150L is a nano because it is under the recommended size for most fish. Especially useful ones like rabbit and tangs, which means the aquarist has to use different methods.
You know its Friday afternoon when a Reef Dork video drops! 😂 I'm planning for small/medium refugium and just sightly undersized skimmer on my Reefer XL200 so hopefully get the best of both 🤞
Nice vid! I have just had to reduce my refugium size and rearrange the sump as I fitted a bubble Magus roller (it was cheap second hand). still run gfo in a reactor and a curve 5 on a DD 1500 and all seams to do the job with LP's and easy mode sps
Thx for this video. I'm just getting into the hobby and still learning quite a bit. Do you mind telling me what kind of coral the bright orange coral in the upper left is at 4:56? It's on the far left of the upper shelf. I love the color and shape.
Hi, I don't know whether you still have phosphate issue but if yes then you might want to look at Tropic Marin NP-Bacto-Balance. It's a carbon dosing product but it won't bottom out your nutrients like NOPOX. Also check out Elimi-NP. BRS has videos about both products.
Elimi-np is very aggressive and is what gave me dinos a while ago! But I've been using bacto balance for a year or so now. I still have high phosphate but not as bad as it was before
@@ReefDork imj just still in amazement at dosing anyhting in nanotanks :) Ive been outa marine tanks for a decade, its so different now, like chemo tanks and automation..... and lot of unstable tanks :)
Been following along. I have the same tank. Fwiw I just converted the ato section into a refugium, and used a Klir Di4 in the original filter sock hole. Doing this allowed me to have a skimmer as well without having to modify the sump. (Other than drill drain holes in the ato) I have seen the same results of the cheato consuming all of the No3, but maintaining good Po4 levels. I have been reducing the refugium light time and shutting off the skimmer for a few hours at night to try and combat the low No3.
@@PazLeBon The sump had a built in ato chamber. I converted it into a refugium. I do however have an ato, but it's a separate container and it's gravity driven.
Hello mate .. Why not keep the skimmer and go for a medium sized algae reactor? That way your sump is kept clear of chaeto and you’re still pulling nitrates and phosphate but not bottoming them out.
@@ReefDork the chaeto will help reduce phosphate though. It’s that or rowa and we know you hate gfoooooo lol. Remove a bunch of chaeto once every two months or replace your rowa weekly. Decisions, decisions.
2:18 Are you saying harvesting refugium of chaeto will help reduce phosphates? Wouldn’t that reduce the effectiveness as you got less chaeto vs a fully packed refugium?🤔
Have same size frag tank and chaeto stopped growing after 1 year. Did you dose Iodine, Iron, Mg or something on regular daily base for the chaeto? Thanks a lot
Hi mate. I'm installing Reef Flares over my main tank tomorrow - that tank is SPS dominated so look out for the video on Reef Dork Xtra in the next couple of weeks for the settings I use.
