Pico Cube

[Gill]

Right Finally Ventruing into Marine.

I Would like to use the below cube. with just a peice of live rock and what ever grows on that. and maybe some inverts.
I still have equipment from when i had a brackish tank so dont need to buy anything but the sand and rock.

I have had a look at the marine centres that are local and out of town and Brum. but none have had peices of live rock suitable for what i want to do.

I know that there is an online marine shop in radford/coventry but have not been able to find that persons details.

 

[Revision17]

Very nice start. I'm interested to hear how this will go with such a small volume of water. Are you planning on any photosynthetic life?

 

[Gill]

Very nice start. I'm interested to hear how this will go with such a small volume of water. Are you planning on any photosynthetic life?

not sure yet. i am gonna keep it simple. and if i can keep this stable then i may venture into a larger tank with more interesting inhabitants.

Oh Lighting.
1 11watt Day tube
1 11watt Reef tube.

 

[Gill]

I am gonna use this heater which i love as it can be buried in the sand so wont be visible.

Also i have 3 more Pico tanks like this one but in diffrent shapes so i might change which one i use in the end.

 

[chrissaysyes]

stoked to see where you go with this

 

[tropicman]

Hey hey pard go for it pal

 

[1entra]

Heres a few shops Ive used recently and believe they're quite good near your end so may be worth paying a visit to to help you find what your looking for:
Coventry Aquatics

MG Marines

Erdington Aquatics

Shirley Aquatics

 

[Gill]

Heres a few shops Ive used recently and believe they're quite good near your end so may be worth paying a visit to to help you find what your looking for:
Coventry Aquatics

MG Marines

Erdington Aquatics

Shirley Aquatics

thanks the these shops. gonna visit them today and see what they have since i am still on holiday for 2 weeks.

 

[tropicman]

so whats stocking gunna be Gill??

 

[Gill]

so whats stocking gunna be Gill??

i am gonna start with just live rock and just see what happens.

 

[Gill]

well jsut bought the sand, so thats sorted. too cold today and did not bother going out. gunna go brum in the morning and look at erdington and shirleys.

if prices are not good enough then i'll stick with ebay.

 

[Gill]

Thanks so much for recommending Erdington Aquatics. they were amazing. The People were so nice to talk to and explained stuff well. The prices were 1-2 Pound Ccheaper per fish.
Live rock and Live Rubble were only 2.50 a Kilo and mature rocks were only 9.95 per kilo.

I bought 3 Peices of mature Coral/Rock and it has some Live long Purple things crawling around on it. The marine Guiy had just been doing maintenance on the Live Mature Rock Tanks, so it was all still warm.

And loads of Rubble for a Canister Filter I am making.

The Guy Filled a Large bag with RO water (2gallons worth) and i Spent a Grand Total of 1.80 On everything. And its all I need to Set up the Pico.

Im am at My Nephews and will be home within 2 hours to set it up. So watch out for Pix Later today or tommorrow.

 

[connorsbala]

£1.80? Your joking! Sounds great mate, keep us posted! Gonna look great with that lighting on it

 

[1entra]

Thanks so much for recommending Erdington Aquatics. they were amazing. The People were so nice to talk to and explained stuff well. The prices were 1-2 Pound Ccheaper per fish.
Live rock and Live Rubble were only 2.50 a Kilo and mature rocks were only 9.95 per kilo.

No worrys dude. All the shops I listed above have quite good reps, so much so that I travel over 100mile a time every other week to visit them all to see what they have in store etc!

The last time I went Erdington Aquatics though (just before xmas), I noticed a black and yellow lobster eating a skunk cleaner shrimp in one of the display tanks. Was a right fascinating and freaky sight at the same time, as the shrimp was still alive moving it's claws and antennae etc although half it's body was missing as the lobster was chomping away on it! The thing I found most amazing however was watching another cleaner shrimp; who I'm assuming was the mate of this victim; try and pull the other free and out of the lobster's claws. Thay was there having a sort of tug-of-war with the good samaritan shrimp even trying to have a go at the lobster by jumping on it's back before quickly moving off as the lobster tried to grab it in a fruitless attemp to free it's comrade!

I just thought I share that experience with you.

Anyways glad you got a bargain and good luck with your pico and get some pics up soon.

 

[Gill]

£1.80? Your joking! Sounds great mate, keep us posted! Gonna look great with that lighting on it

Seriusly that was the price.

Thanks so much for recommending Erdington Aquatics. they were amazing. The People were so nice to talk to and explained stuff well. The prices were 1-2 Pound Ccheaper per fish.
Live rock and Live Rubble were only 2.50 a Kilo and mature rocks were only 9.95 per kilo.

No worrys dude. All the shops I listed above have quite good reps, so much so that I travel over 100mile a time every other week to visit them all to see what they have in store etc!

The last time I went Erdington Aquatics though (just before xmas), I noticed a black and yellow lobster eating a skunk cleaner shrimp in one of the display tanks. Was a right fascinating and freaky sight at the same time, as the shrimp was still alive moving it's claws and antennae etc although half it's body was missing as the lobster was chomping away on it! The thing I found most amazing however was watching another cleaner shrimp; who I'm assuming was the mate of this victim; try and pull the other free and out of the lobster's claws. Thay was there having a sort of tug-of-war with the good samaritan shrimp even trying to have a go at the lobster by jumping on it's back before quickly moving off as the lobster tried to grab it in a fruitless attemp to free it's comrade!

I just thought I share that experience with you.

Anyways glad you got a bargain and good luck with your pico and get some pics up soon. ;

Tanks all set up and heater and powerhead plugged in. very cloudy at the mo.

Will wait a few hours before getting any pix.
3 Peices of rock have loads of coraline? algae on it and some have some of that seaweed looking stuff oin it.

The purple bristle worm did not survive the night so binned it.

Oh and i found the marine shop in cov that sells only on the web so i am gonna collect some stuff from him next weekend.