Nanolax's ADA 60-P Rimless Reef

[mew]

your cap is so pretty

[nanolax]

your cap is so pretty

 

Thanks

[Quokka]

Thanks

 

can you elaborate how you keep your water so clean without mechanical filtration? do you just do a huge weekly waterchange?

[nanolax]

can you elaborate how you keep your water so clean without mechanical filtration? do you just do a huge weekly waterchange?

 

Hi Llamaslayer

 

Sorry about the late reply..I don't have quite as much free time as i used to check messages.

 

I use a fairly minimalist approach:

 

I only use 0ppm RO/DI water with tropic marin salt, which is expensive but I've had good luck with it and doesn't leave odd residues. Some people might flame me for this but I slowly acclimated my corals to 5 hours of (intense) lighting a day.

 

I feed every other day, a flake at a time to make sure the clownfish eats everything. Anything that is not eaten is extracted from the tank with a turkey baster.

 

i keep the circulation high and intermittent with the vortech. All I do now in terms of maintenance are bi-weekly, sometimes monthly water changes (about 20% each time) and I top off every few days. I do not check calcium, alkalinity, etc.

 

I stock very lightly. The general rule I set for myself is 1 fish per 15 gallons, and 1 coral frag per 3-4 gallons.

 

I am a firm believer in keeping everything simple and maintaining stability. My tanks in the past had every piece of reef equipment imaginable, yet they were a pain to keep maintained compared to this one, and all the livestock seem much happier in this tank.

 

Thanks,

 

-lax

[Migs7]

what the word is with this tank? We want to see updates, its been almost a year.