[reef120]

Well I decided I would post some updated pics of my 18 gallon nano tank. Here is the key purpose to why im posting this and the reason of my title.

I have not done a water change in 8 months.
I do not add calcium.
I do not add any attitives.
I do not drip anything.

My feeding is twice per week and yes I forgot I do add powderized planktan once per week

Top-offs about 1 gallon per 2 days.
Carbon 24/7
Skim 24/7
Lighting 96 watts of PC soon adding a 70watt MH

Besides some alagae problems due to not using RO for top-offs which I need to start doing again. Everything is thriving and pylops fully extended on all my corals. Look for yourself.
Pics of some corals were hard to take so excuse the pics.

This started from a 1" frag from our frag meets

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Mr. Shrimp

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[skylergirl]

Looks great!

No water changes? What kind of filtration are you using?

When I was out in CA earlier this month, one store I visited sold ocean water by a brand called Catalina (spelling). The store carried absolutely NO salt forsale. The entire store used this ocean water. They charged only 50 cents a gallon. They had this storage container that must have been a good 8 feet high by 5 or 6 feet in diameter! People would bring in huge buckets and coolers to buy the water.

Apparently, with the ocean water, no additives or any sort of coral food was ever added to the dealers tanks. The ocean water contained everything including the trace elements etc that the corals needed.

At 50 cents a gallon, and no mixing or buying of salt required.....makes me a little longing for such a convienience. Even Fish Doctors charges 50 cents for plain old RO water.

*sigh* The advantages of living by the sea.... [-drool]

 

[reef120]

The only filteration I use is a modified backbak II skimmer located in the sump.

I also heard the same theary about adding ocean water and doing all their water changes
and top offs using ocean water in Europe

 

[Newts]

Everything looks great.See no reason to be ashamed of that tank. I have a green Millepora just like that in my 180g. It's one of the fastest growers I have, along with the red Millepora right next to it. Keep updating us on this tank, it's interesting to see how it does, plus we all like to see pics.

 

[wingsfan]

Don't be so modest. The tank and ther pics look great.Just goes to show that no work is better than some work,lol.

 

[reef120]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. The tank had been set for about 14 months. I use to drip calk and ran a calcuim reactor on it and did my weekly water changes but I just got sick of the small reactor pump jamming up and adjusting the calk rate, bascially I got lazy. So for the past nine months I decided to experiment. Well the growth and health of the animals is amazing and I decided to continue doing nothing differnt then what I currently do now. I will soon start using RO again to control some of the alagae but nothing differnt. I wish I can get some better shows of the bright yellow milli next to the big green one. That was a frag that had RTN in my 125 when I had it setup. I had lost 95% of it leaving only about 1/4" left and that was when I decided to place it in my nano and it took off from there. The bright green milli I must say is my favotite coral.

 

[tszetela]

Dude, what are you a troll?!?!?!

Your tank looks great!!!!

How did you not do at least a partial water change during the move?

 

[Specialk]

WOW it looks good!


Kaye

 

[reef120]

Tim,

I did no water change during the move I transfered all the water into buckets. I ended up having to top the tank off with about 1.5 gallons of tap water because of spills during the move..