Welcome to my (near) Zero Maintenance Reef!
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Was on the other forum for a while but left them for various reasons and when I wanted to come back it was a ghost town and I saw this was the new place to be lol
3 tanks is enough for me right now!
The 1.1 gallon pico is the easiest though! 5 min a month tops
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love it as usual!!! great job!
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First Shipment arrived! Asian Acans!
Next week 2 more shipments
Next week 2 more shipments
Well! I didn't expect to see your hello thread, lol! Great acquisitions dude!
Welcome!
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I keep it up to date ! So every few weeks it pops back up in the feed lol
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Awesome corals!
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Thank you!
It’s getting full. Maybe already full. I have some acros coming next week and only 3 mounting points. Had to buy a frag shelf but with “forever home” in mind so these frags have a place to grow out and not be 1” from the glass
Ordered this magnetic peninsula rock shelf, holds 12 plugs :
Very nice. I know all about space problems. I'm currently working with a 20 gallon. I have the upgrade in the garage but no where to put it until next JuneThank you!
It’s getting full. Maybe already full. I have some acros coming next week and only 3 mounting points. Had to buy a frag shelf but with “forever home” in mind so these frags have a place to grow out and not be 1” from the glass
Ordered this magnetic peninsula rock shelf, holds 12 plugs :
lovely corals!! score!
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And the new acans are open more!
ive never seen such colors on acans! i always see more red/orange. love them!
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One more on the way! Was missing from the order and will be shipped solo
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I'm a sucker for acans! I remember when they aussie "lords" first started coming into the hobby. They we're mostly grey and green with touches or red and orange and we had never seen anything like it! The hype was real! HA!
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I remember when just green or red ones were hard to get !
I had 3 mini colonies (center, sandbed level) 15+ years ago! These were considered high end!
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I gave it a quick read and I had a couple of questions:
-Why don't you run the skimmer ? Not enough fish I guess ?
-Do you run C02 scrubber ?
-Do you run activated Carbon ?
-I also don't have a filter sock or floss in this tank, how do you handle the amount of detritus in the sump ? Leave it be ?
-Why don't you run the skimmer ? Not enough fish I guess ?
-Do you run C02 scrubber ?
-Do you run activated Carbon ?
-I also don't have a filter sock or floss in this tank, how do you handle the amount of detritus in the sump ? Leave it be ?
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I have 7 fish
Tomini tang
Male lyretail anthia
Female lyretail anthia
Purple firefish
Lemon damsel
Banana coris wrasse
Cardinal fish
I view the skimmer as a device that removed coral food from my water. I struggled with bottomed out nutrients so I took the skimmer offline, it didn’t help, then I started increasing fish count, which did help.
I don’t run a co2 scrubber
As for activated carbon, I do use two bags of chemipure elite which contains carbon. Each bag is rated for 50 gallons. I replace them one at time every 3 months
I leave the detritus be, it forms mulm, an important part of a natural ecosystem
"Mulm" in a Reef tank
I think one of the most important, and least understood or mentioned things in a reef tank is "mulm". That stuff that grows in the dark portions of a tank if it is set up long enough. "Mulm" is a combination of algae, sponges, bacteria, pods, worms, detritus, poop and any thing else that can...
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