The Velvet Sea
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I'm curious what some of you may think are potential pitfalls and/or areas of concern with a certain setup. I have a pretty good background and experience with reef tanks, but I'm thinking about trying things a bit differently with my new tank.
24 gallon all in one set up. Halide lighting. Nano remora skimmer (does a decent enough job for a HOB). Tons of flow via a modded double maxijet return and mp10 in the display.
I'm thinking about going bare-bottom and fishless, with as small of a snail based cuc as I can get away with. I'm going to focus on sps frags and one or two types of lps frags towards the bottom.
I use good reef salt and 0ppt home prepared RODI. I'll use 2part solution to supplement ca and alk if regular water changes aren't enough to keep the system stable.
I'm curious what you all think might be some of the challenges with this setup. Do you think corals could suffer when there isn't any significant organic waste type of nutrient source in the aquarium (considering I'm thinking about going fishless)? I've kept all types of corals successfully for many years, and at least as far as photosynthetic corals go, I've never depended on actively feeding the corals, but all of my tanks always had fish in the past.
I've been running the tank for a few months now and everything is nice and stable. I don't get any significant detritus buildup since my flow is so high so I don't think that is of much concern, though it is something I will pay attention to and address whenever I do water changes.
I'll stop there... your thoughts? Thanks.
24 gallon all in one set up. Halide lighting. Nano remora skimmer (does a decent enough job for a HOB). Tons of flow via a modded double maxijet return and mp10 in the display.
I'm thinking about going bare-bottom and fishless, with as small of a snail based cuc as I can get away with. I'm going to focus on sps frags and one or two types of lps frags towards the bottom.
I use good reef salt and 0ppt home prepared RODI. I'll use 2part solution to supplement ca and alk if regular water changes aren't enough to keep the system stable.
I'm curious what you all think might be some of the challenges with this setup. Do you think corals could suffer when there isn't any significant organic waste type of nutrient source in the aquarium (considering I'm thinking about going fishless)? I've kept all types of corals successfully for many years, and at least as far as photosynthetic corals go, I've never depended on actively feeding the corals, but all of my tanks always had fish in the past.
I've been running the tank for a few months now and everything is nice and stable. I don't get any significant detritus buildup since my flow is so high so I don't think that is of much concern, though it is something I will pay attention to and address whenever I do water changes.
I'll stop there... your thoughts? Thanks.