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p00num3lli
Sun, 18th May 2008, 08:26 PM
im getting a 3 gal pico. i was just wondeirng form people who have already had them how long should i let it *cycle* before i sart adding shroom/zoos? just till trates/trites and all that is normal? and whats a good fish i could use in a 3 gal, a watchman goby..? domino damsel? and it has a light that uses 9w 50/50 lamp and remote ballast. 40gph pico power filter.

sound like a good product?

tropicana
Sun, 18th May 2008, 10:39 PM
I have a 2.5 pico started up a couple weeks ago, peppermint shrimp already survive in it lol. I am acctually going to build a mini canister filter for mine!

apedroza
Sun, 18th May 2008, 10:57 PM
I set one up and used sand and water from my main tank and some live rubble from my fuge, and it was ready to go. water evap is a pain though.

coraline79
Mon, 19th May 2008, 12:00 AM
I put 4 lbs of uncured Walts rock in mine and cured it in there over a month. After 2 weeks I added one of the small bags of live sand. After the month was up, I added a yellow watchman, and 2 mushrooms. After another month passed I added a peppermint shrimp. I also added mexican turbo, 2 nass snails, and a 2 blue legs. Hard tank to maintain, shrooms hate it because I don't keep up with it. I only do weekly water changes, and bi-daily top offs-ro/di. Ideally, I would setup a 10 gallon fuge in a stand for this thing. The worst thing about this thing is the best thing about it also. All the glass is curved. Good looking, but hard to clean!

LoneStar
Mon, 19th May 2008, 08:06 AM
Some sexy shrimp would go well in a pico

p00num3lli
Mon, 19th May 2008, 08:16 AM
yea, iwas gona put two, i wanted them in my 75, but them realized i would have to buy 20 if i ever wanted to see one in there. i was wanting to use really white sand, know where i could get some?