I'm no reefer, by a long shot; I stay on the Fresh side of the hobby. However, your very simplistic and thorough approach peaked my interest for a possible distant future reef setup. Thank You, Sir.
Your tank looks incredible. Great job on displaying it. I personally like having a sump & skimmer but you have done great without one. Keep up the good work
I love all the "experts" that pop up and tell you your doing things wrong! Tank looks great and ive seen plenty that don't run all the tech and do just fine so keep up the good work
Also, just to be clear, you DO have a running sump and a skimmer. Just because it's a weir at the back of the tank doesn't mean it isn't a sump. The primary reason you need no biomedia in your sump is the large volume of live rock you have in the tank combined with good circulation and low fish population.
You idiots don’t even know what you’re talking about. He isn’t using a sump, and obviously he does water changes, and he would still have to even if he wasted time and money on all that extra garage that you morons are obsessed with. Finally a tank that is practal, beautiful, and not over crowded with fish and expensive unnecessary equip.. the hobby is supposed to be about the inhabitants, not the products
@@fijisbuntut thank you for understanding this...is morons that think they need everything on the market that's making it difficult for people to break into the hobby.
@@lucaspoulos4505 yeah... I can understand people not using skimmer because they cant afford one. But having one and not using it is interesting specialty doing water changes every week. If he would just turn on the skimmer could save a lot of money on salt and time doing changes. But honestly feeding that little and only having 3 fish probably the skimmer wasn't even making enough foam to work properly.
I don't buy that he's not using the skimmer. If he would use it since he has it then he would get away with alot less water changes And could easily stock more fish. Alot Corals will be less stressed and will grow and do better in their environment with once a month 10 -15% water changes or just by doing a saltwater topoff as needed for evaporation. Less Stress from Water Changes = Less Stress on your fish too. Also SPS Corals and Anemones feed and thrive better as long as you target your nitrate levels between 2-10 ppm which will generally Keep right at 5ppm. phosphates should range from .03 to 0.1 ppm. It's a good Idea to supplement nitrates otherwise they drop too low and you'll starve your Corals. Suggest powdered KNO3 daily to your display at the same time feed the fish in the morning. Your phosphates will remain in the described range without the use of GFO or lanthanum chloride. You will also avoid feeding any algae preventing growth. Suggest Checking out BTUFF's TH-cam Channel. He's been Reefing for 25 years. He uses a skimmer and Sump but very seldom at all does water changes. Amazing how his tank does on it's own. He apparently keeps his Nitrate and Phosphate levels a little higher because he alows just a little agae on his live rock for feeding. Also recommended checking out Danny's Aquariums. Beautiful Tanks! No Sump, No Mechanical Filtration or Skimmers. Incredible SPS Corals and Gardens. Does alot of testing though.
Ultimately it depends on what type of livestock you are keeping and nutrient export. The livestock you have can handle and prefer higher nutrients. You'll find this setup more challenging if you try to keep Acropora and some other SPS
hello, very nice, congratulations! I don't have one similar to yours (I have videos on my channel) started for 4 years and I must say that they give a lot of satisfaction!
Tank is look fantastic... Wouldn't agree about the no sump thing tho. We both have AIO tanks and the rear chamber is a sump.. I dig the simple approach tho. Keep doing what u do man 👍🏾
I really love the way you have your reef tank sate up . That is the way you supposed to have set up. Although Reef Keepers can learn a thing or two from you. Thank you and keep up the good work
why are all of you guys hating on him about having a sump he's still right about the tips it will work with a canister filter my aquarium store does it like this all the time they have beautiful tanks and so do you hats off to you
one man's sump, is another man's hob sump. Locating your sump behind your tank, doesn't change the fact, that you have a sump (behind your tank instead of under it). Nice looking tank.
i like the video. I am glad that there are other people out there like me trying to take the minimalist approach to filtration. People have questioned my set up a few times. I have a 20 gal lit by an older Kessil A350w, with just a simple waterfall 1sq ft ATS as filtration. I do a 4-5 gal water change once a month. Around 5 hermits and 30 snails. At this point i only have 2 fish, LPS, and Zoas, but it is only 5 months old. Eventually will bring that to 4 or 5 fish and intend to add SPS. Also want to build a custom stand and add an ATO after that. Right now i have to top off daily by hand.
Hi. I totally agree with you: the best way to maintain a tank are water changes and an ecological balance, avoiding over stocking. Thanx for this! Besides: fantastic aquarium!
Saw this tank featured on ReefBuilders and it reminded me of a 120g all softie tank I used to have, and yeah I didn't do much in the way of filtration, heck I did a water change like once every 6 months. Worked great!
The softies are also the secret. There's a good lot of Xenia in there. Half the back wall is covered in pachyclavularia (or what looks like). There are a bunch of BTAs in there too. This equals thousands - literally maybe even tens of thousands - small, medium and large mouths chomping up whatever drifts by. The cyanobacteria in the sand suggests (to me anyway) there's still plenty of goop in the water, this isn't a "low nutrient system" by any means. Also, low bioload? No, this system has a MASSIVE bioload. Almost every visible surface has bio all over it. It is bioloaded to the max. Why it works is because of the kind of bio - TL;DR - everything in this system (except the three fish) eats everything else's poop. A skimmer would probably help get rid of that cyano. I don't get why the reefer wouldn't just shove one of those nice Deltecs in the back, the rectangular ones. I ran one of those for years, it was a great little skimmer.
1. sump is that compartment in the back... 2. those filters on both sides are skimmers... 3. adding cleanup crew immediately will kill them, there won't be any food/waste for them to consume! 4. 00:00 nice establishing shot of all that algae haha 5. that sand at 01:09 hasn't been siphon cleaned in forever 6. 02:45 has that ever been cleaned? beautiful corals and invertebrates though
TheMadReview it doesn’t really count as a sump tho. He’s not running a skimmer or any type of media reactors. All he has is filter socks which is pretty amazing. The point of the vid is to say u don’t need a bunch of expensive equipment to have a beautiful tank and he def succeeds so everyone should stop the downvoting.
@@pascal590 He's doing massive water changes though so will end up paying out for reef salt instead and have to keep it up religiously rather than just leaving the skimmer and live rock to do their jobs. Skimmers help protect from ammonia spikes as well as removing DOC's rather than just making it look pretty... It's known as the Berlin Method
My favorite part of the setup is the Power Outage equipment, that's really cool and it's a big worry for me. I don't know what you're using to power everything incase there is a power outage but thank you for the video. Now I have a bit of work to do to try and figure out how I could power my Aquarium for an hour or two in-case there is a power outage.
Realistically this is only for certain scenarios. Fish are the biggest polluters in an aquarium and secrete urine constantly. With this little tiny 3 is a perfect mix for this scenario. Great aquarium there.
Your yellow tang looks so happy,I love those little guys,had one myself for 12 years,cutest faces and personalties,beautiful tank by the way,I always ran an under gravel filter and had ,many years of success,but that's unheard of these days.thank you.
Really nice reef but I also have a all in one tank and the back overflow works like a sump ,but other then that I totally agree with you on the bio load that's a mostly softy tank maybe a few LPS , so the skimmer is really not needed you have a lot of hardy corals their so water parameters don't really have to be at its best ,Nice tank
Fantastic looking reef! Many would argue that the back 4-5" of your tank is in essence the sump- it's just a different acrylic box glued on the back of your tank. I have a simple yet thriving 3 year old 55 softie reef with the only two pieces of equipment being a korallia powerhead and a 2x55w t5ho light. No heater, no filter, no skimmer, no pseudo-sump. Not nearly as nice as yours though...
Water changes once a week is why you have good success and that is costly and a whole lot of work. I have a 40 gallon sump with a protein skimmer and a refugium and I might change the water every few months mainly to just clean the bottom. Plenty of fish and corals. You have a sump on the back of your tank. Put some algae in it, the live rock will do the rest in cleaning the tank.
Great looking tank and whatever you’re doing is working. Having said that, I believe water changes are highly overrated. If your changing out 10% volume your only removing/replenishing 10% of nutrients. For me, I’d prefer to spend the money on sump/refugium/skinner or whatever instead of doing water changes
I am at the opposite end of the spectrum...I keep a lightly stocked tank with a 2x protein skimmer/drain, media filter, macro algae, ATO, all in the sump. I do not do water changes at all. However, I dump about a gallon of green brown gunky water from the protein skimmer out ever 4-5 days. Either way- heavy water changes/ heavy skimming, the bad must come out and the good must go in. It is just personal preference.
I have a 300 gallon tank, and it's about 5 months old and we had one that's the same before, but it had a hole in it so it leaked everywhere in the house, but we got a new one for free with the lifetime warranty and we got $3000 in the mail, awesome company
Wow! Your tank looks awesome. I just started my very first saltwater tank and I wish I did it sooner. I'm documenting my experience and hope someday I'll become a pro like you. :)
Nice tank. It's easy not to run a skimmer on a tank. If you only have 3 fish, low S.P.S coral, and do large water changes, then you don't need a skimmer. But for most of us with a well stocked tank and a lot of S.P.S we have no choice. It is easier with a skimmer. I only do a 5% weekly water change, with 14 fish in a 160g with no sump.
Exactly this.. I have 6 fish in my Nuvo 16g tank, but I vodka dose, skimmer, biopellets, and mechanical media to maintain the tank. No sump either. Nitrate is near 0 as well.
Chris Branconnier Nick does a 50% weekly water change. This can upset the corals, and cause a lot of stress. If you have corals above the halfway line, then they become exposed. It would take me all day to make 80g of salt water to do a 50% weekly water change in my 160g. A skimmer will only remove 50% waste max. This will still leave some waste for the for the corals. The skimmer is doing the same job as a 50% water change.
im not a huge fan of the filter built in type ideas, one it takes up swimming space, and two i feel its not enough filtration...But this tank is beautiful, and to think its all run on the little sliver of filtration is impressive. these tanks loom really sharp to.
Nice tank! Have you ever considered using NO-POX?(liquid nitrate & phosphate remover) Seems like it would work well in your situation. What are your phosphates at? The only way they are removed is from a chemical media, not water changes, such as Rowa phos, Phoslock, or NO-POX. Also the back overflow part where your filter socks are located is considered a sump. Very impressive tank tho. Keep it up.
I don't use skimmer anymore but instead I use chaeto algae. Occasionally I replace the activated carbon in my sump. The reason I use activated carbon is because I have lots of mushroom and they release chemical into the water. I use crushed corals for the base and my sump. Lots of live rock in the main display tank Tank is 220G, almost 7 years old Corals are softcorals like mushrooms and LPS (frogspawn and elegance). Fish: yellow and tomini tang, 2 yellow tail damsels, yellow wrasse, 6line wrasse, tomato clown, yellownose butterfly and copperband butterfly. Also have 2 skunk cleaner shrimps.
Man your tank looks great! That being said you do have a sump. a sump is just a dedicated area for equipment... yours is on the back of the tank instead of underneath it. All that aside you must be doing something right, this video is getting very close to 1 million views! That's just something that doesn't happen often on reefing channel's.
yeah, great video and beautiful tank. i was going to say very small bio load, that is HUGE! my bio load is HUGE with 7 tangs so i could never get away with this.
i manage all my tanks the same way. imo mechanical filtration just traps debris where it can't be processed by a cleanup crew, necessitating manual removal. more cleanup crew = less need for mechanical filtration. i have small tanks that literally just run on an airstone, but are crawling with pods that keep the sand and glass pristine. my 55G needs more manual work because my wrasse eats all the pods.
Coming from the high-tech planted aquarium side of things... when you run RODI and do 50% water changes a week, there is very little that goes wrong if you are putting back only what you need. I love running my freshwater tank this way and if I had a reef, I would run the reef this way too.
50% is far beyond what most tanks should do, in fact you risk stripping all nitrates and phosphates out of the water column which is not good. not to mention the cost, and time associated. reef salt is not expensive, but for anything over 40 gallons, a 50% water change is not cheap.
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I'm no reefer, by a long shot; I stay on the Fresh side of the hobby. However, your very simplistic and thorough approach peaked my interest for a possible distant future reef setup. Thank You, Sir.
I was searching for an Eheim prower pump, and after listening a few times...realized you said "per hour". :)
Your tank looks incredible. Great job on displaying it. I personally like having a sump & skimmer but you have done great without one. Keep up the good work
I love all the "experts" that pop up and tell you your doing things wrong! Tank looks great and ive seen plenty that don't run all the tech and do just fine so keep up the good work
Also, just to be clear, you DO have a running sump and a skimmer.
Just because it's a weir at the back of the tank doesn't mean it isn't a sump.
The primary reason you need no biomedia in your sump is the large volume of live rock you have in the tank combined with good circulation and low fish population.
He literally said the skimmer isn't running and that 'sump' only holds a heater. don't be a smartass.
@@Nathan-cv6sm And right at the end, what do we hear? "15% water change every week". No wonder no sump is in use.
Greg Chalker you should be doing that for marine anyway....
You idiots don’t even know what you’re talking about. He isn’t using a sump, and obviously he does water changes, and he would still have to even if he wasted time and money on all that extra garage that you morons are obsessed with. Finally a tank that is practal, beautiful, and not over crowded with fish and expensive unnecessary equip.. the hobby is supposed to be about the inhabitants, not the products
@@fijisbuntut thank you for understanding this...is morons that think they need everything on the market that's making it difficult for people to break into the hobby.
Wow your reef tank is stunning!!! Bravo!
Ummmm, no. There IS a skimmer and there IS a sump. The sump is in back of the tank and the skimmer is inside the sump. My god!
I know this video was posted ages ago but if u have a skimmer use a skimmer , ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE
@@lucaspoulos4505 yeah... I can understand people not using skimmer because they cant afford one. But having one and not using it is interesting specialty doing water changes every week. If he would just turn on the skimmer could save a lot of money on salt and time doing changes.
But honestly feeding that little and only having 3 fish probably the skimmer wasn't even making enough foam to work properly.
I don't buy that he's not using the skimmer.
If he would use it since he has it then he would get away with alot less water changes
And could easily stock more fish.
Alot Corals will be less stressed and will grow and do better in their environment with once a month 10 -15% water changes or just by doing a saltwater topoff as needed for evaporation.
Less Stress from Water Changes = Less Stress on your fish too.
Also SPS Corals and Anemones feed and thrive better as long as you target your nitrate levels between 2-10 ppm which will generally Keep right at 5ppm.
phosphates should range from .03 to 0.1 ppm.
It's a good Idea to supplement nitrates otherwise they drop too low and you'll starve your Corals.
Suggest powdered KNO3 daily to your display at the same time feed the fish in the morning.
Your phosphates will remain in the described range without the use of GFO or lanthanum chloride.
You will also avoid feeding any algae preventing growth.
Suggest Checking out BTUFF's TH-cam Channel.
He's been Reefing for 25 years.
He uses a skimmer and Sump but very seldom at all does water changes. Amazing how his tank does on it's own.
He apparently keeps his Nitrate and Phosphate levels a little higher because he alows just a little agae on his live rock for feeding.
Also recommended checking out Danny's Aquariums.
Beautiful Tanks! No Sump, No Mechanical Filtration or Skimmers.
Incredible SPS Corals and Gardens.
Does alot of testing though.
@@lucaspoulos4505 skimmer will strip nutrients from the tank if there’s very low nutrients killing corals
@@mattricav if he'd rather do water changes than deal with a skimmer who cares?
Ultimately it depends on what type of livestock you are keeping and nutrient export. The livestock you have can handle and prefer higher nutrients. You'll find this setup more challenging if you try to keep Acropora and some other SPS
hello, very nice, congratulations! I don't have one similar to yours (I have videos on my channel) started for 4 years and I must say that they give a lot of satisfaction!
Your fish tank is amazing keep up the great work your doing
ur a genius, i want to start my reef now its been so many years waiting for idea u got it.for me its easy i live near the sea...
Tank is look fantastic... Wouldn't agree about the no sump thing tho. We both have AIO tanks and the rear chamber is a sump.. I dig the simple approach tho. Keep doing what u do man 👍🏾
CJ'S AQUARIUMS your tank is incredible. Thanks for the comment!
Colorado Reef hey dude, what tank is this, name
He says no sump first god damn thing you see is the over head view the rear sump lol
Yeah, you're right! WTF man, boo you're a liar! next he'll tell us he gets the water current from the rotation of the planet.
Ummm bitch i have a no sump but a protein slimmer and still looking fine
Nice update as usual. Very nice explanation on how you keep your tank running.
I really love the way you have your reef tank sate up . That is the way you supposed to have set up. Although Reef Keepers can learn a thing or two from you. Thank you and keep up the good work
why are all of you guys hating on him about having a sump he's still right about the tips it will work with a canister filter my aquarium store does it like this all the time they have beautiful tanks and so do you hats off to you
Il più bel titolo che abbia mai visto 😊. 100% esplicativo
Dude this reef is truly a masterpiece way to go .
one man's sump, is another man's hob sump. Locating your sump behind your tank, doesn't change the fact, that you have a sump (behind your tank instead of under it). Nice looking tank.
do not start with a big cleanup crew! They will starve! the cleanup crew requires a seasoned well aged aquarium to have enough food to survive.
@@darkmode867 when they get hungry enough they'll sort the numbers out themselves...
If I want a cleaner shrimp for a new tank would it be fine or should I wait
@@Marshy2020 you don't know.
something to do about nothing shut up you idiot
@@natevoid9955 just buy a bag of frozen prawns and give the cleaner shrimp a tiny bit. They treat them like sweeties. They get hand tame ;-)
i like the video. I am glad that there are other people out there like me trying to take the minimalist approach to filtration. People have questioned my set up a few times. I have a 20 gal lit by an older Kessil A350w, with just a simple waterfall 1sq ft ATS as filtration. I do a 4-5 gal water change once a month. Around 5 hermits and 30 snails. At this point i only have 2 fish, LPS, and Zoas, but it is only 5 months old. Eventually will bring that to 4 or 5 fish and intend to add SPS. Also want to build a custom stand and add an ATO after that. Right now i have to top off daily by hand.
You have a built in sump.. Derp
My clean up crew is actually my favourite part of my tank, I've always had a strange addiction to invertebrates.
That's one of the reason why I wanna start a reef tank.. Watching the clean up crew is interesting
Hi. I totally agree with you: the best way to maintain a tank are water changes and an ecological balance, avoiding over stocking. Thanx for this! Besides: fantastic aquarium!
Nice work, man!! Beautiful tank!!
Amazing tank setup. I am a firm believer in less is more.
Saw this tank featured on ReefBuilders and it reminded me of a 120g all softie tank I used to have, and yeah I didn't do much in the way of filtration, heck I did a water change like once every 6 months. Worked great!
Wow. Teach me how.
The trick is in what you mentioned last - weekly 50% water change. Good luck with the tank.
And no fish. This is the secret,
lol there are fish in there
Exactly, 1 fish per 15 gallons of water helps tremendously. LOL
I too keep a small amount of fish, what limits me is the amount of money in the bank.
The softies are also the secret. There's a good lot of Xenia in there. Half the back wall is covered in pachyclavularia (or what looks like). There are a bunch of BTAs in there too. This equals thousands - literally maybe even tens of thousands - small, medium and large mouths chomping up whatever drifts by. The cyanobacteria in the sand suggests (to me anyway) there's still plenty of goop in the water, this isn't a "low nutrient system" by any means. Also, low bioload? No, this system has a MASSIVE bioload. Almost every visible surface has bio all over it. It is bioloaded to the max. Why it works is because of the kind of bio - TL;DR - everything in this system (except the three fish) eats everything else's poop.
A skimmer would probably help get rid of that cyano. I don't get why the reefer wouldn't just shove one of those nice Deltecs in the back, the rectangular ones. I ran one of those for years, it was a great little skimmer.
This tank is gorgeous
Its the water changes hes making that make it thrive without the equipment and clean up crew👍
agreed!
Gorgeous tank. Great mix of coral. Well done
1. sump is that compartment in the back...
2. those filters on both sides are skimmers...
3. adding cleanup crew immediately will kill them, there won't be any food/waste for them to consume!
4. 00:00 nice establishing shot of all that algae haha
5. that sand at 01:09 hasn't been siphon cleaned in forever
6. 02:45 has that ever been cleaned?
beautiful corals and invertebrates though
This tank has a built in sump people! That is what the wall is for on the back! Thumbs up for the win!
I have a reef tank just like that and it has a sump that and a skimmer in the back of the tank. He just don’t have it in the cabinet
TheMadReview it doesn’t really count as a sump tho. He’s not running a skimmer or any type of media reactors. All he has is filter socks which is pretty amazing. The point of the vid is to say u don’t need a bunch of expensive equipment to have a beautiful tank and he def succeeds so everyone should stop the downvoting.
TheMadReview it’s basically an oversized hang on back filter
@@pascal590 He's doing massive water changes though so will end up paying out for reef salt instead and have to keep it up religiously rather than just leaving the skimmer and live rock to do their jobs. Skimmers help protect from ammonia spikes as well as removing DOC's rather than just making it look pretty... It's known as the Berlin Method
My favorite part of the setup is the Power Outage equipment, that's really cool and it's a big worry for me. I don't know what you're using to power everything incase there is a power outage but thank you for the video. Now I have a bit of work to do to try and figure out how I could power my Aquarium for an hour or two in-case there is a power outage.
Realistically this is only for certain scenarios. Fish are the biggest polluters in an aquarium and secrete urine constantly. With this little tiny 3 is a perfect mix for this scenario. Great aquarium there.
You could ad an airstone refugium to the back and save on water changes by doing less.
Your yellow tang looks so happy,I love those little guys,had one myself for 12 years,cutest faces and personalties,beautiful tank by the way,I always ran an under gravel filter and had ,many years of success,but that's unheard of these days.thank you.
I have no idea about aquarium but my friend is making something like this your's looks so beautiful so I left a big like
Looks great! Love the look of your tank
Love the colors of the reef.
Fantastic looking. I'm just getting into a salt water tank so this will help me. Thanks again
Really nice reef but I also have a all in one tank and the back overflow works like a sump ,but other then that I totally agree with you on the bio load that's a mostly softy tank maybe a few LPS , so the skimmer is really not needed you have a lot of hardy corals their so water parameters don't really have to be at its best ,Nice tank
I love the clean up crew so many awesome animals and my conches are soo cute
This tank is gorgeous!
Beautiful aquarium BTW. Gorgeous
The tank looks beautiful :)
Beautiful!! Best I've ever seen! So brilliantly done!
Fantastic looking reef! Many would argue that the back 4-5" of your tank is in essence the sump- it's just a different acrylic box glued on the back of your tank. I have a simple yet thriving 3 year old 55 softie reef with the only two pieces of equipment being a korallia powerhead and a 2x55w t5ho light. No heater, no filter, no skimmer, no pseudo-sump. Not nearly as nice as yours though...
Awesome reef tank! Great job!
Water changes once a week is why you have good success and that is costly and a whole lot of work. I have a 40 gallon sump with a protein skimmer and a refugium and I might change the water every few months mainly to just clean the bottom. Plenty of fish and corals. You have a sump on the back of your tank. Put some algae in it, the live rock will do the rest in cleaning the tank.
Congrats! Wonderful tank
It seems that you have a deepsandbed too...your tank is fantastic 😀 resepect and salty wishes from Germany 🇩🇪
Great looking tank and whatever you’re doing is working. Having said that, I believe water changes are highly overrated. If your changing out 10% volume your only removing/replenishing 10% of nutrients. For me, I’d prefer to spend the money on sump/refugium/skinner or whatever instead of doing water changes
Your mini ocean is awesome
I hope i can build my own someday
I am at the opposite end of the spectrum...I keep a lightly stocked tank with a 2x protein skimmer/drain, media filter, macro algae, ATO, all in the sump. I do not do water changes at all. However, I dump about a gallon of green brown gunky water from the protein skimmer out ever 4-5 days. Either way- heavy water changes/ heavy skimming, the bad must come out and the good must go in. It is just personal preference.
I have a 300 gallon tank, and it's about 5 months old and we had one that's the same before, but it had a hole in it so it leaked everywhere in the house, but we got a new one for free with the lifetime warranty and we got $3000 in the mail, awesome company
a great way to filter a tank is to add large clams. They can filter large amounts of water efficiently
That is an amazingly beautiful tank
Wow! Your tank looks awesome. I just started my very first saltwater tank and I wish I did it sooner. I'm documenting my experience and hope someday I'll become a pro like you. :)
Nice tank. It's easy not to run a skimmer on a tank. If you only have 3 fish, low S.P.S coral, and do large water changes, then you don't need a skimmer. But for most of us with a well stocked tank and a lot of S.P.S we have no choice. It is easier with a skimmer. I only do a 5% weekly water change, with 14 fish in a 160g with no sump.
Exactly this.. I have 6 fish in my Nuvo 16g tank, but I vodka dose, skimmer, biopellets, and mechanical media to maintain the tank. No sump either. Nitrate is near 0 as well.
Chris Branconnier Nick does a 50% weekly water change. This can upset the corals, and cause a lot of stress. If you have corals above the halfway line, then they become exposed. It would take me all day to make 80g of salt water to do a 50% weekly water change in my 160g. A skimmer will only remove 50% waste max. This will
still leave some waste for the for the corals. The skimmer is doing the same job as a 50% water change.
your corals will be fine coming out of the water. just as low and high tides take place naturally.
Shane Brooks yes this is correct for s.p.s corals, but not for soft corals and l.p.s. It is just a bit pointless doing a 50% weekly water change.
Shane Brooks yes this is correct for s.p.s corals, but not for soft corals and l.p.s. It is just a bit pointless doing a 50% weekly water change.
Beautiful tank 👌👌👌
NICE TANK DUDE nice and organized
love the color of your corals, beautiful tank man!
Awesome tank, I'm running a120 sumpless as well . Hopefully in time it will fully stock like yours
wow Man, nice reef tank, fantastic!!
Real NICE Set up!! I love it!
Totally amazed how a gorgeous tank can be kept without anything basically. Great job and subbed your channel.
cool video. Sweet tank keep the videos coming
Amazing bro! Well done!
Terrific teaching here. Well done..... Thank you. Most impressive........... Keep it simple for sure. Live near the ocean ??
I just got caught up on your videos. Very nice setups and smart reefing. I'm looking forward to seeing more! :-)
Wow! Utterly gorgeous!
Amazing looking Reef, Great job!
im not a huge fan of the filter built in type ideas, one it takes up swimming space, and two i feel its not enough filtration...But this tank is beautiful, and to think its all run on the little sliver of filtration is impressive. these tanks loom really sharp to.
Nice tank! Have you ever considered using NO-POX?(liquid nitrate & phosphate remover) Seems like it would work well in your situation. What are your phosphates at? The only way they are removed is from a chemical media, not water changes, such as Rowa phos, Phoslock, or NO-POX. Also the back overflow part where your filter socks are located is considered a sump. Very impressive tank tho. Keep it up.
I don't use skimmer anymore but instead I use chaeto algae. Occasionally I replace the activated carbon in my sump. The reason I use activated carbon is because I have lots of mushroom and they release chemical into the water.
I use crushed corals for the base and my sump. Lots of live rock in the main display tank
Tank is 220G, almost 7 years old
Corals are softcorals like mushrooms and LPS (frogspawn and elegance).
Fish: yellow and tomini tang, 2 yellow tail damsels, yellow wrasse, 6line wrasse, tomato clown, yellownose butterfly and copperband butterfly.
Also have 2 skunk cleaner shrimps.
Love the video! I also just changed my lights from T5 to some Kessil A360we. Let us know how they adjust and settings!
nice tips! thank you for sharing! also your tank is incredibly gorgeous!
Awesome man... I only run my reef on a canister and it’s thriving
Very nice, clearly explained video. Thanks!
15 % weekly is no heavy water changes, but if it works it works. Awesome aquarium btw.
I'm sure he says 50%
Beautiful tank bro.
Man your tank looks great! That being said you do have a sump.
a sump is just a dedicated area for equipment... yours is on the back of the tank instead of underneath it. All that aside you must be doing something right, this video is getting very close to 1 million views! That's just something that doesn't happen often on reefing channel's.
I have like 10 snails and hermit crabs total in my 125. My God I am such a noob. I was wanting more so this will work out! Lol!! ❤️
not a big fan of reef tank because most of them are look the same.
i change my mind after seeing your tank. beautiful tank
One of the best videos I've seen on here. Thanks for sharing and these negative comments... lol they must have the most perfect tank.
very wonderful tank 👍
Awesome tank! Good job! 👍
Tank looks very good
B-ionic is the key brother!! This thank is perfect 👌🏼
yeah, great video and beautiful tank. i was going to say very small bio load, that is HUGE! my bio load is HUGE with 7 tangs so i could never get away with this.
Love the videos man! Hope all is well. Are you done making video on reefing?
I like the simple way,thats awesome.
i manage all my tanks the same way. imo mechanical filtration just traps debris where it can't be processed by a cleanup crew, necessitating manual removal. more cleanup crew = less need for mechanical filtration. i have small tanks that literally just run on an airstone, but are crawling with pods that keep the sand and glass pristine. my 55G needs more manual work because my wrasse eats all the pods.
Coming from the high-tech planted aquarium side of things... when you run RODI and do 50% water changes a week, there is very little that goes wrong if you are putting back only what you need. I love running my freshwater tank this way and if I had a reef, I would run the reef this way too.
50% is far beyond what most tanks should do, in fact you risk stripping all nitrates and phosphates out of the water column which is not good. not to mention the cost, and time associated. reef salt is not expensive, but for anything over 40 gallons, a 50% water change is not cheap.
Conchs are awesome cleanup critters.
Youre reef is great.
I know I'm a little behind the times like 6 yrs LOL. Better late than never. Love the Tank! what the HOB system you are using?
How is it years later with this approach?
Can you post more videos of your fish tank? I really like it.