MamReef
New Member
Hi guys,
been in the hobby since 1998. This is my 6 tank and this time I want to follow a different approach to reef keeping. My initial idea was to do a small lagoon tank with no filtration at all unless it was based on natural filtration as for example the use of refugium, mangroves and a deep sand bad. The idea was to be simple and without extra work, just based in water changes and let nature and the biodiversity work.... use some kalkwasser for KH/CA maintenance and nothing else so I would keep it simple to maintain.
Some of my tanks before were simple to complex depending on my evolution and experience in the hobby but I tried a little bit of everything maintaining always 10% weekly water changes with natural seawater (plenty of that here in Portugal) and always use kalkwasser alone or adding any kind of extra help, usually 2 part or the balling method. Some examples from 15 gallons to 265 gallons.
So for this new tank, in the beginning my approach was for a small shallow lagoon with some lps and some sps but after some months I decided to pass to a 80% sps, 20% lps and some gorgonians but maintaining the same Kiss philosophy. It's been a good ride until now, hope you guys enjoy this ride. Some pictures of the evolution, tank is 1 year and 3 months old now.
this was before I decided to change to 80% sps and 20% Lps tank...
As soon as possible I will upload newer photos because I upgraded the light and added some more frags that are bigger now.
Hope you guys like.
Thanks.
been in the hobby since 1998. This is my 6 tank and this time I want to follow a different approach to reef keeping. My initial idea was to do a small lagoon tank with no filtration at all unless it was based on natural filtration as for example the use of refugium, mangroves and a deep sand bad. The idea was to be simple and without extra work, just based in water changes and let nature and the biodiversity work.... use some kalkwasser for KH/CA maintenance and nothing else so I would keep it simple to maintain.
Some of my tanks before were simple to complex depending on my evolution and experience in the hobby but I tried a little bit of everything maintaining always 10% weekly water changes with natural seawater (plenty of that here in Portugal) and always use kalkwasser alone or adding any kind of extra help, usually 2 part or the balling method. Some examples from 15 gallons to 265 gallons.
So for this new tank, in the beginning my approach was for a small shallow lagoon with some lps and some sps but after some months I decided to pass to a 80% sps, 20% lps and some gorgonians but maintaining the same Kiss philosophy. It's been a good ride until now, hope you guys enjoy this ride. Some pictures of the evolution, tank is 1 year and 3 months old now.
this was before I decided to change to 80% sps and 20% Lps tank...
As soon as possible I will upload newer photos because I upgraded the light and added some more frags that are bigger now.
Hope you guys like.
Thanks.
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