, by my philosophy :p. The thing is, in a tiny tank, the open spaces stand out more, at least to me. Also, when you have such a limited amount of space, you really try fill every inch in an attempt to make up for the small size. Sometimes I really wish I had a bigger tank for more coral, but I do like the pico look

[bribo12]

Oh I completely agree with that philosophy ! Hopefully those birdsnest don't take over your tank lol