Dropping the Skimmer

[DetectiveTofu]

I have a 6 gallon nano cube with no skimmer I do weekly water changes on it. I feel that if you can run a skimmer do it. My 40 gallon SPS tank has a Octo NW110 on it, this tank always has better water quality than the nano. But I is not NEEDED to keep coral, just do water changes.

Wow, what do you have in your 6g?

 

[allsps40]

Tofu, I have a birds nest frag, 2 differnt candy canes, a fog spawn, green star polyps, zoas, and mushrooms. Along with a black clown and a damsel. I up graded the light to 2 18 watt pc instead of just the one.

 

[dublo8]

From experience I have been running a 20 high skimmerless for nearly a year. keep up with water changes and you will be great. I use a HOB with filter floss and carbon. that's it. no problems ever.

 

[DetectiveTofu]

From experience I have been running a 20 high skimmerless for nearly a year. keep up with water changes and you will be great. I use a HOB with filter floss and carbon. that's it. no problems ever.

That's what I wanted to hear!

 

[LaOtIn]

i run no skimmer on my 20L reef tank. i have about 25lbs of LR in the DT and a 20L sump/fuge with a 4" sand bed and 6lbs of LR. i do a 4g WC every other week.

lately no problems, no worries. it seems the older my nano gets the less i have to do for it

 

[DetectiveTofu]

i run no skimmer on my 20L reef tank. i have about 25lbs of LR in the DT and a 20L sump/fuge with a 4" sand bed and 6lbs of LR. i do a 4g WC every other week.

lately no problems, no worries. it seems the older my nano gets the less i have to do for it

What kind of corals do you have?

 

[Ben_Im]

I went skimmerless about 2 weeks ago. It's too soon to really comment on my success, so I'll wait longer.

I'm trying to focus on running a diverse refugium. I have a small piece of rock with Aiptasia to filter feed, along with chaeto and halymedia to fight nitrates. My pod population has exploded and my refugium is full of creepy crawlies. I also began running a filter sock that I rinse out every 4-5 days just to minimize particulate matter in the water. I'm doing 5 gallon water changes every week on a 40 gallon breeder with 20L sump. Total water volume is roughly 45 gallons.

I feed once a day, tiny pinch of Spectrum pellets.

I keep a gigantea carpet anemone (fed frequently), a few acros, a birdsnest, deresa clam, and some mushroom corals. Fish bioload is very light: 2 perculas, 1 chromis, and 1 sharknose goby.