I had thought about a heating matt but I wasn't sure if it would work or not. I went to PJ pets and looked at the heaters there. I went back and forth between the fluval edge 25w heater and the marina 10w heater. I heard the fulval works well for small tanks but kinda thought 25w would be overkill for my tank since the 15w heater I tried raised the temp to 84. But since I couldn't make up my mind (I've tried the marina 10w on a 3-4g before and it didn't work) I ended up buying both. I figured I'd try the 10w one 1st and if it didn't work then I'd try the 25w one. So far the marina 10w heater is working perfectly. Keeps the tank at 77-78 consistently so far. I've only had it for 2 days but it looks promising so far.

pic's
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps9a32a561.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps208532a8.jpg

Sleek design and fits perfectly in the back chamber :thumb:

Have a read through this thread on Nano-reef if you're interested in some ponies (it is long, but she's had success in a 3 gallon).

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/inde...owtopic=301292

Your tank might work.

Thanks for the link, it would be cool to try (maybe one day) but right now I just want to make sure I can keep the tank stable never mind everything else that comes with keeping seahorses. Also I have ball anemones on my rock, which I kinda like and think are pretty, but unfortunately they could kill a seahorse. I was reading about some stuff you can use to treat the rock for hydroids and pest anemones (to make the rock safe for seashores) that is supposed to not effect the beneficial bacteria on the rock, but I don't know where to find it.

I'm also not sure if I could even find any dwarf seahorses to buy so I decided to do a maxi mini/coral tank with anemone crabs, sexy shrimp and Ken's dwarf darwin clownfish.

So I thought I'd try to be good and attempt to follow the rules from here on out, but that lasted for a whole 30 sec's, and really who am I kidding, this is me we're talking about :lol:

So I took some advice from old blue eyes himself and I'm going to do it my way :mrgreen:

Frank Sinatra: My Way
http://youtu.be/Aht9hcDFyVw

have to admit that song still can give me chills it's so good :biggrin:

I've been busy the past few day's I have updates to share but have to wait until the lights go on to take pic's.

One update I can share now is that my ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate are all at 0. Not surprising though since I stared with cycled rock from an established system. I also bought the prodibio nano kit and dosed bioptim and biodigest.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...psae29a1d3.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...psefaf5409.jpg

In the start up kit they also use stop ammo but AI and Red coral didn't have any, I'm hoping blue world will. They don't open till noon so I have to wait to call and find out.

Yay blue world! I got the stop ammo (already added it) :biggrin: Also got another cool thing, I've seen a few of them before, but none the colour I got :mrgreen:

What are the benefits of the biokit?

I know I saw it somewhere local rather recently, but I didn't check it out after I looked at the cost.

Here's a link were it's explained
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=62780

Thanks! It looks like it might be worth investing in. :)

Ok so I'm way further ahead then I should be but since there are a couple of others that are as well and they've posted pic's I'm going to finally download all the pic's I've been taking and update this thread already!

I should also add that I checked with my work (AI) and they should have the splitter and dimmer I need for the 2 extra led light strips I want to add and they are ordering the extra lights in for me :mrgreen: