http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/369846-pongpits-2gal-pico-its-a-13-months-vase(update2016108)/
these threads show some real changes in the hobby. literally reefs in goldfish bowls and the like.
http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/3704...and-usps-is-great-except-when-its-not/page-16
pico reef bowls simply compete with full size sps reefs in coloration, mass addition, disease resistance, simplicity, cost and longevity, but not fish. so many more links are avail, but those two show large tanks aren't exclusively the best place to watch a gem sps plate onto a rock.
The title here was a fun implied challenge to give the method a try and post back
an abi tuna 12 w light off amazon for pico reef will grow the most wonderful color and types of sps for twenty bucks or so, amazing we have access to lights like that now. in 2001 that would have sped up the evolution of pico reefing to light speed. it would have changed access to cool running/coral specific lights for everybody. This is maritza, the most eye catching pico on the earth
its easier to grow sps in a fishbowl because you can change out all the water at once and not have to adjust individual params.
A secret we use in pico reefing is I don't care what brand of salt your salt is, weekly work works for all salts. Low mg there, high alk here, doesn't matter. My reef grows due to feeding and export balance and due to lighting being reef-specific. All else does not hold it back. There's confidence in controlling the entire water column all at once; its more confident than large reefing where multi fail points make vacation excursions a concern for the majority of large reefers.
bowl reefers can get nine days in between topoffs, we beat any other tank design for salinity control and we do not require auto top offs. a one gallon tank with air pumped in, and a lid that fits and only vents positive pressure in limited places, will beat any size reef for salinity control and have less fail points. these coral and invert-specific systems do not have to be continually fed either, vacations away can be ran by a very clean system and all the animals are just fine with no care for quite some time. theres a biological benefit in not using fish in a reef system, ironically, and gallonage does matter in that assessment in my opinion.
There is no parameter detailing if you change half or all the water once a week, your choice.
There is no feed limitation, just yesterday I accidentally dropped an entire cube of cyclopeeze into my 1 gallon reef.
It opaques the bowl red, and corals were fed heartily. I just had to do three flushing water changes thereafter to get it off the rocks, system is reset and corals are now plumper, not weaker.
Imagine trying to correct that event in a 100 gallon tank with feed upscaled. The equivalent of ten bars of cyclopeeze put in, all at once.
SPS were put into a unique realm at the start of reefing with claimed inflexibilities on so many params nobody really ever attempted to just glue one in a fish bowl of saltwater and see what happens. when you do that, amazing stuff happens and its not very hard for anyone to replicate, just simply break the rules and do it.
these threads show some real changes in the hobby. literally reefs in goldfish bowls and the like.
http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/3704...and-usps-is-great-except-when-its-not/page-16
pico reef bowls simply compete with full size sps reefs in coloration, mass addition, disease resistance, simplicity, cost and longevity, but not fish. so many more links are avail, but those two show large tanks aren't exclusively the best place to watch a gem sps plate onto a rock.
The title here was a fun implied challenge to give the method a try and post back
an abi tuna 12 w light off amazon for pico reef will grow the most wonderful color and types of sps for twenty bucks or so, amazing we have access to lights like that now. in 2001 that would have sped up the evolution of pico reefing to light speed. it would have changed access to cool running/coral specific lights for everybody. This is maritza, the most eye catching pico on the earth
its easier to grow sps in a fishbowl because you can change out all the water at once and not have to adjust individual params.
A secret we use in pico reefing is I don't care what brand of salt your salt is, weekly work works for all salts. Low mg there, high alk here, doesn't matter. My reef grows due to feeding and export balance and due to lighting being reef-specific. All else does not hold it back. There's confidence in controlling the entire water column all at once; its more confident than large reefing where multi fail points make vacation excursions a concern for the majority of large reefers.
bowl reefers can get nine days in between topoffs, we beat any other tank design for salinity control and we do not require auto top offs. a one gallon tank with air pumped in, and a lid that fits and only vents positive pressure in limited places, will beat any size reef for salinity control and have less fail points. these coral and invert-specific systems do not have to be continually fed either, vacations away can be ran by a very clean system and all the animals are just fine with no care for quite some time. theres a biological benefit in not using fish in a reef system, ironically, and gallonage does matter in that assessment in my opinion.
There is no parameter detailing if you change half or all the water once a week, your choice.
There is no feed limitation, just yesterday I accidentally dropped an entire cube of cyclopeeze into my 1 gallon reef.
It opaques the bowl red, and corals were fed heartily. I just had to do three flushing water changes thereafter to get it off the rocks, system is reset and corals are now plumper, not weaker.
Imagine trying to correct that event in a 100 gallon tank with feed upscaled. The equivalent of ten bars of cyclopeeze put in, all at once.
SPS were put into a unique realm at the start of reefing with claimed inflexibilities on so many params nobody really ever attempted to just glue one in a fish bowl of saltwater and see what happens. when you do that, amazing stuff happens and its not very hard for anyone to replicate, just simply break the rules and do it.
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