5 gallon Experiment!

[windcoast reefs]

Several years ago I came accros a 5 gallon nano cube that was absolutely stunning. It said that it had 100% water changes 2 times a month and that it was the simplest tank that he had ever created. So now it's my time to give it a try.

The basics:

This tank will have a very very low bioload. Meaning there will be no clean up crew, no fish and no pests that make there way into the tank, so basically I will have low light soft corals and some zoa's. I realize how hard this might be, but I'll explain as I go how I will do this.

So instead of taking the Berlin method of reef keeping and using live rock, sand, clean up crew and heavy skimming, I'm going the exact opposite, no live rock, no sand and no skimming. I am instead going to use man made live rock and use carbon as my filtration. The main reason behind no skimmer is that it will hold 20% of the water volume and be way to much flow for a 5 gallon tank, let alone the microbubbles.