Conskis 1.25gal Pico

Looks cool, I like the cooling fins on it, but how many people have just a light socket hanging over their tank without some type of enclosure? That light states it can't be put in any type of enclosure/reflector or it will overheat.

You know, Costco around here sells LED light bulbs that look similar to the one that Doc just posted, but uses standard LEDs instead of high output ones, but only cost around $10 vs $100 and for your purposes would be just fine, although your color options are nil with the costco type of LED light, you get white and thats it. LED light bulbs are the new Compact Floro bulb that was so great just a year ago but now considered very bad, actually worse than incandescent light bulbs when you look at the environmental cost of producing and disposing of them. Only thing a CFL bulb has over the 100 year old regular bulb is it uses less electricity.
 
as for the socket there are these ceramic worklights they sell at home depot and you can cut the reflector off, but yeh if there arent ever going to be any photosynthetic coral in that tank theres no point in putting a hundred dollar light on it

the way i see it though is maybe one head of dendro will be okay in that tank in terms of bioload but if you have to feed it it will poop and produce nitrates. a dendro needs to be fed a couple times a week to be happy, and a single head could consume a block of mysis in a couple feedings, might as well have the bioload of a fish.
 
Its all good dude haha that light you put up that cost 100, is it already pre made and everything? and with that light could i actually put other corals into the tank besides NPS?? which fixture should i get if i go this route? i know its prefrence but having no experiance with LED i wouldnt have a prefrence. I will definitly buy that esepcially if they can grow any kind of coral including SPS and atleast zoas.

he does make a point about the bioload. if you go by old school thought of 1 gal per 1inch of fish i could actually get away with the red goby that is considered smaller then panda and only grows to be 1inch.
something like this http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+31+2613&pcatid=2613

and ace i have never heard of costco so im out of luck lol

6 am isn't so bad.. waiting to go home until after morning rush hour to give you more time to sober up is... especially when you decide to stop at a skate park on your way home, having no idea how to skate vert... ah those were the days...
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Costco, Sam's Club, BJ's, any giant where house wholesale store where you have to pay a yearly membership to get a card to go in and it is just stacked floor to ceiling with shelves of "bulk" items, like 1000 rolls of toilet paper, 20 boxes of cereal, etc. No use for a single person like myself to shop there. I did once, bought a bulk box of "Mac and Cheese".. lasted me years until I got so sick of it I finally ended up tossing out the remaining 25% I didn't eat. If you have a large family is it the place to shop.

I think Wal-Mart (smaller version of Sam's Club, same company) may even sell LED light bulbs now.
 
hahaha how many boxes were in it?!

are these bulbs pre made as welll?
 
I think it was something like 80 or 100 boxes in a package for like $20. Sounded like a good deal at the time and something that didn't spoil.. but there is only so much of one item a person can eat before they are sick of it... and I found my limit with Mac and cheese.

Yes, bulbs are pre-made and sold right next to all the other light bulbs in one of those nice "slice your hand open trying to get it out of the package" type plastic containers.

The bulb looks like this.
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with any one of those bulbs you or Docta Q suggested would any coral be a possibility?
 
No.. not in a 1G tank... water quality/parameters start to come into play so most SPS corals would not do well in that type of tank and most LPS corals would grow too big for it (Dendo's and sun polyps being an exception, they grow slooow, but a frogspawn head wouldn't be a good idea).

I still like the idea of a "Sunny-D" tank, or a mix of a few nice high end zoas and just let them spread.
 
^the zoas are what i wanted to do, it would be cool to have a rare zao garden!
which of those selections from DoctaQ's link would you choose for it color wise and what i need wise
 
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