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Thank you for that. That's very interesting how sps and acros thrive in your frag tank. I would think such large volume water changes would swing nutrient and alk levels so much that it would cause instability. But in your case, no, your corals love it. And it's also a very young tank. Almost everything goes against prevailing theory as to keeping acros thriving and growing (small water volume, young, sparse biodiversity). It's things like this when I read them that cause me the "what the...?" moments. There is something happening (or not happening) in your frag tank that sps like. I'm dying to know WHAT that something is!
I hear you. I think it is the KISS method in action. Keep it simple stupid. Small water volumes down scare me my fist serious reef tank was a 15 gallon with a 250 watt MH over it. I grew a T. giga (this was when you could still get them) from maybe 3 inches across to 12 inches across in a 15. I barely tested my water and if I did I would just test calcium and throw some kent turbo calcium in there. I may have also been running a Kalk stirrer so that could have helped. But that tank was so much less complex than my current tank and things would grow. But I also did set that tank up with actual live rock.... (brining it all back). There are some pictures of that tank over in by build thread.