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Originally Posted by brianlow
Great tank! Any tips for others running sumpless and skimmerless? How often and how large are your water changes? Dosing? Lighting?
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Hi there,
Going skimmerless and sumpless is not for everyone. You have to be patient and go slow and a lot of people don't know how to do this
. All the corals you see in the tank started from one single head or polyp. I took my time and planned this set up well. The goal was to create a low maintenance reef. If you want to go skimmerless and sumpless I would say go slow, take your time. Don't add 5 fish or lots of corals at the same time. Allow the tank to mature and achieve a good balance.
At the beginning I used to do 10% weekly water changes but as the tank matured that changed. At one point I was doing only a couple water changes a year but this is
NOT something I recommend you to do. When this happened, my tank had already been set up for 4 years and it was pretty mature. I know do 10% monthly water changes and I don't add any additives.
There is also an AC110 that was turned into a refugium and I run another HOB filter with some filter pad in there to keep the water clear. The lighting is 2x150w MH + 4x39 T5's.
I feed the fish twice a day and feed the corals once in a while. One thing that I would recommend you to do is to rinse the frozen food before you feed your fish. If you don't do this you will adding a lot of extra nutrients into your set up. I should mention that I have always kept around 5 to 6 small fish and perhaps this has also helped to keep the bio-load in check.
I hope this helps.
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Originally Posted by DisneyCoralReef
Outstanding! why are you shutting the tank down?!
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Thanks for your comments. why am I shutting down this? I have been told that I have to downsize
