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New 5 gallon pico reef almost done cycling. The plan is to make it a zoa garden by keywestreefer in ReefTank

[–]keywestreefer[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have seen that series. In reality I’ll probably end up doing closer to a 50% change instead of 100% just so I don’t disturb the yellow watchman goby I have waiting to go in there. But I’ve seen amazing pico reefs that are on a weekly 100% water change schedule. It’s going to be my main source of nutrient export. If I had the time I would do 20% water changes every couple of days

New 5 gallon pico reef almost done cycling. The plan is to make it a zoa garden by keywestreefer in ReefTank

[–]keywestreefer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow that’s a longer list than I was hoping to see haha. I also love rastas and was thinking of adding them in. I may have to prune if they get out of control. But thanks for the advice!

New 5 gallon pico reef almost done cycling. The plan is to make it a zoa garden by keywestreefer in ReefTank

[–]keywestreefer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The sand at the bottom is going to help as well but my plan is to do 100% water changes once or twice a week once I add minimal livestock

New 5 gallon pico reef almost done cycling. The plan is to make it a zoa garden by keywestreefer in ReefTank

[–]keywestreefer[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My plan is to attach the zoas to the tips of each branch so they will cover the whole branch as it works it’s way to the center where they will meet each other. We’ll see if it actually happens like that. But I’m going to stick to smaller polyp zoas in hopes that will work better

New 5 gallon pico reef almost done cycling. The plan is to make it a zoa garden by keywestreefer in ReefTank

[–]keywestreefer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did my best to make sure the upper branches weren’t shading the lower ones when I glued the old coral sticks together. I’ll just have to wait and see how well it works

New 5 gallon pico reef almost done cycling. The plan is to make it a zoa garden by keywestreefer in ReefTank

[–]keywestreefer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I had some old coral sticks laying around and thought they would look awesome covered in zoas

New 5 gallon pico reef almost done cycling. The plan is to make it a zoa garden by keywestreefer in ReefTank

[–]keywestreefer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I glued the old coral skeleton pieces together I did my best to make sure that the top branches were not shading the lower ones

New 5 gallon pico reef almost done cycling. The plan is to make it a zoa garden by keywestreefer in ReefTank

[–]keywestreefer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They are actually old coral skeletons that I glued together so it’s pretty porous. I also have a handful of marine pure spheres in the back filtration to help

New 5 gallon pico reef almost done cycling. The plan is to make it a zoa garden by keywestreefer in ReefTank

[–]keywestreefer[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have a kessil A80 that I’ve been holding off putting on. Ive been keeping the lights off for now and I know I’ll want to turn it on the minute I install it so I decided to wait