125g Reef Aquarium with green Filtration

125g Reef Tank with four 20g Long tanks for Sump and Refugium. All Natural setup, no Mechanical Filtration, no Protein Skimmer, no weekly/monthly water changes, no activated carbon, etc. basically the main Display drains into system of four 20g long tanks filled with MacroAlgae. Live Rock & Live Sand (DSB) in 3 of the 5 total tanks in the system. This is used to filter the main tank by naturally removing Phosphates, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates, etc. The ECO Mehtod of saltwater reef filtration.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Saltwater
• Reef
• Aquaruim
• Macroalgae

[abaneyone]

I like the fact that your tank is big with no other filtration except live rock, sand and micro algae! How long has it been setup and running? My five gallon's been up for about 4 months now. I gathered all my live rock from remote reef areas in the Philippines, all pieces that I picked up from the bottom of 12ft to 20ft deep water in a non populated remote area, not at a public beach. I think your setup is the best that I've seen!

[Vikelf72]

@abaneyone

The Tank in this video was about 9 months old. I only did one water change during the time when I was messing around with the sump. The only challenge with the natural method is you have to constantly cut out macroalgae. Sometimes it's more work than using a skimmer! LR / LS and Macroalgae is all you really need. Don't feed heavily, don't have alot of fish, and have lots of snails, and hermits!

[abaneyone]

I'm trying to do that on a 5 gallon without any fish. Do you think it can be successful with such a small volume of water?

[Vikelf72]

@abaneyone Yes! Without a massive bioload from the fish, it should present a stable environment provided you keep corals such as zoas and other softies that like dirty water. Such as all reef tanks, it takes a LONG time for it to stabilize...but once that happens, they tend to go on auto pilot.

[Vikelf72]

Hi SeanoHermano,

The secret is having it stabilize with your system, meaning you feed them the same amount daily, only remove so much macro algae weekly, etc. It's all about balance. Additionally, you need lots of water volume to make it work well. A 29g is too small imo, things would happen too fast in there...With 125g DT and 4 20gLong tanks...water volume makes things happen slowly so I have little maintenance.

[Kellyrt]

What do you have in your clean up crew?

[adnank21]

what you do for calcium and alkalinity? reactor or dosing. if dosing please let me know the names of the chemicals. nice tank.

[abaneyone]

Do you add any additives like ESV B-Ionic Calcium & Alkalinity? Also, how do you start growing micro/macro algea? Do you have to have a piece to start with first or will it just start growing naturally in the refugium tank, being seeded from live rock and live sand?

[abaneyone]

I like the fact that your tank is big with no other filtration except live rock? How long has your tank been setup and running? My five gallon's been up for about 4 months now. I gathered all my live rock from remote reef areas in the Philippines, all pieces that I picked up from the bottom of 12ft to 20ft deep water in a non populated remote area, not at a public beach.

[electronkid710]

do you ever change your water? and how do you do plumbing for 4 sumps.

[abaneyone]

@Vikelf72 Thanks! I'm going to do it.