4.5 Gallon Pico Reef

[timpetty]

Cant wait to see the mantis! I am now totally addicted to SW tanks and cant seem to stay away from this site whenever there is a computer in front of me. I dont have much room in my apartment so a pico mantis tank would be PERFECT not to mention really cool. Good conversation piece for the living room too! Predators are always fun... anyway good luck. Ill be following closely

 

[chrissaysyes]

I'm out of town right now, hoping my tanks are being taken care of! Also hoping that Viper is waiting in my living room when I get home!

 

[nanocubeking]

I know what you mean about the viper. But sadly i have to wait again until about the beginning of the year!

 

[chrissaysyes]

screwwww that, I want mine NOWWW heh. Also looking forward to getting my new auto top-off setup, maybe even finding a way to plumb it into this tank.

 

[timpetty]

Wheres the mantis?!? Haha. Im DYING to get one but cant right now. So i have to live through you

 

[chrissaysyes]

Haha, gonna order him next week

 

[timpetty]

Excellent...

 

[chrissaysyes]

Wishing that friggin light would hurry up and come. Im expecting that along with my auto top off and new refractometer to come next week.

 

[chrissaysyes]

annnd he is ordered


Decided to get a small peacock--O. Scyllarus--since he was easier and cheaper to come by. I can always upgrade him later as I plan on having a 30 gallon up soon. Should ship out next week

This is an actual pic of him:

 

[timpetty]

beautiful colors!

Tampa Bay Saltwater?

 

[chrissaysyes]

http/stomatopod.com/

 

[timpetty]

Nice. It will be cool to eventually have a 7" mantis running around in a tank haha.

 

[chrissaysyes]

When he gets that larger, in the 30g, Im going to try and do some sort of neat pipework around the bottom to give him a playground

 

[timpetty]

Very nice. Im gonna stick with my plan of a smaller mantis in smaller tank. Cant wait to see some pics when you get yours and as he grows though!

 

[chrissaysyes]

Thanks! Im pretty excited myself.

Finally netter the little aiptasia nem from the CCS tank upstairs and brought him down to the pico. Didnt bother acclimating Hopefully it will spawn lots of little pestys for me to look at