The title says it all. I'm keeping it super simple and so far it has been working out great! I started this tank initially with the intent of keeping mainly zoas and mushrooms in it so I went cheap and grabbed a 15 gal marineland tank, hob filter, heater, $30 270 gph power head and my old xr30 from a previous tank. At that point I added a bag of live sand, 1 piece of live rock and cycled the tank before adding my smiths damsel that I found half dead at petco. Once the fish was in there the tank cruised for about 6 months with the lights off and no water changes.
I will admit that at one point I definitely lost interest in the tank since it was just a piece of rock and a fish, but once I made the mistake of joining an online coral auction it was go time. The first purchases were some Jason Fox Mango Cooler Zoas and a Florida Ricordia. It was all down hill from there. Now I have the little tank stacked to the gills with both lps and sps frags. I am also in the process of setting up a 50 and 75 gallon frag system but that will be another build thread in the next couple months. I'm excited to hear feedback on growing out both sps and lps corals in a tank with the most simple filtration possible and no skimmer.
Below are my current parameters (1/10/23) and some pictures of the tank.
Parameters
Ph- 8.1
Phos- .1
Nitrates-40.2
Alk- 8.5
Cal- 480
I dose All for reef for alk/cal/mag and the recommended dose of red sea ab+ and marine snow daily. Reef roids once a week. Today I also started 1/10th strength NOPOX to bring my nutrients down slightly.
Equipment
Seachem Tidal 55 HOB w/ matrix bio media (6 months old) and filter floss
Heater
1-Sicce Voyager 1000 + Voyager 2000
Gen 5 Ecotech XR30
Corals (Updated 1/10/23)
-Red and Green Blasto Wellsi
-Tiddy Twister Blasto Wellsi
-Breaker Bob Chalice
-Dragons Breath Favia
-JF John Deer Leptastria
-JF Night Life Favia
-Blasto Merletti
-JF Psycho Rainbow Rim Favia
-Blue Zoas
-Incredibles Zoas (Mixed Rock)
-Eagle Eye Zoa (Mixed Rock)
-Jf Mango Cooler Zoa
-Fire and Ice Zoas (Mixed Rock)
-Radioactive Dragon Eyes (Mixed Rock)
-Phoenix Monti
-2x Bleeding Avenger Acro
-2x JF Solar Flare Milli
-Banana Hammock Acro (Mounted sideways w/ yellow polyps)
-Teal Frammer 2 heads
-Purple Tip Octospawn 3 Head
-Random brownish bounce mushroom
-montipora setosa
-Princess peach Acro
-Walt Disney Acro
-Orange Passion Acro
-2x Strawberry Shortcake Acro
-Candyland Acro
-ACI Prince of Darkness Hammer
-Snipers Bubble Gum Milli
Clean Up Crew
-3 Snails
-1 S Hermit Crab
-1 Money Cowrie
Below are some pics to kick off the thread!
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I will admit that at one point I definitely lost interest in the tank since it was just a piece of rock and a fish, but once I made the mistake of joining an online coral auction it was go time. The first purchases were some Jason Fox Mango Cooler Zoas and a Florida Ricordia. It was all down hill from there. Now I have the little tank stacked to the gills with both lps and sps frags. I am also in the process of setting up a 50 and 75 gallon frag system but that will be another build thread in the next couple months. I'm excited to hear feedback on growing out both sps and lps corals in a tank with the most simple filtration possible and no skimmer.
Below are my current parameters (1/10/23) and some pictures of the tank.
Parameters
Ph- 8.1
Phos- .1
Nitrates-40.2
Alk- 8.5
Cal- 480
I dose All for reef for alk/cal/mag and the recommended dose of red sea ab+ and marine snow daily. Reef roids once a week. Today I also started 1/10th strength NOPOX to bring my nutrients down slightly.
Equipment
Seachem Tidal 55 HOB w/ matrix bio media (6 months old) and filter floss
Heater
1-Sicce Voyager 1000 + Voyager 2000
Gen 5 Ecotech XR30
Corals (Updated 1/10/23)
-Red and Green Blasto Wellsi
-Tiddy Twister Blasto Wellsi
-Breaker Bob Chalice
-Dragons Breath Favia
-JF John Deer Leptastria
-JF Night Life Favia
-Blasto Merletti
-JF Psycho Rainbow Rim Favia
-Blue Zoas
-Incredibles Zoas (Mixed Rock)
-Eagle Eye Zoa (Mixed Rock)
-Jf Mango Cooler Zoa
-Fire and Ice Zoas (Mixed Rock)
-Radioactive Dragon Eyes (Mixed Rock)
-Phoenix Monti
-2x Bleeding Avenger Acro
-2x JF Solar Flare Milli
-Banana Hammock Acro (Mounted sideways w/ yellow polyps)
-Teal Frammer 2 heads
-Purple Tip Octospawn 3 Head
-Random brownish bounce mushroom
-montipora setosa
-Princess peach Acro
-Walt Disney Acro
-Orange Passion Acro
-2x Strawberry Shortcake Acro
-Candyland Acro
-ACI Prince of Darkness Hammer
-Snipers Bubble Gum Milli
Clean Up Crew
-3 Snails
-1 S Hermit Crab
-1 Money Cowrie
Below are some pics to kick off the thread!
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