Great video. Good to see the progression both good and bad. I watch your videos all the time but this one helped me appreciate all the super nice pieces you have.
i appreciate the rip section. with just over a year under my belt in a mixed reef, its good to see even experienced reefers with unexplained fails. i'm slow, but could have used about another half second of each shot.
I wish I had taken more pics of my tanks growth, ur tank looks great, frag the purple colony sell them and buy something else, keep it going with new frags so it doesn’t get stale!! I mean don’t get bored with ur tank!!
I may have to revamp my 125g just to clean it up after 13 years due to too much overgrowth. The saying "Too much of a good thing" applies to being successful.
@@TheBioReef my 450g system has 6 tanks and 2 sumps. The 125g is the oldest at 13 years but most were transplanted from an 8 year old 90g when I moved in 2006. I haven't touched it since I threw everything in there. The largest colony I have is the ORA Red Planet which covers 1/3 of the top right under the center brace which will suck to move.
Thanks, I won't say it's been a perfect 13 years but a challenging one with ups and downs. But hey that's why we do this instead of just a goldfish bowl.
Hope I can be as successful as you. Only thing I was successful with was my pink stylo, it encrusted. Getting a Cali Tort and Purple Table this weekend, I hope I don't kill them.
I just picked up a RR/Snipers Pacman and RR Orange Passion while down here in Orlando for vacation from Top Shelf Aquatics. The RR OP is definitely the most expensive $$$ frag I ever paid for. Though not as expensive as the Rainbow Acanthophyllia I bought. Any secrets on the RR OP? I tend to be hit and miss on tenuis for some reason.
Ellery Wong mine is doing well in 250 to 300 par. Not the fastest grower, so try to keep it away from fast growers to give it a chance to establish a large base; mine receded a bit when encroached ok by an encrusting monti. good luck ; one of my favs!
thanks again for your videos, really interesting the thing with phosphate you have 0.2!! and sps still growing and colored, can you tell how is your nutr.export? do you dose nopox? gfo? chaeto refuge? i am interested on your way, it is simple overall, and you have videos to prove it ;)
Majd Sirhan have a look here for general husbandry and how I run the tank. Briefly filtration is just skimmer, fuge with Cheato and s couple of small bags of siporax in the sump. Also I do a daily 1% water change... that’s it
Thanks Majd! check out this video for my husbandry ua-cam.com/video/D3urX4WZ_C8/v-deo.html ; i did do an experiment with dosing redsea trace elements but saw no obvious benefit; here is a link to that video ua-cam.com/video/VHk2S7ldT_c/v-deo.html ; i just keep things simple with small automatic water changes (with cheap instant ocean salt), 2 part dosing using ESV B-ionic. I occasionally dose nitrate and phosphate to keep the levels where i want them.
Great tank!! What salt are you using? Have you changed salt from the start of this tank? Does the salt you use have similar parameters to those you want to maintain, such as alkalinity?
i use the cheap instant ocean salt; its parameters are a bit higher than what i keep. i only briefly used seachem's new salt when i couldn't get the regular instant ocean in my LFS... that was about a year an half ago, but i managed to get back on the instant ocean salt right away
thanks Miguel! I keep dkh at around 8.5, Calcium 450, Mg 1350. Nitrates and phosphates vary. currently the are at 1 and 0.06 ppm respectively, but they have been as high as 10 and 0.15 ppm
@@TheBioReef thank you so much and I'm in love with all your pieces. I barely got into sps and in a span of 2 weeks I can notice slight growth on some bird nest I have and I love it
@@TheBioReef thank you so much man. Hopefully my frags grow as big as yours one point. Sorry that some of those frags didn't make it they were simply beautiful
clear hardware issue with the apex eb832 ... none of the troubleshooting tips suggested by customer support helped so i am sending it off to Apex for repairs... will do a video on my issues next week; cheers!
Fantastic video thanks for posting
Glad you enjoyed it
Your videos are why I got into acros. Thank you!
thanks Richard; good luck with your acros
Thanks for this video and your documentation is incredible. It is rare to see reef videos this full of information.
thanks so much Moe - i appreciate the positive feedback!
Loved this video! ❤
Thanks!
Awesome growth on all the corals even the deceased ones. Keep up the great work chief.
Thanks Angel
Great video. Good to see the progression both good and bad. I watch your videos all the time but this one helped me appreciate all the super nice pieces you have.
thanks Arrick!
You have accomplished success in your tank. Congrats.
thanks so much Brett
Awesome coral photo album 👍🏾👍🏾
thanks Jeff! i like watching them grow!
i appreciate the rip section. with just over a year under my belt in a mixed reef, its good to see even experienced reefers with unexplained fails. i'm slow, but could have used about another half second of each shot.
thanks Mike...
Très belle évolution, BRAVO !!! 👏👏👏
Merci!
I can’t believe how much growth you get in short amounts of time. Awesome
Hook1fred thanks!
Awesome video and super awesome channel! Best content and detail!
thanks Darkwing for the positive feedback
Excellent video buddy! I appreciated every minute of it. Well put together an full of info.
thanks Kelvin - i really appreciate the compliment. Cheers!
This was great to watch. Thank u
thanks Arie
I love your tank, thanks for showing us the progression of your sps
thanks so much Lisa!
This Is magically ❣️
Great vid. Love to watch em grow
thanks Ronald
love your videos! Thank you
thanks!
I love these types of vids! Awesome stuff ;)
Sunny Goold thanks!
Great update tank looking awesome
thanks Braveheart
Looks really nice.
thanks Joe
Great video!
no name guy thanks!
in awe.
Ozzie Garcia Thanks Ozzie
Nice video and some great coral growth :)
thanks Cesca!
Let’s take a moment and appreciate the three flasher wrasse and the super male
Reef Therapy yes! I love my wrasses!!!
Hats off, still beautiful!
thanks so much András
Good stuff!
tplummer217 thanks!
I wish I had taken more pics of my tanks growth, ur tank looks great, frag the purple colony sell them and buy something else, keep it going with new frags so it doesn’t get stale!! I mean don’t get bored with ur tank!!
yeah that is what i am planing to do! have some plans for adding a couple of nice frags!
I may have to revamp my 125g just to clean it up after 13 years due to too much overgrowth. The saying "Too much of a good thing" applies to being successful.
Ellery Wong nice - how long has it been running for?
@@TheBioReef my 450g system has 6 tanks and 2 sumps. The 125g is the oldest at 13 years but most were transplanted from an 8 year old 90g when I moved in 2006. I haven't touched it since I threw everything in there. The largest colony I have is the ORA Red Planet which covers 1/3 of the top right under the center brace which will suck to move.
wow sound like a monster system. 13 years is an amazing achievement - congrats
Thanks, I won't say it's been a perfect 13 years but a challenging one with ups and downs. But hey that's why we do this instead of just a goldfish bowl.
Hope I can be as successful as you. Only thing I was successful with was my pink stylo, it encrusted. Getting a Cali Tort and Purple Table this weekend, I hope I don't kill them.
Thanh Ha good luck!
I think your corals are doing steroids 🤣The full shot of the Reef is amazing and the growth is pretty crazy! Looks great as always😉💜💜💜💜💜✌
Eddy Ortiz All of my sps are subjected to random drug testing :) thanks Eddy!
@@TheBioReef That was really funny 🤣🤣👍
:)
I just picked up a RR/Snipers Pacman and RR Orange Passion while down here in Orlando for vacation from Top Shelf Aquatics. The RR OP is definitely the most expensive $$$ frag I ever paid for. Though not as expensive as the Rainbow Acanthophyllia I bought. Any secrets on the RR OP? I tend to be hit and miss on tenuis for some reason.
Ellery Wong mine is doing well in 250 to 300 par. Not the fastest grower, so try to keep it away from fast growers to give it a chance to establish a large base; mine receded a bit when encroached ok by an encrusting monti. good luck ; one of my favs!
thanks again for your videos, really interesting the thing with phosphate you have 0.2!! and sps still growing and colored, can you tell how is your nutr.export?
do you dose nopox? gfo? chaeto refuge?
i am interested on your way, it is simple overall, and you have videos to prove it ;)
Majd Sirhan have a look here for general husbandry and how I run the tank. Briefly filtration is just skimmer, fuge with Cheato and s couple of small bags of siporax in the sump. Also I do a daily 1% water change... that’s it
@@TheBioReef thank you Amro, i will look again may i find the video, thanks a lot :)
good luck
ah so how come we dont get to see who we are listening to my only complaint ....
I prefer to just record and do audio later ... there are a few cameos here and there :)
Great video as always! Do you do anything when the encrusting part of your acros begin to touch? Mine are beginning to get close!
usually, i just let them be. I did scape some of my shocholic off to give my orange passion some space.
amazing :)), do you dose red sea trace elements or something else, or do you keep stable nitrate and waterchanges?
Thanks Majd! check out this video for my husbandry ua-cam.com/video/D3urX4WZ_C8/v-deo.html ; i did do an experiment with dosing redsea trace elements but saw no obvious benefit; here is a link to that video ua-cam.com/video/VHk2S7ldT_c/v-deo.html ; i just keep things simple with small automatic water changes (with cheap instant ocean salt), 2 part dosing using ESV B-ionic. I occasionally dose nitrate and phosphate to keep the levels where i want them.
Great tank!! What salt are you using? Have you changed salt from the start of this tank? Does the salt you use have similar parameters to those you want to maintain, such as alkalinity?
i use the cheap instant ocean salt; its parameters are a bit higher than what i keep. i only briefly used seachem's new salt when i couldn't get the regular instant ocean in my LFS... that was about a year an half ago, but i managed to get back on the instant ocean salt right away
Im doing something wrong. I have so many sps that do not grow or worse bleached out.
sorry to hear that
I always wanted to know the name of that coral so I can go buy one. Ice fire echinata
it is beautiful but very fickle... i am not 0/4 with it!
@@TheBioReef let's try again brother. Me and you. One of us has to make it. then I'll send a frag your way
@@HCBCHEMISTRY do it man! i wish you the best of luck!
Your tank is beautiful. I know this comment is late but what’s parameters do you keep your tank at? Thank you!
thanks Miguel! I keep dkh at around 8.5, Calcium 450, Mg 1350. Nitrates and phosphates vary. currently the are at 1 and 0.06 ppm respectively, but they have been as high as 10 and 0.15 ppm
How didi you control no3 and po4 ? Please tell me what are the supplements for reef tank ?
Sukanta Mondal have a look here for info on how I run my tank
ua-cam.com/video/D3urX4WZ_C8/v-deo.html
How do you supplement kalk and calcium?
Edson Jerez I dose ESV 2 part; 33 ml a day each
@@TheBioReef glad to hear ESV can yield such results. I am using ESV along with kalkwaser.
Edson Jerez nice. That’s a good combo
On another video I saw you put putty around the sps frag to help it encrust faster. Could you point me to what that putty is??
Luis Perez two little fishes putty
@@TheBioReef thank you so much and I'm in love with all your pieces. I barely got into sps and in a span of 2 weeks I can notice slight growth on some bird nest I have and I love it
@@LuisPerez-hw9hb be careful, sps can be addictive :) its a good sign that your birdnest is growing ... best of luck!
@@TheBioReef thank you so much man. Hopefully my frags grow as big as yours one point. Sorry that some of those frags didn't make it they were simply beautiful
@@LuisPerez-hw9hb good luck
Hey! Just wondering about the status of your Apex ...
clear hardware issue with the apex eb832 ... none of the troubleshooting tips suggested by customer support helped so i am sending it off to Apex for repairs... will do a video on my issues next week; cheers!
AmroAzul TV Thanks so much for this update.
@@skzion2 np! thanks for following up and for catching up on the videos on my channel!