Reactors and such

[Anonymous]

So, after a 6 year break from the hobby I am back in. My last tank was a high flow, heavy skim, bare bottom, weekly water change tank. I only dosed kalk for additives. The tank did really well for the 2 years it was running. Now that I am back I se lots of people using media vessels of all sorts. Has this become the new norm? Are the necessary? I was planning to keep my tank simple again and do a variation of what worked for me last time.

Comments?

 

[Anonymous]

I use a small reactor for running carbon.

I also run my top off water through a Kalk reactor.

I'd be will to try a phosban reactor too, if I had room for it.

You're doing weekly water changes....that should mean that you can get by without any reactors. I would still run a Kalk reactor since it seems to impeded the growth of green hair algae and corraline loves it. You can never have too much calcium.

 

[Anonymous]

The kalk stirrer is going to happen. I know with the SPS and LPS load I am going to have water changes alnone are not going to cut it. The other stuff I guess I will play by ear.

 

[Anonymous]

I run a small reactor with those NPX biopellets but that is all,and thats only because I was trying to get rid of an algae problem mostly because I dont have room in my sump or stand for extra filters or anything... I am gonna be adding kalk to my top off, but thats it.
I think people are starting to make things over complicated again, but simplicity still works as far as I'm concerned

 

[Anonymous]

I think people are making it more complicated than it needs to be too. The more components you have the more opportunity you have for something to go wrong. Most of my life is run on the KISS principal.