This is so nice, I have a small 20 gallon outside as well, although not having the luck you seem to have with CORAL I think it’s due to the pH swings and the tiny water volume
Ponds looking absolutely amazing mate , hope you & the family had a great Christmas, love seeing the adventures you all go on , keep up the great work fella .
Gooded evening salty, you inspired me to go to vebas and but a rubu red dragonet, she is in my quarantine tank at the moment, a beautiful specimen. My wife and I have been wondering whereabout in WA you live ? being able to collect your specimens. Have a great new year
Hi mate Awesome they are gorgeous aren’t they. I’m in Butler but the Coral collection happens from Dampier. So good having the red in the pond I can always see 1 of them most the time both. So good. Cheers for watching 🤙🏽
Looking great Steve! It’d be great to find out what (if any) corals, the scribbled angels eat. Any thoughts on rotating different corals through their tank, to test out their preference? I’m finding very interesting things with my butterflies and coral in my big tank
When you're collecting your fish and coral what Corals or fish, are you not allowed to take? I live in Florida.Some pretty lucky too I can collect a lot of things that I like
I can only collect the fish where I am man. And when I go up with the guy who has the coral license, we are allowed to take everything 🤙🏽 there are just certain areas you can’t collect from.
Wow 😮 they go for. $200 small $220 for larger. Haven’t seen an adult for sale yet though. Hopefully I can go collecting them with the collector some time next year 🤞🏽
Awesome vid as usual. Steve I’m quite sure a banana wrasse and a yellow coris wrasse are 2 different species of wrasse. But half the hobby seem to erroneously now be calling a yellow coris wrasse (Halichoeres Chrysus) a banana wrasse. And the proper banana wrasse (Thalassoma lutescens) gets overlooked. A yellow coris wrasse will look the same as an adult as it does as a juvenile ( yellow with the small dots on the dorsal fin), whereas a banana wrasse looks light green with orange and aqua spots all over. Both look very similar as adolescents. The coris wrasse is much smaller at 5 inches and reef safe. Whereas a banana wrasse at over 1 foot with its aggression would do better with triggers, tangs and large angels. I bought a baby banana wrasse thinking it was a coris and had to return him when I realised he would be too much for his peaceful tank mates. They apparently eat hermit crabs, shrimp and even small fish, not to mention some types of coral. And are supposed to be quite aggressive.
If you Google banana wrasse and go to Google images, you’ll see half the pictures are of the Yellow coris and the other half are of the “true” banana wrasse.
Awesome 🙌🏽 I’ve never seen an adult banana wrasse in real life. I can’t remember what i bought these 2 as a few years ago 🤣 guessing Coris because they are still quite small well the 1 I can find anyway 🤙🏽
@@SaltWaterSteve1 I’m sure yours are yellow coris, they have the dots on the dorsal fin. Without those dots, the 2 species do look very similar as juveniles. Anyway - you have so many setups (with more planned), even if you had a banana (sunset) wrasse, you’d probably be able to find a good home for him when he reaches near maturity.
Such a beautiful pond with great fish and coral. Keep up with the good husbandry.
Appreciate it mate thanks 🤙🏽
Your saltwater pond is spectacular ✨️. Very well done plus you caught all your fish.
Thanks 🤙🏽
Not all of them but most 😊
Saltwater is amazing. I'll share with friends this channel is awesome super informative and interesting 👍
Thanks heaps
Really appreciate it 🤙🏽
The pond is looking amazing ❤🤙🏻👏🏻
Cheers Dennis 🤙🏽
Congratulations 👍🐠🐟
Cheers bro 🤙🏽
Beautiful wrassses
Thank you 🤙🏽
Your pond is a massive inspiration! Cheers to success and life 🎉 loved the compilation it was very well done
Cheers mate
It’s been a long process mate. I have 2 years of fails building up to this point.
Patients is the key 🤙🏽
Bro u r just wonderful i love watching your videos lots of love from India ❤️😍
Cheers mate 🤙🏽 appreciate it yeeewwww 😊
This is so nice, I have a small 20 gallon outside as well, although not having the luck you seem to have with CORAL I think it’s due to the pH swings and the tiny water volume
Oh swings would definitely be the key
I dose all my Kalk over over night to keep mine stable. Well 750ml at 4am manually
@ ah I see yeah that’s probably the best method for something like this then because it slowly introduces it
Ponds looking absolutely amazing mate , hope you & the family had a great Christmas, love seeing the adventures you all go on , keep up the great work fella .
Cheers Daz
Hope you and the Fam had a great Christmas too and have a even better New Year 🥳
@ been great here mate, too much food as always & mate Kent of fluids too 🤦🏻♂️😂😂😂 here’s to 2025 mate 🙌🏼🙏🏼❤️🥳 have a good’en Steve
Yeeewwww 🤙🏽
Ow mate must be brilliant fishing in rock pools in oz, in the uk all we get is a bluddy cold
🤣 that sucks
Is there anything cool about in summer? Even hermit crabs? Or Nudibranchs?
Gooded evening salty, you inspired me to go to vebas and but a rubu red dragonet, she is in my quarantine tank at the moment, a beautiful specimen. My wife and I have been wondering whereabout in WA you live ? being able to collect your specimens.
Have a great new year
Hi mate
Awesome they are gorgeous aren’t they.
I’m in Butler but the Coral collection happens from Dampier. So good having the red in the pond I can always see 1 of them most the time both. So good. Cheers for watching 🤙🏽
Cool! I hope you get 100k subscriber at 2025!!
😍 that’s the end goal 💪🏼 🤞🏽 🤙🏽
Looking great Steve! It’d be great to find out what (if any) corals, the scribbled angels eat. Any thoughts on rotating different corals through their tank, to test out their preference? I’m finding very interesting things with my butterflies and coral in my big tank
Mate I have just moved one into the pond to test this theory and because they started fighting as soon as the dominant one settled in 🤦🏼♂️
When you're collecting your fish and coral what Corals or fish, are you not allowed to take? I live in Florida.Some pretty lucky too I can collect a lot of things that I like
I can only collect the fish where I am man. And when I go up with the guy who has the coral license, we are allowed to take everything 🤙🏽 there are just certain areas you can’t collect from.
Love anampses wrasses, especially lennardi and femininus. How much do the lennardi go for around you? They are several thousand for me in nz.
Wow 😮 they go for. $200 small $220 for larger.
Haven’t seen an adult for sale yet though.
Hopefully I can go collecting them with the collector some time next year 🤞🏽
Awesome vid as usual.
Steve I’m quite sure a banana wrasse and a yellow coris wrasse are 2 different species of wrasse.
But half the hobby seem to erroneously now be calling a yellow coris wrasse (Halichoeres Chrysus) a banana wrasse.
And the proper banana wrasse (Thalassoma lutescens) gets overlooked.
A yellow coris wrasse will look the same as an adult as it does as a juvenile ( yellow with the small dots on the dorsal fin), whereas a banana wrasse looks light green with orange and aqua spots all over. Both look very similar as adolescents.
The coris wrasse is much smaller at 5 inches and reef safe. Whereas a banana wrasse at over 1 foot with its aggression would do better with triggers, tangs and large angels.
I bought a baby banana wrasse thinking it was a coris and had to return him when I realised he would be too much for his peaceful tank mates. They apparently eat hermit crabs, shrimp and even small fish, not to mention some types of coral. And are supposed to be quite aggressive.
If you Google banana wrasse and go to Google images, you’ll see half the pictures are of the Yellow coris and the other half are of the “true” banana wrasse.
Awesome 🙌🏽
I’ve never seen an adult banana wrasse in real life. I can’t remember what i bought these 2 as a few years ago 🤣 guessing Coris because they are still quite small well the 1 I can find anyway 🤙🏽
@@SaltWaterSteve1 I’m sure yours are yellow coris, they have the dots on the dorsal fin.
Without those dots, the 2 species do look very similar as juveniles.
Anyway - you have so many setups (with more planned), even if you had a banana (sunset) wrasse, you’d probably be able to find a good home for him when he reaches near maturity.
@@Whaleydavey for sure 🤙🏽 having drama with the scribbles again now 🤦🏼♂️ Jinxed myself in the last vid 🤣
@@SaltWaterSteve1 ahhh no mate!
Hope you sort it out.
Do you often feed phytoplanktons or copepods to your sea apples hes so darn chunky
Not directly target feeding but I do add both at least once every few weeks. I try for weekly