A Look At A Successful 125 Gallon Mixed-Reef Aquarium

While water flow is great, there are few pumps, and they aren’t eyesores. Really, you can only see one when looking at the aquarium and it’s not particularly noticeable, which I like very much. I’m not using any “regular” actinic 420nm bulbs, and I don’t use a bunch of additives, either. In fact, the only additive that goes in is kalkwasser. There is no skimmer. Well, actually there is one in the sump, but I haven’t used it in years. Still, I’ve had no algae problems, and there’s almost none in the aquarium at this time. Sponge growth is like nothing I’ve had before, with much of the surface on the under/back sides of rocks being nearly covered. And, for the first time, I have copious amounts of zooplankton thriving in an aquarium. Lastly, with the exception of a single red open brain coral, every cnidarian in the aquarium originated from frags/cuttings taken from other specimens. I’ve easily produced over a hundred frags/cuttings for my own …read more

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