Hello guys, this is my first post here. I had a 55 gal reef tank setup 17 years ago,Much of the hardware, Lights etc I built myself as there wasn’t near as much equipment available then. It ran quite well for 5 years, then I had to move and gave my liverock and inverts to a friend. Well, I recently had a chance to get a small tank full of LR given to me, so I took it. I still had my RO unit so I setup a 29 gal with a DSB composed of 75%
Caribsea live sand and 25% crushed coral. I put an AquaC Remora skimmer on and a 135 watt 10,000 k power compact fluorescent light. I want to avoid a sump if at all possible. I hung an old Whisper 3 on the back with charcoal in the media bags and its providing nice water circulation. I’m not planning on a huge bio-load. I hauled the LR in buckets w/water, less than 10 min trip. Systems been up for 2 weeks, no ammonia, no nitrites. I have a couple questions. First I'll post a pic.
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First question is: how successful do you think this setup will be without a sump and is there anything I should add ? ( I did have ozone and a redox controller on my old setup but want to avoid that here also.)
Second question is: with no ammonia or nitrites should I add some bio-load soon so as not to lose the filter capacity of the LR, ( previously in a FOWLR that was running less than a year) or should I wait awhile ?
Thanks for help.
Yohimbe
Caribsea live sand and 25% crushed coral. I put an AquaC Remora skimmer on and a 135 watt 10,000 k power compact fluorescent light. I want to avoid a sump if at all possible. I hung an old Whisper 3 on the back with charcoal in the media bags and its providing nice water circulation. I’m not planning on a huge bio-load. I hauled the LR in buckets w/water, less than 10 min trip. Systems been up for 2 weeks, no ammonia, no nitrites. I have a couple questions. First I'll post a pic.

First question is: how successful do you think this setup will be without a sump and is there anything I should add ? ( I did have ozone and a redox controller on my old setup but want to avoid that here also.)
Second question is: with no ammonia or nitrites should I add some bio-load soon so as not to lose the filter capacity of the LR, ( previously in a FOWLR that was running less than a year) or should I wait awhile ?
Thanks for help.
Yohimbe