Originally Posted by
MX#28
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I mean what about filtration, flow, top off, etc ???
2 gallons of water is not much. It will make it difficult to keep your water quality up and your parameters stable. Daily evaporation will create a fairly significant change in the salinity - how do you plan to compensate for that? I would suggest an auto-top-off.
Different non-photo critters rely greatly on different rates of flow for their survival and well-being. You will need to choose your animals and then likely have to do research on their required flow rates. How do you intend to set up the flow? A stream tank is one way of doing this. Googel "delbeek stream tank".
What you feed should be based on what you want to keep, so maybe figure out a list first and then consider how you'll feed them. I don't intend to sound condescending, we;ve had this talk before, but there are a great deal of variables to address.
I don't think theres going to be any filtration. Just water changes. I'm thinking about building my own auto top off system. I'll draw a little diagram of the auto top off system and show it to you later on the day. I was thinking of just adding 1 strong pump and hooking up a lot of different diameters of tubes to the outlet of the pump and the ones that need higher flow with be getting thiner tubs pointing their way because higher pressure = stronger flow and the ones that need lower flow get wider tubes pointing their way because wider tubes = less pressure. I'll go look into what they all eat and start cultures of what they eat.
After my 2 gallon FW cherry shrimp tank crashed, I was thinking of devoting a little 2 gallon tank to ONLY non-photosynthetic corals with an actinic lighting so there wouldn't be any algae growth. I know its a bit small, but a 50% water change is only 1 gallon. What do you all think?
