Awesome video as always. I think with how "toxic" most people in forums or chatgroups are towards newer hobbiest, its nice to see someone who encourages people new to this wonderfull hobby. Keep it up man😁👍
Very nice intro to your nano, one small recommendation for your sandbed. Simple wooden chopstick, drag it against your three coners to remove detritus and allow new sand to refill area, it will keep your tank more presentable and the detritus moving stimulates your macros to feed. I know, I do them to all my nano tanks and I specialize only in nanos. My sandbed stays clean and lets me know when I have to stir the sand again. Your tank is already emmaculate and this will make it much nice as I can see the detritus buildup and it takes away from the beauty of your tank. Ho[pe that makes sense.
The tank look so good! The fish are giving nutrients that are making this possible I am basically doing this but fishless and I have to dose phosphate and a lot of magnesium. Great learning experience!
Beware of xenia. I just gave my xenia to my lfs. I would remove about a third of it every week. It was on its own rock island. A weed is an understatement for it
My main display tank has a sump, overflow, and pump as well as a light. No reactors, no skimmers, no internal powerheads. Mixed tank-LPS, Softies and rock anemones-with a few sps. Sump is montipora and pocclipora growing like weeds under a couple par 38 actinic leds-22$ for the pair. 10 gallon water change once a week- with a booster change every couple months. A balanced tank needs no filtration or chemicals. A sps tank is more like growing sugar crystals or a science project-which is fine-but pretty far removed from average reefer needs.
Your last sentence really hit home for me. 😂 May I ask how large is your tank? Trying to get a sense of what percentage of water change you do once a week. Cool to hear that Monti & Poccliporas are growing fine under the PAR38!
RED?! NO NO NOO!! ..It has to be a cool name!.. buy regular red..but SAY you got some Macintosh 2.0's or PimplePoppers ... orrr the Fraggle Rock Ricordea ..the new Redrum Smoorshum is hot nowadays. ... a $300 Barry Allen perhaps.. Or the uber rare UB40! Great Vid! Alot of people including me needed to see tanks like this right now. (As I drain my 125 system & change from internal tower to external shadow overflow on side with a faux cabinet to hide that & the 4 foot tall pentair uv!.. But all due to trying & beat bryopsis & diatoms for good that continually reappear on the megaflow tower days after 3rd entire tank rocks sand & coral cleaning & peroxide dipping.
You should check out the aqua knight v2/reef breeder nano light. I have one on my evo for about 2 months now and the corals started growing like crazy after upgrading the stock light to that. Going to set up a budget nano with that soon.
Dang since you’re sponsored now does that mean no budget tank videos? Especially interested in the cheaper lights & other cheaper versions of these small expensive parts please
I also have a soft coral community tank with a deressa clam and a rainbow bubble tip anemone as the center pieces and I love it. I took a fluval 6 gallons spec and turned it into a refugium and hooked it to a drilled 50 gallon cube. I do not have a skimmer but instead have a tidal hob to do the surface skimming and I never get a film on the surface. The corals are zinnias, leather trees green and purple, devil's hand, toadstool and several different pallies. I've tried zoa's but there's too much chemical warfare going on they're never happy and end up dying back. Plus I am a murderer of SPS and LPS. My passion is actually freshwater South and Central American. But I wanted to see if I can successfully do a Coral tank it's been running for almost 6 years. I started with the fluval spec with all tiny little frags of coral. But now you can't see any bare spots on any Rock in there it's covered. So cool to watch it grow it's nice to buy colonies but it's even nicer to grow your own. If I could change anything I just wish I could have Zoa's. But definitely lovin'it. I keep it next to a large tank with some large cichlids in it, but yet when you walk into the room your eyes are drawn to the saltwater because of the colors and the lighting.
I’m just trying to understand this set up as I’m thinking of trying something like this myself. So there is no sump or internal filter? Just heater, wave maker and ATO (not even necessary)?
Hey I.R., I've recently gotten the same sumpless ato to go with my duetto. When I first plugged in the skimmer the output caused a really strong flow in my tank like a small jet. I have a 10 gallon btw and have the 1nder carbon in the sumpless. Do you find the flow coming from it to be good? It doesn't look to be too strong in your tank
Interesting, I did not know of this morph, thanks for the heads up! Almost looks like the "Enlongated Xenia" from back in the days. Let me see if I could track a frag down!
@@InappropriateReefer Tidal Gardens and Corals Anonymous are selling them! I got some a few weeks ago for my Xenia garden and it adds a really nice red pop!
How are you controlling the phosphate in this tank? Reason I ask is my Xenia didn’t start pulsating until I was able to reduce the phosphate in my tank. Your Xenia are looking happy, happy, happy.
Was there a process for you to teach the bangaiis to eat dry foods ? I’ve had mine for months I feed dry daily but they never accept it so I feed frozen to make sure they don’t starve. Anything helps! Thanks.
I lost the mate for one of this pair before, and for the 4-5 months the original pair have been in this tank, they would not touch any dry food and were strictly going after frozen & liquid. After one of the original pair passed, I specially waited until PetCo got a group in that would eat flake (I asked them to feed at the store), I bought two, and waited until the 3 fish figured out a pair (the original fish picked one of the new ones), and along the way the original fish "learned" to eat flake from the new fish before I rehomed the odd-man-out. So in my particular case, the new fish that already came eating dry food "taught" my original fish to eat them, I did not have luck weaning the original pair onto dry food. I was also afraid to go too long starving them in order to force them onto dry food from frozen. Sorry if this is not too helpful...
Your tank looks really clean. How to you get rid of copepod? Mine they came with the coral I bought from Lfs and had copepod infestation in my tank now :( How often you clean your sand bed?
I would love to have a reeftank but im intimidated about water changes and mixing up saltwater. I have no car so i cant get my water from a store as my back is too broken to use the bus for it.... I am also afraid that even if i mix the water right i get my salinity wrong cos if evaperation. I probably overthink water changing cos I never saw someone how they make it Could you maybe make a video about tips how to mix saltwater for your reef and how to get the salinity right?
Hey man, no worries, mixing water is super easy. You just need a way to measure salinity (amount of salt in the water), a refractometer (~$30) can reliably tell you. You'd just have a bucket of water, add salt into it and keep measuring, until you get the right amount (35 ppt). If you overshot, just pour some out and add water again. Simple. Water will slowly evaporate from your aquarium, but won't while you are mixing your water. As to getting water to your house, if budget allows, an RODI until (~$150 - $200) is always a solid investment, especially if going to the store & transporting water is problematic. Alternatively if you are doing a small tank, you may be able to use delivered drinking water (those 5 gallon jugs), or maybe even order pre-mixed saltwater from PetCo. OR if you are really daring and don't mind a little algae... heck, I used tap water straight out of the faucet for years and it has been fine, I just have a little more algae, lol. YMMV depending on the quality of tap water in your area. For actual suggestion on mixing saltwater, check out Bulkreefsupply's video on mixing saltwater, they go in-depth of some of the do's and don'ts. Just don't get intimidated, this hobby can be pretty simple if you plan to start out with simple to keep corals.
@@InappropriateReefer tank you so much for your reply, now it seems much easier as my area has the best tap water of whole germany. I could get maybe some diatomes if the saltwater ones also like silicates as the freshwater do. I dont mind them at all, just some scrubbing every now and than from the glass ^^ Im glad to hear that a refractometer doesnt cost as much and you dont kill your corals by using something else as RODI water
Toggle Bolts into the dry wall ceiling (amzn.to/3kbH0PM); that's also how I hung the heavy lights + rail over my 135g, as well as the heavyyy T5 Hybrid light fixture over my 45g.
9:30am-6pm - 20% Intensity, UV: 100, Violet: 45, Royal: 75, Blue: 65, Green: 50, Red: 35, Warm White: 50, Cool White: 50; overall Schedule Intensity is 71%, I think I was in the process of slowly ramping it up and then I forgot, lol.
9:30am-6pm - 20% Intensity, UV: 100, Violet: 45, Royal: 75, Blue: 65, Green: 50, Red: 35, Warm White: 50, Cool White: 50; overall Schedule Intensity is 71%, I think I was in the process of slowly ramping it up and then I forgot, lol.