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hahahahaha I love this thread
Randy, prattreef runs or ran a skimmerless "hospital" tank. He would put sick or stressed corals in there and they would pop back to life. He can elaborate more.
I think you're spot on in your water change regimen. A no longer here member Chris, loismustdie, had a skimmer malfunction and ran a 180 gallon sps tank skimmerless. He was doing 10% a day water changes often going as high as 20% a day. His tank didn't miss a beat, in fact his growth and colors increased. He also found that water changes were a far better means of dosing trace elements than two part or a calcium reactor ever could.
My tank as well was at it's best when I was doing 10% daily water changes. Your 50% once a month would freak me out personally but there's a few RC threads from years ago where people were doing that. They claimed the brief air exposure did a lot for their corals compared to the same corals lower in the tank that were never exposed to air. Interesting to say the least.
Also I agree with brett, Wow and might I add, hey. |