In theory would this work?!

Conski

Conski

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i dont sleep anymore so last night while staying up i had a little idea.

you always see those stupid frogospheres and stuff at malls and i wanna kinda do the same thing but with a single coral and hermit crab.

take a little glass cube like 5 inches high and wide, block off like an inch worth of space to put cheto, a hydor mini heater a smaller peice of LR and a little tiny tiny pump. then place it next to my tank where excess light from a 150 would be going on to it constantly. it would have a single sps coral and a hermit crab with a thumbsize sandbed.

it would literally be the size of the text box excluding the smileys portion.
 
it would probably 2 liters of water, and i would imagine alot, all i would need to do is find a small cube to try this with and i would give it a shot, not like id have to purchace anything else, maybe use an air pump with no airstone on it to put air into the system..

sps would probably pushing it in my idea, so id go with a zoas of some sort probably, although it would be really cool if i could find a pump small enough to fit this set up for an sps
 
that would be a pico tank. there are people on other forums making tiny reef tanks out of those little betta cubes. you could house something better than a hermit in there sexy shrimp look really good in small tanks
 
Yes, SPS would be a bad idea, it goes against the very "generic" meaning of SPS which is "Stability Promotes Success". Your Specific Gravity won't be stable with that little of water and evaporation happening.. zoas, mushrooms, leathers, etc, those would be the types of corals to try in your idea.

Another idea if you wanted to do SPS is to plumb the Pico tank into your display tank somehow so it is using the same water.
 
Ace25 said:
Another idea if you wanted to do SPS is to plumb the Pico tank into your display tank somehow so it is using the same water.
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or he could get an automatic top off unit that would keep the water level where it should be at all times
 
i could run a gravity siphon from the display into the pico then the tiny pump could put the water back into the tank?!
 
Mustang Boy said:
or he could get an automatic top off unit that would keep the water level where it should be at all times
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If you can show me an ATO that would work in a Pico tank then ya, that would be an option, but when normal ATO's have a 1/2-1" swing then in a Pico that could mean 1.025-1.030, which is really bad for SPS corals. ;)

Conski said:
i could run a gravity siphon from the display into the pico then the tiny pump could put the water back into the tank?!
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Unfortunately, that never works as planned. It always sounds good in your head, but some reason it always ends up with water on the floor somehow.

Edit: Thinking about it a little more, a Dual gravity setup would work better, ie. gravity feed from your main tank to your pico, then gravity feed the Pico down into a sump to be pumped back into your main tank, kind of like putting a separate refugium on your sump, except yours would be a pico tank. Still, a lot of work.
 
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