What Equipment You Need for an Easy Reef Tank! 

Thanks, looking forward to expanding it ;)

Happy to hear that! :)

Happy to hear that it works well! Do you have filter material in the filter? And what kind of corals do you keep?

Thanks for commenting and sharing your experience!

@@passion4aqua In the filter I have a full stack of biorings and live rock with a small bag of carbon. I upgraded to an Oase Biomaster 250 thermo though to take advantage of the quick clean prefilter but I've stopped cleaning it entirely because I have a hard time keep nutrient levels up. At the moment I'm just keeping a mix of soft corals which is going pretty well so far. I have a mini video series going here on RU-vid of the progress from day 1 if you're curious about the filter setup. Going with a canister has been a non event so far though. I even had a cheato reactor ready because I was worried about nitrates but that was not required. So I took it out of the loop.

Thanks for the tip, I will look into it! Being able to add carbon is one of the reasons I decided to use an external filter in the first place!

@@passion4aqua The only thing that's kinda sorta annoying is cleaning the inflow (I used glass) but other than that, it's working great!

Also, you forgot to list the light mount. I know I’ve seen it before but can’t remember.

No problem, happy to help! The mount is the „kind of“ official mount for the Hydra, the price is horrendous, but there are really no alternatives! I bought it in a German online store on a discount! Just google „AI Hydra 32 mount“ there are several options that are all equally overpriced

@@passion4aqua agreed!

If you know what you’re doing it is probably easy to build something yourself, but I didn’t want to risk it with a light this expensive… Good luck!

What issues with salinity do you mean? Refugium is unfortunately not an option, macroalgae might be an option for the future…

Also when I add cleaning crew and maybe a shrimp and a little fish in there?

@@passion4aqua still dont think it's needed, skimmer might actually work against your favor and bottom out nutrients

Oh ok, thank you for mentioning that! I will think about it :)