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Unpopular Reefing
Australia
Приєднався 17 бер 2007
Unqualified advice for lazy aquarists.
Adding an extra tank to an existing system, the cheap (kinda) way
Adding a small tank to my existing system to grow out some juvenile fish before adding them to my main tank.
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Adding locally caught invertebrates to my marine tank
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I've added several species of invertebrates to my marine tank. This is what my tank looked like shortly after adding them. As I'm currently away for work over the next five weeks it serve as an interesting comparison to what my tank will look like on my return
How much hair algae can two urchins clean up in a week?
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After the death of my first urchin I have added two more to try to clear up my hair algae problem.
Unheated marine tank fish types
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A look at the types of fish you can keep in an unheated marine aquarium. Just over one year of keeping an unheated marine aquarium stocking with only fish from my local area that I catch myself. #aquarium #aquascape #aquariumhobby #seagrass #marinelife
One Year Seagrass Tank Update
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#aquarium #aquascape #aquariumhobby #seagrass A look back at twelve months of attempting (and mostly failing) to recreate my local marine environment in my living room. Going from a low tech nano aquarium to a relatively high end marine tank setup. Hope you enjoy and maybe even learn something.
Adding wild caught marine fish to my tank
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Catching the Eastern Hula Fish. Rarely kept in the marine aquarium hobby due to their preference for cooler water. I'll be keeping them in my unheated AquaOne 320 marine Aquarium.
Adding more locally caught fish to my cold water marine tank
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Adding fish I caught at the local beach to my 300 litre, unheated, macroalgae and seagrass aquarium.
Adding wild caught marine fish to my 300 litre tank
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I caught a few fish while at my local beach and I'm adding them to my 300litre aquarium. This is just a guide to what can be found and added to a cold water marine aquarium.
Testing My Homemade Cooling system
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I made a cooling system for my marine Aquarium. Testing how much cooling I can get from two PC cooling fans.
Adding coral to an unheated tank?
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Adding an invasive coral to an unheated marine tank. Can I kill the supposedly unkillable coral?
A red scare and a dismembered starfish.
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An update on my AquaOne 326 cold water aquarium. My attempts to fight off a cyanobacteria outbreak and my hitchhiker crab makes an absolute crab of itself.
One Month Old Macroalgae Aquarium with new creatures
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One Month Old Macroalgae Aquarium with new creatures
Life and Death of a Nano Seagrass Aquarium
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Life and Death of a Nano Seagrass Aquarium
Still no Seagrass and A*$%&hole crab is still an A*$%&hole
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Still no Seagrass and A*$%&hole crab is still an A*$%&hole
I like your work, it`s fun and you are not tyring to sell me anything!
This video is fantastic
The crab may be some sort of decorator crab that has camoflauged itself with seaweed. Looks real cool!
Yeah it’s a little too well camouflaged. I haven’t seen it since I put it in. Maybe when it gets a bit bigger it’ll be easier to find.
Could you please share your e-mail. I am trying to grow seagrass. I would like to clear some doubts.
craigmwilsonhome@gmail.com
I love these types of tanks .
I have had good results with codium macro algae at keeping my nutrients lower maybe worth a try .. just subscribed ( mandy)
I'm finding that I'm having some luck with Caulerpa taxifolia. It's irritating that my clean up crew seem to ignore my hair algae issue and destroy my seagrass.
“This fish is shit…this fish is shit…this fish is shit…this fish gets big and is shit…”
4/10 on the clean up 10/10 on their names lol
The urchins are so cute. I love them! Also, even with the algae, your fishtank looks super pretty. 😊
Thousands would disagree but thank you .
@@unpopularreefer No worries. 😊 What can i say? I just really like green color. 💚 There are also some anti-algae water drops. I personally have Tetra Algae Control Liquid, however i stopped using it sicne i bought afew mossballs for my freshwater tank and the liquid could hurt them. I also have a siamase algae eater and a pleco, who help me a little with any up-comming algae problem. 😁
Nice
Do you change water with water from the ocean? And how often?
Whenever I go to the beach I grab a 20 Litre drum full of sea water. This is about a 10% water change for my tank. This is why I end up with random creatures showing up all the time. When I’m being good I’ll do the 10% change weekly but I sometimes let it go for months. Probably the reason for my hair algae issues.
@@unpopularreefer I live about 12 hours from the beach so i go there once a year. I don't do any water changes since it is basically a waste of salt. After 2 years i thought i only have hair algae but after i started feeding a bit a lot of other types appeared out of nowhere. Fish are still alive but im looking to add something that would eat the hair algae and leave macroalgae but not sure yet what to add. I have seen you tryed with sea urchin but i think even a small one is too big for my small tank.
I like your unpopular ideas, im doing similar thing, hope to learn from you.
good luck!
Thought this was a beauty video 😳
Most sea urchins don't survive any exposure to air since they can't get it out of their system. Which is also why they are usually packed without any Air in the bag.
I found this guy washed up on the beach so I think any damage had been done before I got to him, so I'm absolving myself of any culpability in the death of the featured urchin. That is helpful advice for next time though, I'll make sure I don't expose my freelance urchins to air before adding them to the tank.
lol Nice video.
Just got myself a seagrass tank thanks m8!
Keep me updated on your results. I'm still struggling to get consistent growth with my tank.
@@unpopularreefer sure thing, keeping Florida species
I believe ORA use to breed them.
Awesome video! Im looking forward to seeing this tanks growth through its second year.
I bet it turns out well
Where can I find sea grass?
You best bet is river mouths, mangrove swamps etc. If you don't live near the ocean you may be out of luck I don't think this kind of stuff ships well.
@@unpopularreefer I kinda figured since I live in Pennsylvania near Lake Erie.
I live in Florida always wanted to do something like this with our species here
@@Meesiz same we got several species of seagrass. There’s widgeon grass, it prefers brackish and fresh water, turtle grass, the densest grass that likes saltwater, manatee grass which gets very tall, shoal grass with fine leaves, stargrass which has big leaves, and paddle grass or Johnson’s seagrass makes a good carpet.
So cool to see some beautiful temperate marine fishes on display. Who says that colder water organisms can't be beautiful!
Yeah, I think there are a lot of interesting cold water species out there that just aren't given enough attention. I'm hoping in some small part to correct that.
A lot of this stuff I don’t mean to sound hostile, but it’s cold water needs at least 62-58° I’ve personally kept cold water before, but mainly stuff from Maine and California as I live in the US…. But if you’re gonna keep the species, I’d highly recommend you get a chiller.
I guess my current setup is kind of a seasonal tank. It gets to around 26 Celsius in summer and drops to around 16 in winter. Right now I notice the coral thrives in summer and the algae suffers a bit but we're heading into winter now and I assume the coral will die back entirely and I'm hoping the algae will get a boost. I am considering getting a chiller before next summer as it can get a bit to hot for the residents.
@@unpopularreefer don’t go all out just get something to start man, don’t wanna break the bank
Love this setup man, I kept saltwater aquariums for six years, both cold, water and tropical like, and I gotta say, despite what people may tell you in this hobby, you don’t need no fancy light to grow any coral seagrass or whatever you wanna grow, you can really just use a full spectrum bulb now you want all these colors and things get expensive I don’t care but in reality if you just wanna grow coral, you don’t need an expensive light
Yeah, I find most expensive lights focus on changing how your tanks look with alterable spectrum, wifi controls and features like that. In the end plants and coral don't particularly care as long as they're getting enough intensity for enough time. I have been considering doing an outdoor brackish tank using only sunlight but I'm only at the planning stage right now.
@@unpopularreefer that would be skitz you should, in a tub couple nems seagrass, mangroves. Julian sprung has something similar
@@unpopularreefer exactly man it’s really just a front so you can spend money
Are you using regular LEDs/freshwater lighting? It's very hard to find info on people trying this out. Reef lighting seems like a racket just like plant grow lights
I’ve got them under a Kessil A160WE. So a fairly high end freshwater light, having said that it’s half the recommended lighting for my tank but I’m getting decent macro growth and the Xenia is thus far doing well.
@@unpopularreefer Cheers for that, I'm interested to see how the tank develops
What. A. 🍆.
Starting to sound like crabs are natural assholes 😂
They really are the herpes of the aquarium hobby.
Will you get more fish or start over?
I’ve left the tank sit for a few weeks now. The gobies are still doing well even though I haven’t feed the tank since the crash. So I might add more fish in the next week or so.
Do you think one could keep intertidal seagrass in a 30L aquarium without animals or would alge overrun it?
I think it would be possible. I’m my earlier videos I document my failed attempt at doing just that. The trick would be having a nutrient base for the roots and capping it with sand to keep the nutrients out of the water column to keep the algae at bay. A few shrimp as cleanup crew wouldn’t hurt either.
Where are the other videos? the ones where we see the development of asso*ole crab?
It would have made for interesting viewing. He was first introduced into a community tank up until he ate the community and then escaped. Unfortunately when I discovered him creeping around my bedroom like a Freddy Krugeresk nightmare I didn't think to start recording. Another time I almost stood on him when I taking a midnight piss. That's why there is a lid on his tank now with a brick on it.
Your crab is just misunderstood. He needs friends.
He ate all his friends!
Watched all your videos so far and liking the experiment tank. I have been keeping planted freshwater tanks and looking into planted salt tanks. I wouldn’t get too discouraged about the sea grass. Maybe try root tabs or If your willing to tear down the tank try 1/2-1 inch of dirt with a sand cap. My guess is they are root feeders. That crab is an asshole for sure 😂. Good luck from the US!
Appreciate the feedback. I've tried a much deeper substrate on the new setup and I've placed a few root tabs in as well. I was concerned about using dirt with a sand cap as I have try this on arsehole crabs tank and as he's tend to do he dug up all the soil into the water column and my nutrients went through the roof. This was the reason I filled it with chaeto.
You know, it's normal for aquarium plants to "melt back" when placed into new conditions. The leaves all turn brown and the plant is still alive but is much smaller with just the roots and base, then the leaves grow back. It looks to me like you've still got some little sea grass shoots growing back there, which would make sense if that's what happened. Also, little shrimp and stuff don't usually eat living plant matter, but people often misinterpret them eating brown melted leaves as them eating living plants. Be patient, you might be surprised when that Seagrass starts shooting back up.
Show me the ASS#@LE crab
I've uploaded ASS#@LE crab video
Can you post a video just of the crab 🦀
Just so you know your requested crab video is the least viewed and least liked video. It demonstrates that nobody likes arsehole crab.
I liked the asshole crab
where’d u buy the seagrass?
You need to add some soil or substrate under the sand for the plants to feed on, adding nutrients directly to the water will only feed the algae
Yeah that did become apparent not long after increasing the nitrates. I have tried adding a nutrient layer and capping it with sand however a problematic crab that likes to dig soon upturned all the nutrients into the water column and I had a bloom of algae like you wouldn't believe.
Algae is killing your plants, get some snails
Scratch that, your plants are already dying too quickly, snail will just continue to eat them, remove the snails until you fix everything and get some growth that can support them.