Never bought merch in my life, but I will when it comes out. You provide more than just Reef Therapy. To me, you guys look at reefing the way I want to see it. You speak deep to me because reef is what you do and what your passion is about. These sessions feel very therapeutically and give me a sense of belonging. Love what you do!!!
Hey Jake, In the spirit of underrated corals and fish, your buddy Ali in LA exemplifies the appreciation of classic livestock and techniques. Your videos of his store are what inspired my current mixed reef of softies and LPS.
Thanks !!. Fish can also be challenging. The point is to mix different species. For example, wrasses and tangs. This can be also rewarding. Cheers Piotr
I really like this podcast because I'm relatively young and new to this hobby so when you talk about the history of the hobby I find it really fascinating. Thanks for getting me up to speed!
Minus the headphones and mic and the setting, it looks like two friends just talking fish. The tempo between these 2 is just chill, no unnecessary flash and drama like most other podcasts. Two thumbs up with a grin!!!
Love my Neon Dotty back. It's also been a help to keep my red flat worms in check. (he went on a swim about to the sump through the overflow for a few days and started to see the flatworms come back. 2 days after he 2as back in the main display the flatworms are gone) . In my 90 Gallon he leaves everyone alone and just does his own thing in and out of the rock work
Jake you should do a video on bare bottom tanks and how to avoid bacteria blooms or the struggles when setting up a bare bottom with dry rock. Every time you make a new tank it seems like you don’t struggle at all especially with the Australian scoly dominated reef..
Great video. Not a huge wrasse guy but the Leopard and the Carpenter are some of my favorites. Leopard is a bucket wrasse. Had tanks for years but they were always nanos. My new build will be big enough.
It’s fun to take on the challenge of cryptic fish. I have a pair of dwarf Golden angelfish. When they swim in the mid day light, the color is amazing. 😁
I have a swiss gaurd in my 64 gal sps dominated peninsula tank. It right its very cryptic, I see him maybe 2 or 3 times a week and its usually when I'm cutting a frag or moving something around he pops out and looks for any tiny morsel it can find to eat! Very inquisitive fish too! It's small like 2.5"...
Look into the C. Rubeus Fairy wrasse. and when it flashes.. Yes its a fairy not a flasher.. It is awe inspiring.. the area under the dorsal goes electric blue and the pec fins get so black..
The next day after the name video came out someone on Reef2Reef was selling an ultra Nuclear green Japanese weeping willow leather. All I could picture was Jake pulling his hair out! I would never of given it a second thought till I saw you get so heated over it last week. I totally agree, definitely grinds your gears
I've watched reef builders channel for a while. The videos always pop up for me. Big fan of the content. I just realized I wasn't subscribed. Sorry bout that Jake. I got it fixed as soon as I noticed lol. Loving the new podcast. Thanks man
I can’t get enough. Still kickin a$$! Here’s a topic: lighting schedules. You two have been around the block, go through some different tried and true schedules for different tank set ups and lights. No one talks about it. We’re left guessing.
I have tons of those micro brittle stars and love 'em. I have some red ones too. I like the format guys, kinda the conversations I like having with other reefers. Maybe it's me, but it seems like only people who've been in this hobby since the 80's or 90's think this way? Keep up the great conversations, wish I can jump in sometimes, but I'll sit back and enjoy. Caulastrea furcata is such an underrated coral, but seeing huge round colonies of them simply rocks.
My under rated fish would be a Court Jester Goby. Love my little guy, when he's not chilling in his own little home in the rock work he's helping munch away at algae and left over food on my sand bed.
Also have a Talbot had him over a year so not really long term. Model citizen. He does like to dig and before the sponge got a chance to stick on the rock he was throwing it around the tank like a soccer ball.
Yes, another video. Working from home. Saw it. Had to start watching, but will finish it this evening as i am only at 27:19. 😀. Threadfin cardinals are under rated in IMO. When happy and adjusted to a tank the iridescent metallic blue is just phenomenal. I was reluctant to purchase scissortail gobies, but did, and was so happy with the 5 i got. The black colorstion was like velvet. They showed behavior I had not seen before. They would swim mid-water column and nuzzle each other. A behavior i had never seen before. So gentle. I need to get back to work . Ha ha
Now that i have finished watching the video i can say these series are spot on. 43 yrs in the hobby and you brought back some great memories. I still like halides. Had several of the Inland Aquarics algae scrubbers. What memories. Stomatella are awesome and mine breed regularly. Other fish that are underrated are masked gobies as well as the other i mentioned in my earlier post. I think blue ridge coral, hydnaphora, and photosynthetic gorgonians are all underrated. I’ve had hydnaphora that with 1-2” thick branches. Unfortunately today, it seems tanks are broken down before colonies really mature and look spectacular or are hacked up to make a buck. Please keep these series coming. The community needs to hear these type discussions.
the main reason I like knowing the names of corals so that I can research care tips. And the popular named acros are not only enjoyable to collect but typically have most info and also resilience.
I recently watched a UA-cam of a family (off grid family) from Canada that went spearfishing i the Hawaiian Islands. I was totally set off as they speared a half dozen Yellow tangs for dinner.
I usually love when streams like this are live streams so that I can troll and bs in the chat. But it’s nice being able to throw on the AirPods and work on my tank with this inspiration.
I just bought a yellow eyed kole tang and a nice lord from the lfs* yesterday, I never ask for anything on the coral I’m wanting to buy as I’ve already done my research before buying. Idk why but I only gravitate to corals I’ve learned about, but this lord has like really lime green mouths and the outside are purple and blue. So nice, about 9 polyps. Idc if someone gave the coral a cool name, it’s just a lord to me. The kole tang so far is healthy, they aren’t too expensive in Florida and each lfs had a few
2:11 in im hooked! Ive spent nearly 1k in 2 years on coral. Now to many that price tag may seem snuff and small. But i only bought sick ill injured or 15$ or less coral. This includes many expensive ones as right place right time my gain IF I CAN KEEP IT ALIVE! This has lead to nearly 6,000$ in coral today in two years if i where to sell all of it and quit, but whats the fun cutting small and medium colonies you started with less than a half inch frag in most cases. JAKE thank you! You put a push on bahama lama and inappropriate reefer to clean the cord mess up. *well i did too! Video comming* it has made my reefing soooooo much soother qnd cleaner and ENJOYABLE! *IT LOOKS SPACE AGE OUTTA THIS WORLD* AND coral shouldnt be $$$$ over a name its well whats the color and species lets go! Rare is eyes of the beholder unless its endangered
I love my neon dottyback. I love the way he swims around like an eel. I have some of those small red bristleworms for Mark if he still wants some. Once I started target feeding my Xmas favia the colors just started popping like no other. Underrated fish is the blue reef chromis or any other non blue green chromis. Underrated coral would have to be psammacora. They have super cool colors and growth patterns. Leptastrea is the same.
I will say, when I first started a few years back, I’d asked what a coral was, meaning... what species. I didn’t know enough to know if something was a zoa or what. Someone snapped back at me that he didn’t name his corals. I was SUPER confused why he didn’t know the type of Coral he was selling. There’s still corals I see and haven’t seen before.
If one inch of sand is equal to a 10 lb fish using up oxygen, how can bristle worms be any different? What benefit do they really have? Dont they leave bad nutrients and possibly spread infections easier?
under-appreciated corals I’ve always loved are turbinaria. I’ve got a yellow scrolling colony, a big green peltata, and a hand-sized heroensis colony in my tank that look great and I’ve never had any issues keeping and growing. It’s always surprising with how much effort people put into acros that the sturdier corals with similar(ish) sps growth forms just don’t seem to get much love
Peppermint Angelfish are underappreciated...because they have been priced to never be owned by practically anyone in the hobby. I'm not aware of anywhere you can even appreciate one in person anymore. Such a shame. 56:20 Is this like an Ophiocoma pumila esc striped brittle or was it finer markings? Edit: Side note, anyone seeing this comment ever heard of anyone with a Lipogramma flavescens? Jake?
Favia and platygyra and trachyphyllia are probly the 3 most under rated corals in aus in my opinion, which is a shame cause we have some great colors come through.
I dont get whats the hype with all these fancy names man. Ive seen people pay up to 2.5k for certain 1 inch frags like the bkchem fruit loops. Even if you have the money are you out of your mind?
Check your favorite pod catcher for Reef Therapy.
Never bought merch in my life, but I will when it comes out. You provide more than just Reef Therapy. To me, you guys look at reefing the way I want to see it. You speak deep to me because reef is what you do and what your passion is about. These sessions feel very therapeutically and give me a sense of belonging. Love what you do!!!
Would be cool if you showed pictures of what you talk about
Yeah that invert you called a kite-eaze would be interesting to see
I've been in the hobby only for a year now. Loving this show format, I'm learning a bunch. Keep them coming!
Never clicked so fast on a video. Im becoming addicted to these videos
Hey Jake, In the spirit of underrated corals and fish, your buddy Ali in LA exemplifies the appreciation of classic livestock and techniques. Your videos of his store are what inspired my current mixed reef of softies and LPS.
Thanks !!. Fish can also be challenging. The point is to mix different species. For example, wrasses and tangs. This can be also rewarding. Cheers Piotr
I just love these videos. They are perfect at work, you guys have found the format that will have me coming back over and over again
I really like this podcast because I'm relatively young and new to this hobby so when you talk about the history of the hobby I find it really fascinating. Thanks for getting me up to speed!
Minus the headphones and mic and the setting, it looks like two friends just talking fish. The tempo between these 2 is just chill, no unnecessary flash and drama like most other podcasts. Two thumbs up with a grin!!!
Love my Neon Dotty back. It's also been a help to keep my red flat worms in check. (he went on a swim about to the sump through the overflow for a few days and started to see the flatworms come back. 2 days after he 2as back in the main display the flatworms are gone) . In my 90 Gallon he leaves everyone alone and just does his own thing in and out of the rock work
Jake you should do a video on bare bottom tanks and how to avoid bacteria blooms or the struggles when setting up a bare bottom with dry rock. Every time you make a new tank it seems like you don’t struggle at all especially with the Australian scoly dominated reef..
Absolutely love the classics!
Absolutely love my Yellow Tang, had “her” for 10 years. Super personable and bright
What an Awesome series.
Great video. Not a huge wrasse guy but the Leopard and the Carpenter are some of my favorites. Leopard is a bucket wrasse. Had tanks for years but they were always nanos. My new build will be big enough.
Amazing video man right balance for speaking time between both of you. To learn from both hoppiest and nice topic.
I'm with you on the tomini tang Jake. Something about the way it moves and grazes. Very graceful and smooth
It’s fun to take on the challenge of cryptic fish. I have a pair of dwarf Golden angelfish. When they swim in the mid day light, the color is amazing. 😁
A must watch!
I have a swiss gaurd in my 64 gal sps dominated peninsula tank. It right its very cryptic, I see him maybe 2 or 3 times a week and its usually when I'm cutting a frag or moving something around he pops out and looks for any tiny morsel it can find to eat! Very inquisitive fish too! It's small like 2.5"...
Look into the C. Rubeus Fairy wrasse. and when it flashes.. Yes its a fairy not a flasher.. It is awe inspiring.. the area under the dorsal goes electric blue and the pec fins get so black..
One of my favorite shows, and I am still keeping freshwater!
Great content! Thank you both.
You should consider creating a tank setup with only captive bred fish to show how many are actually available ...
What a informative Podcast! And love Jake’s t-shirt...again!
5:30 my purple tang has a couple of smiley faces hidden in his face! I love it so much
The next day after the name video came out someone on Reef2Reef was selling an ultra Nuclear green Japanese weeping willow leather. All I could picture was Jake pulling his hair out! I would never of given it a second thought till I saw you get so heated over it last week. I totally agree, definitely grinds your gears
Bristle worms are a plus clean up crew member in my book.
Assessors...totally underrated
dying to get my hands on some wild yellow assessors like woah
I've watched reef builders channel for a while. The videos always pop up for me. Big fan of the content. I just realized I wasn't subscribed. Sorry bout that Jake. I got it fixed as soon as I noticed lol. Loving the new podcast. Thanks man
I can’t get enough. Still kickin a$$! Here’s a topic: lighting schedules. You two have been around the block, go through some different tried and true schedules for different tank set ups and lights. No one talks about it. We’re left guessing.
I have tons of those micro brittle stars and love 'em. I have some red ones too. I like the format guys, kinda the conversations I like having with other reefers. Maybe it's me, but it seems like only people who've been in this hobby since the 80's or 90's think this way? Keep up the great conversations, wish I can jump in sometimes, but I'll sit back and enjoy. Caulastrea furcata is such an underrated coral, but seeing huge round colonies of them simply rocks.
Jake the nice Rollandi damsels come from Vanuatu. When I get them I’ll make sure that’s where they were collected
thanks for the tip, no wonder I haven't seen any nice Rollands in a long while since there's been mo exports from Vanuatu
My under rated fish would be a Court Jester Goby. Love my little guy, when he's not chilling in his own little home in the rock work he's helping munch away at algae and left over food on my sand bed.
Also have a Talbot had him over a year so not really long term. Model citizen. He does like to dig and before the sponge got a chance to stick on the rock he was throwing it around the tank like a soccer ball.
I think a highly under rated fish is the Chocolate tang. It's my favorite fish.
Yes, another video. Working from home. Saw it. Had to start watching, but will finish it this evening as i am only at 27:19. 😀. Threadfin cardinals are under rated in IMO. When happy and adjusted to a tank the iridescent metallic blue is just phenomenal. I was reluctant to purchase scissortail gobies, but did, and was so happy with the 5 i got. The black colorstion was like velvet. They showed behavior I had not seen before. They would swim mid-water column and nuzzle each other. A behavior i had never seen before. So gentle. I need to get back to work . Ha ha
I think we totally spaced on the cardinalfish, there was so much to cover, but man I've always loved pyjamas and bangais, two totally underrated fish
Now that i have finished watching the video i can say these series are spot on. 43 yrs in the hobby and you brought back some great memories. I still like halides. Had several of the Inland Aquarics algae scrubbers. What memories. Stomatella are awesome and mine breed regularly. Other fish that are underrated are masked gobies as well as the other i mentioned in my earlier post. I think blue ridge coral, hydnaphora, and photosynthetic gorgonians are all underrated. I’ve had hydnaphora that with 1-2” thick branches. Unfortunately today, it seems tanks are broken down before colonies really mature and look spectacular or are hacked up to make a buck. Please keep these series coming. The community needs to hear these type discussions.
the main reason I like knowing the names of corals so that I can research care tips.
And the popular named acros are not only enjoyable to collect but typically have most info and also resilience.
I recently watched a UA-cam of a family (off grid family) from Canada that went spearfishing i the Hawaiian Islands. I was totally set off as they speared a half dozen Yellow tangs for dinner.
Love my Royal Gramma! They are awesome fish!
Cespitularia is definitely an underrated coral to me. That blue with gold polyps is gorgeous and the movement in high flow is very fun to watch.
So gorgeous but I find myself throwing away lots of it because it just grows so darned fast
I usually love when streams like this are live streams so that I can troll and bs in the chat. But it’s nice being able to throw on the AirPods and work on my tank with this inspiration.
I absolutely adore listening to reef content while working on the tanks, totally meta
More about awesome affordable LPS and softies. Picture would be nice. Also where do i actually get a weeping willow?
I just bought a yellow eyed kole tang and a nice lord from the lfs* yesterday, I never ask for anything on the coral I’m wanting to buy as I’ve already done my research before buying. Idk why but I only gravitate to corals I’ve learned about, but this lord has like really lime green mouths and the outside are purple and blue. So nice, about 9 polyps. Idc if someone gave the coral a cool name, it’s just a lord to me. The kole tang so far is healthy, they aren’t too expensive in Florida and each lfs had a few
Dragon faced pipefish is my new favorite with the barnacle Blenny being a close second. Both fish I got over the past year for under $15 a piece.
2:11 in im hooked!
Ive spent nearly 1k in 2 years on coral.
Now to many that price tag may seem snuff and small.
But i only bought sick ill injured or 15$ or less coral. This includes many expensive ones as right place right time my gain IF I CAN KEEP IT ALIVE! This has lead to nearly 6,000$ in coral today in two years if i where to sell all of it and quit, but whats the fun cutting small and medium colonies you started with less than a half inch frag in most cases.
JAKE thank you! You put a push on bahama lama and inappropriate reefer to clean the cord mess up. *well i did too! Video comming* it has made my reefing soooooo much soother qnd cleaner and ENJOYABLE! *IT LOOKS SPACE AGE OUTTA THIS WORLD*
AND coral shouldnt be $$$$ over a name its well whats the color and species lets go! Rare is eyes of the beholder unless its endangered
I love my neon dottyback. I love the way he swims around like an eel. I have some of those small red bristleworms for Mark if he still wants some. Once I started target feeding my Xmas favia the colors just started popping like no other. Underrated fish is the blue reef chromis or any other non blue green chromis. Underrated coral would have to be psammacora. They have super cool colors and growth patterns. Leptastrea is the same.
I will say, when I first started a few years back, I’d asked what a coral was, meaning... what species. I didn’t know enough to know if something was a zoa or what. Someone snapped back at me that he didn’t name his corals. I was SUPER confused why he didn’t know the type of Coral he was selling. There’s still corals I see and haven’t seen before.
If one inch of sand is equal to a 10 lb fish using up oxygen, how can bristle worms be any different? What benefit do they really have? Dont they leave bad nutrients and possibly spread infections easier?
Theres yellow leathers but i dont see elegans too much. Elegans are a little tricky to keep happy. My big underrated coral is the cabbage leather.
under-appreciated corals I’ve always loved are turbinaria. I’ve got a yellow scrolling colony, a big green peltata, and a hand-sized heroensis colony in my tank that look great and I’ve never had any issues keeping and growing. It’s always surprising with how much effort people put into acros that the sturdier corals with similar(ish) sps growth forms just don’t seem to get much love
I've got a collection of Turbinarias and totally love them
All my Tominis are aggressive A-holes but they do a good job so I'm stuck with em.
Peppermint Angelfish are underappreciated...because they have been priced to never be owned by practically anyone in the hobby. I'm not aware of anywhere you can even appreciate one in person anymore. Such a shame.
56:20 Is this like an Ophiocoma pumila esc striped brittle or was it finer markings?
Edit: Side note, anyone seeing this comment ever heard of anyone with a Lipogramma flavescens? Jake?
I've never heard of a live Lipogramma flavescens being captured alive, let alone for the aquarium hobby, but maybe one day
Favia and platygyra and trachyphyllia are probly the 3 most under rated corals in aus in my opinion, which is a shame cause we have some great colors come through.
Hey Jake, so I have a galaxea that is kinda getting neglected and I’d rather send it to a good home. You want it?
Are these availible anywhere besides UA-cam? Looking to listen in the car but don't want to have youtube open for hours 🤣
Open your favorite pod catcher (spotify, apple podcasts, etc.) search for reef therapy. Add to favorites.
Jake - when are you going to do a full Studio 2021 tour? Those are the best.
I know I am SO overdue, but it'll be WAY worth it when it's published
@@ReefBuildersVideo it was. Both videos.
I'm going to need therapy for my addiction to Reef Therapy.
You should consider getting a captive bred purple Tangs as well.
I have three wild purps but would love to get my hands on a cultured one, but I think it was a one-time run by Bali Aquarich
Chalk bass
I have a Talbot that I love very much I'd be happy to send you guys some pics. let me know where to send them
My aqurium in My bed room have clowns They are watching me when I am sleeping then ı whaching them when I wake up
Am getting more Digitada for my reef I know someone that has Green, Red, Blue.
mix them all up, can't go wrong
Wait exsqueeze me... Marietta? Are you from Atlanta?
I used to live in Marietta and I believe Marc still does
@@ReefBuildersVideo very cool. I currently live in Woodstock and work in East Cobb. There are a lot of good stores in the area.
Whatsgoodpeople☕🍿Deep sea diving 🤿, bring on the Merch 👕 Camo plz
I wish mandarin fish can grow bigger😢
& a ☕ coffee mug for wifey plz
Desjardini
I love me some big tangs i got 5 vlamingis in mine
Love big guys
You have FIVE vlamingis? Damn, must be a big ole tank
@@ReefBuildersVideo small right now only 650 but upgrading soon
I dont get whats the hype with all these fancy names man. Ive seen people pay up to 2.5k for certain 1 inch frags like the bkchem fruit loops. Even if you have the money are you out of your mind?
Love the podcast but it's turning into a lot of complaining about the current hobby, y'all sound a 1000 years old talking about the good old days
There's going to be some of that as we need to understand where we've been in order to understand where the hobby is going ;-)