A Water change every couple of weeks is cheaper than an ICP test and more effective than adding all those trace elements to get back up. That's the main purpose of a water change unless there's another major problem

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Thanks for the vid!

Hey man amazing video! very educational !

Good info bro. The tank is looking really nice!

Bad ass set up man

I strongly disagree. Water changes is my secret to success been keeping salt water for probably close to 30 years.

What is cheaper than losing corals, trace elements and regular ICP tests, water changes. That is until you get into bigger tanks.

To each their own. Not doing water changes is a huge mistake in my opinion. You're putting yourself in a razor thin line situation. One little thing off and you'll get what happened to you. You wouldn't have had potassium issues with regular water changes. All for Reef, I use it occasionally, doesn't have enough trace element levels to replace elements like a water change. I have an 80 gallon full Acropora system with many colonies. I only use 20ml daily if I am using All for Reef. I have to be careful too as sometimes it goes too high and I'll need to skip days. The Red Sea ReefMat is the best piece of equipment they ever made, I love mine. If you'll adjust your fleece advance length, you can pull your phosphates to the level you want them no matter how much you feed. I have mine set to 1.4 to 1.6 inches of advance. I keep my phosphates around 0.03 to 0.10. I find that setting on the Reefmat keeps that perfect.

There's one thing you forgot to mention about reduce nutrients. All for reef use a type of carbon source, calcium formate, so you are "dosing" carbon in your tank that helps bacteria to drop nutrient. Btw, I use all for reef too and I'm without water changes for about 7 months, all corals are doing great.

Super nice tank man! You have a lot of skill and I hope to be close to that level one day🤞 I am about to enter the saltwater world and I want to start off with an 8ft tank as I know eventually I will want to upgrade. Is this a bad idea and would I be able to run it with similar to your filtration or need more for that size? Also where can I get some of those shelves you have on the inside of your tank? Guessing glued with no magnet?

Sorry if I missed it, what do you do about nitrate build up? does the refugium take care of that?

very nice tank - i would argue diluting any build up of bad stuff (often from our prepared foods) by regular water changes prevents disasters, but different routes to success - cheers

Thank you 4 the info! After how long after starting/running this tank you stop the waterchanges?

I like the idea of low maintenance, but I don't see the rationale of waiting until there is an obvious problem to do a water change. The issues that are causing corals to fail may have begun days to weeks earlier, so by the time you do a change you could already be well behind the curve. I use an AWC to change 3.5 gallons/day on a 200+ gallon system, which I think is a less risky version of low maintenance.

Nice vid , one thing frag the dying coral don't let them just die. Make sure you frag only good flesh .You can still save the bird nest and get a few good frags from it

The reason why potassium is low is because most salt brands level of potassium is off and usually the hobbiest has to correct it.

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Every week I do a water change I take no chances 15 percent iodine is vital,potassium,minor trace elements,iron and strontium is vital for sps.

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Dont wait unit problems happen.. just make the 10% change weekly

Dude your a top guy , but your asking for trouble with no water changes , it’s the best way. To replenish trace elements, 340 lte mixed reef wall to wall doing 20% every week Icp all good 👍 trust me 😃👍

Water changes would have avoided the drop in potassium by a lot. Is the goal of less water changes just to avoid maintenance?

How do you maintain Salinty in this style of reef tank

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i also strongly disagree, refuge removes mostly nitrates and very little phos.

Problem is, you have no clue what is accumulating in your tank month after month. Replacing elements isn’t enough. ICP doesn’t test for everything nor can it. Do your water changes guys. It’s cheap. It’s easy. And it’s proven.

Do your water changes people.

I hate reeders bragging about this. The top guys in the hobby will tell you this is a bad idea. Congrats if you accomplish it. But I would steer people away from the idea.