Skimmer helps with nutrient removal big time,it not absolutely needed but it aids you ALOT in keeping nutrients down or else you really have to be regurlar with water changes or keep using lotsa phosphate remover/other filtration methods to remove phosphates and nitrates.
For corals that like "dirtier" water a skimmer can strip the water bare, but one still needs one, even if it runs less than 24/7Why is that?
Soft Coral, Polyp, Mushroom,
LPS, and Clam Quarantine System
Most of these corals require a more nutrient rich environment to flourish, and are housed together in their own system away from the SPS corals that require less nutrients.
NIMFT! My nitrate is aways 0 & my LPS are thriving. Nothing responds well to undissolved metabolites.
Salifert.what are you testing your nitrates with test kit?what brand etc?
NIMFT! My nitrate is aways 0 & my LPS are thriving. Nothing responds well to undissolved metabolites.
Salifert.
No corals will survive with nitrates of 0. Sorry but it is impossible. Something in your tank is masking the nitrates (Algae or something).
I have been dosing my tank with vitamin C for over 3 years. Believe me, the nitrate remains 0, my corals grow huge, more colorful & very healthy. So are my fish.