My first try can you help?
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In a 10 gallon he wouldn't be able to make a DSB anyway. Just 0-1" for deco.
Purigen would exhaust too quickly, to be efficient. I guess if you bought a bunch of it so you could fill a couple bags to switch out while you were cleaning renewing the old stuff. Purigen work with a small bio-load. But then you would need to develop a very precise measument and changeout schedule, as you discover or add more life.
With a tank that small and no skimmer, he would have to go FOWLR and a couple inverebrates. If he doesn't do live rock then he could go FO.
You can still do a tank with some life just to get a taste of the SW part of the hobby.
Purigen would exhaust too quickly, to be efficient. I guess if you bought a bunch of it so you could fill a couple bags to switch out while you were cleaning renewing the old stuff. Purigen work with a small bio-load. But then you would need to develop a very precise measument and changeout schedule, as you discover or add more life.
With a tank that small and no skimmer, he would have to go FOWLR and a couple inverebrates. If he doesn't do live rock then he could go FO.
You can still do a tank with some life just to get a taste of the SW part of the hobby.
I keep a 6 gallon with a 1.5" sandbed with tons of coral and no skimmer. it all comes down to husbandry.
nothing current, my camera died... let me see what i can dig up... these are from 2-3 months ago or so. this tank has been running over 2 years like this.
the leather is about 3 times that size. i have it in the sun of a window instead of the artificial light and it took off like crazy.
Which would be easier to keep without a skimmer ? FOWLR or a nano tank wit only coral like what twitterbait has ?
Weylin;1261017; said:
There are some polyps and corals that are very easy to keep and resistent to poor water quality. IMO, it's easier to do a small tank with just some easy corals than trying to maintain a very small tank with fish.
If you have a small tank you do your salt mixing with distilled, and some easy stuff like green star polyps, xenia, mushrooms, button polyps, and none of that stuff is hard to maintain in the least. You shouldn't have issues with algae or the health of your stock unless you have your lights on too long or let the water quality just go to hell.
FOWLR tanks in general aren't hard to maintain if it's a larger tank. We have a 90g with a big eel, a grouper and a scopas tang and it's no trouble at all. We have a lot of inverts on the rocks, like feather dusters, some polyps, and other stuff but they weren't added, they just happened to grow in there. There also a large anemone that we've had for months. That one we did buy, and he requires quite a bit of light which is probably why we have so much stuff growing on the rock.
