Why so complicated or expensive?

[NiTr0x911]

Paul,I noticed you said you feed live black worms.I've been reading alot of good things about feeding these to fish.Is their somewhere online you order yours or do you collect them yourself?

 

[Nanighan]

I am a firm believer in more biology and less technology. I have a 55g tank with no skimmer or sump and no chemical filtration. It is mostly an sps tank in which I dose kalk using the Calfo slurry method by hand or drip method. Every single sps was grown from 1-2 inch frags. For precaution I do have polyfilter and some carbon just in case. I also collect detritus and crap from the sides of the tank after I blow out the rock from the water changes.

My secret is water changes. I change about 3-5 gallons a week. If you can get your kids involved (think $$$) it gets even easier. Here is a blurry video (watch in hd it helps) I made for a friend to show off my new powder blue tang.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FPz4_XeF4M

 

[d2mini]

It's no different than any other hobby. My only response to the OP is "it depends".
Goals, wants, needs, skills... it all depends.

 

[Paul B]

I buy the worms in a petr shop and keep them in a worm keeper that I devised.