No water change sps tank?

[JBNY]

Please don't tell me they started out as 1in frags...lol

1 inch might be pushing it, 3/4". People sell such tiny frags now, it's ridiculous. But yes all grown from tiny tiny frags.

Here are some of the frags that grew up to the colonies you see in the pics and videos.

 

[TbyZ]

That's the primary reason to have a skimmer. Sure if you are going skimmerless you need to do water changes but I don't think you accumulate DO as much if you have an efficient skimmer.



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Feldman's results showed that skimmers remove no dissolved organic compounds.

Activated carbon is very effective. Purigen I'm assuming is also.
Bacteria as well.

An accurate DOC hobbie test kit would be an extremely benifcial asset.

 

[JBNY]

Feldman's results showed that skimmers remove no dissolved organic compounds.

Activated carbon is very effective. Purigen I'm assuming is also.
Bacteria as well.

An accurate DOC hobbie test kit would be an extremely benifcial asset.

Oh yeah, I remember reading that. I do run carbon though.

 

[nashorn]

1 inch might be pushing it, 3/4". People sell such tiny frags now, it's ridiculous. But yes all grown from tiny tiny frags.

Here are some of the frags that grew up to the colonies you see in the pics and videos.

I got to find another hobby....lol
I have never been able to get 1in frags to that size in 18mo.
I'm usually happy if they encrest and shoot up a new branch

 

[JBNY]

I got to find another hobby....lol
I have never been able to get 1in frags to that size in 18mo.
I'm usually happy if they encrest and shoot up a new branch

I'm not sure why so many people get growth like that. I've been doing SPS for like 16 years and that is pretty typical growth I've always seen, even in tanks back in 2003. I always tell people I really only like the first 2 years of the tank, after that it's just constant fragging to keep the tank from getting overgrown.

 

[ycnibrc]

I don't do water change for my system of 400g. It will be costly to change 20% per month. I dose, export nutrient and top off water. Once in a while I put in some salt to adjust salinity if needed.

 

[nashorn]

I don't do water change for my system of 400g. It will be costly to change 20% per month. I dose, export nutrient and top off water. Once in a while I put in some salt to adjust salinity if needed.

How do you export your nutrients?

 

[ycnibrc]

Zeobak zeostart3 algae refugium and protein skimmer all this keeping my nitrate and phosphate low for my ulns tank. Water change will cost me approximately 35$ per month. I dose 3 drop of zeobak N 2 ml of zeostart3 so dosing is much cheaper for me.

 

[NewSaltWaterGuy]

soon they will be growing into each other if not placed with enough forethought on how they will grow.

*noob doing research, Alert Alert*
I have a quick question, what happens if they do grow into eachother?

 

[ycnibrc]

*noob doing research, Alert Alert*
I have a quick question, what happens if they do grow into eachother?

Same species nothing happened. Different might have coral war N the stronger will. However now aday people frag it to sell so need to worry

 

[Donovan Joannes]

Two different species become one. Hopefully new species will emerge from the grafted branch

 

[ycnibrc]

Possibility I saw monti cap blend together I know a reefer he glue 2 different milli together and they fuse.

 

[Ghxst]

The people who don't do water changes, do you have fish or feed the corals or dose nitrates another way?

 

[ycnibrc]

The people who don't do water changes, do you have fish or feed the corals or dose nitrates another way?

I have probably close to 40 fish small N big in my 360g Reef tank. I dont dose nitrate but I do dose trace elements and amino and feed the fish 4 to 5 times per day

 

[Oceanwave45]

So are you telling me you stopped all water changes and you have fish and corals? Wow! Can this process work on a 38 gallon tank- how do you achieve this? So impressive

 

[Shigshwa]

I'm attempting a no water change routine too, but I'm only about a month into that. I'm replenishing trace elements with Aquaforest, similar to the balling method, and exporting via biopellets and skimmer, with purigen in there as well.

I'm going to mod my biopellet reactor to be recirculating, and see if that will help with my cyano and dino issues. Here is a shot of my clam family, happy as ever!

 

[TbyZ]

*noob doing research, Alert Alert*
I have a quick question, what happens if they do grow into eachother?

Get out the chainsaw

 

[ycnibrc]

So are you telling me you stopped all water changes and you have fish and corals? Wow! Can this process work on a 38 gallon tank- how do you achieve this? So impressive

Different tank different approach for your tank water change is no big deal 20% is about 7 G per month vs 80 G for my tank. If u can keep your parameters stable then why change water. Triton is a method base more on dosing than water change.

 

[inh]

Sure thing. Test is from 4 months ago (I test every 4-5 months). Phosphates are high at 0.4, but I'm not having any issues so I'm not really worrying about it. Also you will see Tungsten showing up, That took a while to find the cause and ended up being from the Ecotech Vortech mp-40 in my frag tank. I opened up the wet side of the mp-40, the shaft had rust all around it. Turns out they use tungsten alloy shafts made in china that seem to leach into the water column.

Zinc and Iodine are a little high (I dose them), so I will adjusted my dosing based on the test.

I do not carbon dose and I do not use GFO. Tank has been up for about 9 years. switched to Triton dosing In January 2016. But I only changed dosing for my Calcium reactor, everything else I had been doing I just continued, except for water changes, they make no sense now. I have been doing Nitrates for 3-4 years, and water changes started to be counter productive. The only pint in doing water changes is to reduce nitrates and add trace elements. I am getting the trace elements from dosing and I need the nitrates for coloration. Anyway, here are my test results.

Still using the Calc reactor?

 

[mwilk19]

I just started using the ATI system which also doesn't use water changes. What's the best way to increase the salinity if it drops below the preferred level?