Skimmerless tanks??

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DEXTER SOLIS

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Iam looking to stop using my skimmer at this time, I was reading some threads, some have experienced algae growing out of control & others have reported better growth & color on corals.

any experience will be very helpfull :confused:
 
I can't speak for large tanks, but for my 29g nano I've never used a skimmer and have never had an algae problem. It's a mixed reef with everything from 'shrooms to digitata to pachyseris. I run chemipure in a HOB filter and change 4-5 gallons of SW each week. I also have several decorative macro algaes that I prune every week or 2.
 
You need light for algae growth ikea boy! LOL Get in touch with Bill (Reef Junkie) he is skimmerless.
 
If you stop using your skimmer and considering your type of setup (a hell of a lot of fish), your nitrates will eventually end up in the 200 ppm range and algae growth will be out of control. You'll need to wipe the front pane every 6 hours of algae film and your o2 saturation level will be very low. Fish will start dropping, parasites and disease will become rampate. Soon, tank domination by mutated forms of bacteria and algae spores will take over.

Seriously dood, you have no other source of nutrient removal, so why remove the skimmer?
 
He wants to set up a chaeto jungle. Now that i think of it Bill has a large refugium on his tank.
 
Skimmerless can work well in conjunction with a good refugium. I also find low rate ozone is very beneficial in maintaining water clarity with a skimmerless system, heck I find them beneficial in a skimmed system also ;)
 
Bill, you have any source I can do more reading on regarding low rate ozone?

also how big a refugium you think it would take for a 180 gal tank
 
dex you need a skimmer. i agree with warren. you keep to many fish in a reef tank to go skimmerless. matybe if you had ten fish in the 180 it would work. but 28 or so is to many. like my tank 12 fish ina forty....skimmer and bi-weekly 5 gallon water changes. don't get lazy now.
 
thats even worse then. have you ever been to the store with dex....its like a kid in the candy store. can't have just one.
 
You could try a remote deep sand-bed and large refugium - say a 75 gallon sump tank under the 180 with a 6 inch sand bed, a variety of macros and a section for chemipure and phosban. Still need to do large weekly water changes.
 
forget it. the point was to simplify & have less gadgets, skimmerless is sounding to be too much work, for something that might or might NOT work....

Ray, I dont have 28 fish, I may have more now....LOL
I know I have a problem, I got that from Warren
 
Hi,

My name is Dexter and I am a fish-a-holic.

NY Aquatics is having a 10% off sale this weekend and I told my wife that work called and a patient brought in free fish.
 
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