Lin's 18.44L pico - Neptune's Garden - shutdown

[NewyReefer]

Way to go Lin a ZEOvit pico very cool.

Have you read up on the food7 I have been advised against using on the zeo forums...

[Mr Miagi]

Looks good!

[linnx]

:clap: Way to go Lin a ZEOvit pico very cool.

Have you read up on the food7 I have been advised against using on the zeo forums...

i have not read up the post that you are referring to. but my understanding is food7 has more/varies amino acids that coral need; it has has some NO3 and NO4 so it feeds bacteria. There for i believe it is a better choice when cycling.

sponge power is supposed to be used to replace food7 and i will use SP after the cycle. But because i am mainly keeping gonis and zoas in this pico i was hoping food7 can replace AA and i don't really want NO3 and NO4 are both 0. They need to be close to 0 but not 0. if that doesn't work out then i may try goni power and acro power.

Even with normal zeovit tank, use some Food7 actuall can improve colouration. i think i read that somewhere on zeovit forum.

[linnx]

Looks good!

thanks mate!!!

[linnx]

Day 4
Bak Low: 1 drop
Food7 Low: 1 drop
Start3 Low: 0.2ml x 2 (made a mistake here the syringe i use divide 1ml into 5 but i thought it divided by 10 :-))

On day 2 i did put 2 small piece of live rock from my 3f and today i notice there are few mysis shrimp running/swimming around the bottom of the tank. After lights out i see heaps of those little ones. Maybe the system has been balanced or because i mainly used dry rock so the cycle will take longer??

i will throw couple of tough sps frag in tomorrow.

[linnx]

Day 5
Bak Low: 1 drop
Food7 Low: 1 drop
Start3 Low: 0.1ml x 2

I have seen pods on my glass now so i put in one of my toughest SPS frag in and also the famous Dallas frag. The mini quad colour torch i have is also now in the pico now.
lights are out today. i will update some photos tomorrow.

[NewyReefer]

Sounds good to me, G. Alexander told me not to because i am not stable low nutrients yet, i was unsure about during the cycle tho

Very cool gear you got too Lin how's that controller going..??

[linnx]

a stupid controller i have to say. you can't control your UV (if you have any) or wavemaker if you put it into auto mode. it will turn both on 1 hour before the lights are scheduled on and only run for half an hour. and both temperature control power stock are only control heating rather than one heating and one cooling.

[linnx]

Day 6
Bak Low: 1 drop
Food7 Low: 1 drop
Start3 Low: 0.1ml x 2

I have now moved all the frags i want put in this pico in. i haven't glue them as i want to see if there will be any issues. Current FTS

[linnx]

Day 7
Bak Low: 1 drop
Food7 Low: 1 drop
Start3 Low: 0.1ml x 2

i have huge amount of mysis shrimp after i transfered those zoa frags over. i put sand bed in and glued all the goni frag. will be rescape all the zoa frag and glue them tomorrow.

Update tomorrow with some photos once i done that.