Remy's Trip To Australia & Using Natural Seawater In A Reef Tank |  

@Remy Jake is screaming corals don’t have heads right now lmao.

Salem is freaking great, I love his brilliant mind and his enthusiasm for the industry!!! You other two guys are pretty great too!!! Thanks for doing the show, we enjoy it!!!

Suggestion for a guest: Paul B from Reef2Reef. He's an old time reefer, has a 48 year old reef tank, uses a reverse flow undergravel filter and natural seawater. Big DIY guy too, could be a great episode.

In Holland we also use natural sea water a lot, and because of the colder waters there are less bugs to be worried about. The only downside is the hassle of transportation and it costs more than making your own salt water.

How come Lauren isnt doing social anymore? She was kicking butt!

If Raj’s tank isn’t stunning after these last 10 years of setup 😂 #whatsinyourwater

Don’t be scared, boys. Slurry can be any concentration above saturated. Instead 2tsp, I’m running 4tsp.

Sodium hydroxide for the win!!! Just mix NaOH and bicarb to the same "KH-concentration" and have an aquariumcomputer switch between the two depending on the pH value of your tank water. That way its an automically adjusting system and indeed none of the mess that kalk brings. For me no kalk ever again.

#whatsinyourwater Interesting topics. Envious of your Aussie trip.

I get natural water delivered from Gallery Aquatica in QLD. I believe it's run through a filter socks when collected, but that's it and collected at high tide. Been using for years and never had an issue. We have had heaps of rain for the last seems like 3 months and it actually became hard to get a delivery as they couldn't collect. A new problem I have never had before, running out of natural sea water.

I grew up in Palm Beach, FL. We had a boat and went diving very often. The gulfstream current brings water up from the Caribbean and there’s a barrier reef with deep water pretty close to the coast. We would get water for our tanks on the best visibility days from a ways offshore into the gulfstream. We collected our own fish, inverts, and a few other things like shrooms or gorgonians. All of our animals were much more robust than stuff coming into fish stores. Australia had similar advantages, not only the water but, the animals are going through much less shipping and handling stress and there’s uniformity as to where they come from. That said, we would let our water sit in pitch black darkness for a few weeks before adding it into the systems. I’m setting up a tank now and plan on keeping a mixed reef like I have before but, I’m back in South FL so I’m planning to use the Palm Beach water again. I’ll probably do more than let it sit in the dark this time with more sensitive and international animals in the tank. Maybe I’ll make a channel and document the results..

I use natural sea water and I am from Melbourne. No treatment no uv. "No worries" as we say. Being a colder climate with colder water I wonder if most things in the water struggle at reef tank temp, but not sure

Raj is procrastinating. Admit it! 😂😉

pH is such an underrated parameter

One day I will get to go to Australia! Great video #whatsinyourwater

Live on the West coast of Fl, and have only used artificial water during red tide. 10g nano 5 g buckets of nsw off the beach though. Ppl with large tanks who use nsw use their boat's livewells offshore.

#whatsinyourwater man I could sure benefit from winning one of these

I agree with Salem … get a cool little predator for the 25gal Remy

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I love Salem being on #whatsinyourwater

Hey Salem, any certain sodium hydroxide brand? #whatsinyourwater

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I like the aspect of applying microbiology to the reef hobby but some of the concerns of that knowledge goes against visual evidence ? Literally the Aussie natural sea water tanks … UV users , macro algae being bad in fuge , chemi clean users etc. . Just seems like it isn’t as applicable to aquarium as research suggests.

Can raj just buy Salem better internet

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