1 gallon tank possible?

[bmw_zoan]

Hi, I have a one gallon tank on my room, I was wondering if I could turn this one gallon tank into a saltwater tank. It has a 15 watt incandesent bulb, and an airline with an airstone. I was thinking of buying a small pieces of live rock and a sand bed and put it in there just as a source of filtration and later add some zoanthids or such.. I dont plan to add any fish it is to small. Is this possible? Just have the tank running with the 15 watt bulb and the airator and add some live rock and zoas or mushrooms later? Some of my concerns is that the airstone with the airator won't create as much water flow but the tank is fairly small so I am not sure thats why I need some help. Thanks

 

[clownfreak]

The airstone would lead to a lot of salt creep and I don't think that is sufficient lighting for any photosynthetic corals.

 

[RyDub03]

I think it's possible. Not a great idea but possible.

 

[bmw_zoan]

what if i just put in some airline tubing?

 

[bmw_zoan]

would you have any recomendations on how to make this work?

 

[ir_danno22]

you can grow some simple mushrooms. check out some LED pico lighting online, a small heater and a small pump for flow. you'll want to add more rock for filtration and ditch the air pump. i have a 3g picotope with mushrooms and zoas. parameters always fluctuate but all looks fine. i try not to dork with it too much.

 

[bmw_zoan]

you can grow some simple mushrooms. check out some LED pico lighting online, a small heater and a small pump for flow. you'll want to add more rock for filtration and ditch the air pump. i have a 3g picotope with mushrooms and zoas. parameters always fluctuate but all looks fine. i try not to dork with it too much.

well I the bulb heats it really well, so you are saying just to add live rock and sand? and for the pump i have a really small one i mean you attatch the airline tubing to it is that what you mean by a small pump?

 

[rfalvey89]

I would not waste the time/effort on 1 US gal. of water
A 5 Gal would be easier and more variety of products to use (albeit small)

JMO

 

[b16drag]

There are quite a few guys with pico tanks. Some tanks are on here and on other websites. The 15w incandescent light is most likely not enough but there are some LED options.

 

[bmw_zoan]

do you know where I might be able to get some LEDs?

 

[spamreefnew]

If you could drill it and put a 5gallon bucket for a sump then that would be much much more stable. I dont think 1 gallon will work unless you are home to top it off every few hours. the SG will change to much IMO

 

[bmw_zoan]

I am thinking of getting a 2.5 gallon or a 5 gallon im not sure yet but thanks for all the suggestions

 

[frankpayne32]

Definitely possible and has been done many times. Do some searching around, especially, youtube and you will see examples. Don't let people nay-say you and tell you it's a bad idea. It's just not particularly easy.

 

[KafudaFish]

You should start with Brandon's pico video first and go from there.

 

[jeff@zina.com]

Hi, I have a one gallon tank on my room, I was wondering if I could turn this one gallon tank into a saltwater tank.

See the Nano Reefs forum in the Special Interest Group section here.

Jeff

 

[LIONFISH5740]

Totally possible, I did it about 5 years ago and think about it every once in a while. I put about 3/4in crushed coral and drilled the stone in the middle for the airstone (although I wouldn't do an airstone again if you ask me). All I had in it was a clown goby and some softies. You have to be super careful with feeding and do constant water changes but if you have a 5 gallon bucket sitting around with water made it's no problem. I agree the LED lighting would be best, try searching "Dymax Robot LED Clip Light". They are about $30 if I remember correctly.

 

[Agu]

Check this out, 1.5 pico tank

 

[Texxxx]

Brandon also ran a .5 gal pico for several years. It had a tiny fuge built into the back of it that was cool. Both of his tanks are very neat. All he has for equipment on the vase is a heater, a light, and an air line running to the bottom on one side. The bubbles create all the flow he has in the tank.
He gave me a goni that was creating havoc with the other corals in the tank. He loves showing the vase off.

 

[WI reefer55]

ive seen smaller a .3 sps tank i think

nano reef . com

 

[Agu]

ive seen smaller a .3 sps tank i think

nano reef . com

It can be done but at what point does it become an exercise in absurdity rather than a real reef tank ? I've seen posts about pico tanks with 10 or more corals, any one of which alone would push the capacity of a pico tank.

jmo,