whats your secret reef keeping
 

mine:
since I have manually dosed my tank once a week all the corals are doing very happy:)
I dont think the band of dosing solution matter much:)

tank
 

tank after dosing

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My secret is water changes and keeping my fish well fed. Tank without dosing:

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Agreed, that's how I keep mine going.

My secret is water changes. Makes all the difference for me. Dosing helps of course. Also just leaving things alone to grow instead of messing with everything seems to work well for me except I can't seem to keep my hands out of the tank for that long. lol

For me water changes, well fed fish, and keeping the GFO charged seems to be the 3 key ingredients for longevity.

1.Water changes
2.Patience
3.Dont keep tinkering with stuff. The more you play around the more problems you'll have. Dont know why people figure they have to keep putting there hands in their tanks.
4.Keeping the big 3 water parameters in check. Dosing seems to be the big craze but calcium reactors work just fine.
5.Oh and money helps.

allow your system time to mature and hit its stride.

My secret is Adobe Photoshop.

MONEY AND TIME

lol you wish mr paint shop pro.

:lol:

your spidey senses must have tingled eh? i posted that specifically for you boss lol.

I totally agree with you. People stress out too much about the little stuff and a lot of them just can't keep their hands off their systems. Let things be, sit back and enjoy! This is suppose to be an enjoyable hobby, and not something that adds more stress into one's life.

Here is a pic of my set up. I really don't do much to it. I simply let it be.....
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...ank/image4.jpg

werd! I didn't get within 15 feet of my tank all last weekend and it didn't blow up! :surprise: :lol: This reminds me, I had a debate with someone on another forum recently. I said that there was nothing that I needed to do to my tank on a daily basis and he tore me a new one and asked me, "Well what's the point of having a tank then?" So according to him I should be doing something to my tank at least once a day?? :rolleyes: Serious LOLs with that discussion there.. haha.

And beautiful tank Carrera!

I feed most days, that's about it. The point is to look at it, not be in it :)

Thanks kien....I like it too :smile:



Couldn't not agree more ........

K.I.S.S theory... Nice and simple. Water changes every 2 weeks on the dot is what I strive for. I have a fairly heavy stocked SPS tank so I need to dose Cal / ALK / Mag. Other than that, I do have pellets, GFO and carbon running. The actual amount of maintenance of my system is very little. GFO / Carbon once a month... I don't touch the pellets. Maybe top them off once every 6 months or so. And dosing is on pumps w/ timers so all I have to do is check that the jugs don't run empty.

So essentially, water testing once a week, clean the glass once or twice a week, feed daily, clean skimmer once a week, water changes bi-weekly and mix up sand bed bi-weekly to prevent gas build up... I don't put my hands in the water much at all unless adding a new coral or move something around the odd time. Hands in the water too much is asking for trouble.

for me feed the fish daily, water changes, clean the skimmer once a week if any, but since I've added one of those algae scrubbers to my system my nitrates keep very low now I haven't changed water in the last 2 months or so. So less maintenance time more time to enjoy the system.

My secret is teach the wife how to maintain your tank and it becomes part of her daily chores, now all you got to do is sit back and enjoy! :twised:

My secret, Zeovit amino acid, sponge power, coral vitalizer, Strontium, calcium, kh. I dose with a dosing pump every hour. I feed Fauna Marin ultra clam, ultra seafan, Reef Roid, Coral Frenzy. I do water change once a month.

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps05783387.jpg

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...psd45e4b16.jpg

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps9f64acd8.jpg

A true pink digitata....

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps7178bc0b.jpg

That wouldn't be a secret here. It would be a full blown miracle!! Seriously, I'm awestruck. Nice work.:)

You're obviously doing something right there. Great looking tank daniella!

yeah my mind's blown.

Daniella can you point me to where you have detailed how you did your rockwork and maybe a true FTS so I can see how all this fits into the tank?

AWESOME!

One of the coolest tanks I've seen!! Very unique and all your corals look amazing!

Leanne

I agree, great color!!!!

I'm still trying to teach mine to do her daily chores

If I even typed something like that, I'd wake up with a knife in my head :)

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
BTW what is the name of the green/yellow coral behind the true pink digitata?

think that's a hydnophora...

Patience and stability.

If I told you I'd have to kill you......

My tank is still new so all these "secrets" help me learn.. Sounds like biweekly water changes are quite common (which I already do).

Nice topic, keep those secrets coming

lmao

LOL,... I guess if people gave out their real secrets, they wouldn't be secrets anymore,... and anybody could do it... Wouldn't want that now, would we?....

feed daily mysis, krill, cyclopeeze, phytoplankton. feed nems every other day - krill. weekly top off, clean skimmer. water change monthly. no dosing. gfo and carbon bi weekly

I think it's an expensive softie that's extinct in the wild and cannot remember the name of...

Could be wrong tho

im with everyone else. patients and dont muck around with things.

feed my fish every 1-3days with meaty seafood/pellets. keep ca/alk/mg consistent, and water changes once week or 2.

No, really. Change water, feed fish. Basic maintenance when I remember, skimmer, reactor, etc. Anybody could do it!

+1 to all of this, I dose 1 time a week for calcium, but I think a calcium reactor would be a good thing, also running a TLF gfo reactor. Here's my tank. http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9b9ec09d.jpg