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Originally Posted by YLChik
Kevin,
I am guessing that even though the turn over is "high" since it is so distributed your pony friend doesn't mind?! True of false?
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There is no place the seahorse can not swim in the tank, she even hitches to the sprayabrs. The flow is coming from such a wide area it is really pretty gentle.
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I think the spray bar is a terrific idea - I tried the concept on the first tank, but I think I could have pushed more flow through it for better results.
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Thanks, I've been working on perfecting it for many years now. Turns out the simple method is the best after all.
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Bet you could get trates up if you turned off the spray bar 
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I just pulled all the chaeto out, maybe that will help. Hopefully.
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HOw about lights, what are you using? I had trouble keeping the fern like calupura under my t5's I think I bleached it out, but was never sure. I tried it 3 different times and it would be ok for a few weeks and then bleach out.
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The tank is lit with a 150w 14K HQI fixture. There is also a set of the Ecosystem moon lights on there.
I had no trouble growing fern under my T5's, it was actually kind of a nuissance how much it grew. I wonder if it was something else. Sometimes when introducing fern it is best if you clip the runners so there is only one or two leaves per runner on there. That way if part of the algae does go sexual you just loose the one strand, not all of the fern. Fern is like one large cell so if part of it goes it all goes, but with a little clip on the runners you can make one cell 10. Dig?
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What other things are you noticing in this type of tank? How long has you had it set up?
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Tank has been up for over a year. Been running just as a macro tank since about Feb. There is no filter other then the refugium. No anything. It's all natural. This has been fun and interesting in it's own right.
This is going to sound weird for people who know how I take care of my other tanks (at least a 30% water change once a week, I used to do it twice a week) but I don't do water changes on the tank. Since Jan I did one when I moved the seahorse in, was a 10g and the water came fromt he seahorse QT which had a nitrate of 20ppm. I did a second last week after using the flat worm exit. Other then that o water changes.
IMO because of the lack of water changes and the lack of mechanical filtration I get a lot more goodies then other people. I have a ton of pods, I have a free CUC between the pods, stomella's, and feather dusters. The feather dusters actually grow so much it might be a problem because the wife thinks they are gross, but when the macro fills in you can't see them.
When my peppermint shrimp have babies (every few weeks) you can see the babies in the tank for a few days then they get eaten, but they are there for a food source.
Some corals like the mushrooms and tow of the species of zoo's, as well as the yuellow polyps grow like mad. It's insane how fast they grow, but the rics grow fairly slow.
I feed the tank nothing but mysis, once or twice a day depending on how long I am home.
Mainting Ca and Alk is a couple drops a week not a couple capfuls like on my other systems.
To much info?
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Down to 11 kinds huh 
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I had like 16, but that was to ambitious. To be honest I might cut it back to a few favorite ones. Maybe one red, one green, one blue, one brown so there is more rooom for them to grow without weekly pruining. Not that I mind, but it might look more "clean"
HTH
I'm also thrilled to see that someone still has the firefish in his sig 
