what would you call

[Anonymous]

a 2 gallon tank?


is that a nano?

what is the definition anyway?

how big can a tank be and still be a nano?

when does it become a pico or a regular reef?

I have been wondering....

 

[Anonymous]

:lol:

I don't know what the technical cut off is, but my guess is that <1 gallon makes it a pico. :?:

 

[Anonymous]

Hmm, well I looked in my old trusty "Webster's Dictionary of Reefkeeping Terms" and it says...

Your guess is as good as mine Bry. I just decided one day that a "nano" for me would mean anything under 20 gallons. Just an arbitrary number. It's a cut off point, the same way 55 and 100 gallon are a sort of cut off point to me. And I called my 6 gallon a nano, not a pico. I'd call anything below 5 gallons a Pico I guess. And anything below 1 gallon a "Femto" reef.

But if you like you can call it Knucklehead's Super Duper Fantastico Reef Googlplex Extraordinaire. :lol:

 

[daFrimpster]

30 gal and less is nano
1 gal and less is pico
just my 2 cents

 

[Anonymous]

typically anything under 20 is a nano and for arguement sake, less than a gallon is usually refered to as a pico...femto and atto, yocto and so forth just get redundant...It really doesnt matter, but id say 2 or 3 gal a nano

 

[Anonymous]

So we have 30 gallons as a top number and 1 as a bottom for nano's

hmm

I think we need to lower those numbers a bit

I think it should be something like this

<1 Pico
1-5 Nano
5-30 small
30-75 medium
75- 180 large
180- rich

 

[Anonymous]

Of course we have to wait until the nano build off ends :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Knucklehead...If you really think about it....All tanks compared to the ocean reefs, they're all Nano in size...A 500gal reef is still fairly small compared to a natural ocean reef..
:wink:

I dont think there will be any classification for tanks under 30gal other than the word small..when you get into nano,pico,femto,atto,yocto and so forth, these are just other words for small...

 

[Anonymous]

A 500gal reef is still fairly small compared to a natural ocean reef....

Micro-Reef