BOB_I please respond
 

Are you the one who is running skimmerless? If you are, may I ask why and how your tank is doing?. I ask because I have just bought a book on corals, and it seems that most corals rely on DOM to survive. Why then do we want it out of the tank??. ANyway if it is not you sorry to trouble you.

Re: BOB_I please respond
 

because so do most algaes and they easaly out compete the corals. which book is this out of curosity?

Steve

Aquarium Corals by Eric H. Borneman. It's a good, pretty sceintific for me so it is hard to understand in some places.

Re: BOB_I please respond
 

Well except for a short period of trying a small airdriven skimmer on my 20 I have always been skimmerless. My 50 has a selection of soft corals, some mushrooms, some zoanthids, two closed brains, one open brain, some Caulastrea, one piece of digitata that is growing fast, and two Cleaner Shrimp. The fish are one Royal Grama, one tank bred Tomato Clown, one Bicolor Blenny, one Rainford's Goby, one Six line wrasse, and one small Mandarin Dragonet.
As it now sits the tank has been up about a year, and is doing very well. At this time there are no algae problems. I do run a Fluval 204 to hold the Chemipure I like to use. The lighting is a Coralife Aqualight with two 96W pc's.

I hope I have answered your questions. :mrgreen:

Isn't he the one promoting the use a MYREEF skimmer in this month's reefkeeping mag? Maybe Eric says that so you have money to buy his book? :razz:

no skimmer for two years everything very healthy and reproducing.

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Bob is this the tank in the picture of your thread Topless?

Steve

yes skimmer for two years everything very healthy and reproducing.

So the skimmer doesn't seem to be the common factor.

BOB_I, I guess the chenipure would take care of the bad nutrients. What was your reasoning for going skimmerless?

Bingo, and if you run it for 2 years it will end up costing more than a skimmer.

Steve