We love new and exciting reef aquarium gear as much as the next diehard hobbyist and it’s literally the lifeblood of the Reef Builders blog. But at the end of the day our main goal with reef aquariums has always been about the health of the reef life and there’s no doubt that running a simpler system is a more assured path to success than having increasingly more technology.
Other than the fact that it was set up in one day and went a whole year without putting our hands in the tank, there’s nothing particularly remarkable about our 20 gallon Red Sea Nano Reef tank or how it turned out. All the corals are doing great, some like thePachyclaculariagreen star polyps are certainly doing a littletoowell, and we’ve had to remove a hammer coral since the gold torch coral grew out and was beginning to become aggressive and claim more of the space on the ground.
与我们的所有其他礁石储罐形成鲜明对比的是，对矿物质平衡和化学反应进行了精心监测和维护，它们会慷慨地添加钙，镁，碳酸盐，微量元素，痕量元素，甚至是故意添加硝酸盐的添加，1天的纳米礁仅在海岸上进行海岸沿海它自己的协议。矿物质补充的唯一潜在来源是弥补蒸发的最佳水，而蒸发不会像反渗透或去离子水那样脱矿，因此在水箱中添加了一些很少的主要元素。
For sure we wouldn’t prescribe this completely hands-off technique for every kind of tank or keeping every kind of coral. Without a doubt larger tanks with more fish to add nutrients and more corals to consume minerals require more aggressive nutrient export in combination with some degree of replenishment either from kalkwasser, calcium reactors, multipart dosing or a combination of the three. But if you’re just dipping your toes into the reef aquarium hobby or want to set up a tank for a family member or a young person, you can get a whole lot of mileage from keeping the equipment basic, sticking with just a few fish, and counting on hardy undemanding corals to adapt to a small reef tank with a very simplified life support system.
