skimmerless

Just saw in another thread recommendation to dose organic carbon for a tank that started with a dry rock, as one of the steps for increasing biodiversity. From what i have read before, looks that this is used for systems with a skimmer for harvesting bacterial biomass, kind of nutrients export...

Tank: 140 gallons with 40 gallon sump I plan on a low bio load reef tank with lots of rock and mixed coral. My fish load will be light with reef safe peaceful fish. I don't plan on fish being the main focus but the reef. I would like copepods and bacteria to do most of the work in filtration...

I had my SCA 150 set up for 10 months and had to break it down at the end of August '19 to move from Georgia to Michigan. Here is my original build thread: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/matts-natural-reef.488794/ I decided to move the tank and stand together by lifting the stand with a...

Finally felt like taking photos of my tank to document progress in a year. Equipment is: 90 gallon glass tank + 20 gallon glass sump. Auto topoff (dual float switches) from kalkwasser reservoir Return pump and 2 Jebao wavemakers Dual 150 watt heaters UV sterilizer, gravity feed from overflow...

I know this is controversial, anecdotal and wishful thinking. I purchased a turbo aquatics scrubber (L4) and realized after I got it that for my skimmer to operate safely (had a flood happen as a result of trying to fit both in my sump) that I can't have both the scrubber and the skimmer in /...