So many UA-cam reef videos are the same topics and say things very calculated as to not to say something wrong. I always hear completely new and unique info from you guys that has really helped me continue to learn as a 2nd year reef keeper. Great content.
"love my red tea brief mat" gotto love the translations. Ive had the same roller mat around ten years, made by a company called icasa who have I notice released an updated version in recent times. so never got into the socks. Sounds like I missed something to be missed :)
We need a video on the 400. Get on a wet suit and swim around in all that flow Jake! If you don't do it now, you wont be able to later. Use it like a hot tub before your stock it! That way you can FEEL the flow first hand! :) Learn that flow!!
Filter rolls are an idea that is long over due. Even for freshwater as a hang on the back. Having said that, i've been using filter floss in a HOB for a while now. I change it every two days. What I do know is when I change the floss, my protein skimmer stop producing junk for a while.
Interesting to listen to this video 4 months later and see how your perspective has changed about Dinos/Cyano with tank temperature. You were so sure that it works. And now with your current strain it is not working. I appreciate you guys though. And your sharing of the difficulties of a Reef tank.
There is something going on with fish quality. I would say in the last 3-4ish years the survivability has just gone down hill. I could talk for hours over the intricacies of quarantine, and have in the past. To keep it short, with my 26 years of my home marine aquarium care, 10's of thousands of fish brought through retail quarantine and years of experience in Aquaculture research, it is a struggle to get long term healthy fish these days. It is not just Marine fish, I noticed that freshwater fish quality has also gone down lately.
Great chat fellas! I’m currently rebooting my shallow 90g and I’ll be searching for humilis and gemmifera. I absolutely love these types of acropora, but like you, I haven’t seen these since the late 90’s.
I have been looking all over the last couple months for a red dragon like you have in your tank I think I fell in love with it during your video and I finally found one and it’s in Colorado all places. Very excited for that great video again gentlemen thank you much
100% agree with the fish quality. I have had very similar issues within the last few years. Fish will keep for a month or two. Super healthy, eating and out of the blue wake up and dead. Makes no sense. Been in the hobby for 15yrs. No matter what I try. super sad.
Once I saw Scott's video on dinos I tried it out as well and had success. Now I keep my tanks at 79. Listening to Dr. Tim I think it will increase the bacterial stability as well and allow those organisms to thrive.
My biggest reservation with roller mats is wondering what the filter material is made of, and is it biodegradable? The term fleece gets thrown out there a lot, but hardly anything is actually made of wool, so just what is filter fleece made of? I’m not a zero waste fanatic, but I would rather not be using big “disposable” rolls of filter material that persists for 50+ years on the regular.
Chris meckley said potassium hydroxide will hurt your fish first, wonder if it’s the potassium or the fact it’s a harsh additive. But you did say your potassium was high it made me think of this statement from ACI
I shoot for 80 degrees, in my experience I get less algae and fish issues with warmer temps and my tank just looks like it thrives wen warmer. Now the temp does drop a good bit on a cold night, and wen it does I wake up to dirty glass overnight. But lately I’ve been considering lower temps for coral health cause I keep hearing about lower temps. But my corals are to happy to change anything at the moment🤷🏼♂️
What I've noticed from one of my lfs, they only have a single wholesale option and the facility imo is infected with uronema, at the moment I havent really seen anyone cure it and the only way to get it out of there system is to bleach it but everybody is greedy and it only matters that the fish is alive when it leaves their facility. So far I have lost 2 leopard wrasse, 3 watanabei angels, regal angel, and eightline flasher wrasse to uronema
10 days is a good place to start- making sure they’re eating and have no signs of illness is a major checkpoint. I’d say nitrofurazone and some copper is a good way to cover most of your bases.
Thanks for the content guys. Wanted to share my current frustrations with the accuracy of test kits. Some corals - trachy, scolly, elegance and chalice - are receding and I thought it was due to low magnesium levels. However after testing the reference solution my test results were at least 1000ppt higher that what it should be (brand new test kit too). How do you guys approach testing your tanks parameters, do you test every parameter 3 times and average it or test with the understanding if you test the same way you can analyse the trend to identify issues. In the second case how do you know it's that parameter that is the problem?
unusual for mg to rise out of proportion as its only slowly uptake so I presume you added it in some form? Or small chance the salt mix had too much mag, Ive sen that before. The few times ive seen it.. when dosed by the keeper by accident, some corals have reacted badly, others fine. Basic water changes should bring it down, presuming you know the salt is not the culprit. I 'would' bring it down as its slowly depleted typically
@@PazLeBon can’t confirm this but I think Red Sea blue bucket has had high mag the last couple buckets I have used. My mag has been sitting around 1700 and I don’t dose yet. Could be a bad test kit but I’m using red sea and it’s over a year until expiry. Gonna have to buy a salifert test to confirm my results I just forget every time I’m at the lfs
@@KnarBurger spose thats why i use amazon. my memory is like a sieve,tho will often come out of the lfs with something that wasnt on the list. he list i forget to bring :)
@@PazLeBon Mag could have been low due to uptake, I use natural salt water in Western Australia and it tends to fluctuate at the source. So I rely on dosing to keep it around 1300ppt, however after checking the accuracy of my test kit, I am unsure if the mag is the issue or something else
Another great episode! One deep thought I had recently was that we commonly see fish categorized as reef-safe or with caution, but do you think we’ll see vendors (or content creators) start classifying corals as fish-resistant or fish-proof? As a new reefer (long-time planted aquascaper) I think this would’ve helped when putting together a coral stocking plan in the beginning. I think I’m still too scared to add an angelfish at the moment but was thinking my montiporas should be pretty fish-safe.
jakes lowkeey did a asain accent when he’s impersonating the “asain jake adams”, cracked meeee up 🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️
So many UA-cam reef videos are the same topics and say things very calculated as to not to say something wrong. I always hear completely new and unique info from you guys that has really helped me continue to learn as a 2nd year reef keeper. Great content.
is really why I identify with these guys over a dozen others. Puts the hoodoo on hyperbole
Totally agree 🙌
Thanks for the shoutout Jake! 🥰
Really enjoyed hearing this session. Cheers to you both 🍻
Jake, it kills me that your enthusiasm is never below the surface of your information
"love my red tea brief mat" gotto love the translations.
Ive had the same roller mat around ten years, made by a company called icasa who have I notice released an updated version in recent times. so never got into the socks. Sounds like I missed something to be missed :)
Remember Reefermadness? Scientific names. Huge colorful colonies. Fresh everyday.
We need a video on the 400. Get on a wet suit and swim around in all that flow Jake! If you don't do it now, you wont be able to later. Use it like a hot tub before your stock it! That way you can FEEL the flow first hand! :) Learn that flow!!
Loved the format, great episode and great conversation.
Congrats on the milestone of subs!
Filter rolls are an idea that is long over due. Even for freshwater as a hang on the back. Having said that, i've been using filter floss in a HOB for a while now. I change it every two days. What I do know is when I change the floss, my protein skimmer stop producing junk for a while.
Interesting to listen to this video 4 months later and see how your perspective has changed about Dinos/Cyano with tank temperature. You were so sure that it works. And now with your current strain it is not working. I appreciate you guys though. And your sharing of the difficulties of a Reef tank.
There is something going on with fish quality. I would say in the last 3-4ish years the survivability has just gone down hill. I could talk for hours over the intricacies of quarantine, and have in the past. To keep it short, with my 26 years of my home marine aquarium care, 10's of thousands of fish brought through retail quarantine and years of experience in Aquaculture research, it is a struggle to get long term healthy fish these days. It is not just Marine fish, I noticed that freshwater fish quality has also gone down lately.
Could that be a separate systematic issue? Some chemical, some kind of leaching plastic, some kind of food, some device that wasn't used in the past?
Great chat fellas! I’m currently rebooting my shallow 90g and I’ll be searching for humilis and gemmifera. I absolutely love these types of acropora, but like you, I haven’t seen these since the late 90’s.
I have been looking all over the last couple months for a red dragon like you have in your tank I think I fell in love with it during your video and I finally found one and it’s in Colorado all places. Very excited for that great video again gentlemen thank you much
100% agree with the fish quality. I have had very similar issues within the last few years. Fish will keep for a month or two. Super healthy, eating and out of the blue wake up and dead. Makes no sense. Been in the hobby for 15yrs. No matter what I try. super sad.
Once I saw Scott's video on dinos I tried it out as well and had success. Now I keep my tanks at 79. Listening to Dr. Tim I think it will increase the bacterial stability as well and allow those organisms to thrive.
Check out the section called other LPS on Aqua SD some solid non hyped stuff there and okay prices
Jake, I’ve been using GLA monopotassium phosphate. 5 mL adds 0.04 ppm of phosphate to my 200 gallon system.
what do you use for a medicated level of copper? using cupramine, testing with hanna
Where did you get that shirt from Jake?
My biggest reservation with roller mats is wondering what the filter material is made of, and is it biodegradable? The term fleece gets thrown out there a lot, but hardly anything is actually made of wool, so just what is filter fleece made of? I’m not a zero waste fanatic, but I would rather not be using big “disposable” rolls of filter material that persists for 50+ years on the regular.
Chris meckley said potassium hydroxide will hurt your fish first, wonder if it’s the potassium or the fact it’s a harsh additive. But you did say your potassium was high it made me think of this statement from ACI
I shoot for 80 degrees, in my experience I get less algae and fish issues with warmer temps and my tank just looks like it thrives wen warmer. Now the temp does drop a good bit on a cold night, and wen it does I wake up to dirty glass overnight.
But lately I’ve been considering lower temps for coral health cause I keep hearing about lower temps. But my corals are to happy to change anything at the moment🤷🏼♂️
Yes fish quality had gone down in the last 1 year I lost 5 out of 8 this last few months during quarantine and using safety stop which I used a lot .
What I've noticed from one of my lfs, they only have a single wholesale option and the facility imo is infected with uronema, at the moment I havent really seen anyone cure it and the only way to get it out of there system is to bleach it but everybody is greedy and it only matters that the fish is alive when it leaves their facility.
So far I have lost 2 leopard wrasse, 3 watanabei angels, regal angel, and eightline flasher wrasse to uronema
Why buy there then🙅♂️
How long do you quarantine your fish and what products do you recommend adding to quarantine tank
10 days is a good place to start- making sure they’re eating and have no signs of illness is a major checkpoint. I’d say nitrofurazone and some copper is a good way to cover most of your bases.
Thanks for the content guys. Wanted to share my current frustrations with the accuracy of test kits. Some corals - trachy, scolly, elegance and chalice - are receding and I thought it was due to low magnesium levels. However after testing the reference solution my test results were at least 1000ppt higher that what it should be (brand new test kit too). How do you guys approach testing your tanks parameters, do you test every parameter 3 times and average it or test with the understanding if you test the same way you can analyse the trend to identify issues. In the second case how do you know it's that parameter that is the problem?
unusual for mg to rise out of proportion as its only slowly uptake so I presume you added it in some form? Or small chance the salt mix had too much mag, Ive sen that before.
The few times ive seen it.. when dosed by the keeper by accident, some corals have reacted badly, others fine. Basic water changes should bring it down, presuming you know the salt is not the culprit. I 'would' bring it down as its slowly depleted typically
@@PazLeBon can’t confirm this but I think Red Sea blue bucket has had high mag the last couple buckets I have used. My mag has been sitting around 1700 and I don’t dose yet. Could be a bad test kit but I’m using red sea and it’s over a year until expiry. Gonna have to buy a salifert test to confirm my results I just forget every time I’m at the lfs
@@KnarBurger spose thats why i use amazon. my memory is like a sieve,tho will often come out of the lfs with something that wasnt on the list. he list i forget to bring :)
@@PazLeBon Mag could have been low due to uptake, I use natural salt water in Western Australia and it tends to fluctuate at the source. So I rely on dosing to keep it around 1300ppt, however after checking the accuracy of my test kit, I am unsure if the mag is the issue or something else
@@lukemilne6922 eww, you mean that stuff full of diesel, sewage and microplastics? Could be another pointer right there lol
I love those guys over @ Gallery Aquatica, I need one of those koozy! 😃
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Classic JAKE
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Rise of tempature didn't work for me but it work on my frag tank.
Another great episode! One deep thought I had recently was that we commonly see fish categorized as reef-safe or with caution, but do you think we’ll see vendors (or content creators) start classifying corals as fish-resistant or fish-proof? As a new reefer (long-time planted aquascaper) I think this would’ve helped when putting together a coral stocking plan in the beginning. I think I’m still too scared to add an angelfish at the moment but was thinking my montiporas should be pretty fish-safe.
Thanks for the information on propane generator I will go that route
I love listening to this podcast, the only thing that kind of bugs me is that Jake tends to interrupt Mark sometimes….
@@queencityreefs I definitely still is, I just wish jake would let mark finish a thought first, then if he has something to add go ahead and add it.
Agree, but mark handles it like anyone with an annoying friend handles it. They just ignore it and move on.
Yes, let mark speak. Be careful about knowing it all and be condescending.
But they love each other. Clearly the respect and friendship is there.
Ha, try having a convo with me. Some personalities are just like that.