Who has long term success with a tank under 60G?

[Anonymous]

Who has long term success with a tank under 60G?

Maybe more than 2-3 years without changing the method of keeping it. By method I mean BB, DSB, SB, Refugium or not.

What is your method if successful?

 

[Anonymous]

I've had tanks of varying sizes, up to 250 gallons, and by far the easiest has been my 7 and 12 gallon nanos.

Live rock, shallow sand bed, power filter for circulation, small water changes every two weeks, no skimmer.

 

[purplefirefish]

My 46 gal was running for a little over 6 years until the center brace broke and I moved everything into a 125. Live rock, shallow sand bed, protein skimmer, and monthly 25% water changes

 

[Anonymous]

I had my 30 gal. for 2.5 yrs b4 Hurricane Jeanne decided to leave us powerless for 2 wks. It had a DSB and chaeto fuge with a DSB in the fuge too. I took it down and upgraded to a 75 BB tank that has been setup for ~1.5 yrs so far so good.

 

[Anonymous]

Since all of my tanks over the years except for a 500 gal and a 100 gal have been under 60 gal all but one have been successful with various systems. Most were without skimmers and silica sandbeds less than 2". Some had halide lighting others had PC's others had plain flourescents.
The only tank I had that was bad was an acrylic bowfront 25 gal, with a built in skimmer and PC lighting. That thing had perpetual cyano no matter what I did and I was using the same water, salt, etc as all the other tanks. I never did get that one correct no matter what I tried.

mario