The vertex zeo reactor has a check valve to keep water in the reactor. I started it and was very happy with it i hardly noticed a cycle
. If you do this cycle prepare for some of the nastiest algae you will ever see in a tank then boom gone. I would get like a few inches of growth on the windows a day. But it worked well never lost a thing when i moved my tank.
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360 gallon sps reef, 180 gal sump, bubble king supermarine 300, 4xmp40Wes, 2 x 6215 tunze waveboxes, 4 ghl mitras
360 Reef Tank