I ran my old 50g with just an ATS for a few months. It was very low bioload and an LPS tank. I never measured nutrients in that tank. After about 6 weeks, it had cleared up of all cyano and hair algae. My biggest issue was I just added randomly and it made maintenance a little more difficult. This led to me not scraping the screen as often as I should.
I took it offline and sold it. Went back to just a skimmer. The tank paid the price and never looked as good again.
I decided they are well worth it and bought a CW-200 for my new 250g upgrade. Like an idiot, I didn't measure and it won't fit in my stand where I planned it to go. So now I have to sell it at a nice loss and wait for the new Clearwater scrubbers coming out this month and make sure they will fit and make maintenance easy.
I want to run a heavily stocked tank with lots of food for everything but need serious removal and an ATS fits the bill. Add in a little carbon dosing and I will be set.
Instead of chasing the numbers, look at your system and see what the corals are telling you. Are they light in color? Are they dark in color? Let the tank speak and not numbers on a hobby grade test kit. JMO. I couldn't tell you what my numbers are on my new tank right now. Everything is open, growing, good color, and overall healthy. So I will just keep on doing what I am doing
I took it offline and sold it. Went back to just a skimmer. The tank paid the price and never looked as good again.
I decided they are well worth it and bought a CW-200 for my new 250g upgrade. Like an idiot, I didn't measure and it won't fit in my stand where I planned it to go. So now I have to sell it at a nice loss and wait for the new Clearwater scrubbers coming out this month and make sure they will fit and make maintenance easy.
I want to run a heavily stocked tank with lots of food for everything but need serious removal and an ATS fits the bill. Add in a little carbon dosing and I will be set.
Instead of chasing the numbers, look at your system and see what the corals are telling you. Are they light in color? Are they dark in color? Let the tank speak and not numbers on a hobby grade test kit. JMO. I couldn't tell you what my numbers are on my new tank right now. Everything is open, growing, good color, and overall healthy. So I will just keep on doing what I am doing