2.7 Gallon Pico

[mrhasan]

Well I don't think GFO and filter floss would be much of use for such a small system. Carbon would be an important thing since softies like to do funny things in the water and carbon is really helpful to suck those out.

For my 20 gallon, I use a HOB skimmer, 2 aqueon 20 filters (one filled with LR rubbles + carbon + phospad and the other one has two chemi-pure elite and I will be adding purigen at the end of this month) and till now, I have not done any WC for the last two months other than top-off and dilution of salinity. On 8th, when I left the country for vacation, my nitrate was undetectable (was running for more than a month) and hopefully after coming back to Calgary, I am expecting to see very small (maybe 5ppm) or undetectable nitrate. If undetectable, they I will consider my filtration to be perfect for my tank

[Beano1169]

cool cool, thats good to know. Yah I just have purigen in there LR and that feather crap. So if I take the algae out you dont think my Nitrites and nitrates will spike do you. I am only concerned because I am getting some frags today and I dont want the system to have any issues, cause so far everything is perfect
NH4- 0
No2 - 0
No3 - 0
Ph - 8-8.2 (little low but meh)

[mrhasan]

Hard to say. Maybe a more experienced member can answer this (I am newby but I did my homework well that's all ). Get a thread open. That way, you should be able to get your answer.

About the pH, I think mine is even low (prolly close to 7.9 or something) so I have ordered a digital meter for $10 from ebay and should be getting it soon. Better to get accurate reading for pH since the decimal values matter :P

[Beano1169]

Originally Posted by mrhasan

Hard to say. Maybe a more experienced member can answer this (I am newby but I did my homework well that's all ). Get a thread open. That way, you should be able to get your answer.

About the pH, I think mine is even low (prolly close to 7.9 or something) so I have ordered a digital meter for $10 from ebay and should be getting it soon. Better to get accurate reading for pH since the decimal values matter :P

haha this is very true! I may have to look into that as well dont want my tank to get all goofy on me :P

[Beano1169]

The tank has new lights and new frags!!!!! sweet dealio!
heres what she looks like now
So stoked on the lighting system its a freaking blast!

[Beano1169]

As you know my tank has been going for about a month now, perfect parameters, brilliant salinity, temp swings are down a bit my only concern is; I bought a feather duster the other day and placed it inside the tank, when I did so My green star poylps closed up, they have been closed for about 2-3 days now and am a little worried considering before the featherduster intro they were fine! any ideas?

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Beano1169

As you know my tank has been going for about a month now, perfect parameters, brilliant salinity, temp swings are down a bit my only concern is; I bought a feather duster the other day and placed it inside the tank, when I did so My green star poylps closed up, they have been closed for about 2-3 days now and am a little worried considering before the featherduster intro they were fine! any ideas?

gsp does that from time to time, the feather duster would have no affect on the star polyps, i would be happy personally if my green star polyps died in a tank that small