50 gallon skimmerless & sumpless

[Carrera75]

Originally Posted by Triggz

Awesome looking tank! I have actually met quite a few people over the years that have had similar success with a skimerless/sumpless setup. But I think this one takes the cake!

Do you use tap water or RODI? Also, are you using a higher end mix of salt? Or just good old IO?

Thanks.

I used tap water for a couple of years but I have been getting water from Safeway for the last 4 years. No high end salt just the good old IO.

[Maverick00]

Amazing.. so i know its been over 4 years, but how long since the tank was first cycled out of curiosity?

[Carrera75]

This tank didn't go through a cycle or if it did it was a small one. I bought liverock and sand from a guy that had just shut down his tank and this greatly helped to minimize the cycle period. This tank never had any algae problems and ran skimmerless & sumpless very successfully for 7 years. Coral growth and polyp extension was awesome.

This reef tank was shut down this past weekend.

[msjboy]

Can we have some picts of the new transfer to the small tank... would be interesting to see if the smaller environment can still be skimmerless and sumpless....

msjboy

[Carrera75]

Originally Posted by msjboy

Can we have some picts of the new transfer to the small tank... would be interesting to see if the smaller environment can still be skimmerless and sumpless....

msjboy

Here are some pics of the new set up. These pics was taken just before I set it up.









and the 50g all empty

[Cade]

Update? lol