marine tank with low maintenance

The filefish can eat zoas, anemones of his starving.

Thanks, file fish try to eat blastomussa coral and back to shop now. This is my new coral, doing very well but need a lots of feeding. My tank has no filter or skimmer and I like very clean water but the coral is nice

Heya

Nice tank man, I had a similar type of coral, it require a lot of food as well which was driving my nitrates up, I couldnt keep up with the feeding so I had to let it go... hope you have better luck with it!

yes, require a lot of food!

those small fish I kept in this tank and can't find any better

hi, this is my new video of the blastomussa, some polyps can get 7 cm, very easy to keep this coral

New fish in my tank, just a few weeks and it is doing very well

Looking good!

Its good to see the tank doing so well,

What LPSs do you have?

I use to have caulerpa growing in my tank, they look great but they are toxic to some corals such as the elegance so I had to take it out.

Very nice!

I grow metallic green favia, red, orange and green Australian blastomussa wellsi, can swap for rainbow or blue blast or favia. How do you know that caulerpa is toxic to your corals? Sometime I have my corals like in the forest with different caulerpa, they can fight but nobody vin

Hi

I read it some time ago while I was reading about my elegance and how to make it happier. At that time I had caulerpa mexicana growing in my tank

I can't find the original post, but I remember he lost his elegance due to this, it is not that the caulerpa will attack it is that caulerpa tends to lose bits and if any of these bits land on the elegance it will damage it and could kill it.

Some reference to this here

en.microcosmaquariumexplorer.com/wiki/Elegance_Coral

From that page

Aggressive; needs careful placement. Will be damaged by algae, such as Caulerpa, as well as by other large-polyped corals.

Shame I can't find the other post, I came across it while reading about the elegance care, and it was not specific to the elegance/caulerpa compatibility but more general to the coral itself and how to keep it happy etc

Thanks for replay. Very interesting! I never kept elegance coral because it can be aggressive and I have only nano tanks with lots of corals. Do not quote me, can elegance coral kill aiptasia ?
From my experience star polyps can kill brain LPS and pylsing xenia

No worries, the first time I bought my elegance I was told to be careful as it was very aggressive towards other corals, but to be honest, at least mine is not that bad. Yes it will sting other corals, some will counter back others will just retract, for instance, zoas will close and with time, if you dont move the elegance it will likely kill them but this is a slow process.

I also had my elegance close to a hammer coral and the often touch but that's about it. Normally they both contract their tentacles a bit and thats the end of the story, same with the star polyps, basically, they just sting each other and thats it.

From my experience, unfortunately, it wont kill aiptasia, I had a problem with them in my previous tank and I just couldnt get rid of them. In the end I just move most of the corals out, quarantine the rest and dry the live rock...

My elegance is definitively my favorite coral, its a looker, when I bought it, it was probably around 10 cm wide, it didnt take long to over grow my nano taking more than half of the total length, now it is about 35 cm when fully extended. I stopped feeding it because it has now again overtaken my 200 liter aquarium... but it is absolutely beautiful!

Thanks for replay. I try to get only peaceful corals. My tanks without skimmers, filters. I have 45 LPS corals in 90 l, all grow, multiplay and feel very well. I feed them with frozen food and they love it
this is the video

Have You ever tried to feed corals with dry food, i got a big trouble, can't sent video, will make a picture and post
I had trouble with aiptasia and file fish cleaned all of them. I trained him, put frozen food on the top of the aiptasia, but if no food for him hi will go to the corals

Beautiful coral

I ran mine without skimmers for a while, just doing water changes at first and then, once my algae population grew only did water changes once a month.

I have recently put the skimmer back on and due to the amount of algae in my aquarium it really doesnt do much but it helps oxigenates the water hence why I am using it. My next tank will be maintenance free, no skimmer, no water changes... its going to make life much easier for me

Never tried dry food, in fact, I barely feed my corals, mostly because I dont want them to grow too much yet, so they just get the nutrients in the water and whatever it is left of the fish food. Except for the anemone which I feed around once a week, just to keep her happy-ish

I had trouble feeding corals in the past, my two skunk shrimps will always try to get the food, they were very annoying specially to the anemone, but one day the anemone got them so I guess they should have seen that coming!

Now feeding the tank is so much easier! I will not be getting any more of those in my new tank, I found the just annoy the tank way too much, crabs are more than sufficient, and a few snails.

I use to have a file fish, thinking it would get rid of my aiptasia, but they were too big for him, so he ended up eating my Xenias, which I didnt mind as they are a bit of a pest as well and they had taken over the tank.

Wont be getting any more fish or corals until the new tank is up and running

Thanks for replay. I have three nano tanks, all of them without skimmers or filters. I never clean barrel bottom of my tanks. Some time i feed a lot, sometime no feeding when go on holiday. I have glass lids on the top of the tanks and no evaporation. I tried no water change for 6 month just control KH, no problems. Now I change water ones per month and clean front glass ones per week. LPS, Soft corals grow very fast. Every body can try it, for me it is very easy and low cost.
This is my new video, my favorite electric red mushrooms take over the tank and can touch blastomussa coral? The better don't let them?

Beautiful goby! What type is it? I think I want one when I'm adding fish

Could you get a video up of the whole tank please ? and fish and corals in one go and how you have it setup lights ect

Thanks for replay and sorry for the late replay, it was no internet
This is the pink spotted goby. I have 4 tanks. Goby and pulsing xenia coral tank T5 marine white, LPS corals tank aguaray fuji blue and reef blue LED, 8-10 hours per day. All tanks has no filters or skimmers. I am waiting for new camera, will make video of the whole tank and post

some pictures of my new blastomussa corals

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orange


red

wow beautiful

red blastomussa

orange blastomussa


thanks

Fascinating stuff here it's one of them tanks that can only be 100% appreciated when you see it person, hint hint hahaha

Jeff's back! woo hoo!

Bohrio wrote:

Jeff's back! woo hoo!

Cheers bud, we have loads of catching up to do and looking forward to it

I'm still wandering around the forum so hopefully il come across one of ur updates see how u and the tank are doing

Def bud

I got a big one coming... lots of stuff happening soon

Excellent can't wait

If you need a hand with anything at all gis a buzz be more than happy to help if I can

Yes, if the space is too small and there isnt sufficient amount of food there.

Hi what sort of camera are you using

canon HS 500