I have a 65 gallon reef tank and I try to keep up with my maintenance. It’s helped me a lot. I’ve just reset my raidions to the ab + Corel lab setting I had them on a manual setting (2xr 15 pro). This was very helpful thank you all.
I'm super lucky. I live in Bali, Indonesia and I do all my water changes with ocean water. I also can get new corals and fish from tide pools and snorkeling any time I want.
@@dshe8637 why wouldn't I? All the corals in all the aquariums in the world come from the ocean origonally. Along with like 90% of the fish. Keep your self righteous comments to yourself.
I think this video can be really summed up with. "Stability over Performance" which is the point this guy was trying to make. I know a few reef keepers are going to be livid with this, but I need to ask Who cares if you don't have the hyper sharp LED green coral that glows like the sun? As long as the ecosystem is stable, they're well fed, and have a constant cycle the corals will get there in their own time, there's no reason to 'force' them to get there ahead of schedule. When I was buying coral, I overheard some guys talking about the numbers for water quality, length of lights, to get the best looking coral, and fighting massive bacteria outbreaks every month or so. While I'm sitting here, happy that in my two year old tank I've had two bacteria issues that happened in the first couple months. People are so preoccupied with making it look pretty, and don't take into consideration the animals overall health. Just like humans thrive on patterns, Corals do too.
I can confirm the circadian rythm thing. I don't know why else the pH in ma tank peaks 30-90 minutes before the the light goes out. So pH is already dropping although light is still at full power. I can't explain it in any other way than circadian rythm.
I guess not all ;reef tanks include corals course ; so you can have a very low light 'reef' tank . just not a coral reef tank. as for some coral, such as across, many iwant more than those par numbers ;)
I used GFO and 48 hours later I had a dino outbreak on my sand bed. 6 months later I'm slowly beating it back. The lesson I learned is that too clean is not a good thing for my tank....
@@cameronrivera3588 I wasn't asking for an explanation for why they are doing it. most people's tap water in the US contains chlorine and floride, wouldn't you be putting those back into the tank after rinsing it with tap water?
