Hey everyone and welcome to Candy Coral Aquatics. This channel will consist of saltwater aquarium videos that help guild reefers of all levels to healthy, beautiful and successful reef tanks! Thanks for being here and I hope I can help!
I’d think it was the dosing, have seen it before. There is some beauty in staying natural and there is some truth that when algae is growing, you should be thankful have things growing and living in the car. It’s not like you’re trying to clean your bathroom and make it polish clean
Thanks for this video! I watched your video on coral care and HAD to know what the paly's were. What kind of coral is above the main zoa garden on the left with the blue ring and green center? You see them well at 1:50. Are those blastos?
Oh man, do I ever feel today years old. The way the lfs explain to me how to uae this is all wrong. No wonder my alk is as high as it is 😔. I'm going to need to figure out how to lower it and not bomb my tank.
@LaheyCrocket you can do a water change, or just let it go down over time naturally. You can also allow your ph to become more acidic, alk will lower to raise ph. Hope this helps
@@CandyCoralAquatics it does help, thanks! I did a water change yesterday. It was at 12 then 11 after a water change. Today it is at 11.1 I think my best bet is to as you say. Do water changes as it is going down on it's own naturally to get it back to where it should be.
@LaheyCrocket 11 is fine, just make sure you have enough nutrients in the water column so your corals don't burn out. Keep nitrates and phosphate up. Nitrate 10is or so, and phosphate 0.05-0.08. Feed, feed and feed. This will allow the corals tonhave enough nutrients to keep themselves from burning up while they take up the higher lvl of alk. It'll balance out normally over the next week or so depending on how many corals you have
@@CandyCoralAquatics sorry, had fallen asleep. Phosphate is at .9 (biopellet reactor still waiting for the pellets to fully get going) nitrates are at 11. I feed phyto and ab+ as well for my jbj 24. I'm going do a 30% water change tonight to try and get it to drop down to hopefully 10. I want to get back to 8dkh as thats where my salt comes in at.
Also known as "Red Plenaria". They are toxic as hell when they die off! That goes for every species of Flatworms!! Best is to install a small quarantaine tank with just a canister filter with Zeolite and Carbon filtermedia with all the other needed equipment. You keep your corals in that quarantaine tank for as long as needed and add "Flatworm RX" from "Blue Vet RX", or the product he is showing us. It is Reef and Fish safe. Also do waterchanges in your quarantaine tank, the carbon will also remove the medication, but it's best to do a 25% waterchange in your quarantaine tank. 👍
I used to manually remove but I haven’t in a while lol and they are not bothering my corals at all and they been in my system for over a year , now they are spending most of the time on the sand
Thanks brother! I appreciate you answering my question in such an awesome video. Maybe your best to date. These are the simple questions that we want to hear broken down in an approachable way. You just bring the reef into our living rooms with the videos. Thanks and God Bless
Regular nozzle, and I'm running arag alive special blend i believe by caribsea. If I'm remembering right. The special blend can handle higher flows, but it's supper dense like some of your high flow sands.
Don't ever apologize for your faith in God. In fact you should extend the gospel of Christ to your subscribers. Time is short.... Today is the day of salvation. Imagine if someone got saved from a reef RU-vid video.... That would be beautiful. Keep up the good work
You will looe this sub of he goes harder....No offence intended and you do you but that's not what I'm here for nor will it be what most be here for. Again not trying to run anyone the wrong way just being transparent.
I have a Starry Blenny! Love how they purch on the rocks like a Flamehawk. Cant have a flamehawk anymore since i have a cleaner shrimp and a peppermint shrimp!
@AmbiguousAndrew I know lol, unfortunately with smaller tanks things can be complicated. If you dose 1 drop, maybe don't do it daily. Every couple days instead
My friend, what a Blessing this channel is. I started this journey a couple months ago and I could tell by looking at your reefs that I could learn from you. I didn't, however, expect to renew my Faith along the journey. Thank you brother. If you had time, I would love to hear your thoughts on adding beginner corals. How fast should we go? I'm new to the channel so any info on your lighting would be helpful. I think we all get into the hobby, looking for that pop of color that you have. Stay strong stay reefing and God Bless.
I appreciate your comments. I'm glad that my channel could also be an inspiration to relight your faith. I would be more than happy to do a beginner coral addition video for you
Yes, but underwater, it won't harm you. (Unless you have an open wound and smoosh against them) If you remove them from the water, that's when you have to be careful
Thanks for sharing your video! I do have a question. So my tank is going on 5 years now. I've always wanted like a zoa garden however every zoas I have out in, they would wither away and disappear. Now my regular green Paly are fine! I have a huge colony growing fine. Do you have any pointers on how to keep zoas? I do know some zoas like less lighting or more lighting and some zoas like less flow or more flow. I'm just bummed as to why my zoas would die off slowly. Also I would like to add that I do most ordering from WWC too.
Excellent question and I thank you for it. Yes, I do have some information and experience with this I can share. I'll post a video on this topic tomorrow, so be on the lookout! 😊 thanks again, and God bless!!
@@CandyCoralAquatics I thought that voice was badass, like some old, well lived man, whose got stories to tell until the end of days lol. Glad to see more videos from you, tank is looking great.
I love mine. They are very cool creatures. Only one problem! They are smart and learn very quickly that you feed corals and how to get a free meal. Mine roams from coral to coral to see if any have food to steal.
This video is kind of old, but perhaps I can illuminate a few things... Carbon dosing acts as a food source for the Nitrifying and De-Nitrifying bacteria in our systems. What this means is that it feeds both the bacteria responsible for converting Ammonia to Nitrite, as well as the bacteria responsible for converting Nitrite to Nitrate and Nitrate to Nitrogen. In this regard, it's meant to remove Nitrate (convert it into Nitrogen gas). The bacteria responsible for converting Nitrate to Nitrogen also consume small amounts of Phosphate while performing this conversion, I think the ratio is like 1000:1 or something like that (You can probably find the correct ratio online), so for every 1 Nitrate you consume, you're only stripping away 0.001 Phosphate. So you take away 40ppm Nitrate, you take away 0.04 ppm Phosphate, etc. Food sources will add these two things are different ratios as well, so knowing whether or not your food is adding more phosphate than nitrate, or more nitrate than phosphate is something you should experiment and test with. Once you've gotten your tank to equilibrium, and you've discovered your input source ratios, you can base a removal plan on that information. I only dose NOPOX when my system is over 25ppm Nitrate, but that happens very seldom as my refugium does the brunt of the work with both Nitrate and Phosphate removal.
