This is the first ever Reef keeping channel that is actually interesting and keeps my attention span... Amazing work, it's so soothing. Your approach to acclimation, animal comfort and maintanance is also astounding!
*Very well done ~ great soundtrack/music and subtitles!* My favorite part 05:05! I think the fish has a thing for the llitle Scooter Dragonet fish ~ 05:19! Reunited! 09:20!!! This should be retitled: "The Eventual Scooter Dragonet Fish Love Story."
The only thing that won't go well together is the green mandarin and spotted mandarin. Aparently the spotted mandarin likes to bully the green mandarin.
I just use a turkey baster and squirt a bunch of frozen food in front of them couple of times a day until they took interest on it and decided to taste it. It's best to train them in quarantine tank if you can so they don't have to compete with other fish but with that, you need to have a constant supply of baby brine shrimp so they can graze all day. Just keep trying and eventually they'll eat it. 🙂
When you're using/losing tank water to drip acclimate fish, invertebrates, etc. Do you top it off after with salt water or you shouldn't have to worry about it and let the ato top it off with the rodi water?
No way!! that's my absolute favourite fish ever!! So adorable! Idk why I always name fish after food but you should really call them berries and cream. I am obsessed with your videos, thank you!
They are so cute! I hope I can get them to breed in the future :D I love to name my fish after food as well haha! Berries and cream sounds adorable. Thanks for watching my videos, much appreciated :)
Great video. Beautifully made. Thanks mate. Very cute fish too. I know you have chosen names for the fish already, but can I also suggest Bonnie and Clyde?
aren't all dragonets venomous. not sure I'd touch them with my hands. never found any information on their venom but I wouldn't want to find out first hand.
Are you based in Melb mate? If yes, speak to Andy Tran from Fish World and he should be able to sort something out for you. Unless you live in other states? I heard shipping is very slow right now and many sellers don't want to take the risk. I think I got my cube 20 from Nature Aquarium 🤔 Most LFS would stock them
Thanks Will! I am using my Canon EOS M50 plus a few different lenses to film. For editing, I am using Davinci Resolve (It's free). I got my drip acclimation tube from ebay. It's called the Accudrip from Innovative Marine. Here's the Amazon link amzn.to/3AzMBEq
Hey! I really like your tanks and I feel like you probably the best reefer out there. I have one reef tank and recently there has been a lot of algae. I have my lights on for 8 hours a day for some zoas. Is it just the tank ageing?
Thank you for the kind words :) Do you feed the tank a lot? And do you dose anything? You can try to introduce things like tuxedo urchin, turbo snail, etc. They'll eat those hair algae 😁
@@BlueReefTank thanks I actually just posted a video of my reef tank and is would be sick if you could tell me what you think. Another issue I’m having is some of my coral not opening. Are they dead? And I dose calcium and alkalinity by the way
Usually during quarantine each time a fish is added, you have to restart the quarantine from day 1 to all the fishes that was inside. Yeah it s****s I know xD. When did you removed the other couple?
I try to harvest my copepods every week or two depending on how well the cultures are doing :) When there's a boom in population, I harvest more often. If not, I just leave the pods to multiply
I go everywhere to shop 😄 But if you're after some good LFS, you can go to Deer Park Aquarium, Fish World Aquarium and Williamstown Aquarium just to name a few
First of all i discover your channel yesterday. İ missed alot:(. İ start to watch all your videos. Great cinamatic videos. Thank you very much. İ watch Mandarin video too. İ read the comments also. İ learn that by making a quarantine tank we can acclimate fishes to frozen food . Can we also pallet or flake food too? İ have a 15lt tank. İ will change water every other day . Do you have any advise for acclimating and care of these fishes. Thank you very much. Have good hobby and days...
Welcome aboard buddy! :D Yes you can definitely train them to eat pellet and flake foods but just make sure to keep an eye on the water parameter as dry food tends to spoil the water quicker than frozen food. For fish, I normally acclimate them for an hour using the drip acclimation method (2-3 drops per second). Just make sure that your display tank has lots of copepods and I would suggest to start your own culture of copepods on the side :) In the quarantine tank, you can hatch some baby brine shrimp every 2 days so they have food all the time in the qt tank.
@@BlueReefTank thanks for the suggestions. İ will use them too. But how can i start copepod culture ? Do you add some sort of bacteria like fluids. İn my country (Turkey) copepods are not selling in a bottle.
I just use a turkey baster and squirt a bunch of frozen food in front of them couple of times a day until they took interest on it and decided to taste it. It's best to train them in quarantine tank if you can so they don't have to compete with other fish but with that, you need to have a constant supply of baby brine shrimp so they can graze all day. Just keep trying and eventually they'll eat it. 🙂 I find that they love frozen lobster eggs and the eggs are very nutritious as it contains a lot of fat
