not being sarcastic, but a reef tank with less feeding has less bottom debris than a fowlr tank with lots of feeding?, multiple times a day? is it just getting used to how much your fish need to eat each day? I am hoping to add some coral or softies at some point. I am hoping that while well fed they will not feel the need to go after coral. I am not sure of the timing but my logic is that if I get them on a feeding schedule and everything is fine for a while to add the coral slowly and they will not mind. I have seen some great reef tanks with "non reef safe" fish and all is thriving but I have not heard anyone detailing how they do it
Detritus and nutrients will vary greatly in different tanks. For me the way I look at it and the reason I believe my fowlr tank is a lot cleaner than my reef tank despite have a pufferfish who poops a lot…is that I have a much simpler ecosystem with less organisms and no organisms like coral to alter the water chemistry and no cuc or hitchhikers creating detritus it’s also a lot bigger than my reef tank which is a nano. And my lighting schedule is significantly less than my reef tank. My reef tank has a set schedule where my lights are on for 8 hours a day and my fowlr tank has them on for between 1-3 hours and only if I turn them on which I do daily. So this helps keep algae and other organisms which thrive on light to a minimum/nonexistent. Honestly…I don’t recommend putting a non-reef safe fish in a reef but some people get lucky. As corals/inverts are part of these fishes natural diets. But fish are like people in the sense that their personalities/interests will vary.
crazy I like my FOLWR lights on 10hrs a day but just low-ish
Nope not me.
