elos mini sun coral tank???!!!

regalangelreef

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i was thinking of buying a elos mini and making it a deep water tank, with mostly sun corals and a few other select non photo corals. i was thinking of having no light over the tank will this work or should i have a low watt t5 fixture over it? i was going to keep all the equitment stock and maybe down the road upgrade to atb or bubble king smimmer. i was wondering if i should have a phosphate reactor considering all the frequent feedings, but since there no light that means no algae and then phosphates really wont mater right ? do you think it can be done?

thanks any will be appreciated.
-jordan
 
yea ,im going to use the elos skimmer that comes with it. i heard its a very good skimmer but i was saying down the road i might upgrade that to something even better like a atb or a bubble king.
 
i never had to dose vodka in my other tanks since they were simple nano's that never needed it. is it easy to dose? i know theres couple threads on it so il have to do some research.

thanks
-jordan
 
You will want to keep the phosphate levels in check. High phosphate levels can be damaging to corals, especially stoney corals, such as Tubastrea. For a nano tank, one of the best options for maintaining water quality is a constant water changing setup. I do this for my Solana and using a pair of dosing pumps. One pump draws from a 40 gallon fresh saltwater reservoir to pump into the tank, and the other pump draws from the tank and discards old water. With this setup, I effectively do a 100% water change each week. Since we're talking about a small amount of water in a nano tank, it isn't much at all in terms of salt expense. Combine this with a refugium and/or skimmer and you should have no problem maintaining excellent water quality, even with tons of feeding.

Still, I would avoid using a consistent lighting scheme if you're going to go all non-photo. Algae will always be a challenge in a highly-fed tank. Even if your phosphate/nitrate levels are undetectable, you could still have a situation where the algae is gathering nutrients faster than they're removed. You could use carbon dosing to prevent this, but why bother with it when you can avoid the problem simply by keeping off the lights. You can always have a light to view the tank whenever you want. If you do want to use a light on a consistent basis, try having the light on a day-on, day-off alternating cycle. This will prevent algae growth while still allowing for regular viewing.
 
yea, thanks. i like the idea of having no lights on the tank. i think if i do 40% to 50% water change a week i should be alright with water quality.

-jordan
 
u can have a look at mine, previous a 75G NPS now - 34G RSM NPS
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banggai cardinal sounds good for this noctural tank:D
 
Gorgeous! What is your feeding regimen like? What are the light yellow ones on the bottom left part of the rock structure?
 
i dun run anylights except for 1 watt moonlight

the left bottom is the yellow seafan - frag i got foc

i dose cyclopeeze daily
feed market prawns once a week
and feed mysis shrimp (frozen) once a week

i occassionally feed reef bugs, phyto

hmm...i have stop fauna marin dosing...hmmm i better restart
 
Hi, I've been looking at some of these "nocturnal nanos" and i was wondering if anyone had any experience with sun corals nd other nps corals in pico setups.

I wanted to set up two tanks with dispays of less than 1 gallon, use a small HOB for flow with only live rock rubble as filtration and use pre-established SW with frequent water changes. The thought is that with such a small tank with only one large sun coral in each, spot feeding would be much easier.

Anyway, just wondering if its been done and how it worked out.

Thats a great display BTW. What are the blue-ish white corals you've got?
 
Hmmm, this sounds like a great idea ;)

Here is my Deepwater non-photosynthetic ELOS Mini :D :

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Full story is here (or click red house): http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1683937

I recently downsized from a 183 gallon AGE due to work, and I'm absolutely loving this ELOS Mini. I have the E-Lite and it's really cool, just too white IMO. I'll be adding the E-Lite actinic supplement when it becomes available, but for now I mostly run an IceCap moonlight that's attached to the E-Lite. Between the skimmer and weekly water changes nutrients remain at bay. I also dose Prodibio bacteria bi-weekly and the carbon source weekly :thumbsup:
 
@pan natan - i use tunze 9002 skimmer

stun reefer - hey nice tank, unique scaping....looks simple and nice:D
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15515786#post15515786 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by slcw
@pan natan - i use tunze 9002 skimmer

Really ? Its small skimmer and you feed a lot, what do you do to keep nitrates low ?
 
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