Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board  

Go Back   Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board > General > Polls

View Poll Results: "Deluxe system or simple?"
Simple w/ treated water 19 30.65%
Simple w/ RO 22 35.48%
Deluxe w/ treated water 0 0%
Deluxe w/ RO 21 33.87%
Voters: 62. You may not vote on this poll

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #31  
Old 04-08-2012, 04:26 PM
shootingstar shootingstar is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Thunder Bay ON
Posts: 110
shootingstar is on a distinguished road
Default

I think the beauty of this hobby is that a person can be successful (with work and research) in any given "morph" they decide they are comfortable with. Comfort equating to money and time.

And I don't know if I am like others but have found that once you get into multiple tanks then you can have more than one type of system and that is probably what I enjoy the most.

The big tank is as Deeeelux as I could afford, toys galore and all about SPS. I travel quite a bit for work and since that is where most of the $$$$$ goes It just made sense to me to try and protect it. Not doing so equates, in my mind at least, to buying a brand new car and never doing an oil change.

The mandarin cube is lower scale because that is what I set out to create from the beginning. Tank, open sump, no skimmer, no dosing, softies & LPS etc.

QT is simple and as basic as can be and the frag tank is plumbed into the big SPS so piggy-backs off that.

The hubby is the "design-build" department and he simply needs to over build, to consider it properly built, so I sometimes have a hard time keeping things simple. There are a few "rules" however i won't compromise on. These are just my personal rules and help me sleep at night &/or concentrate when at work or out of town.

It will be Bean Animal
It will have an internal C2C
It will be B.B.
No equipment purchased can start with HOB

But that's just me
Reply With Quote
  #32  
Old 04-08-2012, 04:41 PM
Proteus's Avatar
Proteus Proteus is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Devon
Posts: 2,784
Proteus is on a distinguished road
Default

I think I'm simple w RO. Lol

Tank, sump, skimmer (nac),4 korilla power head, 2 reactors (mr1) one for carbon one for gfo) Metal halides, and i use prodibio which I love, I still check the big three weekly and water change RO biweekly

I keep 8 clams and 93 pieces of coral. 80% of them being Sps

I was using tap water up until this spring and to be honest I'm glad I switched. I've noticed less algea on glass. Though it was minimal before and tap water p04 was at .24

I get fantastic growth from coral. But do plan on mp40s and ca reactor in near future. I can't ever see me running a controller though.

But who knows.

Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 01:32 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.3
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.