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I know there are smaller ones but the shotglass ones are a joke and the average red sea betta bowl reefs do not live past 3 months, much less three years. I swear I'll stop claiming it's the smallest original pico when new vids of someone else's emerge...until then gimme some votes on my pics yo! nice to meet you all
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having trouble getting pics to post... |
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still can't get pics, the upload image action link is actually an ad...too bad I had some sick stills ready |
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yeah... the pic loader has aids... but that's insane... i might try that one day... i have a bunch of extra corals and stuff... wow... |
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Very cool, did you set it up yourself? |
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Hit "reply" to see your pics till they're aproved.
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they all do PK..............they all do...................lol we're like vampires {us salt people} we'll get you someday
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So brandon, your the owner of the famous reef bowl! That thing is sick. I ran across it one day and showed the guys at my lfs, everyone loves it around here. How much work is it? |
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thanks for stopping by fihs it's really not that hard but it's frequent because of how dense it is. One can easily put in half as much coral, half or no inverts, and get a normal two week run out of it before nitrate issues. I like to make it look crazy and the truth is that's all i can afford, the rear shot shows how barren it is I can't really afford to fill that side up as dense as the front. It sits on the edge of my kitchen sink so you see I don't naturally procrastinate water changes like a larger tank would cause. When making breakfast I just reach under the sink and pull out a gallon jug of premade and siphon the vase through it's feeding cork. I don't even have to move it for water changes, so they are that fast. I do em three times a week now to keep up with this feeding, obviously I have to compensate somehow with no skimmer but I swear its less work than a larger reef and far far cheaper! |
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if i misread forgive me..............did you build the tank in avatar pic? if so very cool man - -you just do frequent water changes and that has been enough for water quality? lol testing must be hard hell you'd use half the tank water to get the test tubes filled for the tests....hahahaha
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no I can't lie man I didn't build it but I did retrofit it to make it a reef. They can't be found anymore, totally lucky find for me at a lfs who had only three of these micro canopied tanks meant for bettas so I bought all of them at 29 bucks apiece! the best I can tell you to find them is he told me they were some type of R Aquarium and that's all I ever heard, but I can find nothing about em now on the web. at least the big globe can be found at naturesocean.com
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here are some pics to give more detail than the vid:
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Thats sick bro. You should hang out on this forum more often, you could contribute a lot im sure. :) I had a 2.5 gallon I was trying to do the same kinda thing with.....There was so much evap every day.....I just couldnt keep up, and at the time an ato was out of the question. |
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hey man thats cool of you i will hang around. id like to say that for anyone wanting to do a sealed reef there is no better design than the standard 2.5 lipped tanks. the way that plastic rim gives a rest for a square piece of acrylic, or even better custom cut glass, will beat the above method I showed for sealing. my little square tank does not have a lid, and these seals get worn over time. for the other 2.5 g tanks with the lid, a simple weatherstrip seal would not wear out as the lid could just rest directly on the lined lip of the tank. make the same internal refugium for oxygen purposes, and fan it, and I guarantee it will run sealed. have fun guys reply back in here when you build one |
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If I set it up......Im going to make it long ways, and make the display a square. Cut it in half.......run the fuge in the back half and make the front part a cube. Then on piece of LR and maybe make it an island of softies. :) You have some good ideas though.Are these your only tanks? Where you from? |
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