VaseReefing Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 So a little background first. First off, hello to all you nano reefers! I have lurked around this forum for a couple years now and it has been a great source of knowledge when I used to own my 3 reef tanks almost 5 years ago. I used to have a 400 gallon reef/fish tank, a 100 gallon octopus tank, and a 3.5 gallon pico reef. I took a long break from reefing due to me moving into a new house and have a baby. Well now I feel Things have settled down enough to dip my feet back into this awesome hobby. My 3.5 pico I used to have was in fact a vase. And I've always enjoyed the look and idea of creating a reef inside a vase. I have had a couple others too, but just for testing purposes. Well I decided for my first project back into reefing, I am going to do a .5g vase. I enjoy the challenge, but I also think that keeping things simple, along with religious water changes weekly, I can create an amazing little tank. Heres what I got: .5g glass vase (Walmart $4.97) 2 lbs of live rock (Lfs at $7.99 per lb) Live sand (Lfs $10.00) Air pump (re-used from previous tanks) <--- only source of water movement Led ABI bulb (12w 6 actinic blue 450-470nm + 6 white 15k) ($24.95) Light stand ( simple desk lamp / $14.00 Got everything setup last night. Sorry for the bad first pic, I will be taking better ones with my good camera once I start adding frags and its past its cycling stage. The plan is rics, gsp, shrooms, xenia, and a macro algae of some kind, maybe dragons breath. We will see how it goes from there, I'm sure I will add more. Stay tuned guys! Can't wait to get this thing going. If all goes well on this one, I plan on doing many more vases of various sizes! I have a huge one I've been saving for something special. Link to comment
ittybittypilot Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 DEFINITELY following this. Link to comment
Horsey_Cat Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Nice man, I have a reef vase too and I love it. Looking forward to see how the vase comes along. Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Can't wait to see how it turns out?. Looks good so far! Link to comment
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