BOB_I please respond

[Bob I]

Originally Posted by martym

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.

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.