Comments on: Dedicated Nano Tanks, Frogfishes, Sea Apples and Dragonets http://www.magazine.reefbuilders.com/2008/01/15/dedicated-nano-tanks-frogfishes-sea-apples-and-dragonets/ The magazine about Saltwater Reef Aquariums Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:41:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Chris http://www.magazine.reefbuilders.com/2008/01/15/dedicated-nano-tanks-frogfishes-sea-apples-and-dragonets/#comment-186 Chris Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:50:28 +0000 http://www.magazine.reefbuilders.com/2008/01/15/dedicated-nano-tanks-frogfishes-sea-apples-and-dragonets/#comment-186 That is an excellent article, thank you! My first reef tank was only 10 gallons, and was a full mixed reef with fish, corals, other inverts, etc. and I loved it. I eventually moved up to a 20 gallon, and now a 38 gallon. At one point, I did an "expirement" with a pico vase. There are some many ultra high-tech setups out there, I just wanted to show people that you could do well with much less. I used a 1/2 gallon vase (no fish of course!!!), I made a very simple air-lift with some cheap plastic tubing and a $9 air pump to get water moving, placed it next to a window that gets a lot of sun, in a perfectly temp-controlled room of my house, and monitored the temp and water quality constantly. There was a Nassarius snail and a Nerite snail and 1 Scarlet Reef hermit crab living in there with several soft corals and zoanthids that I fragged from the main tank, some live sand and live rock. The vase flourished, the corals actually took on brighter colors than their donor corals in the display! The water quality was perfect, only doing weekly water changes of around 10% using a turkey baster. It's amazing how much this hobby has grown... things that used to be thought of as impossible, are now being done every day! That is an excellent article, thank you! My first reef tank was only 10 gallons, and was a full mixed reef with fish, corals, other inverts, etc. and I loved it. I eventually moved up to a 20 gallon, and now a 38 gallon. At one point, I did an “expirement” with a pico vase. There are some many ultra high-tech setups out there, I just wanted to show people that you could do well with much less. I used a 1/2 gallon vase (no fish of course!!!), I made a very simple air-lift with some cheap plastic tubing and a $9 air pump to get water moving, placed it next to a window that gets a lot of sun, in a perfectly temp-controlled room of my house, and monitored the temp and water quality constantly. There was a Nassarius snail and a Nerite snail and 1 Scarlet Reef hermit crab living in there with several soft corals and zoanthids that I fragged from the main tank, some live sand and live rock. The vase flourished, the corals actually took on brighter colors than their donor corals in the display! The water quality was perfect, only doing weekly water changes of around 10% using a turkey baster.

It’s amazing how much this hobby has grown… things that used to be thought of as impossible, are now being done every day!

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