My 40g low tech

[HUNTER1]

Just two months old with few cheap corals and 2 fish, sixline and starry blenny.
Not sure what I want to do with it. No sump and no skimmer.
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[DMBFan]

I would add a skimmer unless you really enjoy doing a lot of water changes.

[sponger0]

I would add a skimmer unless you really enjoy doing a lot of water changes.

Or if you dont mind nuisance algae lol.

But a skimmer would be my next suggestion. You have SPS in there...or so it looks and SPS and skimmers go hand in hand.

[HUNTER1]

I do 10% weekly water change. Just don't have the budget for skimmer yet. Thinking of getting reef hb1000 skimmer.

[sponger0]

If you dont plan on getting a skimmer now, I recommend 20% water changes to make up for it.

Lighting isnt going to stop phosphates from being there. It may stop the algae if you turn lights off, but the phosphates will still remain.

The BH1000 is a great skimmer for the price.

[reefermad619]

Skimmer not needed with a tank this size. A 10% weekly WC will do fine. If you start to go sps heavy, then 20% weekly is what I would bump it up too. Even at 20% weekly that's still only about 6-7 gallons a week once you minus volume for everything thats non-water in your tank. Good clean rodi and a good salt mix and you'll be good.

[HUNTER1]

This is my start up tank and would like to upgrade and do the whole thing, sump, fuge whole nine yards. That's the reason why this tank has minimal equipment. Although my canister has GFO, chemipure elite and Purigen. My trochus snails are really polishing what's left of the new tank algae. I actually had to lower the lights to produce little food for them. So far it's holding up.