Nice video!! Some questions , how do i get the biofilm ? And is there a way to get detritus in the breeding container without getting it out a main tank ..in order you dont get any predators in the breeding box ?
Jake Adams had a talk at MACNA or aquashella where he talked about water flow. It’s an entire talk just about proper water flow AT the coral instead of in open water like so many of us do in our tanks. Great vid
Does this scale linearly? So for a large mixed reef/sps dominant tank, say 1,400 gallons (12'x4'x4') you'd recommend 140,000 GPH for total flow? It would most likely require closed loop circulation to achieve that. If you wanted to use a quality pump like Abyzz, even using their most powerful pump the A1200IPU, you'd need 11 of them to hit 140,000 GPH. They are about $6700 each, so that's a total of $73,700 in pumps. Is this how you'd go about providing flow in such a tank? Also, what about if you're using fine grain sand bed? With that type of flow, it seems like it'd be hard to not cause a perpetual sand storm.
the advent of better filtration has caused an issue with sterility and lack of biodiveristy. for me, i got dinos bad cause my filtration was too good, too much. i ended up finally beating them with forced diatom blooms outcompeteing them and by dosing silicates, bacteria, and pods. just so you know, there is lots of anecdotal evidence that pods eat dinos, but only one species has been proven to seek out dinos and eat them. ACARTIA pods. they have not only studies on this but even video of the pods eating dinos.
I really like the research that BRS did on microbiome and understanding how they out compete each other. Adding the bacteria is not maturation. It's introducing diversity to compete with the ugly phase. BRS also say to add not only the bacteria from a bottle but to mature you live rock in the dark prior to even setting up the tank and turning on SPS level lighting... cool... that's what I did with my tank.
I totally disagree, the addition of the copepods is as a food source for everything in the tank, we have a tendency to overstock our aquariums with livestock and the resident population of pods just cannot reproduce quickly enough. The addition of a copepod population is undoubtedly a benefit for any system. Feeding phytoplankton is also a great way to keep a healthy biome.
I think the big misconception comes from the idea that years ago many of the best SPS reef tanks ,arguably better than today, were known to have undetectable nitrates. However, what people do not realize is that older test kits that were often not geared towards aquariums anyway, could not accurately test low levels or low detection of these nutrients. Thus, 0 for them was likely 10 to 15 pp nitrates.
Yeah you need to watch the video series that brs made. You’re giving conflicting info. Brs is one of the most hardest working contributors to the hobby. Visual evidence does it for me. Copepods DO eat diatoms. It’s no coincidence
Do they need 3 hour acclimation time? Thats what reefs4less says! Also do they eat bergia nudis and how about soft corals? I have one ordered and these thing I read have me concerned! Love the yellow and the fact they eat bristle worms and definite bonus if they eat bergia. I was aslo worried that I dont have a real deep sand bed but yours doesn't seen very deep so I guess he/she will be fine!
Thank you for making this video! It is such hard work and expense taking care of a goldfish properly! Massive bioload and that's why people starve them. Do a goldfish a favor, and don't take one home unless you are ready to dedicate much of your free time and spending money! You'll be doing yourself a favor also. Sad but true, fortune cookies give better advice than pet store workers. Never go by what they tell you.
I would agree to a point. I am getting back into the hobby after 10 years absence. Years ago live rock was shipped in and tanks were cycled. Now aquariums are started with more sterile rock, bacterial vials, and hope. So I do think there is something to jump starting a tank with a diverse population of copepods. They are found naturally but so many of our tanks anymore are sterile and rank raised that I find it hard to believe they are not helpful.
Hey bud we're are you guys located. I'm in Cape coral. I would love to come see the store. We only have a few in Cape coral. But now after watching and reading about this. I'm going to do what ever I can in my power to fight against fwc. Not all of us animal keepers are bad. I love my fish. And all my animals. I totally agree with you. Thanks for the great videos
I think the BRS series kind of supported the point made in this video. Looking at all the different tanks BRS used in their experiement that had all sorts of problems, they put in tons of copepods and the tanks took various paths but months later nearly all of them still looked pretty horrible because the populations of pods and algae and planaria, etc., all just keep exploding and crashing. By the time things settle out into some kind of equilibrium, it seems that ugly undesirable stuff is inevitably part of the balance. But we see lots of tanks everywhere that are not full of hair algae or diatoms and I still don't see a natural, self-sustaining solution to maintaining a tank that looks like that.
How much bleach for sponge filters for soaking and how long? How long to dry? I'm scared to use bleach. I've been searching for this 😮 if you use rubbing alcohol doesn't that hurt the tank?
Great video! I have a 6' long tank...125 gallons. I have the octoplus 4. It's only set to power level of one.....and still, I'm afraid it's too strong of a current for my torch. After seeing this video I'm sure it's fine, but I'm tempted to leave it turned off and just rely on the return power heads and only use the octoplus at night. not sure. thoughts anyone? thanks!
Great tip!! I have an aquarium of 1m80 (6feet). I’m running a maxspect gyre XF350 on it. I don’t like the flow because my sand is moving but al lot of deadspots. I did order the octo pulse 2+… i was thinking 6 octo pulse 2+ instead of 2 octo pulse 4 and 2 octo pulse 2. Bit in your video you do the combination with Nero? Can u get te same result with 6 octo pulse 2+? I wanna start over with the flow from zero.
