Stop testing water

[SeaDweller]

Here’s my word of advice for reefers who are having trouble with their corals.
You don’t have to add anything other than food, alk, cal, and magnesium.
Don’t even think about dosing nopox, phosphate, nitrate, or anything other than what I mentioned above.
Get a good skimmer, good light, dosing pump, and good flow.
This is the only equipment you need. You don’t need an algae scrubber. Chaeto In your fuge is all you need.
Leave your tank alone. There’s a lot of reefers on here who keep buying things and changing things around when they don’t see their corals growing. Set up a light schedule and profile and leave it alone. Set up powerheads for flow and leave it alone. Only add more or rearrange when corals fill in and start blocking flow. As for test kits just get salifert alk, cal, and mag test kit. They’re cheap and work very well.
Set up your protein skimmer and leave it alone.
Keep your hands out of the tank. The only time I reach my hand in the tank is when I clean my glass with the magnet cleaner
And have to take it out once I’m done. Set tour corals where you want them and leave it there. Move only if it’s getting too much or not enough light or flow.

#truth.

I’ve simplified my system as well. I don’t even run my apex anymore (cuz it bricked, was fixed, and I cant figure it out anymore so I stopped trying).

I think we all have a knee jerk reaction to things but the best thing is to simply leave things alone sometimes. Keeping hands out of the tank is really good advice too.

 

[road_runner]

Here’s my word of advice for reefers who are having trouble with their corals.
You don’t have to add anything other than food, alk, cal, and magnesium.
Don’t even think about dosing nopox, phosphate, nitrate, or anything other than what I mentioned above.
Get a good skimmer, good light, dosing pump, and good flow.
This is the only equipment you need. You don’t need an algae scrubber. Chaeto In your fuge is all you need.
Leave your tank alone. There’s a lot of reefers on here who keep buying things and changing things around when they don’t see their corals growing. Set up a light schedule and profile and leave it alone. Set up powerheads for flow and leave it alone. Only add more or rearrange when corals fill in and start blocking flow. As for test kits just get salifert alk, cal, and mag test kit. They’re cheap and work very well.
Set up your protein skimmer and leave it alone.
Keep your hands out of the tank. The only time I reach my hand in the tank is when I clean my glass with the magnet cleaner
And have to take it out once I’m done. Set tour corals where you want them and leave it there. Move only if it’s getting too much or not enough light or flow.

personal and honest openion here, bad advice...
Mayne good to keep fish and some softies but you cannot generalize it like that.
If your "readings" taught you that this is all you meed to do, I strongly recommend to do more readings.
Otherwise please direct me to the literature that gave you this conclusions..

 

[Hemmdog]

Here’s my word of advice for reefers who are having trouble with their corals.
You don’t have to add anything other than food, alk, cal, and magnesium.
Don’t even think about dosing nopox, phosphate, nitrate, or anything other than what I mentioned above.
Get a good skimmer, good light, dosing pump, and good flow.
This is the only equipment you need. You don’t need an algae scrubber. Chaeto In your fuge is all you need.
Leave your tank alone. There’s a lot of reefers on here who keep buying things and changing things around when they don’t see their corals growing. Set up a light schedule and profile and leave it alone. Set up powerheads for flow and leave it alone. Only add more or rearrange when corals fill in and start blocking flow. As for test kits just get salifert alk, cal, and mag test kit. They’re cheap and work very well.
Set up your protein skimmer and leave it alone.
Keep your hands out of the tank. The only time I reach my hand in the tank is when I clean my glass with the magnet cleaner
And have to take it out once I’m done. Set tour corals where you want them and leave it there. Move only if it’s getting too much or not enough light or flow.

 

[SeaDweller]

personal and honest openion here, bad advice...
Mayne good to keep fish and some softies but you cannot generalize it like that.
If your "readings" taught you that this is all you meed to do, I strongly recommend to do more readings.
Otherwise please direct me to the literature that gave you this conclusions..

You quoted the wrong person.

 

[road_runner]

You quoted the wrong person.

Oops you right sorry about that. Mynpost was about the earlier post.

 

[road_runner]

So you did ALLLLLLL of this reading and research and it told you you could do the method you’re doing? Two days in, it’s ok for livestock, to use tap water, not to QT? What are you reading? What you’ve done seems contradictory to what you’ve “researched”.

The more I re read the post I almost feel I am being pranked...I do not know what to make of it. We should all be humble, learn and teach others what we know.
But tap water, no cycle, gallon of chemicals, hammer coral that adds 2 heads...am so confused..
I will say again to new reefers reading this post...this is not how you should reef...

 

[SeaDweller]

The more I re read the post I almost feel I am being pranked...I do not know what to make of it. We should all be humble, learn and teach others what we know.
But tap water, gallon off chemicals... hammer coral that add 2 heads...
I will say again to new reefers reading this post...this is not how you should reef...

Lol I’m sure the guy really reefs that way. But again, you quoted the wrong person [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

 

[road_runner]

Lol I’m sure the guy really reefs that way. But again, you quoted the wrong person [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

No this time I was talking to you, concurring with you ha ha

 

[Hemmdog]

Lol I’m sure the guy really reefs that way. But again, you quoted the wrong person [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Lolol, literally loling

 

[SeaDweller]

No this time I was talking to you, concurring with you ha ha

Lolol, literally loling

I’m dying [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Thanks for the laugh, and I gotcha!

Yes sailfinguy’s method is not one anyone should follow, but hey if it works for him... I suppose? Lol.

 

[road_runner]

I’m dying [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Thanks for the laugh, and I gotcha!

Yes sailfinguy’s method is not one anyone should follow, but hey if it works for him... I suppose? Lol.

Ha ha ha. Agreed.
Just shows how dangerous forums can be. Every post and openion come across as confident and ligit..until you adapt it and weep...

 

[Sailfinguy21]

So you did ALLLLLLL of this reading and research and it told you you could do the method you’re doing? Two days in, it’s ok for livestock, to use tap water, not to QT? What are you reading? What you’ve done seems contradictory to what you’ve “researched”.

Guess you missed the part where i said i didnt listen to anyone and did it my 2ay... and were talking about corals here not fish. My mistake was getting ich from the fish.

I dont hsve to explain diddly squat to you anyway lol my way works and has worked and plenty of other ppl have done it barebones as well..

And yep i added fish and corals in on day 2 and guess what i still have those corals to this day lol. MY ONLY mistake as i said was not qt fish because i came in this with a fresh water ich mentality.. of it being easy to cure

 

[Sailfinguy21]

I’m dying [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Thanks for the laugh, and I gotcha!

Yes sailfinguy’s method is not one anyone should follow, but hey if it works for him... I suppose? Lol.

This is your problem.. you an antagonist.. You are also a doubter.. you havent tried it my way so you honest have no real valid opinion here at all. The proof is in the pudding and i hsve proof it works in fact this whole thread was started on the basis of keeping things simple and not testing 24.7, and its worked for me on 4 seperate tanks..a 27g 30g 55g and 135g.


You dont need a sump you know it and i know it. You also dont need a protien skimmer i have 5 acroporas in my tank.. 3 bubble corals. 1 hammer coral. A torch, 3 octospawns, a frogspawn,, purple cespitulara, a clam, purple red and green monitpora cap, auperman monitpora encrusting, green and jackolanturn lepto, seasons greetings monti, golden pavona, orange setosa, green star polyp, green and neon green nepthea, purple kenya tree, 7 types of zoas, green stylophora, ponk damicornis,

List goes on and on.. nuff said

 

[SeaDweller]

This is your problem.. you an antagonist.. You are also a doubter.. you havent tried it my way so you honest have no real valid opinion here at all. The proof is in the pudding and i hsve proof it works in fact this whole thread was started on the basis of keeping things simple and not testing 24.7, and its worked for me on 4 seperate tanks..a 27g 30g 55g and 135g.


You dont need a sump you know it and i know it. You also dont need a protien skimmer i have 5 acroporas in my tank.. 3 bubble corals. 1 hammer coral. A torch, 3 octospawns, a frogspawn,, purple cespitulara, a clam, purple red and green monitpora cap, auperman monitpora encrusting, green and jackolanturn lepto, seasons greetings monti, golden pavona, orange setosa, green star polyp, green and neon green nepthea, purple kenya tree, 7 types of zoas, green stylophora, ponk damicornis,

List goes on and on.. nuff said

Yo, you do you man. If your tap water method works, that’s great. I don’t doubt it works for you, but you’re the exception. Keep on doing what you do best!

 

[road_runner]

This is your problem.. you an antagonist.. You are also a doubter.. you havent tried it my way so you honest have no real valid opinion here at all. The proof is in the pudding and i hsve proof it works in fact this whole thread was started on the basis of keeping things simple and not testing 24.7, and its worked for me on 4 seperate tanks..a 27g 30g 55g and 135g.


You dont need a sump you know it and i know it. You also dont need a protien skimmer i have 5 acroporas in my tank.. 3 bubble corals. 1 hammer coral. A torch, 3 octospawns, a frogspawn,, purple cespitulara, a clam, purple red and green monitpora cap, auperman monitpora encrusting, green and jackolanturn lepto, seasons greetings monti, golden pavona, orange setosa, green star polyp, green and neon green nepthea, purple kenya tree, 7 types of zoas, green stylophora, ponk damicornis,

List goes on and on.. nuff said

Come on man, take it easy. The guy was laughing at me, he was cracking jokes with me. He actually stated that what works for you works.
I am the one who challenged your post and still do. I will go as much as stating that 99.99% of reefers here will say NO, you SHOULD NOT USE TAP WATER WITH REEF.. at least not before treatment.
Also based on your load and husbandry you might absolutely need skimmer. Yes there are systems without skimmers but it depend on the care and husbandry the reefer is doing, the feeding, the inhabitants.

But again if you happy then good for you. We wanted to make sure for the community if someone new reading this also understand it's not that simple.

Cheers and chill.

 

[Jinko]

Wait is there a troll in here? I smell a troll.

 

[road_runner]

Wait is there a troll in here? I smell a troll.

Either this or we being pranked ha ha ha

 

[SeaDweller]

Come on man, take it easy. The guy was laughing at me, he was cracking jokes with me. He actually stated that what works for you works.
I am the one who challenged your post and still do. I will go as much as stating that 99.99% of reefers here will say NO, you SHOULD NOT USE TAP WATER WITH REEF.. at least not before treatment.
Also based on your load and husbandry you might absolutely need skimmer. Yes there are systems without skimmers but it depend on the care and husbandry the reefer is doing, the feeding, the inhabitants.

But again if you happy then good for you. We wanted to make sure for the community if someone new reading this also understand it's not that simple.

Cheers and chill.

FINALLY you quote the right guy! [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji2957][emoji2957][emoji2957]

 

[road_runner]

FINALLY you quote the right guy! [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji2957][emoji2957][emoji2957]

Ha ha ha... star point for me ha ha

 

[LARedstickreefer]

I see that flame angel and those sps, “my man!”

Back before I could afford all of the fancy test kits and supplements, I just didn’t test a thing. Not even salinity. My sps grew like weeds. I’d do a weekly water change and pour some DI water in to keep up with evaporation.

Once I began testing everything, I started dosing too. That’s when troubles began.