charlesr1958
Active Member
Am a bit late in joining the discussion, but just wanted to encourage you. When in the states, all of my previous reef tanks were reliant on heavy equipment / filtration use. But once I moved to the Philippines, and found that there is NO equipment available other than some powerheads, I had no choice but to run my tank as is. Which means, no mechanical (floss, pads, sponge) filtration at all. As such, my entire system runs on three powerheads and some lights. One large powerhead to act as the sump's pump, and two in the main tank for water movement. Thats it. Been running great for more than three years now and the corals love it. Which I attribute to any and all life and food particles generated by the system being left in the system for everythings use, from the corals, sponges, tunicates, pods on down to the gazillion other micro organisms. I never add supplements or additives except on the very rare occassion that I can not do a water change, then I dose a bit of Kalkwasser to maintain calcium. While I do water changes at least once a week, I only do so because I happen to be at the ocean anyways, but have seen my system run for three months with no water changes and it never missed a beat. The middle tank is a live rock refugium where I do not allow any predators (fish) and very few herbivores. While there may be a bit of macro algae growing in it, I have never trimmed or removed any macro algae as a means for nutrient export. I also feed my tank up to 20ml of liquified krill/shrimp each and every day for the corals, although a lot of other life benefits as well. I might spend 30 seconds a day on maintenance, which only involves adding some freshwater top off and pouring in some food.
In other words...lol, it is very feasable, if I can do it, anyone can.
Chuck
In other words...lol, it is very feasable, if I can do it, anyone can.
Chuck