https://youtu.be/AvsxbYF1ai4

update for 7/18/23

still going, 17 years old this month


this is the oldest pico reef on earth in any country. your site has been very very helpful in documenting the aging process with pictures and descriptions, I really like your website

brandon429

The reef as of 2-22-2020

Keeping the updates for a single tank in the same thread is a way of proofing lifespan.



https://www.reef2rainforest.com/2017/12 ... side-look/

Has anyone else set up a micro reef? Feel free to post pictures here

Friends I'm glad you'll let me collect the bowl's life history here, your forum happens to be an active place I can post updates. Let's track the lifespan of the oldest mini reef, here, you can tell I plan on following through Here is me draining the 12 yr old reef to simulate a tidal flow https://w...

agreed its full necro mode these tiny reefs are the best at demonstrated advanced aging techniques for reef tanks, their metabolism is so fast they do in three years what a 100 gallon tank takes 20 yrs to attain. when they say things happen faster in small tanks, its means waste accumulation and pla...

hi friends this vase reef is 11 yrs old now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgonY5FXxVE * I do not mean to bring up old threads if that is against the rules, its continuance. the actual reef is still alive, so I thought it would be ok to keep it in the same thread. This reef has an indefinite lifes...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R237MB2jvb8
Planted bowl 12 years old

1 gallon vase 8 years old

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8zMWHAkJtM

Hello friends

2013 update

Hello friends, an update on the bowl. it does not store waste with this aggressive water change schedule. it has an indefinite lifespan, corals are pruned and traded as needed.



Video Update, Fringing Pico Reef Model:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fk8R3clElQ

thank you both for stopping by I have enjoyed learning from your site over the last few years
I took a look at your cube reef video and it looks great! makes me wish I had enough room for a fish~

thank you for stopping by, hopefully google translator will make this work. The reef tank is 1 gallon, its 6 years old and has 14 genera of mixed stony and soft corals http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6711593095_0b3bf402a7_z.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6711593091_346629a5cf_z.jpg http:/...

MacropOpentop7July2011.sm.jpg Hi friends. I like to update the thread from year to year to show the lifespan of the tank as it matures. These corals are aquacultured, they produce frags for trade and sale. Ive grown and sold from the bowl: acanthastrea isauraus mushrooms montipora acropora zoanthar...

this is a one year picture breakdown of alveopora bizarrely contorting its skeleton outside of the natural domed form in order to conform to the walls of the vase, I do not believe there is a picture of alveopora grown up the side of glass anywhere on the internet in any tank, how about that for a v...

hello! if you can believe it there is no water pump, its only an airstone. the reason I can use one without salt creep is because the lid sits on the inner diameter of the vase neck, so all the splatter is directed right back down into the bowl, the rate at which the air is delivered also controls t...

thank you for stopping in! these are actually very stable after I describe the exact regimen you'll see...they are dependent on a consistent electrical supply and consistent temps around them no more than 79 degrees as the lack of volume leaves no room for error, but within those specs Ive carved th...

ten months between shots

here is an algae growth outbreak that is common in pico tanks: PreburnRedAlgae.sm.jpg this is the tool used to blast the growth with fire in short pulses: FLexFlame.jpg then you wipe away the algae, and this is left, its the total cleaning system for pest removal and is the best out of any method Iv...

hi thanks for stopping in! the little sealed tank with a false wall was sold at a show in 2005. I still have the vase though, and the last coral stocking was about 4 mos ago with some pipe organ coral. the oldest corals that have been in the whole time are some zoanthids and candy cane in the lower ...

this update is one year on a plug of montipora staghorn

The ecosystem has hit five years old and is the longest continually running pico reef, just keeping the updates coming nice to see you all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuIIPFeUd2Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3onG2SvzKc

hello friends! stopped back in to post some updates, more coral have been added to the vase. The 5 year update will be shot in HD and posted to youtube in a few months, until then here are some more pictures Thurs keep in touch. If I miss you here be sure and chat with me on youtube comments, Brando...

can be carried by hand full and running

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oh yea without sealing you can evaporative cool, makes sense. 83 is dang high, but if its managed slowly I can totally see corals and animals adapting to it. So someone needs to design a nano chiller that runs on butane or freon for a car!