Pico Reef Science Fair Project

[jgoldsney]

Howdy Y'all,

I am working with my Son on a science fair project. We would like to use Reefs as our base topic however I would like to focus on one particular area.

There are 2 directions we are looking at taking.

1) Why are the reefs around the world in danger

OR

2) Focus on coral propigation and re-stock the tank with only localy grown frags.

I personaly like option number 2 but my wife thinks ooption 1 has a lot of pottential.


We have an Iq3 pico tank that will be the centerpeice of our project. The tank was running successfully in his room for a little over a year however it got nuked this summer with the heat wave. We were away for a few days during a heat wave and we forgot to take the tank down to the bsmt. (one of the benifits of a pico). Temps hit over 37° in the house and the tank cooked. The real benifit of this tank is that with it's size it is really easy to transport and won't cost a ton to get stocked up again.
The last tank was mostly zoas and mushrooms with some GSP and pulsing xenia. I think I will prob stick to the Zoas and mushrooms as the GSP and the Xenia kind of took over. I had a 2 headed frogspawn frag that did really well and I may add this to the list for a little motion in the tank.

The lighting was a DIY LED however I am thinking of ordering a PAR30 from boostled.com if they have a black friday sale.

Here is a tank shot




Thoughts?


Joel