Sumpless & Skimmerless 20G Reef Tank

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I thought I'd share some pics of our new 20G long reef tank! It's mostly filled with zoas/palys and ricordeas and about a dozen SPS.

Happy Reefing!

 

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Happy trachy

 

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Rics and happy fat dendro!

 

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Right side

 

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Our zoa/paly garden!

 

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Fish & Inverts:
Clownfish pair
Flame wrasse pair
Cleaner shrimp
Porcelain crab
About a dozen snails (Astraea and turbo)

 

[Swirlygig]

Nice man! looking great!

 

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Nice man! looking great!

Thanks man!

 

[rogerarias]

Sumpless & Skimmerless 20G Reef Tank

Nice... What are you using for filtration? I also have a 20g that's about 3/4 months old and gradually adding corals and such. Have a hang over filter and want to get away from the filter but afraid it make things bad. I'm a newbie.

 

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Nice... What are you using for filtration? I also have a 20g that's about 3/4 months old and gradually adding corals and such. Have a hang over filter and want to get away from the filter but afraid it make things bad. I'm a newbie.

I've got about 15lbs live rock in the display. I'm just using an aquaclear 30 with one tablespoon carbon and GFO in a mesh bag, changed every two weeks.

Doing a 4-gallon weekly water change, and feeding 3-4x/day (frozen in the morning, pellets and flakes in the afternoon, and frozen mysis at night ).

Phosphate is at 0.10 and nitrate is 5ppm.

 

[MrsReefK]

Nice! Looking great!

 

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Nice! Looking great!

Thank you!

 

[rogerarias]

Nice!!

 

[plyle02]

You could put some Seachem Matrix in the aquaclear30 in combination with GFO, then you would be able to remain skimmerless, sumpless, and fugeless... I however think at some point, you will need to find a way for DOC removal, might work early on, but whether biological, chemical, or mechanical, whatever goes in, needs to find a way out The idea is superb, looking forward to seeing this one mature!!! I also have some sweet freshcut sps when the bug bites you, lol...

 

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You could put some Seachem Matrix in the aquaclear30 in combination with GFO, then you would be able to remain skimmerless, sumpless, and fugeless... I however think at some point, you will need to find a way for DOC removal, might work early on, but whether biological, chemical, or mechanical, whatever goes in, needs to find a way out The idea is superb, looking forward to seeing this one mature!!! I also have some sweet freshcut sps when the bug bites you, lol...

Thanks! I might try the seachem matrix, most reviews that I've read so far are positive! Unfortunately, I have no more room for SPS in this tank so I'm just watching this reef mature!

 

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Actinic Shot

 

[eg8r210]

Looking good!

 

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Looking good!

Thanks !

 

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Just fed the fish and corals mysis and reef roids. Our space invader is recovering nicely! I almost lost this piece when our 75G shallow reef crashed!

 

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Equipment and Tank Parameters:

Lighting: Radion XR15wPro (will be adding two 24" ATI blue+ next Friday)
Controller: Neptune Apex
Dosing: BRS Kalkwasser (0.5tsp/gallon of RODI water)
ATO: Tunze Nano Osmolator
Flow: MP10QD (will be adding another one during Black Friday sale)
Alkalinity: 10.5- 11.7 (Hanna)
Calcium: 410- 420 (Salifert)
Magnesium: 1230- 1300 (Salifert)
SG: 1.025 (Milwaukee)
pH: 8.0- 8.4 (Apex)
Temp: 78- 80 (Apex)
Nitrate: 5- 10ppm (Salifert)
Phosphate: 0.10- 0.18 (Hanna)