[00nothing]

just wondering how many other people let nature do the work on the saltwater tanks other than my skimmer, a bag of carbon i have no filtration on my reef tank and it has been running quite well for about 4months now i have kept the bioload fiarly low but i do have a quite a few corals and lots of clean up crew but most of my filtration comes from the live rock and macro algae i have growing

 

[jonscilz]

how well does no filtration work anyways?

 

[00nothing]

how well does no filtration work anyways?

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my levels are all perfect and my water is crystal clear so its werking quite well there are a lot of people out there that run the berlin method or a modified version of it and some have been running it for a long time without problems

i should mention that the natural form of filtration isn't suitable for fish only tanks it leans more towrds reefkeeping

 

[jonscilz]

interesting... im gonna read up on this to broaden my knowledge.. good topic!

 

[204CORD]

i used to have a skilter 400 for a filter and only used it for couple of weeks.

 

[Fresh2salt]

i run a sump

 

[00nothing]

i run a sump

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yes but a sump does not count as power filtration all a sump does is provide a place to hide things lol

what do u have in the sump

 

[JVorhe212]

i myself run a saltwater reef tank with no filtration other than a skimmer i have a deep sand bed in the main tank with a bunch of live rock and coral also in the sump below i have a deep sand bed planted with calerpa and in that tank i have 2 sea horses, a couple of snails, a few hermit craps, and a brittle star just to clean up the little bit of fish waste that is produced and may float in and its been workin abosolutely fine on the sump i have lights that are on 24/7 it makes it so the ph does not change becuse ussally at night ur ph will drop when the corals and plants are not photosynthesising i use a Euro Reef skimmer i highly recomend this brand there guite exspensive but work great this tank has been set up for about 2years after the first 6months i started to eleminate the filtration

 

[00nothing]

thanks for the reply these were exactly the kind of responses i was hoping for

 

[cruzeoc]

i dont use filtration at all i do have a skimmer and a bit of fine floss just to pick out the large sh*t and thats only a wafe thin bit but i have had nothing go wrong with my tank for over a year i have never done a water change and all my levels are perfect mind you i only have 1 fish my lion but he has bee dead happy and so have my corals i have even propergated them and added home made live rock that i made myself