Greetings everyone,
I am completely new to reef tanks. That being said, I'm am sure you are asking why am I setting myself for failure starting with a 1g tank. That's because I love the challenge and I like to be hands on. I understand that I will make many mistakes with this hobby, but luckily I learn from my mistakes. I have always liked the Idea of capturing a small piece of nature and displaying in a corner of a room. With small tanks everything looks large. I have been looking for months for the first person that has successfully set up a 1g (or less) tank, and finally found dafil's thread and been trying to emulate his experiment. Here is the link for those interested. Big shout out to dafil for answering my questions!
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2333078&highlight=dafil
My plans are to start small. I'm going to place 3-4 pieces of coral of all sorts of types. My mission is to maintain the tank with only these 4 corals for a 2-4 months before I place two more. And wait another two months for the next set of coral. The idea is to make sure that I get confident that I am doing everything right. That way, If i do loose coral, it does not break the bank. My filtration is going to consist of Live rock and air stone, and that's its! Weekly 90-100% water change, Followed up by Red Sea ABC Foundation. Pretty much following dafils method to a T. Well anyways, here is what I got so far.
Tank - Michaels 7x7x7 glass "vase" 20$ haha (painted rear and bottom with black paint)
Rapids Mini Canister - modded
Master Liquid Test kit - Calcium Test (got for free) - Cabonate Test (got for free)
Boost LED Par30
Sand - (Got free)
Hydor 25w heater.
Put some water and random plastic decoration to see how it looked.
Hopefully I will have everything up and running by the weekend.
Edd.
I am completely new to reef tanks. That being said, I'm am sure you are asking why am I setting myself for failure starting with a 1g tank. That's because I love the challenge and I like to be hands on. I understand that I will make many mistakes with this hobby, but luckily I learn from my mistakes. I have always liked the Idea of capturing a small piece of nature and displaying in a corner of a room. With small tanks everything looks large. I have been looking for months for the first person that has successfully set up a 1g (or less) tank, and finally found dafil's thread and been trying to emulate his experiment. Here is the link for those interested. Big shout out to dafil for answering my questions!
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2333078&highlight=dafil
My plans are to start small. I'm going to place 3-4 pieces of coral of all sorts of types. My mission is to maintain the tank with only these 4 corals for a 2-4 months before I place two more. And wait another two months for the next set of coral. The idea is to make sure that I get confident that I am doing everything right. That way, If i do loose coral, it does not break the bank. My filtration is going to consist of Live rock and air stone, and that's its! Weekly 90-100% water change, Followed up by Red Sea ABC Foundation. Pretty much following dafils method to a T. Well anyways, here is what I got so far.
Tank - Michaels 7x7x7 glass "vase" 20$ haha (painted rear and bottom with black paint)
Rapids Mini Canister - modded
Master Liquid Test kit - Calcium Test (got for free) - Cabonate Test (got for free)
Boost LED Par30
Sand - (Got free)
Hydor 25w heater.
Put some water and random plastic decoration to see how it looked.
Hopefully I will have everything up and running by the weekend.
Edd.
