Man I do nothing to my tank. Everything is automated. Apex controls cal reactor off trident reading. Ro/di and ato is controlled by apex, it’s all automated. Skimmer has been off for months cause the impeller took a crap, and skimz is DCed. 26g refug and corals do all my nutrient exporting. I literally spend a hour a month doing maintenance. Haven’t done a water change in year and a half. I go 2weeks with out cleaning the glass. All I dose is small amounts of magnesium, potassium, and iron on a brs 1.1ml doser. Like every 4 months or so I recalculate the trident and do clean up things.
I spend more time on my berghia farm system then my actual reef tank, by far
Skimz pump head
Skimmer been sitting so long the proteins settled
My system is pretty much close to natural as you can get.
Yes, I do have back system in place. If the apex detects that my return has fail by the voltage consumption, the apex then turns on the backup return in the refug.
Been in the hobby for 25ish years now. I’ve seen a lot of bad shhhh happen to system. When I built my system (yes I built my system, even built the tank by siliconing it together my self) for the ground up I put in ever feature I want. Shhh I even built my diy led rail lighting cause I knew the radions couldn’t give me a 30” spread.