Hello all, my 5 gallon nano

[Fudsey]

Welcome to R2R ! ! !

 

[Katrina71]

@vetteguy53081 can point you in the right direction for HOB skimmer for your nano. His article is great

 

[kschweer]

Welcome!!!

 

[GoPitt88]

Welcome to R2R!! [emoji3]

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Welcome to R2R

 

[Nanoclowndave]

@vetteguy53081 can point you in the right direction for HOB skimmer for your nano. His article is great

Awesome!! Thank you so much!!!

 

[NS Mike D]

welcome

re; protein skimmers in a nano. I have a thread in the nano forum addressing this question. I recall we have posts with successful nanos with and without skimmers. The consensus is that water changes in a nano should be sufficient if you a trying to keep things simple. There a folks that have pretty tanks and pull a good deal of skimmate too.
My 2 cents, don't add anything to a tank unless you need to address a problem. If your tank is doing well without a skimmer, why add one?

I pulled my simmer on my 29 gal a year ago and haven't looked back. I have a HOB fuge packed with cheato and a DIY sump with a rubble rock with more cheato to encourage a lot of natural consumers of excess nutrients. I also don't mind a more natural looking tank so bit of algae on my rocks doesn't bother me. I just brush them with my water change and put a filter sock on the sump for a day or two.

 

[Katrina71]

welcome

re; protein skimmers in a nano. I have a thread in the nano forum addressing this question. I recall we have posts with successful nanos with and without skimmers. The consensus is that water changes in a nano should be sufficient if you a trying to keep things simple. There a folks that have pretty tanks and pull a good deal of skimmate too.
My 2 cents, don't add anything to a tank unless you need to address a problem. If your tank is doing well without a skimmer, why add one?

I pulled my simmer on my 29 gal a year ago and haven't looked back. I have a HOB fuge packed with cheato and a DIY sump with a rubble rock with more cheato to encourage a lot of natural consumers of excess nutrients. I also don't mind a more natural looking tank so bit of algae on my rocks doesn't bother me. I just brush them with my water change and out a filter sock on the sump for a day or two.

I agree

 

[NS Mike D]

here is the thread, please share your decision and experiences in it

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/nano-tanks-are-protein-skimmers-sufficiently-effective.360238/

 

[Kelso]

Hi and Welcome~
Can you provide some additional tank details? Lighting, water flow, substrate composition, etc oh and especially the livestock choices those are the most fun.

 

[reef lover]

Welcome to r2r!!

 

[mike werner]

welcome!

 

[Nanoclowndave]

Hi and Welcome~
Can you provide some additional tank details? Lighting, water flow, substrate composition, etc oh and especially the livestock choices those are the most fun.

Of course! How could I forget haha,

I have fluval spec v 5gallon
Stock lighting 11,000k leds
I have the stock pump pointing directly at up at the surface and a hydor koralia nano power head pointing straight at the front glass.
Love carribean arragonite substrate
And 5 lbs of live rock

3 hermit crabs (2 red legged, one white legged)
3 Astrea snails
Skunk cleaner shrimp
2 false perc clowns (mated)
Seriatopora
Lobophyllia
Kenya tree
Torch
Mushroom
Acan
Duncan
Stylophora
Pulsing Xenia

All bought as tiny frags and have grown beautifully so far ()

 

[Ruben's Reef]

!!! Welcome to R2R !!! Nice looking tank.

 

[Nanoclowndave]

here is the thread, please share your decision and experiences in it

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/nano-tanks-are-protein-skimmers-sufficiently-effective.360238/

Awesome article thank you so much