Running skimmerless

[heathlindner25]

what plants do you use in your refugium? Is it a Caulerpa?

Calurpa is a plant?

 

[borderreef]

Skimmerless about a year now and my tank looks better than ever. I use a combo of a refugium, GAC, and an ATS. I change about 18 gallons every 3 weeks on the 125 gallon.

Beautiful tank

 

[HefeWeizen]

I use Caulerpa and Chaeto.

 

[HefeWeizen]

Beautiful tank

Thank you

 

[TheNewbie]

Today marks 5 weeks of running my 40b skimmerless, with no gfo or gac. When I took everything off-line, I took measurements. Phosphates and nitrates were undetectable. Calcium was 420. I did not measure alkalinity, because I don't have a test kit. Salinity was 1.026. Ph was 8.2. I did a 10g water change. Week 2 I took measurements again, and measurements remained constant. I then did a 5g water change. In weeks 3 and 4 measurements remained constant, so I did a 5g water change each week. Now, in week 5, I have taken my measurements and have found that my parameters have remained constant. I am going to skip this weeks water change.
My tank is a mixed reef. I am having trouble with one of my acros, but I attribute that to a lighting issue. I have moved it lower to see if I can save it. My current bio load consists of a maroon clown, a lawnmower blenny, 2 chromis, a watchman goby, a clown goby, and a neon goby. I still have the sump hooked up, where I plan to have cheto, once I partition off the return pump.
My searches have found a few people running skinnerless, but they seem to stop updating. I'm wondering if anyone else is running their tanks like this, large or small, and what have been their experiences.

What light is that?

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[borderreef]

Since I can't afford a commercial fixture, I have a ghetto dyi fixture of what I had on hand. It consist of 2 250 watt de 14k mh lamps, and 4 39 watt true actinic lamps.

 

[Buzz1329]

Yikes. Food for thought.

Mike

 

[BigCountry74]

When I setup my 40g long I tried to run skimmerless. Eventually it will come back and kick you in the teeth. I ended up putting a Reef Octo HB skimmer on and I rarely even have to mix salt...

 

[PhaneSoul]

My 55g is skimmerless, 2yr old. The corals all live, lps grow tissue like none other but i find skeleton growth is minimal. I put in a bag of phosguard aboit 2 months ago (and change it weekly) and skeleton growth is on the up & up. Barebottom, nothing but heaters, lights, water, live rock and now phosguard. Feed 4x a day, 2x pellets on auto feeder 2x frozen blender mush rinsed out. I have 8 fish (6 up until 2 months ago) and the only maintenance i do is siphon out detritus on tuesdays (it settles on the right side under a few rocks) and blow detritus out of my rocks saturdays and siphon that out while changing 10g water.

 

[PhaneSoul]

5 euyphilla, several sps, few softies, a leather, zoas, acans. With phosguard sps grow bbetter, lps have always done good, zoas do better with phosguard and acans are okay but do better with feedings. Leather has always grown and ive never seen him do the 'shed cycle' where he closes up and looks ugly and sheds