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Reef Tank - 6 years ago

Great tank and wonderful display!

Adam Pearson - 6 years ago

Farm boy where did u get your lights to with the wall mounts ?

Jason Keane - 7 years ago

Whats the update? the Phoenix seems to have fallen off the map?

FARM BOY REEF - 7 years ago

Took 6 weeks off updates are coming

baseballhunter42 - 7 years ago

Paint the damn wood. Massive and expensive awesome setup framed by beat up 2x4's. Who designed that?

the special human - 7 years ago

baseballhunter42 I would honestly lay it with brick

Jonathan Taylor - 7 years ago

Any casualties?

mini zuz - 7 years ago

look my thank

Lizzy2424 24 - 7 years ago

You legit just dropped everything in the bucket. Am i the only one wondering if their shells cracked when they were dropped in?

Daniel Goodwin - 7 years ago

thats what i was thinking

Buttermybutt - 7 years ago

Are you on drugs?

Adam Charkosky - 7 years ago

Where did you get your clean up crew?

Carlson Moncrief - 7 years ago

Putting that large of a clean up crew in a tank that new with so little fish is just going to cause them to die and add nitrated to your tank. They'll probably start eating each other. Check out the clean up crew video for the BRS 160.

DIYREEFER'S PARADISE - 7 years ago

That's a lot of NITRATE bro why would you add so many snails .
I am sorry to say they die in new tank due to lack of food
I strongly urge you to remove them please

FARM BOY REEF - 7 years ago

+Carlson Moncrief lol

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ReefRealEstate - 7 years ago

Hey Man just Subbed! Check my channel out, would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

SovsBorg - 7 years ago

I didn't QT either. 90 day in......All dead fish. I will not make THAT mistake again.

Justin Derange - 7 years ago

what are the dimensions?

Kieran Bartlett - 7 years ago

Nice setup ! I would love a reef tank but I am not allowed any more I have 2 already cold water and tropical . Maybe I could persuade my wife to let me have one if i can get enough views on my videos :)

ReefRealEstate - 7 years ago

Always easier to beg for forgiveness, hahaha! Going to check out your vids now.

Raees Arendse - 7 years ago

Ameer

joe0813 - 7 years ago

700 gallon and youre not using a QT??

Reefing With L - 7 years ago

bryangulledge WHY wouldnt it matter? Once ick or another parasite is in the tank it is there to stay,unless you leave the tank fishless for some time..dont give out bada advice

bryangulledge - 7 years ago

The first time you add fish it dosent matter as much. When you have a tank that well stocked you need to qt to not infect you several year old tank.

Logannator35 - - 7 years ago

Did anyone notice how he just dropped the snails in? They will suffocate if u don’t flip them over

Chris Kleis - 7 years ago

nice looking tank for sure. but for the blue spotted jaw fish u need a bigger sand bed. and that guy was skinny. I suggest spot feeding them lot of times cause other fish usually get all the food first . blue spotted jawfish really stay in there hole usually. and he was right they are jumpers at night . when activity dies down in evening hours they get some balls and make this huge dash to the top and end up on the floor .

Chris Kleis - 7 years ago

I wouldn't have added that much of a clean up crew just yet. there isn't enough algae and other stuff for them to eat. half could die from little good source and cause bigger issues when they die

Chris Kleis - 7 years ago

Logannator35 - agreed. some of the larger ones are not capable of flipping themselves over. I always look daily and use a stick to flip mine if I find one knocked over.

Tristan Troy - 7 years ago

Well done. Tank looks awesome!!!!!

John Krause - 7 years ago

You got a nice wrasse there guy!

bemrocs - 7 years ago

Better have a cover. That Blue spot jaw will jump real fast

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Michigan fan - 7 years ago

I hate turbo snails knock everything flame hawks will eat inverts b carefull

Lazy Ass Reefer - 7 years ago

Michigan fan yup my hawk fish ate my pistol shrimp.

Kustard123 - 7 years ago

Work hard, player harder i guess. That's a serious build and serious up keep,

leo cadman - 7 years ago

Add a puffer in a tank that big

Kyuubi Colly - 7 years ago

lol he will loose all his snails and crabs.

alexx c - 7 years ago

Why do salt water tanks have blue lights? Or is it the water that makes it look blue?

Liam But - 7 years ago

alexx c makes the colours on the fish and coral pop.

Arrongameing YT - 7 years ago

alexx c don't no

alexx c - 7 years ago

Adam Potts thanks you. . always been curious

Adam Potts - 7 years ago

alexx c it's for the bacteria and corals

Freddy Ferginho - 7 years ago

Be careful how you're acclimating the fish. They may not all have been kept in the same water systems so mixing them all together like that could accidentally cause more stress.

ReefDudes - 7 years ago

Finally Life! That is ALOT of clean up crew! Make sure you feed the tank enough to keep them fed otherwise they will start cannibalizing each other for food. (mainly hermits taking out snails)

Alejandro marquez - 7 years ago

Really nice tank man!!! Bad ass!!!

Daniel Eckert - 7 years ago

Poor choices made.

Reef Eco - 7 years ago

Yeah - would be interested to hear the rationale behind not quarantining after putting so much effort and beautiful work into the system...

trojanman315 - 7 years ago

Invest thousands in a massive tank... and then not run QT... Farm Boy logic indeed, what a moron

trojanman315 - 7 years ago

zRekz never said he couldn't do whatever he wants, everyone can. I was just commenting that he's a moron for the way he wants to do this.

A 6 tank QT setup might cost 300 bucks total... MAYBE. Let alone a single at tank... You can spend more on a single powerhead...

So it's not a matter of time it's a matter of patience and effort which he apparently doesn't have.

Ty - 7 years ago

my whole point was that he can do things how he like, yeah he will have diseases but if he wants to treat the whole system if there are any diseases, fine

trojanman315 - 7 years ago

zRekz wrong, IF there is a sick fish, you are correct that it won't get existing fish sick because there are no existing fish... BUT what it definitely will do is introduce that sickness into the water and rock and sand of his beautifully large CLOSED LOOP SYSTEM that is a fish tank. Now his giant new expensive tank has sickness all throughout the system, and he can do one of two things then... 1. Remove ALL LIFE, fish and inverts alike from the system for a minimum of 2 months, more safe would be 4 months to starve the pathogen or disease of fish to propagate on and therefore die out in the system. This is not guaranteed to eliminate the problem as the disease may just go dormant depending on what he gets.

OR 2. dose his giant new system with a whole bunch of nasty meds that do not belong in the CLOSED LOOP SYSTEM that he just spent all this time on.

Either way a tank is a CLOSED LOOP as I keep putting in all caps. Simple logic dictates that you should NEVER put something inside a closed loop unless you know exactly what it is and what may come along with it. He's literally dumping bags of hope into his tank... HOPE that every person and company that has touched those fish since they were born has given them correct quarantine, care and also inspected them with a virtual microscope to see if they have or have come down with any illness or disease. You simple CAN NOT AT ALL inspect a fish for disease in a plastic bag over the course of an hour of drip acclamation. Some diseases (take ick for example) can lay dormant in a fish for literal weeks before it EXPLODES ALL OVER YOUR TANK

Ty - 7 years ago

yeah but the new tank can be used as qt, as there was no fish to fuck up in the first place, once you get everything sorted, add more fish

Jonathan Lee - 7 years ago

zRekz new tank means no QT? HAHA. One sick fish can fuck up the whole tank before he even adds anything else

Daniel Eckert - 7 years ago

zRekz final answer? Are you sure that’s how that works?

Ty - 7 years ago

its a brand new tank no need for quarantine

Nutty 16 - 7 years ago

WTF I wish I had this in my living room, damn.

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Coralust Reef Solutions - 7 years ago

That tank is going to look so sweet stocked full of fish... Let me know when your ready for some corals. Are you going to add frags or colonies for that big tank.

NGONYAAA - 7 years ago

why do u have over 200 snails seems like its too much

Gamer Clownz - 7 years ago

The look is one thing NGONYAA, it is likely in a few hours they will spread out to side walls and coral and you will hardly notice there are any in there...... you need to keep the aquarium clean.... but he certainly does not need to continue buying more having so many already.

NGONYAAA - 7 years ago

Gamer Clownz and it looks stupid

Gamer Clownz - 7 years ago

and he wants to buy few more hundred lol, sounds like he doesn't know they multiply like vermin.

Cochise Star - 7 years ago

Looking forward to coral scaping....when are u going to add coral?

PsychedelicBabe - 7 years ago

Very very very nice indeed Ryan

shayna cope - 7 years ago

Very nice setup love the rock work with the little caves

Chad Stambaugh - 7 years ago

Ohhhh I would have QT'd, especially on a tank that large. You're going to be adding a lot of fish and they'll be next to impossible to catch in there if they get sick. I know a lot of people say QT is stupid blah blah, so did I for 2 years. It's all fun until you get 1 fish carrying velvet that you dont notice until it's too late. 1/2 my fish wiped out and the most important ones to me died with them. I only QT from now on.

Daniel Hogan - 7 years ago

Lmao.

"THESE ARE.....black....snails...."

Thanks for the education.

Larie Walls - 7 years ago

I have been watching and waiting for this moment. So exciting! After all the time setting this tank up it's time to reap!

Tina Bloomfield - 7 years ago

Im a bit worried that you didn't qt the fish and clean up crew. I am having to start all over again (still a newbie) and this is the biggest lesson I learned. Setting up a new saltwater system sucks because I trusted my lfs who normally always qt their fish. I brought to fish home and stuck them in my main tank. In three days I lost everything. I will never not qt again....I don't care who says they did it already

Ryan Browne - 7 years ago

I agree! The clean up crew definitely needs to be put in QT. I bought a dozen turbo snails, and they had velvet. Killed half of my fish in a few days.

Lee and Mandy Battersby - 7 years ago

Hi i am going to buy a copper band butterfly and was wondering whats your opinion on them and any tips you mighnt have thanks (mandy)

Theaquaman - 7 years ago

Are you going to qt in the future as you could be asking for trouble

vigilhammer - 7 years ago

dude thats too many snails man.
I had 3 snails for my 200 gallon, and they were enough. So for 700 even 5 would be fine.
Snails dirty the tank as well and when they reproduce, they do very quickly with 500-600 eggs which hatch and then fall in the tank and the other fish might end up eating which would cause them discomfort because of the hard shell not gettin digested

Stellio Leondis - 7 years ago

Don't get any more clean up crew you are well over your max

Stellio Leondis - 7 years ago

They all have to find something to eat

Blue Carbon Reefing - 7 years ago

Looking Amazing so far! From your attention to detail on every aspect of the build. Absolutely stunning! My only recommendation is to QT anything wet going into your tank. That includes crabs and snails. From someone who also has a monster system and has suffered major losses. Take my advice. I can help if you have any questions on how to QT.

Mohammed Saquib - 7 years ago

What a nice tank ' bro,

Illusion xShadow - 7 years ago

Tank is beautiful

EnVision - 7 years ago

Awsome.

Rico's Reeftank - 7 years ago

Coming along really nice

Alex McCann - 7 years ago

Are you going to trim out that open wood and finish it?

Cesca's Reef - 7 years ago

Nice video. The reef is coming along nicely :)

Roi - 7 years ago

Gonna take years for this tank to reach its potential... But it's going to be worth the wait

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Koaleigh Aquaria - 7 years ago

At long last, after so much time and effort, your tank comes to life. Those flame hawkfish are so cool to watch, we recently got one and enjoy his little personality. Be warned tho that they do eat shrimp so if your shrimp disappear the hawkfish probably got them, ours made short work of our 2 fire shrimp in a couple of weeks.

CUBAN REEFER - 7 years ago

Looking Good man

Joshua Bowyer - 7 years ago

Lookin good! Cant wait for the coral!

soving - 7 years ago

So cool man. Can feel your excitement. Congrats on 15k subs! You got to "make it rain" snails.

Arrick L - 7 years ago

The tank is alive. Now its time to really burn some cash lol.

Rosco's Reef with Scott - 7 years ago

Great start and I can't wait for more. Now the tank comes to life.

Ronald Evans - 7 years ago

It took u a long time I been waiting to see what kind of fish u were going to get for your tank. Thay look really cool. Can't wait to see what you get next.

J-HOOK TV - 7 years ago

No qt?

The Head I.T.Guy - 7 years ago

It's not QT unless your QTing from fish you already have.

FARM BOY REEF - 7 years ago

+J-HOOK TV it's a secret lol. Don't you QT

Dee From Brooklyn - 7 years ago

It's a good practice to turn the snails around under water as to clear air bubbles from their shell. Great additions

FARM BOY REEF - 7 years ago

+Dee From Brooklyn always do bud. I don't show everything lll.

Rachel Fogle - 7 years ago

Looking great!! I like the fish choices so far and he purple fire fish

Peter Tucker - 7 years ago

Hey FBR - love your videos, and the tank is looking sweet. You might consider abandoning the 1 per gallon CUC advice - it is rather antiquated guidance from a couple decades ago when we didn't have the type of filtration we have today. You have a nicely designed system with good nutrient export, and likely won't need that volume. I would stop adding any more CUC until/if you see a need for them. As already stated by some below, most of that CUC will starve in the next couple months, since your tank is so young, and I assume you will not be adding food specifically for them. The goal is to create a balance between nutrient export and bioload (CUC, fish, corals), and with a tank so young, it is impossible to determine that balance - i.e. the 1 per gallon guidance is impossible to verify. I would start with 1/10th of that, and see if you need any more at all. Also, you'll have to watch the blue spot jawfish carefully, as they are a temperate water species (~72 degrees), and often don't do well at ~78 degrees. Some get lucky, but often need a tank specifically designed for them. Beautiful fish though - I've been tempted many times! There are also some good sources for tank-raised/aquacultured CUC, so you aren't taking so much from the wild (that might ultimately starve) - would be nice to highlight that on your videos as well - look at IPSF.com, Biotaaquariums.com, etc. Looking good thought, impressed with the DIY skills!

lewis - 7 years ago

Great advice right here. :D

Mano0f - 7 years ago

amazing

Steve - 7 years ago

I wouldnt follow the 1 per gallon idea for CUC 40-50% are going to starve if not more

Will C - 7 years ago

True story and... he shouldn't have added them yet there's nothing to eat yet!

Kim Kokol - 7 years ago

Yay fish!!!!

Speedy - 7 years ago

I love Midas Blennies glad you got one

Jason Keane - 7 years ago

Great to see some life in the tank finally after all your hard work but surprised you didn't put any of the fish through QT?

Mike B - 7 years ago

Lookin good dude

Sharbuckles Reef - 7 years ago

Nice fish choices. I miss my kole tang. Gonna try to get him back when I set up my bigger tank.

Dawn Elder - 7 years ago

Fish

Sharbuckles Reef - 7 years ago

Let there be life!

Shayleesmakeupworld xoxo - 7 years ago

It's serious magic i love it so much

Robert Anziano - 7 years ago

Congrats on the next step to ur awesome build.

Shayleesmakeupworld xoxo - 7 years ago

Wow thats awesome

Adudheat 0529 - 7 years ago

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