Femto Reef...

[dingusplease]

20 minutes + soldering iron + plastic + live rock/sand + a little determination = one very small Femto Reef

Had some spare time, decided to see how small I could go... Maybe I'll do another one and use tweezers lol.

 

[dingusplease]

Everything from scratch, custom built tank

 

[10gal_nano]

Wow! That's small. How many drops wc do you do weekly. Lol.

 

[dingusplease]

Wow! That's small. How many drops wc do you do weekly. Lol.

Haha, well, considering it only holds two drops...

 

[mfdrookie516]

A- why? B- wouldn't that be a fowlr? Or perhaps replace the r with a g for gravel

 

[Macscale]

B- wouldn't that be a fowlr? Or perhaps replace the r with a g for gravel

Well can't really put any fish in there, so maybe: Wwlr- Water with live rock.

 

[dingusplease]

A- why? B- wouldn't that be a fowlr? Or perhaps replace the r with a g for gravel

Why make this tank? A- took 10 minutes, not even twenty discounting letting it dry + just kind of a fun challenge but not really an aquarium of course, def not a reef. B- yeah, if course it's not a reef so the title is inaccurate, more along the lines of WWLR as Mac puts it.

 

[dingusplease]

And btw, the "gravel" is actually plain aquarium sand, but looks big in the context of a less-than-one-centimeter tall tank.

 

[Autumnsky]

Extreme pico.... you could put a pod...

 

[NanoNewb]

I like the rockscape. For lights you might want a DIY led and you better get a DIY ATO. Please post pics! Haha!

 

[bribo12]

I'm thinking this will be sps dominated with a couple clams?????

 

[10gal_nano]

What were your ideas for fish? Hippo tang? Lol

 

[dingusplease]

Extreme pico.... you could put a pod...

Haha, maybe a tad overstocked

 

[dingusplease]

What were your ideas for fish? Hippo tang? Lol

I'm thinking this will be sps dominated with a couple clams?????

No no no, we must think bigger... rays and sharks

 

[10gal_nano]

No no no, we must think bigger... rays and sharks

Moray eel??

 

[dingusplease]

It's interesting to think at first how small and un-inhabitable this tank may seem, but then to realize that there are creatures far smaller than we can see, who inhabit spaces much smaller than this. We focus on the smaller creatures of the ocean in our home aquaria, or so we think. The creatures that dwell on a microscopic scale are the most important creatures of all.

There, that's my philosophic rant for the day

 

[bribo12]

It's interesting to think at first how small and un-inhabitable this tank may seem, but then to realize that there are creatures far smaller than we can see, who inhabit spaces much smaller than this. We focus on the smaller creatures of the ocean in our home aquaria, or so we think. The creatures that dwell on a microscopic scale are the most important creatures of all.

There, that's my philosophic rant for the day

So deep haha

 

[dingusplease]

Moray eel??

Stingrays lol, but eels too

 

[dingusplease]

So deep haha

Haha, I'm a writer as well as a reefkeeper, so I may tend to write a little more than I should on occasion

 

[dingusplease]

I like the rockscape. For lights you might want a DIY led and you better get a DIY ATO. Please post pics! Haha!

I spent hours upon hours fidgeting with the rock work, making countless sketches and layouts trying to get that "big tank look" .

Also, I purchased a tunze osmolator, radion gen3 pro, neptune apex gold, and a 8000gph protein skimmer for this build. Coming in the mail next week. So excited!

All jokes aside, what's the smallest legitimate reef anyone here has ever made or seen? I'm interested to know what kind of maintenance a tank that's sub-1gal would need...