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[Contesini]

Hello !
It's my first time here and I'm from Brazil ( south america ).
I'm sorry about my English because I've been studying it by my self and everytime I make mistakes ( LOL ).
I'd like to talk about a simple system that doesn't use skimmer, supplements, control of temperature, etc.
First of all, I'll ask you to go to: http://www.aquahobby.net/tanks/tank0105a.html
There is something about my experience w/ my 7 gallon nano reef there. The nano is going to be 3 years old.

Nowaday I have just 2 Power compacts 25w ( 6500k ) and 1 Powerhead. No skimmer, no chiller, no heater, no supplements, no kalkwasser, no, no, no...
Water changes: 3 gallon / year
My rotine: Every day I replace fresh water and each 2 or 3 days I give some food to the 2 perculas clown. Just it.
These experience show me that there is an easier way to keep a mini-reef when you understand what the animals really need.
I'll be waiting for your comments.
C ya.

 

[liquid]

Very nice tank and welcome to reefs.org!

Shane

 

[Anonymous]

Welcome! You have a good-looking tank.

I'm curious. How do you expect your bubble coral to grow with no calcium addition? And does the temperature of your house stay stable enough to go without a heater?

 

[Anonymous]

The water changes will add the supplements you need and Brazil has a more stable temp than New York. Nice tank...BELLO!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Changing 3 gallons per year??? Don't think that will be enough calcium. I wonder how bubbles handle low calcium. Could be that they just stop growing skeleton. Which might not be such a bad thing, they get huge!

 

[aquarist=broke]

I went to the link and they explained some things:

A bucket of sea water placed over the tank, dripping renewal water at a rate of ~10 liters per week. Overflow syphon allows the old water to exit the tank and be collected in another bucket below. A small reduction of the new water's salinity level is made, to compensate for water evaporation in the tank.

Once a week 10 liters of natural sea water is bought, replacing the empty top bucket with a new one. Once or twice a day the Clown is hand-fed with pieces of shrimp or squid on a toothpick, sometimes he gets live brine shrimp

I'd say the above procedures would make keeping a reef easy, assuming you live near "unpolluted" seawaters....

 

[Contesini]

"Brazil has a more stable temp than New York"
)

It's true...
But the temperature here vary between 6C and 40C.
May be the aquarium's water vary between 10C and 31C w/out heater and cooling.

 

[Anonymous]

May be the aquarium's water vary between 10C and 31C w/out heater and cooling.

:?

Louey

 

[SPC]

May be the aquarium's water vary between 10C and 31C w/out heater and cooling.

:? :?

Steve

 

[Contesini]

:?:

 

[Anonymous]

Hello !
It's my first time here and I'm from Brazil ( south america ).
I'm sorry about my English because I've been studying it by my self and everytime I make mistakes ( LOL ).
I'd like to talk about a simple system that doesn't use skimmer, supplements, control of temperature, etc.
First of all, I'll ask you to go to: http://www.aquahobby.net/tanks/tank0105a.html
There is something about my experience w/ my 7 gallon nano reef there. The nano is going to be 3 years old.

Nowaday I have just 2 Power compacts 25w ( 6500k ) and 1 Powerhead. No skimmer, no chiller, no heater, no supplements, no kalkwasser, no, no, no...
Water changes: 3 gallon / year
My rotine: Every day I replace fresh water and each 2 or 3 days I give some food to the 2 perculas clown. Just it.
These experience show me that there is an easier way to keep a mini-reef when you understand what the animals really need.
I'll be waiting for your comments.
C ya.

The site says that there IS a 50 watt heater. :?

 

[Contesini]

Really, there was a heater untill the end of the last summer here ( +- 10 months ago ).

 

[Anonymous]

I just can't believe those corals can withstand 10C temperatures. Your house keeps it more in check than that, right?

 

[Contesini]

I'm not sure because I don't have a termometer )
I think that the water's temperature goes to 10C on the winter in my nanoreef w/out heater.
Of course on the summer it goes to 31C because when I had termometer I saw it, but I've take back the heater and termometer on the same time and I don't know what's the minimum temperature of the salt water.
My God... sorry about my English, I hope you understand it ( LOL ).
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