SPS fish bowl

[Dave@ARA]

30% H2o change daily using water from an established SPS system.
Air driven Kriesel-like flow with a 21W PAR 38, (12.000K) LED.

bowl has only been set up for just over a month, changed out the light from a 6,5000K compact fluorescent desk lamp to the LED earlier this week.

PAR reading in center of bowl is over 350 with a new Apogee Quantum meter.

 

[Russellaqua]

Very cool! Is this going to be a permanent thing or just an experiment?

 

[Dave@ARA]

I am going to keep it going unless I can't keep up with the daily H2o changes.
Temp is a perfect 78 degrees?,..who knows,..I would like to be able to keep it going,..but again,..I don't think you can do something like this unless you have a large established system already running to use water/do waterchanges from.

 

[sanddune600]

thats cool

 

[Joezreef]

cool!

 

[Dave@ARA]

I feed a small amount of a blended "coral smoothie" (of varying particulate size) about two hours before I do the daily change.(very very small amount of food)

 

[ReeferRob]

That is really cool. I picture no fish, but maybe 2 or 3 Pom Pom crabs, a small blue or red starfish and maybe one or two more sticks in there. I really like the bottle too! Good luck!

 

[BlazinNano]

Killer! Cant wait to see how everything grows. It would awesome if the whole bowl fills in.

 

[Dave@ARA]

That is really cool. I picture no fish, but maybe 2 or 3 Pom Pom crabs, a small blue or red starfish and maybe one or two more sticks in there. I really like the bottle too! Good luck!

I agree with you,..I think Just a Single pom-pom, or porcelin crab or possibly anemone shrimp.

I think "respecting the bio-load " is the key here.

 

[rng_pw]

keep us updated. I've always wanted to try something like that. Good luck

Ricky,

 

[ucantmakeme]

this is awesome. I love stuff like this.

I had a 1 Gallon pickle Jar set by a window with Zoas and some macro a few years ago.

 

[Dave@ARA]

did you have flow in your pickle jar?

 

[amore169]

Very nice.

 

[ca2or]

That's crazy....I thought about something like this with a small tank I saw just the other day.

 

[BlazinNano]

How long has it been setup? Can't wait for some growth pics.

 

[150er]

That is cool, especially the SPS grows on glass bottle.

 

[Dave@ARA]

Just over a month,..starting to see some cyano build up as of today, but siphoned it off doing two 30% water changes, and turned up the flow just a bit.
I'm going to whatever it takes to make this thing succeed

 

[badguitarist]

how is it being heated? I'm not seeing a heat source in there, or is the ambient room temperature 78?

 

[wireefman]

how is it being heated? I'm not seeing a heat source in there, or is the ambient room temperature 78?

heat from the bulb

 

[inactive]

Interesting, I wish you luck.