You’d be surprised how many Pros still run T5’s or supplemental T5’s! They look great and work great! It’s not like we’re taking about Compact floro. Love T5’s!
Aside from lowering your flow to help stop the sand from blowing around, replacing the sand with a larger grain size is going to be your next best option. If you go with the latter option, just be sure do do this slowly over time as to avoid upsetting the tank's biological balance. The sand bed is a lot of surface area for beneficial bacteria that you'll end up removing in this process.
Cool idea. But putting rocks on top of sand is a nube mistake and a recipe for collapse in most situations. Flats on the bottom, sand around those then scape on top of the flats. Solid structure. Wrasses and CUC will move your sand.
@@yiccers if they are glued then it might not collapse, but I wouldn’t risk are fish getting caught under the structure when it inevitably moves due to critters and water flow. Put rocks in them sand around them, this is stable and doesn’t allow dead spots to form that cannot be cleaned.
So you’re not going to cycle the tank and instead rely entirely on a bag of rock rubble to do that for you over time…. Then you’re going to sustain LPS coral without nitrates or phosphates in the tank…. But you’re going to just add red sea elements and expect everything to just work out ok… 🫤 It’s really a chicken or the egg thing because your build is completely dependent on knowing someone else who has an already established system. This info is utterly worthless to new reefers, which is probably going to be the main demographic watching this short.
Will you provide an update to prove all these know it alls wrong? Jake Adam’s did exactly this, and so have I. I’ve experienced no issues. Too many clowns are under the assumption you need to wait 6 months to cycle a tank before adding corals. Which of course is wrong.
Everybody saying this set up cost a lot but it actually would cost roughly around $1200 for everything tbh. There’s plenty of AIO nano tanks for under $250 that have great quality. Every coral that was put in there was probably $40-$80 .
@@jolernyou don’t need to cycle a tank to add corals…why are you spamming the same thing over and over here in the comments. So confidently wrong it hurts! 😂🤡
@@jolern come on man. there's no way that you actually think you need to cycle a tank just for corals. They don't care about ammonia and nitrite doesn't matter in sw at all.
Using pre-seeded rock and biological media definitely helps. If you get the lights dialed in and pay attention to dosing calcium and alkalinity in the early going, it might be easier than you'd think 😀
Not for corals you don’t…ammonia doesn’t affect corals. I personally added corals day number one on my new set up and every thing is great. There are plenty of videos out there that explain in more depth. Showing the process and explaining the misconception that you need to cycle a tank before adding corals. But hey, keep thinking that 🤡
@@brickedupproductions1038 corals require nutrients. Nutrients (nitrate and phosphate) will cause a cycling event. You don't add corals to a tank until after it's been cycled and has adauqete anaerobic bacteria to continue the cycle. Try running lps/sps in a tank without nutrients and see how it goes.
@@brickedupproductions1038 I can tell you with a high degree of certainty and after nearly two decades of keeping all types of coral, including euphyllia that you are 100% incorrect. Corals are not plants. They’re animals are are still dependent on having an ammonia and nitrite-free environment, which is something you’re not going to have without cycling.
Please watch Jake Adam’s do the same exact thing with no problem in his 1day nano reef 5 part series. Y’know…the one that updates you over the course of 2 years with absolutely 0 issue.
