Thanks, it's my little aquatic garden and I really enjoy doing the maintenance required to keep it looking great. This tank never gets neglected and I do my best to provide the best home possible for the corals and fish.



The refugium is nothing special. It's just an AquaClear 110 filter turned into a refugium. All I have in there is some cheato that gets pruned when needed and believe or not it does not even grow that fast. I'll try to take a pic when I get a chance.

Awesome looking tank! I have actually met quite a few people over the years that have had similar success with a skimerless/sumpless setup. But I think this one takes the cake!

Do you use tap water or RODI? Also, are you using a higher end mix of salt? Or just good old IO?

Thanks.

I used tap water for a couple of years but I have been getting water from Safeway for the last 4 years. No high end salt just the good old IO.

Amazing.. so i know its been over 4 years, but how long since the tank was first cycled out of curiosity?

This tank didn't go through a cycle or if it did it was a small one. I bought liverock and sand from a guy that had just shut down his tank and this greatly helped to minimize the cycle period. This tank never had any algae problems and ran skimmerless & sumpless very successfully for 7 years. Coral growth and polyp extension was awesome.

This reef tank was shut down this past weekend.

Can we have picts of new setup?
 

Can we have some picts of the new transfer to the small tank... would be interesting to see if the smaller environment can still be skimmerless and sumpless....

msjboy

New system is skimmerless and sumpless just like this one. I'll post a pic later.

just saw the pictures from your 2009 FTS, wow it was nice

btw i still want to raid your florida ric collection

U into Rics :-) I have about 200 Rics. They grow very well in my tank but then any coral that I put in there grew like weed.

I love Ric's my god what I would do to get some from you.