1 gallon shroom jar

[siren's eye]

I decided to create a new home for my mushrooms since they looked miserable swirling in the current of my 5 gallon. I put it together using spare parts lying around my house. I used a 1 gallon cookie jar, wal-mart heater, clip on light, and a coralife 50/50 bulb. I did go to petsmart and pick up a little fishbowl submersible pump/filter for flow.

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My goal is a macro and mushroom jungle with some shrimp, an astrea snail and hermits.

In the future I'm going to replace the coralife with a waterproof led strip from eBay. I'll stick it to the underside of the glass lid to conceal it. It'll look so stealthy!

 

[siren's eye]

I can prop it up about a half inch. Would that help?

 

[siren's eye]

Or I can go to Home Depot and get those little sticky feet things and put them all around. There's a nice ledge on the inside.

 

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Here's some pics after everybody settled in.

 

[superclown]

thats actually kinda cool. you must have gotten bored lol

 

[smoothie]

Amici;589202 wrote: There was a guy on one of the major forums who did this with vases and all kinds of small glass jars. Ill see if I can dig it up.

Be very careful keeping that lid on there.....its going to cause your O2 to get depleted over time, may want to consider a small air stone.

I'm pretty sure he is on here

 

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I just thought I'd share a pretty picture

 

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My newest, most favorite mushroom.

 

[pamelahaley]

That is pretty darn creative and cool.

 

[shamanofsexy]

Great use of empty jar. Im usually just a fan of larger tanks (im more of a fish guy than corals) but this is extremely impressive.

 

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Here is my jar next to my 5 gallon nano. I still need to get LEDs for inside the lid, so please ignore the ghetto clip on light.

 

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It's got an awesome population of pods.

 

[dawgface]

LOL thats awesome.

 

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Here are some update pictures. I got a few new babies growing!

 

[chris_w]

Do you have any sort of surface agitation in this tank? Hows the water quality now that its been setup for a while?

 

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I have a small fish bowl pump for circulation. Water parameters are still good.

Nitrates: 0
nitrites: 0
ammonia: 0
PH: 8.0

 

[siren's eye]

thank you! I do a 1/4 gallon water change once a week, and have to top off every 2 days.

 

[siren's eye]

I have little white tube worms growing on the glass!