Someone explain this to me...

So it's been 2 months since i took down my 65 gallon tank due to several reasons. Long story short, the 65 had always had problems. It had just suffered a blow due to a powerhead shorting out and melting down inside of the tank. Did a small water change, lost all my fish due to it. The tank had always had phosphate issues, causing tons of red slime algae, forcing me to run the leds at a low intensity. I was slowly working on the phosphates since switching to ro water and running GFO. Tank had a skimmer, GFO reactor, fuge with chateo, tons of water movement, and plenty of live rock. It had a fairly new CUC and some green hairy mushrooms, and a blue shroom. When I took the tank down, I took the CUC, the shrooms, a few pieces of live rock, small ball of chateo, the SAME water, the SAME sand, and threw it all in a spare 10 gallon I had. It has 2 cheap HOB filters on it for water movement and that's it. No filter pads, no carbon, nothing on it. I just realized after looking at it today, 2 months later, the water is crystal clear, I have yet to clean the glass and it barely has anything on it. There's NO algae, the shrooms are opened up HUGE, bigger than I've ever seen them, and I have the same light over the tank running it at a higher intensity than on the 65g. Most of all, I've been topping off with unconditioned tap water! How in the world can this even be possible? I just don't get it. This was merely going to be a holding tank to keep things alive until I got my new build done, but it looks spectacular regardless of my ZERO maintenance and tap water top offs. But what really doesnt make sense is how everything was from my exsisting setup that was a basket case. This has turned into a long rant so i appologize, but what the heck?????

 

Very interesting rant j/k there are very interesting happenings in this hobby! Sounds like your new tank is going to have some great starting live stock!

 

Sorry for your troubles and losses...

What about fish? Did you replace any of them? Unless you're feeding fish in the 10g, you basically have no bioload, and therefore, would not have nutrient or algae problems.

 

+1, exactly what I was going to say.

 

I didn't replace the fish, but I'm ghost feeding the 10 gallon every other day. I only had a YTD and a clown in the 65 gallon so it wasnt a huge bioload to begin with.

 

Here's a few pics. After posting I decided to go ahead and find my mag float and clean the glass.

Before cleaning (2 months)



After cleaning



Shrooms






New coraline growth