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Looking at the betta falls tank today got me thinking. It could be fun to have a little contest to see who can set up the coolest pico tank on a budget. I've seen similar things done in other forums and it's always cool to see what people come up with. 

Here's what I'm thinking:

-Water volume less than  5g

-Budget of under 100$ for equipment. 

-Everybody has a month to gather equipment. Then three or so months to let the tanks grow in. 

-At the end, we put it up to vote and the crowd favorite wins. 

Anybody interested? Could be fun. 

 

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1 hour ago, Lexinverts said:

Doesn’t a 10 gallon count as pico?

 

Sorry dude- 

Another term gaining popularity is pico reef, which is used to refer to the smallest of nano reef aquariums. Most online forum polls set the range of approximately 10 litres (2.5 gallons) and below as pico reefs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef_aquarium#Pico_reefs

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Ill do it, But does the Equipment have to be store bought? 

If I know Jack, that would be a big no. He has some of the most creative pico/nano builds I've seen.
And is it total system water volume or just the tank water volume?  

 

Yes, this is a very good question. I would like to plumb the pico into my 500 gallon system. It might help a little keeping the parameters stable. Would that be okay? ; ) 

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Just now, Gil&Fin said:

If I know Jack, that would be a big no. He has some of the most creative builds I've seen.Yes, this is a very good question. I would like to plumb the Pico into my 500 gallon system. It might help a little keeping the parameters stable. Would that be okay? ; )

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yea, I was thinking a 5 gallon with a 1000 gallon basment trough sump :clap:

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15 minutes ago, Jack-the-reefer said:

I'm going to say definitely no on the store bought. 

And probably under 5 gallons total volume. It's too easy to just plumb it into a bigger tank. 

Could you do under 10 gallons total so we could have a small sump for filtration heater ect?

 

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