Nano Duncans?

[Theg001]

Hey Everybody!
I have an established Picotope 3 gallon nano system which I recently equipped with an 18 watt Compact Fluorescent hood, and I was wondering if it would work to obtain and grow a Duncan frag in the system. Any thoughts?

[Turf]

size of tank has no bearing as long and water quality and light are sufficient so I vote yep

[Goldpony75]

You could certainly try it. They don't rely on just light for energy, you can feed them also. But with such a small tank you probably need to feed them and then do a water change a siphon off any excess food so it doesn't pollute the water too bad

[David Grigor]

They don't really need much like and like Sean says you can feed them as well.

Me personally though, being just a 3g I would only do zoanthids and mushrooms, I wouldn't risk water quality with things that likely need fed.

[Zibba]

Good question. I was planning on keeping ducans in my 12-gallon nano with 55w PC. Do picotopes have any mechanical filtration or just biological filtration?

[Theg001]

Basically just biological. The kit that comes with the tank includes a 9 watt light hood and a small hang-on filter. Just two carbon bags and a bit of sponge material. As I mentioned before, I recently upped the lighting to 18 watts to actually get some growth out of the zoanthids, but I've been wondering about whether or not I should increase the filter setup too. Does anyone know how often the carbon media should be changed?

[Zibba]

I'm going to run carbon passively. It will get changed out every 1-2 weeks. Most people don't go over a month without changing. Some people just run carbon a few days a month then pull it out. I've had success in my main display running carbon actively and replacing every 1-2 weeks, so I'm going to adopt a similar practice on my nano. HTH

[Theg001]

this carbon setup is a larger pellet type though, not the packeted grains.