low tech

Hey, new to the hobby and looking at stocking options. I’ve a 60cm or 24inch cube tank, making it 225L/ 60 gallons. It’s currently got a lot of arching structure, soft coral and 2 bubble tip anemones. I’ve got a royal gramma which I absolutely love, aswell as a pair of ocellaris clowns. I’m...

I have an open glass 6g cube that I am thinking about converting into a nano reef with one tiny evil maroon clownfish that needs a home where he can’t kill any other fish that comes his way. I would like to keep this tank simple, low tech and affordable and use as much of what I already have...

So I work at an aquarium store and have lots of saltwater experience but I’ve never taken the plunge into reefing. At home I have a 20g salt tank with a pair of clowns, a lawnmower blenny, a cleaner goby and some inverts. That tank is well established and has been going strong for almost 3 years...

Hello y'all, I'm following another thread about showing your low tech aquarium. And this thread brought several question: -What is in fact a low tech system? It's having enough equipment to count in 5 fingers? Low tech systems should use skimmer? Or surface skimmer? Filtration as sump...

Figured I would keep a journal of my progress with my first saltwater tank. I found the aquarium and stand on craigslist and bought myself a heater and hob. The light is an aquaneat and I will be replacing that in due time. Oh I know the water level is low. I'm planning on getting another few...

After finally deciding to shut down my rejected TMC signature due to a move, I felt it was finally time to downgrade. I’ve moved all surviving inhabitants from my old system to my new one and am using as little equipment as possible, mainly made up of random things I’ve collected over the years...

My current stocking is 1 firefish goby, and 2 blastomussa corals. I plan to add a few peppermint shrimp, and some astrea snails to help deal with my diatom outbreak, also some GSP to the island rock in the back, and possibly a green candy cane coral. I had the lights on a bright white setting...

Hello I’ve introduced myself before and posted by build but I’m finally in the right forum. Before 2010 aquariums were my life. I spent every penny I had to keep my reef, planted, and African cichlids tanks thriving. Then I got a job and spent the next 10 years on the road and shut my tanks...