Bare essentials

[Joseph Disalvo]

Hey guys I just wanted to share my experience. I moved about a year ago and the place I’m temporarily staying at wasn’t adequate for my full tank setup. I’m pleasantly surprised on how well my reef is keeping it together with the bare minimum. I have a 6ft long 120 gallon tank (no sump second floor, weight discrepancies) hob skimmer, hob fluval Aquaclear 110 running biobeeds, activated carbon, and mech filter. And 2 eflux current power heads running at 100p freq surge. Lighting fluval aquasky led. This is as bare bones as it gets.

stock :
2 purple queen anthias
1 yellow tang
1 bristletooth tang
1 anchor tusk
2 clowns
1 Sargent major damsel
3 striped damsels
1 cherry grouper

coral limited to:
1 hammer
1 Hollywood stunner chalice
1 utter chaos zoa colony
1 dragon eye zoa colony
Cotten candy mushrooms
1 red cap montipora
1 Aussie cherry bomb (wwc)
1 gargonian branch

this is not how I’ll continue to run my system when I close on my house but I thought I’d post for those guys who are trying to get into the hobby and don’t have a lot of funds

 

[tsouth]

Lookin good! It's so nice to remember that reef keeping can be as simple as this. This hobby has become incredibly advanced in the last 10 years, and it's amazing to see the quality of life enhancements we have now. This justifies the many various methods and approaches to this hobby which can be successful!

 

[Joseph Disalvo]

Lookin good! It's so nice to remember that reef keeping can be as simple as this. This hobby has become incredibly advanced in the last 10 years, and it's amazing to see the quality of life enhancements we have now. This justifies the many various methods and approaches to this hobby which can be successful!

essentially in a perfectly created biosphere

Lookin good! It's so nice to remember that reef keeping can be as simple as this. This hobby has become incredibly advanced in the last 10 years, and it's amazing to see the quality of life enhancements we have now. This justifies the many various methods and approaches to this hobby which can be successful!

I could imagine this method being a little bit more difficult without the bioload on my rock for filteration 10 years worth of it. But def a reminder this is possible even on this bit of a scale