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the air is from an air pump and a porous air stone.
normally the splatter and salt creep would cake the tank up, but importantly this vase has a lid from the garden center area of Wal Mart store and it is a plastic dish used to set potted plants in, six inches in diameter.
*This lid sits on the -inner diameter- of the vase so that all the splatter drips back down into the tank it doesn't develop much salt creep like this. If the lid fit the vase, or sat on the outside diameter, the splatter would be terrible.
because the airstone can be overdriven like this, strong circulation is inside and no splatter plus the lid makes evaporation topoff change from once a day to twice a week!
do weekly water changes 100% of the water, don't leave any of the old water in. It will not hurt anything< I do it like that for years. change weekly. the rest is normal corals and good reef lighting and small preset heater, a tetra heater set for 78 degrees, here is a build site!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2780464...57623229539365
A very smart man named Mark K. figured out how to drill the vase whereas I could not figure out how to do that he's a great guy we trade ideas now.