My Observations after a year of scrubbing.

Ok guys what about running a wood airstone zip tied to the inlet of the return pump with a timer that turns one every hour for 2 minutes so that the pump sucks the bubbles and blows them all over the display which will aerate the tank and also will act like a surge for sps which will slime them up just like in the wild when the surge blast the sps reefs this keeps them healthy and also by letting them slime up every hour makes them fight off parasite like worms and redbugs


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Floyd their is tons of micro bubbles on the reefs people tend to dislike them due to eye sore but if you go scuba dive close to a high surge area were most sps are you would see tons of micro bubbles. Slime is the number one defense for sps to fight parasite


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My main deal was if you want to introduce air ration without a skimmer on a scrubber only set up that would work and also have the other added benefit


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Here is a video of what I'm talking about



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There's quite a few people doing this already
For sps tanks

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Lol nice. The guys that being doing it have all the info in this I will have to dig it up but if you look at the video when the air pump stops you can see that the power heads on the tank make the bubbles swirl around like natural surges. So the power heads are the waves and you just adding the bubbles.


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Here is the guys thread were I got the idea from he points out why he does it and were he got the idea from
http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103069


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Also rick if the sps are full from getting to much food why instead of adding a skimmer just feed less. I discovered in my last tank that doing all this this feeding was a waste of money fish will eat even if they are not hungry and feeding once a day does enough for your fish and so does for your corals you see fish poop does wonders on sps so as long as you keep your fish pooping your sps would be fine. My old 135 I ran a skimmer pellets and an l2 scrubber on my last set up and yes it was an sps tank but I had to feed tons of food to keep it stable due to not having enought nutrients and constally had to siphon out food out of the sump which was uneaten pellets and frozen to me was a hudge waste of money so my belive now is I'm going to feed just enough to keep my fish healthy and that in the end will take care of it I also went with an over size scrubber and will be using carbon and purigen I went with a 4 cube scrubber but only feeding at the most 1 cube a day or half. For the scrubber guys that I seen the most susses-full ones have been the guys with hudge scrubbers


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This is why I believe you have something else going on with your reef check out this links
Skimmer less scrubber sps tank
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=82248
Skimmer less set up with no scrubber
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2113546

 

I've had no skimmer,GFO, waterchanges or GAC for over a year, and the water has never been so clear. It seems that the sugars produced by algae actually turbo charge the bacterial population into degrading the waterborne organics extremely fast. There are studies around which have tested the dissolved organic compounds around large algal beds and the results showed a lower content than normal reefs.

 

Well water changes should be a most when keeping sps I don't see why would you skip on water changes

 

How do you replenish other traced elements. What do you use to dose alk,ca and mag

 

http://algaescrubber.net/forums/showthread.php?2643-Elements-in-Foods&p=30292&viewfull=1#post30292

 

Ok again what does he dose for alk ca and mag? Kalk, 2part or reactor

 

Please read the last part of this article on the build up that a reef tank would have when using 2 part without water changes. This also goes for kalk and a reactor
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/rhf/