Welcome to my (near) Zero Maintenance Reef!

[VintageReefer]

So since other are not asking throw up some other tanks pics! Your tank always looks so nice.

No Nems.?... hahahha. The simplicity is awesome. I just couldn't do no skimmer. It pulls out so much garbage/gunk for me. I'd love to have even one less chord. Hahhaha. As we all would. Congrats to you!

I actually have another tank with a build page. The 1.1g zero maintenance Pico reef!

Build Thread - 1.1 Gallon Oceanbox P1-G Pico Reef

Starting overdue build thread :) I am the second owner, and am fortunate to have such a cool tank with some useful upgrades The tank with Reefbreeders Pico V2 15w LED Stand is usable space Custom made gravity ato Custom made lid + cooling fan 3 section Media rack

www.reef2reef.com

 

[smitten with ocean life]

interesting! so very beautiful!

 

[VintageReefer]

Some new pics

 

[Sleeping Giant]

welcome to R2R nice tank

 

[VintageReefer]

Got some good closeups today and some
Full tank shots where everything is open and happy.

And my 1.1g pico is looking good too!

 

[VintageReefer]

Can’t stop! Won’t stop! Unlimited hosting bwahaha

I have lots of time for photos when my tank requires no maintenance. To the non believers of the algae scrubber - here is my proof. Maybe it doesn’t fix everyone’s situation, but don’t tell me I can’t grow algae in one area and have it not grow in another!

Display grows basically nothing.

Yet in the scrubber….algae thrives and I need to empty weekly


This is the scrubber after I took out a handful yesterday

And the corals all doing well with practically no pest algae, and no work on my side. No dosing, waterchanges, reactors, or skimmer.

 

[JoJosReef]

Tell me more about this guy

 

[VintageReefer]

Tell me more about this guy

It’s a rainbow plate
It’s small, but this is about twice the size compared to when I first got it about two months ago.

It’s called insane plate or insanity plate I forget. I will look it up now

 

[VintageReefer]

Tell me more about this guy

I found two links and a video

Insanity Plate | Coral Collectors

Recommended Light: Medium/Low - Low Recommended Water Flo: Medium - Low 78-79 WATER TEMP; 1.025 - 1.026 Salinity; 8-9 KH; 400 - 430 Calcium; 1300 -1350 Magn ...

coralcollectors.com

Isanity Plate | Coral Collectors

Super hot plate coral! Grown here at CoralCollectors.com. Fairly easy to keep and does well on the floor of the reef using lower light.

coralcollectors.com

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[JoJosReef]

Wow, that certainly is insane.

 

[VintageReefer]

Wow, that certainly is insane.

Took this today and thought of you

 

[VintageReefer]

Bounty hunter earning his money

Scoly is released from acclimation box, seems to be doing better

Pink Cynarina with yellow mouth

Green / Purple stripe Cynarina

Acanthos taking over a corner

Aussy orange scoly adjusting to new spot

Torches doing great

No idea what’s going on with my favia of the gods. Any suggestions ? Just doesn’t seem “right”

Highlighter Goni

Dragon soul

More Goni

Full tank evening led setting

Full tank night setting

 

[VintageReefer]

Workin the angles

Top looking down angles

From downtown!

 

[VintageReefer]

The reef is doing great, have 4 corals arriving tomorrow and one incredible piece I’m trying to get that easily could become the centerpiece and focal point of the tank. I’m talking something incredible. I’m not giving any hints but if I can get it…I’ll be blown away every day!

 

[twentyleagues]

The reef is doing great, have 4 corals arriving tomorrow and one incredible piece I’m trying to get that easily could become the centerpiece and focal point of the tank. I’m talking something incredible. I’m not giving any hints but if I can get it…I’ll be blown away every day!

Interested in what could be a center piece in a tank full of them.

 

[smitten with ocean life]

love them! second the above! its hard to imagine something more stunning! will be waiting to see what else you have up your sleeve

 

[killerkukoo]

I took this today


And fed my acantho the other night

And fed sone Goni

And I took these pics in different lighting, they don’t even look real in person it’s like they were colored with neon markers

Tank side view - not best pic hit shows my magnet branch and how the torch are floating mid tank, and how clean the sand is even in the back of the tank using my methods

The palythoa grandis colony in front center is deceptively larger than it appears. Top view reveals the true colony

Ultra grade Cynarina

And some random pics

I would be interested in learning about your tank maintenance methods. mind if i DM you?

 

[VintageReefer]

I would be interested in learning about your tank maintenance methods. mind if i DM you?

Go ahead

 

[VintageReefer]

Interested in what could be a center piece in a tank full of them.

love them! second the above! its hard to imagine something more stunning! will be waiting to see what else you have up your sleeve

You have no idea what I found haha I’ve never seen this and I have to rearrange to make room.

But other new stuff came yesterday!

Got this ora metallic green birdsnest

A Garf purple bonsai

A baby jawbreaker with lots of red already

Ordered a dragon tamer but got what appears to be a grail…we shall see what it grows into. I’ll be happy either way

And a shot of all the new residents

 

[twentyleagues]

I have always liked the garf was one of my favorite sps corals. I think I like purple and green as a color combo ppe zoas, garf, purple green hammers, miami hurricane. Yes that Torch will be nice either way I agree looks like a grail to me too. I thought a dragon tamer had more gold/orange to it.