Cover for a Picotope
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I know this is a very late response.. but I found the thread by searching and wanted future searchers to have this info.
I have a 3gallon JBL picotope with Current USA satellite 36w lighting and wanted to cut down on evaporation, so I found that a 2.5 gallon standard glass lid from petsmart fits PERFECT on the straight edges (left to right) of the picotope top... and also happened to perfectly fit between the legs of the light fixture.
Anyways, I used it on my picotope for a while but since I used the picotope as a reef tank, i had bad saltcreep on the glass and cleaned it regularly. I'm lazy, so it didn't last long, however freshwater will work great. It cut my evap in half I'd say.
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I have a 3gallon JBL picotope with Current USA satellite 36w lighting and wanted to cut down on evaporation, so I found that a 2.5 gallon standard glass lid from petsmart fits PERFECT on the straight edges (left to right) of the picotope top... and also happened to perfectly fit between the legs of the light fixture.
Anyways, I used it on my picotope for a while but since I used the picotope as a reef tank, i had bad saltcreep on the glass and cleaned it regularly. I'm lazy, so it didn't last long, however freshwater will work great. It cut my evap in half I'd say.
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Pico means really small. Like a Nano tank is about 20-10 gallons, a Pico tank is about 10-5 gallons. Then, there are Femto tanks.
OT, but nano, pico and femto are all kind of slang words describing tanks with no real solid definition. They come from power prefixes for numbers. Nano- is 10^-9, pico- is 10^-12 and femto- is 10^-15. I.e. 1 nanometer is 10^-9m, or .000000001m.
Almost a year late, but since it's been revived here is a pic of small tankI cut a lexan lid for.
