My BASIC Reef Tank 🚽 Soft Corals, Macro Algae, Mangrove Tank Update!! (details in desc)
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- The title of this video is a little bit of a click-bait... just a little bit, as once in awhile I would see comments saying that this little 17g tank has pretty basic [read: cheap, common, easy] corals, so it's no wonder that the tank could get by with the most basic equipment and just water change. It is true, the tank is pretty basic, but hey, common and hardy corals need loving too, and they do also look nice! So please enjoy a quick little update on my basic reef tank!
Timestamps:
0:00 Dosing, Lighting, Water Flow!
3:25 Koji Wada Japanese Pink Nepthea
4:14 Blue Cespitularia Coral
6:01 Space Invader Pectinia
7:22 Grube's Gorgonian from ORA
7:52 Macro Algae
9:02 Banggai Cardinalfish
10:42 Growing Red Mangrove in reef tank
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Public Domain Music by various artists from SoundCloud, many thanks!
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I'm going to be setting up a tank just like this. I love soft corals and macros, and I love whiter light. So you're not alone!
maybe you should do two videos every week, 1 for the little tank, and 1 for the big tank! we want more! =)
Glad you're enjoying the videos! I wish I could, at one point I thought about it.... but then I got married and the baby came. 😅
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agree the natural look is nice, its how i remember reef tanks growing up under halides and how they look while diving over shallow reefs or lagoons.
Yes sir! I also remember the tanks being more white back then. Certain corals like Tubs Blue Zoa looked amazing under those spectrum. I was surprised by how brown the natural reef looks (I dove at mostly soft coral sites though, only been to 2-3 spots that was SPS dominant). Makes me feel like I should bring along a blue light the next time I dive. 😂
I love that little tank! It looks great who cares what the price tag of the corals is! I think it's dope and I love the updates bro.
Thanks LJ! Sometimes the power of perceived value puts a nice little rosy lens in front of our eyes. 🤓
I love leather corals. Looks beautiful!
Nice job! The tank looks great!
Always loved this tank, beautiful mate 👍🇬🇧👌🇬🇧
We love this tank! This is what we’re planning on doing with ours. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! live-plants.com is where you want to find the affordable macros and gorgonians. 😎
@@InappropriateReefer That’s awesome! Thanks for the tip. We shop at the same stores as you, but we don’t see many soft corals for sale.
Nice video, thanks for taking us on the tank update. I am wondering if it's a good idea to grab the mangrove shoots and stick them in the refugium of the bigger tank to absorb nutrients from the tank?
Looking good buddy loving the tank keep up the good work
that’s a cool natural looking tank
U gibs baby pats! I like pats from my dad 🥰🐶
have you seen the sunshine chromis damsels? incredible color! the tank looks so good!
My Remy weeping willow has also been closed lately. Thinking it might be in to much flow! Going to add it to my 20 peninsula and see how it does there.
I love the tank!!
I have a 10 gallon AIO with two rainbow bubble tips, a mushroom leather, a small neon green finger leather, and a few bright, neon pink mushrooms. I haven’t done a water change in a few months at this point and it looks great. Don’t even need to clean the glass, because the copepods, snails and tuxedo urchin do that for me. Softies are definitely my speed for saltwater tanks, the stony corals are nice but I got so bored of trying to keep on top of alkalinity and magnesium and calcium etc. Softies just don’t care and thrive when left alone👍
Love the vids
I'm with you 100% on the whiter spectrum with softy/macroalgea tank, ive recently adjust my lighting to be warmer white on my softy/macroalgea seahorse tank. Really brought out the colours in everything especially the seahorses
I went to your channel hoping to see a cool sea horse tank... no video [yet]? 😢
@@InappropriateReefer yeah sorry, that is all coming, the insta page also need updating 🤣 will give you a shout when done.
This has to be my in my favorite tanks on UA-cam, I’m curious to know if you use protein skimmer in this tank or just the filter !
Also, if you get a damsel, the yellow tail blue damsel are cool! They've got unique patterning and are sooo bright!
Love this tank
Great update
Hi Gabe
@@angryowlaquariums40 hi bird.
I would definitely move the weeping willing toadstool. I know remmy keeps his in a decent amount of flow
I had a yellow tail damsel. May be my favorite fish still. I had a clown and a yellowtail damsel in a 15-20 gallon nano. Best of friends, perfect fish load. Ate everything.
Love having 2 tanks for that reason. Most of our corals love our big tank but some (acans and candy canes) dont so we put them in our small tank and they love it.
Amazing tank! I'm gonna try to make something similar
So good
Cardinal is such a cool fish
Was that $150 budget build series you did I can’t remember but wow it looks great
I also love damsels. If I didn't already have a pair of clowns in my nano, I'd probably go with damsels
I’d like to see a detail video on what and how much you dose this tank with. Review how you take care of it. I have a nano tank 15G and still new. Thanks
This mangrove tank is becoming a hospital for corals that don’t do well in the 135 😂
Hahaha, ironic as the 135g is the tank with all the fancy techs running it. One thing the Mangrove tank has over the 135g is time, this little tank has about half a year more time to mature and build up a strong bacteria colony that'd help buffer any silly mistakes that I make.
Dude Nice Bananna! 0:33
What powerhead is that in the back of the tank aimed at the finger leather?
Wow how do you keep the Xenia from completely taking over? I’ve heard it can go crazy
The leather is called "Pink pulsing leather'.
Is that the XAqua InOut overflow?
Don’t forget that banana there, near the start of the video. Looks hidden. :-) great content. Thank you.
LOL thanks for the needed reminder, that was close!
I know this video is a year old but I have to ask, what lighting is it you were using to grow the caulerpa prolifera? Is it 12000K reef lighting? I want to put that macro algae in my tank, but I'm wondering if my Kessil a160we tuna blue will grow it, or do I need to supplement it with a light that's suited for plants like 6500K. I'm asking because I read macro algae prefers lighting that's the spectrum plants like, yet it seems you have it growing under reef lighting.
How did u make your corals grow faster please reply thanks
What happened to your nudibranchs? How’s the aptasia issue?
I started, and failed a 10g about 6 months ago, I am approaching a year of research, I think by the end of the year I could finally start a successful tank
Sorry man, were you able to learn something from what happened? All my tanks go through a few rough spots initially, but if we ride it out until they get to the 1 - 1.5 years mark, things usually turn the corner and for the most part smooth sailing.
@@InappropriateReefer yea I did, and I think I'll be better next time from it
Protein skimmer are no good for soft corals? My gsp coral doesn’t want to open up after I installed a protein skimmer on my 40 breeder
What brand is the grow light?
I keep having all my soft corals die and I don’t know why, I can’t keep pulsing Xenia alive for the life of me, where did you get all of your soft corals?
Great update. Not sure if I saw that you were in Maryland in a previous video, if so, so am I! I would love to get some help with my tanks, so I can add more aquarium content to my channel. And you seem to inappropriately know what the hell you're doing!
Helloo, how often do you clean the tank? And do you test the water parameters?
I will like to start a tank like this one that’s why I will like to know lol.
Is the banana in your inbox or outbox?
Siphon from shot glass with feeder tube. Stick tube in and slowly release food. The whole reef will come out at once
What happened to the Red Grape macro algae? Did it die off too? It's probably the mangrove that's competing the macro algae more than thr corals.
I have a tiny bunch of it at back corner, I see some new growth but it is very, very slow. Thanks for the reminder, I probably should bring it out from the shade into the light to give it a better chance... (and you may be right about the Mangrove competing w/ the macros)
How hard is reefing for beginners, and is a nano tank a good choice to start with???
Do enough research it will never be hard . Nano tank is every beginner start with . But others says bigger tank is more stable then nano tank . I started around oct last year . Just u need do proper research before starting one . Everything is good to go .
Wondering why the pink nepthea is not more common. I would love one but not paying a hundred bucks plus shipping . Anyone selling one let me know. Thanks. Love your videos
What happened to the pipefish
You gonna try to get mango's from the tree???. Or try brackish water
Banggais dont jump, never
It’s amazing how small they sell coral today. Frags are a joke and they get away with it. 20 years ago we would get full corals for those prices.
:) I'm early
Hey
I Don't know I heard they grow better in a brackish tank !
I Don't know if it's true though. Maybe some one here knows ?
I forgot to tell you I have an extra orange ricordia Florida for you (you mentioned in a previous video you wanted one). Let me know if you want me to ship it to you! Thanks for all the awesome videos :)
very basic haha, maybe lets stick to the large one xD
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Only Jake Adams have Weeping willow, all else is just fake.
Lol You must have just watched his podcast