Do I need more live rock?
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its all aesthetics as long as you aren't getting free ammonia. what you have above is a nice reef it doesn't need anything extra as long as there's no free ammonia, that speaks to the surface area processing abilities of live rock, that a little piece will run a whole reef and fish waste. your sand is helping too in nitrification, its all currently just fine.
adding more requires more cleaning to avoid nitrate issues by retaining detritus, there is something to be said about having the right amount of surface area in balance, its easier to maintain. most of us grossly exceed the amnts of live rock needed
adding more requires more cleaning to avoid nitrate issues by retaining detritus, there is something to be said about having the right amount of surface area in balance, its easier to maintain. most of us grossly exceed the amnts of live rock needed
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+++ on more rock
and not just keep, keep for 10 yrs. looks weird but is stable. my vase will beat any tank on the board on salinity control using no ATO. my vase reef goes 5-7 days topoff ranging only .023-.0245 which is a fine range for smaller tanks. looks weird but massively stable due to simplicity~
sorry no hd this was prob 2mp cell phone vid lol back in the day/
sorry no hd this was prob 2mp cell phone vid lol back in the day/
Im down to now only about 5 species as that bowl ended up being overtaken by red mushrooms that stung out about 16 varieties in that set above. I took it apart and killed off all the red mushrooms so they'd stop the sting attack
the ones I retained are good though, a 14 yr colony of blastomussa that was produced only in the vase from a prior one head frag years ago on a different setup. these tiny vases are easy to lose from invaders due to no room...this was a good 16 kinds of coral above, good nonphotosynthetic ones and the standard fare sps lps. the inverts were the most fun to observe they stayed really busy
the ones I retained are good though, a 14 yr colony of blastomussa that was produced only in the vase from a prior one head frag years ago on a different setup. these tiny vases are easy to lose from invaders due to no room...this was a good 16 kinds of coral above, good nonphotosynthetic ones and the standard fare sps lps. the inverts were the most fun to observe they stayed really busy
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I've seen this in a magazine I believe. That's cool. How do you clean the glass? What was that poking out of the glass at the top? Or was that attached to the glass? You touched it with your finger in the video.
ha that was a fun optical illusion id done, I glued a dead piece of sps coming out the tank right over the inside plug that was growing inside, so it would look like it went through the glass lol. the game is how much junk can you do to a walmart vase to break everyone's for sure reef rules, and it turns out quite a lot.
I know that article you are talking about it was last months Reef Hobbyist magazine and that was my friends vase Maritza the vase reef google hers, her coral is 10x nice than mine shes put some real money into that vase.
mine's old stuff from back in 2006 not as bright and nice but still was a time that micro reefs were not common so we were testing the limits of science with them. thanks for noticing@!!
the glass cleaning is easy, either wipe the insides down when drained (we do only 100% wc) with a wet peroxide paper towel to clean off the growths, or just razor scrape it with a curved razor to fit the vase sides. I do the peroxide wipe occasionally.
https://www.facebook.com/reefhobbyi...176913512115/1082245588471905/?type=3&theater
I know that article you are talking about it was last months Reef Hobbyist magazine and that was my friends vase Maritza the vase reef google hers, her coral is 10x nice than mine shes put some real money into that vase.
mine's old stuff from back in 2006 not as bright and nice but still was a time that micro reefs were not common so we were testing the limits of science with them. thanks for noticing@!!
the glass cleaning is easy, either wipe the insides down when drained (we do only 100% wc) with a wet peroxide paper towel to clean off the growths, or just razor scrape it with a curved razor to fit the vase sides. I do the peroxide wipe occasionally.
https://www.facebook.com/reefhobbyi...176913512115/1082245588471905/?type=3&theater
