3 REASONS YOUR REEF TANK LOOKS HORRIBLE!
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In this CoralFish12g video I give you 3 reasons why your reef tank may not look as good as you want it to! If you follow my 3 suggestions, you can get rid of any algae, or issue to have the reef tank of your dreams! Hanna Instruments: http://pages.hannainst.com/aquarium-testing#charts DISCOUNT CODE: hanna12g17 (only valid for U.S. residents) CoralFish12g.com: http://www.coralfish12g.com CoralFish12g Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/coralfish12g/ CoralFish12g Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coralfish12g/
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Good video George
I look from the Netherlands!
10. comment for 3 REASONS YOUR REEF TANK LOOKS HORRIBLE!
can i ask you a question?
i have 13 years experience in fresh water tanks.
I want to have a nano reef tank from my 11 gallon aquarium.
My question is - did i need a RODI Machine for success nano reef tank?
Or i need just a good salt?
thank you!
20. comment for 3 REASONS YOUR REEF TANK LOOKS HORRIBLE!
This is a great vid.
Ive been researching saltwater aquariums for about 4years now.
Never had the investment capitol until recently. Let me tell you it's hard not walking home with a tank and fish with 4 saltwater LFS in my area.
Can't wait to start this gorgeous hobby
30. comment for 3 REASONS YOUR REEF TANK LOOKS HORRIBLE!
Around 15ish years ago, just for shits and giggles, I set up a 42 gallon corner aquarium and built a reef from scratch. It was up and running for 5, maybe 6 years before I broke it down and donated all the corals, inverts and fish (including captive bred Ocellaris, 4 or 5 out of 30 or so actually survived to adulthood). Rarely did water changes, only topped it off once every few days with filtered tap water and some Kalkwasser thrown in. I changed out the active carbon a couple times a month, and occasionally cleaned the viewing surfaces with a paper towel (it barely needed any cleaning). It ran on a Magnum canister filter and an Emperor 250, with 4 normal 20" flourescent lights (2x2500k "daylight," and 2x 10000k actinic) Everyone laughed at me saying it couldn't be done without drilling, installing a drip sump, RO/DI, a skimmer, a refugium, expensive live sand, metal halide or high output fluorescents, a chiller, tons of powerheads and wavemakers, a quarantine tank, billions of supplements, etc. Little did the haters know I had been in the aquarium hobby since I was 5 years old breeding guppies and various other mollies/platies, as well as the occasional killifish (they were hard to come by then). I probably still have some pictures saved somewhere taken on a top of the line Motorola SLVR, which was the first camera and first camera phone I'd ever owned.
Keep it simple and pay attention to what's happening in there and your reef will take care of itself with very little influence. I see way too many people overreacting and doing supplements on top of supplements, constantly fiddling with heat, lighting, feeding, excessive water changes, etc. When a reef starts experiencing far too much outside influence, the results are consistently negative.
Hanna spent their money well on sponsoring this video, because I probably will want a their Mag tester in the future.
50. comment for 3 REASONS YOUR REEF TANK LOOKS HORRIBLE!
as someone who works at an LPS, I can't even begin to count how many customers' problems stem from too few water changes! K have one guy who actually brags about not doing water changes.
(for some reason, his reef tank is no more... hmmm, can't imagine why?)
one regular customer was trying to figure out why his system was crashing. turns out it had been weeks since his last water change, and he hadn't even touched his filter (media included) in 6 months!
a large water change and a good filter cleaning and media change and his tank is beautiful once more! Too bad it took a fish dying for him to pay attention. :(
1. you know this applies to fresh water systems, too
2. you know you want a reef tank ;)
1. you feed youre fish too much
2. you dont do enough water changes
3. You messed up cleaning your filter.
In my opinion testing the water is not very useful. He is right about water changes though. If you see even one unhappy coral ,excess algae, or any abnormalities, do a water change! It always leads to a water change.
More reasons
.change carbon
.get a ro/filter
.air bubbles in tank
.too much light
.clean your tank (every inch of it)
.switch the flow to push fish poop off the bottom of the aquarium.
.rotting fish or invertabrate in tank
.clean your sand
. not enough filtration
Even in a 20 gallon SPS reef I did weekly water changes on using Aquavitro Salinity [salt mix] still needed a 3 channel auto doser that added a generous amount of Cal, Alk, and Mag solutions daily in order to maintain optimal growth and color of the corals.
All in all, your video is great and I do agree that more water changes are definitely required, I just think suggesting that it resets your aquarium is a stretch, and can be really misleading for those newer hobbyists that want to achieve the sorts of SPS heavy reefs you showed as examples.
Sub'd though, so keep it up!
my hammer coral isn't opening i tried placing it several times in different places but still.
Salinity, Ca, Mg levels are perfect.
100. comment for 3 REASONS YOUR REEF TANK LOOKS HORRIBLE!
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/vibrant-liquid-aquarium-cleaner-discussion-thread.271428/
Thank you for your interest in Hanna Instruments. We have a variety of testing equipment to measure several parameters in seawater. We have our HI772 dKH Alkalinity Checker, HI755 ppm Alkalinity Checker, HI758 Calcium Checker, HI713 Low Range Phosphate Checker, HI736 ULR Phosphorus Checker, HI764 ULR Nitrite Checker, HI96822 Digital Seawater Refractometer for salinity as well as a wide variety of pH meters and TDS meters. Many of those products can be viewed from the Hanna link in this video’s bio above. Certain parameters will not work in saltwater due to interferences in the colorimetric tests. Please contact us at sales@hannainst.com or call us at 401-765-7500 for more information about specific parameters in seawater.
Hope this helps!
nice hair btw lol
If I remember right, be very careful of going beyond a total of 60% in under a week. If you take to much out, you can kill off your fish because you've removed far to much of the bacteria you need. A friend of mine had his tank crash because of that one when he had a small issue and went for a few to many emergency water changes repeatedly and the load kind of murdered the system...