Here's the short version. I started with a 10g nano and my wife pushed until I upgraded. I now have a 135g mixed reef. The 10g has been running for 6 months with odds and ends in it from time to time. My wife has now officially claimed it as hers as along as all she has to do is pick it's inhabitants. I get all the work.
What I would like to do is run her zoa only with live rock and cuc. No fish at all and no fish food. I have a 165w full spectrum LED light on the way. I know it will never be at 100% but that's the beauty of LEDs. What I am thinking might work is to do a 1 gallon water change per day from my display tank. I do not want to spend hundreds on equipment to keep the 10g tank set. Would the zoas get enough food from the 1 gallon changes with main tank? Can I get by with only water flow and no filtration?
10g Tank:
Zoas
CUC from florida (small florida ceriths)
2 inces sugar fine argonite
10 lbs live rock
165w LED dimmable full spectrum
HOB filter with no media for flow only (rated for 75g tank - takes up almost the whole back of the tank)
135g Tank:
40 breeder sump
5 lbs miracle mud (cause I had it already)
skimmer
gfo/carbon
macro algea
100+ lbs rock
2 clowns, yellow tang, sailfin tang, lawnmower blenny, coral beauty, pajama cardinal
cleaner shrimp
CUC
running 4 months and stable (just noticed coraline growing on powerhead - not bad for all dry rock)
SPS growing and colorful
LPS doing ok..don't like my tank for some reason (except candy canes growing like weeds)
softies growing like weeds
Amonia 0
Ph 8
nitrate 0
nitrite 0
Phosphate 0
KH 8
calcium 440
Mg 1400
35gph flow
3 x 165w full spectrum LEDs blue at 100% and whites at 95%
What I would like to do is run her zoa only with live rock and cuc. No fish at all and no fish food. I have a 165w full spectrum LED light on the way. I know it will never be at 100% but that's the beauty of LEDs. What I am thinking might work is to do a 1 gallon water change per day from my display tank. I do not want to spend hundreds on equipment to keep the 10g tank set. Would the zoas get enough food from the 1 gallon changes with main tank? Can I get by with only water flow and no filtration?
10g Tank:
Zoas
CUC from florida (small florida ceriths)
2 inces sugar fine argonite
10 lbs live rock
165w LED dimmable full spectrum
HOB filter with no media for flow only (rated for 75g tank - takes up almost the whole back of the tank)
135g Tank:
40 breeder sump
5 lbs miracle mud (cause I had it already)
skimmer
gfo/carbon
macro algea
100+ lbs rock
2 clowns, yellow tang, sailfin tang, lawnmower blenny, coral beauty, pajama cardinal
cleaner shrimp
CUC
running 4 months and stable (just noticed coraline growing on powerhead - not bad for all dry rock)
SPS growing and colorful
LPS doing ok..don't like my tank for some reason (except candy canes growing like weeds)
softies growing like weeds
Amonia 0
Ph 8
nitrate 0
nitrite 0
Phosphate 0
KH 8
calcium 440
Mg 1400
35gph flow
3 x 165w full spectrum LEDs blue at 100% and whites at 95%