Greetings from Thailand! I've been lurking here for several years now but was never confident enough to put my tank up here till now. I'm an expat reefer living in Thailand for ~10 years now.
Around 6 years ago, I was introduced to a reefing method (that was very strange at the time). They told me to put some mud, grow macro algae and put vodka into my reef tank. Needless to say I was very skeptical at the time. But I tried the Vodka anyways........just for kicks.
Well, I've been through 3 iterations of this method now and learned alot in the process of getting ready to build this tank in my new home. I spent 2 years with the Mk2 learning as much as I could about this holistic reefing method without requiring regular waterchanges, and I honestly didn't even have much of a skimmer, but relied mostly on an active deep sand bed + chaeto instead.
here is some of the mk2 before and after pics (the tank is 32X24X18)
And here are some after pics. Most of these are 1 year growths. I am happy to say that I didn't lose any corals with this build at all, although the colors of the corals were much more vivid than the Zeovit method (which was very popular at the time). I was very happy with the results.
Here is the last pic before the teardown
As you can see, the results were very good. I was really amazed that reefing could be so much easier. So I decided that I was gonna go all out with this method for the Mk3.
Around 6 years ago, I was introduced to a reefing method (that was very strange at the time). They told me to put some mud, grow macro algae and put vodka into my reef tank. Needless to say I was very skeptical at the time. But I tried the Vodka anyways........just for kicks.
Well, I've been through 3 iterations of this method now and learned alot in the process of getting ready to build this tank in my new home. I spent 2 years with the Mk2 learning as much as I could about this holistic reefing method without requiring regular waterchanges, and I honestly didn't even have much of a skimmer, but relied mostly on an active deep sand bed + chaeto instead.
here is some of the mk2 before and after pics (the tank is 32X24X18)
And here are some after pics. Most of these are 1 year growths. I am happy to say that I didn't lose any corals with this build at all, although the colors of the corals were much more vivid than the Zeovit method (which was very popular at the time). I was very happy with the results.
Here is the last pic before the teardown
As you can see, the results were very good. I was really amazed that reefing could be so much easier. So I decided that I was gonna go all out with this method for the Mk3.