New 19g tank

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Hello, just wanted to introduce myself and see what youg think. this is my 2 months old tank that has only mature rock and LFS saltwater that I keep just buying from them every few weeks. I decided to do no filter tank and see what happens and everything so far so good all water parameters on the spot. Weekly water changes.
Equipment: 2 power heads
Heater
1 LED tube light with white light, blue/white and blue settings.

I'm adding corals slowly every few weeks (or as budget allows 😀) since it's the same water and rock from LFS that they use in their aquariums. So far so good all corals is growing: small patch of zoas, torch, frogspawn and isolated on one rock Xenia. Thinking of adding one anemone most likely rock flower some time.

Inhabitants:
3 trochus snails
3 zombie snails
2 Mocha clowns
2 cleaner shrimp
1 lawnmower (had a big green algae bloom 2 weeks ago but that guy did brilliant job and destroyed that algae like nothing, if it will be gone and not come back I'll get him back to LFS)
Any tips or tricks are 🤗

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The tank looks like it's doing well. I believe they used to call that the Berlin method
live rock, light and flow.
 
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Yes, exactly that's where I got the idea from, love how nice it turned out and actually surprisingly it's going easier than my previous freshwater.
The tank looks like it's doing well. I believe they used to call that the Berlin method
live rock, light and flow.
 

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