50 gallon skimmerless & sumpless

[Carrera75]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

the tank looks very good well done

Thanks, it's my little aquatic garden and I really enjoy doing the maintenance required to keep it looking great. This tank never gets neglected and I do my best to provide the best home possible for the corals and fish.

Originally Posted by pscott99

Really beautifull. How about a fuge shot ? No phosphate issues ? Did you have the normal cleanup crew ?

The refugium is nothing special. It's just an AquaClear 110 filter turned into a refugium. All I have in there is some cheato that gets pruned when needed and believe or not it does not even grow that fast. I'll try to take a pic when I get a chance.

[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.

[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]

New system is skimmerless and sumpless just like this one. I'll post a pic later.

[lorenz0]

just saw the pictures from your 2009 FTS, wow it was nice

btw i still want to raid your florida ric collection

[Carrera75]

U into Rics :-) I have about 200 Rics. They grow very well in my tank but then any coral that I put in there grew like weed.

[Skimmerking]

I love Ric's my god what I would do to get some from you.