3l vase 5 yrs update

[brandon429]

Hello friends , just wanted to update my vase reef thread from last year . This has become the oldest a gallon pico reef worldwide, if you know of any longer running with videos or pictures please post Them I Am Gaining information for an article on longevity techniques pico reef

 I just Reached my 5th year and the inverts have been in there three , thanks for stopping in

[Stani]

Das ist ja super Sache ! Es hat bestimmt viel Arbeit gekostet !

Also ich bin begeistert und gratuliere.

Gruß

[rysiu]

Vy jste měli dát do akvária, je hodně práce. Blahopřejeme.

[rodzyngit]

#287991 piter39 :

ha ha ha jeszcze tylko po chińsku poproszę

涼小峰礁

[lukasz.s4]

dobra dobra to ja może napiszę głupie pytanie on to trzyma w tak małym baniaku i mu to rośnie?? bo jeśli tak to zazdroszczę ja mam problem z utrzymaniem co niektórych koralowców w 50 litrach ;/

choć jeszcze mu brakuję jakieś rybki

a nie przepraszam ma krewetkę i kraba to rybka już jest zbędna

nie mam więcej pytań

choć powiem że połowa z tych korali u mnie chyba by nie przetrwała ;/

[bazyliusz]

Szok refka w nocniku. Podziwiam i gratuluję.

[enigma17]

Utrzymać takie maleństwo przez tyle czasu, to jest naprawdę coś...

ps. fajny sposób mocowania sps`ow

[brandon429]

thank you for stopping by. its hard to get the translator working so I will speak with more pictures we all speak evenly there...

I have enjoyed seeing your tanks as well!

These reef aquaria practice evaporation stoppage, not topping off to run at this size. The square reef is sealed, it does not evaporate, see the lid and the electrical lines running through the drilled lid.

The vase is semi-sealed and only needs topoff once a week, at 3 liters!

[brandon429]

some more pictures to show the build

[brandon429]

I think the most important aspect of a pico reef is that is breaks the previous laws set in formal reef media/print.

Corals that are supposed to have relentless warfare can be tamed, chemically neutralized it seems, with slow and long term stocking. Stimulus desensitization in the nematocyst and allelopathic chemicals~

I do not work much with soft corals and sinularia, only stony coral experiments and species that stay small for the long term.

Here is an article on the reefbowl that shows build steps:

Google:

"the history of pico reef biology"

[ZenonPL]

Very impressive, especially this portable nano-reef in a car . Good to see you don't need tons of pricey stuff to keep the corals nice and happy . BTW: How do you manage to tame your desire to get a "bigger, bigger, bigger, and yet a bigger tank"?

[Gość DarekB30]

#288296 ZenonPL :

Very impressive, especially this portable nano-reef in a car . Good to see you don't need tons of pricey stuff to keep the corals nice and happy . BTW: How do you manage to tame your desire to get a "bigger, bigger, bigger, and yet a bigger tank"?

he, he must have really strong will to not ask for more.

watching even a tiny fragment of coral reef in miniature, still makes you want more and more and more ... and continuously enlarging their tanks trying to recreate as accurately as though a tiny piece of this magnificent underwater world.

[brandon429]

It is very easy for me not to want a larger reef, to me they are very problematic! I wouldn't even want a 5 gallon tank, the water changes take longer, getting the dosing balances retrained is more work and its hard to seal a large reef against evaporation. the only setback of keeping a small reef is they don't keep fish, but I only like corals and inverts anyway fish aren't that interesting to me so I just got lucky! additionally, all the filters, skimmers, dosing approaches etc used on large tanks are so varied its hard to get repeatably good results. for me the simplest and most stable reef aquarium is a one gallon or less that doesn't evaporate~

[brandon429]

here was the video I posted a year ago in its fourth year, the bowl ...

The acanthastrea echinata, the red one, has receeded spot because I stopped feeding it out of Laziness. and zoanthids have Taken over much of the aquascape As They Usually the When well fed, other Than That all coral growth has been positive During this year ~

[kmirko]

W Wazonie to się kwiaty trzyma.

[Gość DarekB30]

#288315 kmirko :

W Wazonie to się kwiaty trzyma.

każdy ma jakiegoś bzika, ja w sumpie trzymam kota żony

http://www.nano-reef.pl/datas/users/4234-sump%20darek.jpg

[brandon429]

Translator works funny apparently, the post above says something about my wife> but I know this can't be the case.

Chalk that one up to cross language communication perhaps...

The shape of the vase alters the biology greatly. It has a longer topoff duration than a 100 gallon reef, as stable salinity. at 100th the size this is accomplished by the lid of the vase resting on the inner diameter neck and directing all salt splatter back into the tank. normally, air stone use is discouraged in reefkeeping (falsely) but in this case Ive harnessed it to drive off C02, maintain pH well, aerate, and circulate.

The vase only uses an airstone to grow 15 species of mixed corals. It is the lowest maintenance reef one could own, to service it I only change the water. I feed only before a water change, and never in between, so nutrient accumulation is avoided. those are a few of the ways this reef breaks the rules of what's written in books.

[brandon429]

3 inch tabular acropora growth from a half inch plug.

[leoni]

wow,it's amazing aquarium and vase , congratulates ideas:)

[NaCl]

Last photos are a joke

Move measurer closer to tank

[brandon429]

thank you leoni

ha funny guy, you missed the picture of the reef in the car? eyes move closer to the screen, the same reef

Are not you the first to say That though ... its a common response Im used to it!

this is close enough to measure ~

[brandon429]

and welcome to the site, I can see you took your first post on my international thread thank you

[kmirko]

Super, czekamy na mniejsze, może w żarówce ?

[brandon429]

windows translator is down I can not read but will keep trying

[chodi]

It's hard to belive thats works! all always going only one way - to bigger tanks. I never seen that small jar with live stock plastic bags are bigger when I pick up animals from the shop It's madness

But that anyway impressive. Really. Is this corals growing up in this vase? Have You got any photos where we can see any corals growth?

Many people thinking it is just tire for animals, claustrophobia, etc...

Well, congratulation one more time. For me it is genius chinese reef-bonsai

ATB

lucas