skimmerless tank show off thread

[SMSREEF]

do you mean a pre built sump that you modded or a 40 breeder or other size with glass siliconed in

I had a pre built Pro Clear sump that I made modifications to. It was a great choice for me because I have a 24x24 cube tank so a 40 breeder was out of the question.

My fuge just has sand live rock and mud on the bottom with no reverse filtration. There are many ways to set up a refugium, it can be as simple or as complex as you want.

@Subsea has some great advice above about getting some aquaculture rock and some real live sand (not the bags you buy at the store, but out of the ocean with all the organisms that come with it).

 

[Subsea]

Reverse filtration is not necessary in any sandbed. In the case of my display tank, I use it to reduce need for vacuming sand surface plus it increases biofiltration capacity if needed. All sandbeds use large amounts of oxygen. I choose my display tank sandbed as the heart of my biofilter with a UPS back up system.

I have mud & an iron substrate, Seachem Flourish, in one refugium. In the 120G display, refugium is a 40G algae filter with no substrate. After three years of operation in addittion to chaeto & pods, I have MULM On the bottom. @Paul B can tell you more,

 

[terraincognita]

The only filtration i have on this tank right now is

2 filter socks and a bag of carbon.

I'll think I have a better photo somewhere I'll find it or take another one later.

 

[nashvillian]

To each their own, but I have tons of pods. The Napuli are plenty fast enough to evade the intake.

 

[terraincognita]

can you try to get a picture whenever the light isn't as blue?

i'm planning a crazy high bioload for my 75 i come from the freshwater world so generally my approach to high bioloads is to just feed crazy and water change crazy

i'm still working out the details(feeding and filtration) but here is the list

2 O.clownfish
1 captive bred rainford goby
1 diamond goby
1 or 2 yellow watchman goby with some type of pistol shrimp
1 starry blenny
1 midas blenny
1 blue flasher wrasse
1 social fairy wrasse
2 yellow/green clown goby
1 coral beauty angelfish
1 royal gramma
2 captive bred spotted mandarin
2 skunk cleaner shrimp
clams
sessile worms
varius crabs
softies
maybe lps

i want to get the large pax bellum for nutrient export and a carbon reactor and like i said large water changes

IMO that's not too crazy of a bioload for a 75 either you've got 12 nanoish fish in a 75G seems fine, but skip the gramma. I would.

Rest of them are all more or less compatible or live in different parts of the water colum/rockwork shouldn't bother each other.

With that gramma you're gonna have wrasse and gobies carpet surfing though. unless maybe you add him at the very very end and he's very young.

 

[Crustaceon]

Older FTS. Everything else is current.

 

[fishlover1478]

@Subsea i just thought of something i want to get a pistol shrimp to go with the watchman goby will the shrimp effect the rugf?

 

[afboundguy]

Been skimmerless for around 6 months and the tank has never looked better... I just use a 3'ish gallon HOB fuge for my 25'ish gallon tank and feed a lot of phyto and have a super-healthy microfauna population...

 

[fishlover1478]

Been skimmerless for around 6 months and the tank has never looked better... I just use a 3'ish gallon HOB fuge for my 25'ish gallon tank and feed a lot of phyto and have a super-healthy microfauna population...

i've seen your build thread the tank looks great

 

[nashvillian]

I don’t notice any pods being reaped by the HOB. I think you would be fine. You def can do it with water changes, but any larger wrasse/tang will get those nitrates up fast. Softies/NPS should love it though. All depends on what you want I guess.

 

[afboundguy]

i've seen your build thread the tank looks great

Thanks it's still a work in progress lol

 

[Twinanoreef]

 

[fishlover1478]

update in my tank it got postponed I'm going to run it freshwater while I save up for equipment and liverock
looks really good can you post some info about it?

 

[Twinanoreef]

update in my tank it got postponed I'm going to run it freshwater while I save up for equipment and liverock

looks really good can you post some info about it?

Thank you very much.
Ofc I can. The tank is 25 gallons, it is an all in one Ocean free nano marine.
The set up was started in an 8 gallon tank 2 years ago, i will attach a photo.
6 months ago all livestock was moved to the current tank.
Light is a Chinese COB type called Pixie 150.
I use Red Sea Pro salt. As far as dosing goes I only dose 2 things:
1. All for reef by Tropic Marin 10ml per day, this keeps all my major and minor elements stable af. Alk is 7.2, nitrates have been zero for months now despite the fact I feed the fish everyday and add powdered coral food every day, but no issues so far.
2. Every night I dose double dose of Aqua forest amino acids.
Light is kept on for 11 hours with no ramp up and down time, just turns off and on ( my controller broke).
I will attach a photo of when the livestock was moved to this tank for comparison.

 

[Jridgel47]

About 3-4 months old. Got bored and pulled out the biocube 14 that had been sitting in the garage for a decade. Bought it for my son who took no interest. It's skimmerless because I had/have no intentions of heavy modding or spending. Filtration is a 5w coralife biocube uv sterilizer, 250ml Seachem matrix in the middle chamber and factory biocube cartridge filters with the media dumped in the top compartment, replaced with rox 0.8/Rowaphos mix and glued back together.

Beautiful tank man heres my bc14