Reefing “NO NO” that you said “YES YES” to?

[revhtree]

Sometimes what works for you doesn't work for others and sometimes what doesn't work for you does in fact work for others.

Maybe it was certain livestock choices, outdated or unproven equipment, or just a “frowned on” way of doing things that shouldn’t work out but does work out for you?

Maybe it’s your own twist to reefing chemistry that would shock others! Muhaaaa!

What’s a “no no” in reefing where you said “yes yes” and it has worked out just fine for you?

Let’s hear what you got!

 

[revhtree]

I used tap water for the first few years of reefing and grew a beautiful reef! Hush my mouth!!!

 

[benbalter]

What’s a “no no” in reefing where you said “yes yes” and it has worked out just fine for you?

Maybe it was certain livestock choices, outdated or unproven equipment, or just a “frowned on” way of doing things that shouldn’t work out but does work out for you?

Maybe it’s your own twist to reefing chemistry that would shock others! Muhaaaa!

Let’s hear what you got!

In my case I now have a collection of pumps! This is not all bad but costly, if a pump fails I have a backup till the new one comes in.

 

[Lowell Lemon]

Trickle filters (wet/dry) or reverse flow under gravel. Both have shown some benefits for certain applications. Ozone injection, UV sterilizers, mechanical filtration, central filtration in retail environments with proper design. Whole list of things that work and are recycled from time to time.

 

[John Bolden]

I never measure my alk or cal I just add the "right" amount. My tank is doing fine so

 

[ScubaFish802]

There should be a requirement for picture evidence with this threads answers

 

[OrchidMiss]

I don't test my 20g or 10g, at all.
I don't dose them with anything, either. shhhh....

 

[Slocke]

Using a canister filter and never cleaning it. Never had a problem so long as I had a big refugium.

 

[John Bolden]

There should be a requirement for picture evidence with this threads answers

Ill take a video when I get home this works out because I haven't added alk in a hot second

 

[OrchidMiss]

I don't test my 20g or 10g, at all.
I don't dose them with anything, either. shhhh....

There should be a requirement for picture evidence with this threads answers

Can't judge the 10 yet. Just got it back up and running.

 

[revhtree]

There should be a requirement for picture evidence with this threads answers

Ha! I’ll get some pictures of my tap water tanks asap!

 

[Slocke]

Using a canister filter and never cleaning it. Never had a problem so long as I had a big refugium.

There should be a requirement for picture evidence with this threads answers

 

[Tired]

Filefish.

(admittedly, it's an ORA white-spotted pygmy filefish, which is supposed to ignore corals, so it's less of a risk.)

 

[KING KONG]

Sometimes what works for you doesn't work for others and sometimes what doesn't work for you does in fact work for others.

Maybe it was certain livestock choices, outdated or unproven equipment, or just a “frowned on” way of doing things that shouldn’t work out but does work out for you?

Maybe it’s your own twist to reefing chemistry that would shock others! Muhaaaa!

What’s a “no no” in reefing where you said “yes yes” and it has worked out just fine for you?

Let’s hear what you got!

I keep my salinity of 1.015 just to save money and I really found success. Also I don't use live rocks

 

[Arthacker87]

I do zero test, dose zero anything, just feed heavy and also I put a tomini tang in a 65. Sue me lol. I eyeball everything. Lost some good stuff doing that as well lol. Top off with my drinkable ro water system as well. Also ran this on a Chinese black box for years with success but I will say, the xr30s are dynamite.

 

[OrchidMiss]

I do zero test, dose zero anything, just feed heavy and also I put a tomini tang in a 65. Sue me lol. I eyeball everything. Lost some good stuff doing that as well lol. Top off with my drinkable ro water system as well. Also ran this on a Chinese black box for years with success but I will say, the xr30s are dynamite.

I use my filtered drinking water as well. It is an RO system under the sink, but not like most people on here have.

 

[BZOFIQ]

I used tap water for the first few years of reefing and grew a beautiful reef! Hush my mouth!!!

SAME!

 

[Patientman]

I used tap water for the first few years of reefing and grew a beautiful reef! Hush my mouth!!!

It all depends on what you have "on tap"!

 

[Northwest_Scapes_]

Sometimes what works for you doesn't work for others and sometimes what doesn't work for you does in fact work for others.

Maybe it was certain livestock choices, outdated or unproven equipment, or just a “frowned on” way of doing things that shouldn’t work out but does work out for you?

Maybe it’s your own twist to reefing chemistry that would shock others! Muhaaaa!

What’s a “no no” in reefing where you said “yes yes” and it has worked out just fine for you?

Let’s hear what you got!

Same here but still going strong. Perhaps it's because I'm in Western Washington and our tap water here is super pure, but I've had almost no problems and thriving tanks. I haven't really had problems with hairalgae, the only time was with my Macro Tank but that's to be expected. Though for jellies I'm most likely going to finally invest in an RODI Unit just to be 100% safe since they are 95% water after all

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Same here but still going strong. Perhaps it's because I'm in Western Washington and our tap water here is super pure, but I've had almost no problems and thriving tanks. I haven't really had problems with hairalgae, the only time was with my Macro Tank but that's to be expected. Though for jellies I'm most likely going to finally invest in an RODI Unit just to be 100% safe since they are 95% water after all

I feel like the tap water where I live would kill a tank so fast.