Great video, thanks for sharing. Your tank is testament to your hard work and knowledge... its beautifully balanced and what all all nanos should aspire to be.
That’s nice man I hope to get a protein skimmer soon I heard they work wonders. I just have a sump I made out of a hang on filter and a big canister filter.
With total water volume of 75 gal (sump) and Main display of 50 gal. I have been using Chemipure (since a won some on instagram) and been using. But for me it's a Refugium, a good protein skimmer, mariepure blocks, running filter socks. Nitrates are at 0-5ppm, then Nitrites and Ammonia are always at zero
Beautiful tank and very well explained...believe it or not apart from Nopox dosing i am running the exact same method as you to control no3 and po4 on my lagoon 50....likewise i have been seeing low nitrates and phosphates as well...i second your comment about Chaeto Reactor it by far has exceeded my expectations either not to mention healthy growth of chaeto eliminating any nuisance algae growth in there....
Have a nano and I don't run a skimmer because it is almost pointless on a nano to have one. Water changes are the cheapest and easiest way to export Nitrogen and Phosphates on a nano. You don't need a ton of equipment. If your Nitrates are at 20 ppm and you want them at 10 ppm you simply do a 50% water change. If you want them at 5 you simply do another 50% water change. If your Nitrogen is at 5ppm on a nano and you are doing weekly 10-20% water changes, your Nitrogen levels will remain pretty constant as long as you are not overfeeding and overstocking the tank. You can easily calculate exactly how much you need to change each week. I actually do two smaller changes a week that total a 25% weekly water change. Each change is 1 1/2 gallons of water on my nano and it takes only a few minutes to do while keeping everything stable always. The water column is being completely turned over each month. Also, love my Fighting Conce for turning over the sandbed. Best damn cleaner there is. I run ultra ultra high capacity Aqua Vitro GFO and the stuff is amazing.
I trie to use my Rowa Phos in my reactor, I watched vides on how to do it, I made 3 gallons of RO water, I placed the pump and the reactor in a bucket and aimed the exhaust in another bucket. It used the 3 gallons of water, I placed the reactor in my tank and it still dumped red dust all over my tank, for me it is too much of a PITA to use.
Used cheato ractor for a while, worked good at start... then it stoped growing and got covered with red-green slime and cheato start diying. And cleaning an maintaining was a mess... now i pulled it out so far all good.
Did you ever have issues with your cheato reactor and do you prefer the reactor or the setup you have in your sump? Trying to add cheato to my tank.. Thank you in advance.
Just make your own sump it’s easy there’s videos you can just use a hang on filter. I run de-nitrate, nitrate filter pads, bio media, and chateo. You’ll save money and it works, ohh and I have a big canister filter I’m running a bio sponge, bio media, carbon, and filter floss. Keep up with water changes and thoroughly clean. My nitrates are always under 0.5 and nitrites 0 I have a 40 gallon.
Hi I am trying hard now to take my nitrates up, its at zero, I have removed the filter sock and turned off the skimmer, how do I stop it at 4. Or 5.. I am new all this, the tanks has corals only 3...and 10 fish..5ft tank..
Nice video. I would also add if there is a side effect to 0 nitrates and 0 phosphates that is, a reduced tolerance to alkalinity swings. Particularly in SPS dominant tanks.
i am trying to get rid of all these micro bubbles in my tank.. i am trying to get the surface moving live yours in this video by aiming my pump closer to the surface but it keeps creating bubbles from the movement of the surface... any ideas? i cant get rid of this dam surface dust and microbubbles its driving me crazy .. i have a 15 gallon waterbox peninsula
Great Video, so having some issues and using your methods. Yep using Api reef for phosphate 1.0 no nitrates. I will invest in hanna checker phosphate, I have phosphates as have green to brown algae on rocks. Been using rowaphos in bag and media reactor along with carbon. Using protein skimmer, floss and filter socks, uv sterilizer. I started dosing red sea nopox 1m per day for 4 days and noticed alot being pulled out of protein skimmer and my socks more dirty. Does this mean it's working. I'm feeding corals ans under dosing the npox to slowly 🐌make changes to reduce the phosphate/ algae off rocks. Any advice for me System sump e260 litre redsea
What the name of that phosphate reactor? Do you think it can fit in an overhanging refugium? Is it easy to use, I have really high phosphate and need to reduce it
I had a sand sifting Goby like the one in your video and it just kept piling the sand up over my rocks and corals, so I got rid of it a purchased another one, guess what ? It did exactly the same, so I had to get rid of that one too, so now I have to vac my sand every week which is a real chore, any suggestions of another type of sand sifting Goby ?
So I know every tank is different but just out of curiosity cuz your tank obviously looks amazing and you said you keep some nitrates....what level of nitrates is your range you keep it at?
The faster the cheato grows the faster it removes elements. We have learned that with the right light it's a totally tunable system. If you understand how it works fully
Have you ever had "Really Bad Gases" or just read about them? I had read about them, decades ago, but in reality never found any release of "really bad gasses" so I think they're a myth. Theoretically maybe they could be there but never in practice over 50 years and dozens of tanks. In the past I did do sand stirring in some tanks and not in others and occasionally in others. I'm working on designing a much larger tank and want a sand bed both in the tank and in the refugium but I don't plan to be stirring as that won't be practical so I'm looking to maximize stand stirring critters. I've also been reading a lot about the various ways that people are succeeding, and failing. There are a lot of people who succeed with sand bottoms, with bare bottoms, with skimmers, without skimmers, with refugiums, without refugiums, with cheato reactors, without... Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any good scientific statistically significant study comparing the whole matrix of options. Most information is merely anecdotal. Nice tank. I like your setup. Nice colors.
APN Films just throw a ball of chaeto in your sump where it gets flow and can grow and slap a light over it, you can really go cheap and simple with this.
Believe or not I’ve been fighting to increase my po4 for the last 2 weeks due to my sump and shaeto algae corals bleaching i even stop using my skimmer phosphate ist real serious part in the reef 🤦♂️
Shawn Mayer get a fighting conche snail it will do a just as good a job as the goby but won’t cover ur corals with sand I’ve had both and my conche wins
I wont use red sea test kits ever. The ones i had were either old or just off . I dont care they were all over the place, most inacurate kits ive ever used and ive been in the hobby for 40 years