NO Skimmer NO Filter. Danny's Aquariums reveals his SECRETS 

Thanks!!

Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy!

That’s awesome! 🤩

Thank you!

How is that even possible? 😂 Can’t set up a tank like this without a heater, dosing pump, flow or lighting.. they are essential to any aquarium.

I had never heard of that method before, but yeah looks like that’s what I’m doing! Thank you, learned something new!! 🙌

I started with the Berlin method 35 years ago of reef keeping but I did later go with the sump after a few years.

@@geoffhunt7965awesome, what made you add a sump?

@@DannysAquariums Old tank syndrome and at the time it seemed like I was advancing with the equipment. Berlin method was one of the first around and there were under gravel filters and then canisters and then sumps.

@@geoffhunt7965I did Berlin method in the mid-nineties. Eventually I added reef mud with a blanket of sawblade caulerpa. These days I run only chaeto. But I don’t do socks and my skimmer is on a timer. Natural is best!!!

1-2 gallons of water once a month. So for the big tank that comes down to a 5% water change, massive! 🫣

@@DannysAquariums haha! 🥊 jab back!

​@@DannysAquariums😆 Awesome

Coming from a planted background myself and wanting to get into saltwater tanks, I always felt so confused and frustrated by all the technology and gadgets all the reefers mentioned. I’m glad I’m starting to see videos like this with a more friendly and simplified approach to reefs and saltwater

I’ve got a 125 gal reef tank I’d never dream of operating it without the filtration system I have

@@thatstonerr7738 for me it depends on the bio load. I’ve run tanks with just coral and inverts and have had great success with just a heater and powerhead near the surface tumbling the water. I also have a 6 gallon cube I am currently running with a pair of clowns and come coral and all it has is a heater and a Seachem tidal HOB with some filter floss, the tidal is a great HOB, good sized media compartment and it actually skims the surface of the water.

I noticed they didn’t show the dosing systems. This is equipment so I wish they would have shown the setup on the back of the tanks. In your experience Do you have any idea how big the dosing systems are and what they look like? I thought dosing systems required water and either in a sump or inline with water filtration?

It’s not optimal! :) Sometimes it clogs up, best is to have it above the water. But I haven’t found the right holder for it yet, since there’s only 1-2cm between the water level and the top of the glass.

Shipping small glass aquariums is proving hard enough 😆

but something is in the work

MP10 & Nero 3

Also great tik tok content

It doesn’t get much dirtier than this :)

@@DannysAquariums Yep I've seen your content it's great, only issue I have is Dino's but it's a nitrate and phosphate imbalance other than that corals are all doing fine and growing.

He just did a big water change for the video 😊

some people do that so they wont clog at the tips, as long as its peristaltic dosing, shouldnt be an issue

Because I need a different tube holder haha.

Hmm not sure if we discussed that, but no worries! I do one small water change once a month. 1-2 gallons of each tank while I vacuum the sand bed.

Yup! That’s exactly how it works. :) I did add a few other fish to the aquarium shortly after we filmed this, I was not having enough nutrients haha. There are now 2 clowns, 5 chromis, 1 nano goby and a royal gramma in here.

I’m so glad this hobby has people like you, we need more people like you that know everything! Your tank seems to be perfect! 🙌

Did you hear the part on how old the tank is ? Are you saying Bio media is superior to live rock ?

@@fragboxcorals I misspoke there I’m saying that live rock will always be superior to just standard bio media but my point that I’m trying to drive here is that with substrates you house a vast majority of your biological life right so not just bacteria which is crucial to cycling but copepods bristle worms room for snails to burrow but most importantly the more substrate the better biological filter you will have outright in your tank I see a lot of folks throw a tank together with a few inches worth of substrate on the bottom that’s garbage I’d always reccomend atleast 6-8 inches of substrate potentially more considering the size of the tank some would say that way to much substrate but I promise the stability it will provide any system it’s undeniable and you can confirm yourself right just as anyone set yourself up a new 40g tank right throw in enough substrate to use up about 6-8 inches and then run 2lbs of rock per gallon so throw 80 pounds of rock in doubt you’d even need filtration on that tank at that point params will always be perfect Try deep substrates are king

⁠@@thatstonerr7738Successful bare bottom SPS tanks must drive you absolutely nuts then. Little rock, NO substrate… man 😵.

@@DannysAquariums I mean don’t get me wrong my way is not absolute you almost seem triggered like I attacked you and that wasn’t my goal I was merely stating that having deeper substrates results in a larger biological filter within your tank without running a sump obviously a sump with gravel and shit tons of live rock would be the most ideal filtration but yes you are correct systems can run without substrates but you can hopefully acknowledge that yes that possible and can be done that stability of the tank can be affected via params like nitrite nitrate my argument is solely for stability of the ecosystem man I never stated to have all the info ever only anecdotal experience on my end and info from others in the hobby with many many more years of knowledge and experience than me 🤷‍♀️ good luck to ya man I hope you learn to take constructive criticism better in the future it will help out the hobby greatly take it easy

Yes, they are my sponsors. What’s your point?

Once a week I scrape of some algae of the glass and once a month I do a very small water change, call that lots of maintenance? 😂

Quick question if you have the time. Apart from the regular water changes once a month, what do you do with the algae that comes out when you scrape it off the glass? Do you siphon it out with water or manually remove it without the water?

Lol welcome to Fragbox TV.

​​@fragboxcorals must not know who you are March,lol

@@86kevinjohnsonwho cares who “March” is… he is annoying!

😳😳 hater

never had that feeling in this video. He never forced any opinion on him. And the hobby is after all all about exchange of experience and knowledge. ​@@michaelcoffey2314

That’s no air mattress lol.

20 thousand dollars where bro ? Thats like 5k absolutely max

Why is it dumb? Why is long term success not possible? And how is it bad for the hobby to showcase people that you can keep a reef tank without making it super complicated, which often keeps people away from this hobby?

​@@DannysAquariumsdont worry danny, i bet this guy doesn't even have a tank lol

How did you come to that conclusion? This might be the dumbest thing I’ve heard so far. 😂 No company or anyone else comes to work on my tanks, I do it by myself. I don’t test my water, neither does anyone else do it for me. I’d say I’ve gained quite some knowledge over the past years that allows me to keep reef tanks by myself lol, I suggest you take a look at the channel as I’ve documented everything! Good, bad and the ugly.

@DannysAquariums my bad if you're hands on. Looked like a crazy operation for one man. But congrats

I was drinking that night I saw this lol

@@kylethiede9463thanks, yep.. all by myself. Barely any work, algae scraping the glass once a week and a small monthly water change to keep the sand clean (gravel vac). That’s all the work they require really! 🙌