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Thomas1980 - 6 years ago

Beautiful!!!

Ocean Nova - 6 years ago

How do you get the corals to attach to the stone??

Letnom Valie - 6 years ago

Cold plan like van essence argument tender essential.

Justin Claudio & Mewtwo - 6 years ago

That tank is so small

Sam Osborne - 6 years ago

Hi is this the dennerle nano cube 30l busy any chance?

Animal Countdowns - 7 years ago

Hey George, what's the tank size

Amena Sultana - 7 years ago

wow just wow

sbazain - 7 years ago

great looking tank beautiful question how do you get them to open up like that mine use to open up like that but now all of the sudden they just don't want to open up any advice

TITI lyon - 7 years ago

imbecile heureux .
on met pas des poissons ds 1 bocal putain.!!!!!

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reef guy 92 - 7 years ago

what's the sonde called

lukemn29 - 7 years ago

Hammer time

Jaime Rodriguez - 7 years ago

where did you purchase your tank?

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

I was given this tank by a friend, buy 10 gallon tanks like this can be purchased from your LFS or Amazon!

zeus - 7 years ago

Does the water change go into the sump or main display?
Any way you could make a video explaining how to set up a sump, and waht it's used for? I currently use a Fluval Evo 5 gallon for my saltwater, there no sump on it lol

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

Hi, I normally did a 2-3 gallon water change weekly, from the sump. As i did not want to drain the water level from the main tank, and expose/stress the corals in the air for too long. I found the hammer's started sliming when i did expose them.

And for the overflow, I used a Mame Overflow unit, which self-syphons the water from the main tank, to the sump via a return pump.

Alon's Aquarists - 7 years ago

Ur filming is heaven and it defiantly has inspired many people besides me to start taking vids n pics of peoples tanks!

AusReef Guy - 7 years ago

would a hammer coral naturally encrust all that rock over time ? or would you need to add seperate frags too achieve the effect ?, great looking tank though !

Ranjith s - 7 years ago

best ur man .

Fishing In The Hood - 7 years ago

Nice

MRVO2011 - 7 years ago

Thump up

Taylor Nguyen - 7 years ago

This tank has been/was/is/ my inspiration to keep up my love and drive for this hobby. :)

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

+Taylor Nguyen Thank you Sir!

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NanoTank - 7 years ago

Great tank. Great use of space

Xavier Frisbey - 7 years ago

A pretty easy tank really. Just torch and bubble corals/anemones.

MarloTheNephilim - 7 years ago

the tank is way too small for keeping fish or even shrimp in it!

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

Then why do they make tanks this small! ;)

starwind aquariums - 7 years ago

nice hammers man

Gabensy - 7 years ago

Well done

Ali's Animals - 7 years ago

Do these hammers enjoy so much current?

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

They love it!!!

EN Reefs - 7 years ago

each head is 40 dollars, your rich bro!

Rotter Tube Reef - 7 years ago

very nice

john schlaffer - 7 years ago

I'm into salts but my 1 year 3 month grand daughter loves the music and dances around etc etc. so......you are now in my bookmarks.

Lee and Mandy Battersby - 7 years ago

Beautiful

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

+ Lee and Mandy Battersby Thank you! :D

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wcdeich4 - 7 years ago

Do you know of any coral that can live in low salinity, like 1.018sg so I could keep it with Opae Ula shrimp?

CoralFish12g - 7 years ago

I don't

Dmitry Danshin - 7 years ago

what is the music?

Dmitry Danshin - 7 years ago

Thank you! Its catchy! Good Choice!!!

CoralFish12g - 7 years ago

Tobu - Candyland

Ramon - 7 years ago

I need this in my Bedroom.

Kalvin One - 8 years ago

can you show us step by step how you built it ? and the maintenance ? thanks.

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

+Kalvin One I'm sorry, but i didn't document the setup of this tank. But it was all connected together with a Mame Overflow, and the water returned back into the main tank via the sump from a Ehiem Compact 2000 pump. In addtion, due to the small size of the tank, i found doing a 2-3 gallon water change weekly more than sufficient in keeping the tank looking beautiful, along with blowing the detritrus off the rocks and syphoning the substrate weekly. If you wanted a self maintaining tank, you would need something quite large, with an automated method of changing the water and auto-dosing. But mose tanks still need a little bit of TLC (even if you are just cleaning filter socks, and cleaning the glass). But i'm not a millionaire :D

Kalvin One - 7 years ago

SerPuggle my hobby is to reach the most perfect way to get everything working great without touching life too much. I like to find the most advanced technic to get them happy without me touching and disturbing them daily.

SerPuggle - 7 years ago

I could be wrong about this, but from my experience in the hobby, you have two choices. You can spend more money and get to be lazy, or you can be cheap and have to do more maintenance.

Kalvin One - 7 years ago

SerPuggle yes I m looking for something easy and no maintenance for at least 1 month.

SerPuggle - 7 years ago

One water change a week is too much maintenance?

Kalvin One - 8 years ago

thanks my god the maintenance looks very difficult almost every week you have to do lots of things... I give up... I only like such corals but not fish maybe I could have less maintenance ?

CoralFish12g - 8 years ago

I wish I could. It is not my tank, but you can always try reaching out to the owner Phillip (details in the description).

Anonymous 1 - 8 years ago

looks nice

kevin chow - 8 years ago

man, what would i need to build a similiar set up? Would this be super advanced for a noobie?

Foyez Ali - 8 years ago

this is very helpful... coz i am looking for ....

joe somone - 8 years ago

Salt water tanks are only slightly harder to keep then fresh water so don't worry if your a noobie. You can have a small 10-30 gallon tank with no sump as long as you change 25-30% of the water out every 2-3 weeks. Hammer coral is one of the easy corals to keep and does not require pristine conditions or as high lighting as other corals like sps or lps.

CoralFish12g - 8 years ago

Total gallons so that could include the sump. For example a 30 gallon tank with a 10 gallon sump.

kevin chow - 8 years ago

Does that mean the thats the g for the display tank only or can that include the extra tanks ill have for the sumps and stuff?

CoralFish12g - 8 years ago

40-50 gallons would serve you well

kevin chow - 8 years ago

Ahhh ok. Thanks. Im just a limited on space thats all so im not sure how large of a tank i can afford to have. Any suggestions on tank size?

CoralFish12g - 8 years ago

Look in the description for what equipment he is using. If you use all of those listed it will function similarly, although if you are new to the hobby, I do not suggest getting such a small nano reef. Tanks with small water volume are really hard to care for. The coral he has in this tank are not that hard to take care of, but much harder in such a small tank.

Samir BoomX - 8 years ago

this is one of the most stunning fish tank i ever seen in Youtube.... loved it

Darrix Lim - 8 years ago

Is that too much flow? A jebao wp10 is 530gph on the low?

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

I found the hammers responded to more flow in my tank, and extended their arms more (compared to less flow) :D

CoralFish12g - 8 years ago

They seem to like it.

Hadrosaur838 - 8 years ago

To an anemonefish it's Heaven

Hadrosaur838 - 8 years ago

Anemonefish is their original name.

Hadrosaur838 - 8 years ago

They're the same kind of fish.

Sydney Heim - 8 years ago

I think you mean a clownfish, and those aren't anemones

My Nano Reef - 8 years ago

Are those branching hammers or wall hammers

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

It was a mixture of both branching and wall Hammers ;)

CoralFish12g - 8 years ago

+Dallas Fox I think branching

rachel desrosiers - 8 years ago

What is the lighting ? Incredible !

CoralFish12g - 8 years ago

+rachel desrosiers Maxspect razor r420r 60w 16k lighting

Sky Kubby - 8 years ago

I so wish I could do this but can't get hammers- or anything even comparable for my off grid 120g Aquarium in Hawaii. Sticked with lots of local life tho! For the life of me I cannot get my KH/ALK down- it's like double the levels but everything's happy- just no coralline algae growth! Any ideas? No-one seems to know what to do! Mahalo!

CoralFish12g - 8 years ago

+Sky Kubby Mahalo! I would do some water changes to see if you can re-balance those levels out a little! Might need to get your magnesium levels up so calcium and alk can get absorbed!

Rob McCarthy - 8 years ago

I'm impressed with how wide open your LPS are with such strong flow. Whenever I've had LPS in such high flow they tend to close up. Any tips?

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

+Rob Macathy I deflected the flow off the side of the tank, and used that to direct the flow around the tank. I found the Hammers repsponded to this flow much better than low, where they would be floppy.

Hatsune Tokisaki - 8 years ago

I have an elegance that doesnt like high flow but in my pico it loves laminar flow, like flow from a wavemaker hitting on the glass which creates random currents. Direct flow will be too much for most LPS but this kind of flow makes them really frilly :)

This vid is nice makes me want to get a hammer coral again :D

CoralFish12g - 8 years ago

+Rob McCarthy Try to point the flow indirect of the corals.

Zach Chauvin - 8 years ago

How high do you have your flow? I have just setup a 25g and have a mp10 for flow but have it turned off because it seems to be too much, I am new to hobby so it may be fine. Thanks!!

Zach Chauvin - 8 years ago

Ok, thank you so much. I have mine set on second notch in pulse mode hoping this is good.

CoralFish12g - 8 years ago

+Zach Chauvin Yes, I used a Mp10 in my other 30 gallon aquarium and always kept it relatively low. It is way more powerful than your sized tank needs. I never went past like 5 light notches, unless I was cleaning the tank.

Mike Bircher - 8 years ago

I've always loved LPS corals--in particular torch corals. SPS just don't do it for me. You pulled this off nicely. Good song choice, as well.

Minjun Choi - 8 years ago

Very nice indeed.But what size aquarium is that?It would be too small for a marine tank if that's a five gallon.Still very nice looking,awesome how you created that with limited space

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

Hammers and clowns don't need a lot of space, and this tank was a simple tank. 2-3 Gallon water changes kept parameters stable with an ATO. Tank size depends on a lot of factors, but anything is possible! :D

CoralFish12g - 8 years ago

+Minjun Choi 8 gallons with a 10 gallon sump.

Aws Joy - 9 years ago

wow awesome beautiful great super tank:)

CoralFish12g - 8 years ago

+Aws Joy Thanks Aws

Joe La Roche - 9 years ago

Beautiful little tank but let's see the behind the scenes video of what needs to go along side it

Abdullah Al-Azmi - 9 years ago

You got comments from marine depot and nycity cichlids! Aquarium cred: GODLY!

N Adel - 9 years ago

What type of sump did you get? I am tempted to convert one of my ADA tanks into a reef tank and was just curious

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

It was just a simple 10 gallon tank, with no baffles. Mainly used to house the return pump and heater lol

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+Neil Adelantar I think a custom or random sized 10 gallon tank. Sumps usually are not too fancy at that size.

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marsdog - 9 years ago

Hammer time!!

notdescribed - 9 years ago

I am thinking about getting into the saltwater hobby and man does this tank look awesome! Would you recommend hammer corals for a beginner such as myself? I have been watching a lot of your videos lately and my brain hurts from all of the info. Haha.

I thought hammer corals are aggressive when they're close to each other but my knowledge is not as great as yours. :)

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+notdescribed Cool! Thanks, and yes it is a lot of info. They are not for beginners exactly. After a few months if you dose they will be fine in your tank. They will not sting eachother if they are the same type of hammer. I would say they are intermediate corals.

Eldridge Henry, II - 9 years ago

sweet tank

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+Eldridge Henry, II Hahah this is too funny.

Eldridge Henry, II - 9 years ago

Lol nice try

DigniTy - 9 years ago

Not really, i think that water is salty...

Worst joke evah

Dennis Younger - 9 years ago

another of many poor choices for music.

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+Dennis Younger Do you mind replying with a couple links to some music you would prefer?

mitian - 9 years ago

So beautiful!

gina ochoa - 9 years ago

Does anyone know what tank this is? Absolutely gorgeous. I wouldn't mind having one of these in my bedroom. Perfect size.

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+gina ochoa The tank is a Ehiem aquastyle 9 I think.

Slim Dave - 9 years ago

Hey wait please answer me does this really say a 8 gallon display has a 10 gallon sump 0_0

Philip Nguyen - 7 years ago

+Slim Dave That is correct!

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+David Scanlan Haha yes David. That explains why it looks so nice too.

JacobsAquarium - 9 years ago

Hey Man! Found you from Ricks channel! Great videos! Wanted to ask if you'd like to be a guest on my live show next week? Would be fun to discuss the hobby with you and respond to chat room questions. You can chime in through skype video! Let me know :)

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+JacobsAquarium Hi! Thanks so much. Yes, Rick has an awesome channel as well. Yes, I would love to do that with you. Please email me at gcmavrakis@gmail.com and we can talk about it more!

Willy d. aquatics - 9 years ago

Great job on the hammer tank!

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+Jackie Tomkins Yee!

Jackie Tomkins - 9 years ago

Love it!

mark mcdowell - 9 years ago

Beautiful ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

happy93384 - 9 years ago

The little tank is using jebao wp 10 make those cool wave I just got the wp 40

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+happy93384 Yeah they are great pieces of equipment!

Filthy Is Babe - 9 years ago

Beautiful, Just Picked Up A Tamatoe Clown :D

Filthy Is Babe - 9 years ago

Saddly Died... :( so im getting a fireball angel

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+SlipKnotBoy The Metalhead Potato Tomato Tamatoe, love those clowns

Marine Depot Aquarium Supplies - 9 years ago

Beautiful!

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+Marine Depot Aquarium Supplies Thanks! Love your stuff too!

Sandy - 9 years ago

great tank with beautiful hammer

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+Sandeep Shetty It is actually crazy how creative the tank is too... Philip is a boss!

420skidrow - 9 years ago

anemone move too much,i think thats why phillip got the hammers! looks great

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+420skidrow Either way it came out great! Thanks

Sky's Fishroom - 9 years ago

SOOO JELLY

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+Scolopendra Subspinpes I know how you feel... :)

Nelson Ocasio - 9 years ago

All I can say is wow, it looks perfect

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+Nelson Ocasio It IS perfect :) I wish it was mine

Huachao Tang - 9 years ago

I love the Background Music!!! Relaxing, can you tell me what it is?

Huachao Tang - 9 years ago

+CoralFish12g I found that! Thank you so much. This melody really fit your hammer corals...haha

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+Huachao Tang Candyland but it is by the Copyright free network. Just look that up on YouTube

AquaEcoCubes - 9 years ago

Thats an awesome nano! I love euphyllias!!

MASS Aquariums - 9 years ago

Nice video. He has an awesome little tank. Very jealous

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+MASS Aquariums Thanks, yeah those clowns are in heaven!

Agr414 - 9 years ago

From the equipment list you would think the flow would be excessive for an 8 gallon but the tank looks perfect.

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+Agr414 I don't know how he does it... it's magical for sure!

Justin Daniels - 9 years ago

what overflow is that on the back

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+Justin Daniels MAME, by saltwater conversion +Neill Saltwater Conversion

awaros86 - 9 years ago

Great seing clownfish host lps and the lps looks healthy wich isnt allweys the case had a percula clown that killed a froggspawn euphyllia for me, the corall just had 3 heads I think and not any special colour, soo not a big loss. Allso gonna be fun to see in the coments how manny people will think it is anemones ;) eweryonne that have seen my tanks and dont know much about saltvatter thinks euphyllia coralls are anemones :)

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+awaros86 Yeah! Usually corals like lps don't do so well in situations where clowns mistake them for anemones. Looks like this tank is just an exception or something lol

915Mang - 9 years ago

Great Video Man!

Andrew Hales - 9 years ago

+915Mang The tank is not his.

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+915Mang Thank you

NYCity Cichlids - 9 years ago

Beautiful

CarnivoreTV - 9 years ago

Can I just have that tank

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+CarnivoreTV I already asked ;)

oTWINKLEoTOESo - 9 years ago

it's so clean! :0 and the clown is hosting the shit outta that forest of anemones!

TropicalSunriseTans - 9 years ago

+oTWINKLEoTOESo If you come to my home, I am the host, you are the guest. I am hosting you. You are hosted by me. You aren't hosting me just as the clowns aren't hosting the nems. They are 'guests' of the nem! So, either you can say the clowns are hosted BY the nems, or the nems are hosting the clowns - but saying the clowns are hosting the nems is just wrong.

Either way, nice tank :-)

oTWINKLEoTOESo - 9 years ago

what about when they are "hosted by" other things. i have seen them get hosted by open-brain coral, maxima clams, even just a piece of live rock. whats goin on with that? just curious

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+TropicalSunriseTans This is true, a very common misconception

TropicalSunriseTans - 9 years ago

+oTWINKLEoTOESo No! Clowns don't 'host' anemones (or Hammers), they are hosted BY the nems.

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+awaros86 Thanks for adding this info!

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+oTWINKLEoTOESo Hammer Corals but yes!

awaros86 - 9 years ago

+oTWINKLEoTOESo You're welcome :) it can be hard telling stuff apart in saltwater sometimes, it helps with time and experiance (and boks with good pictures too learn from) but there are soo manny diffrent things so it is impossible too know it all nomather for how long you been in to the hobby

oTWINKLEoTOESo - 9 years ago

oh awesome, did not know. thanks for that

awaros86 - 9 years ago

There are no anemones, just a sort of lps called hammer coral ore by its sientific name Euphyllia ancora wich can be a great anemone substitute if you don't want to have an anemone walking all over the tank stinging coralls on its way. But some lps don't like to bedisturbed so will retract and in time die one head at a time, and some don't mind. Not all clowns host annything ewen anemones in tanks, bought a nice percula clown couple just beccause they didnt host and the last owner wanted some clowns to host a bta.

Found Paradise - 9 years ago

I would to (;

Porter Templin - 9 years ago

This one really hits home I love these hammer corals so much great vid.

CoralFish12g - 9 years ago

+BioCoralLover 12 Thanks, glad you like it

Hectorisking Hinojosa - 9 years ago

Beautiful!

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