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How To Maintenance Your Reef Tank Like A PRO www.atreef.com Hello everyone; in this video i want to show you how to bring your aquarium back from months of negligent, and doing it like a pro. this is a 2 part video since it takes about a week to do this. i hope you all enjoy this and please fell free to ask me any question regarding my work. thank you -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: "Never ASK ALEXA These Questions or You Will Regret It" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBd7LTmWaqU -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-

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reef guy 92 - 7 years ago

like a pro?? there's no sound lol

AtReef - 7 years ago

thank you so much brother i am happy that you enjoy lol it took me 3 years to get all the parts and start this tank

reef guy 92 - 7 years ago

I have sound now lol that's a bad ass setup brother

Troll Doll - 7 years ago

you are terrible. that plumbing is ridiculous.....you are a joke and bad role model to follow. your tank looks like shit. you will fail.

Erfan - 7 years ago

fuck china

Cesar Guerra - 8 years ago

A lot of tools that you have to clean up. I usually have one magnetic sponge. Good to know that stuff. Pretty nice tank!

soverjas - 8 years ago

are you testing salinity after you just put in salt??? take this video down. youre going to destroy someones tank following your terrible advice

Simon Romero - 8 years ago

Don't check salinity immediately after the salt is being added wait at least 15 minutes then check again by the way your system is just gorgeous and your redaction is awesome, all the best, good luck and happy reefing.

Owen Mason - 8 years ago

use redsea salt and you can use it in a hour it's great

Patrick P - 8 years ago

How many fish did you kill by neglecting your tank just to make a video?

AtReef - 8 years ago

+Patrick P lol, thank god 0 however one of my fish jumped out of my tank last week :-(

Ken Rosecrans - 8 years ago

nice vid put some blue and white filter media to clean out all the gunk...from the water...water will be crystal clear

Ken Rosecrans - 8 years ago

clean that glass

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TheInformant _Doser_ - 8 years ago

you got waaayyyy to much BS going on under that tank....No wonder why you let it go...

Paradiso - 8 years ago

I love the organized plumbing!!! You must be an engineer.

Ellery Wong - 8 years ago

I would suggest to just through a ball of chaeto and leave it bare

Babak Morshedizadeh - 8 years ago

Overall video is very informative, thank you for sharing!

AtReef - 8 years ago

+Babak Morshedizadeh thank you

Babak Morshedizadeh - 8 years ago

I use a canister filter filled with matrixcarbon, then a layer of GFO (aquavitro phosfiltrum), topped with a bigger chemipure bag (the regular stuff) for my return. Nothing I don't want will go from the sump up. My reactor runs chemipure blue and aquavitro purfiltrum (I know it's a redundancy). I clean the canister and change all carbons and other filters once a month. I even see tigger pods in my reactor keeping it clean!!! The canister filter does not become a nitrate factor because the intake is in the sump return area, and no food gets there. If anything does, then aquavitro remediation bacteria is breaking it down quickly. I am not sure why you change your carbon every 2 weeks. You seem to have no bio load.

Babak Morshedizadeh - 8 years ago

Strawberry conch and cerith snails, vacuums cleaners of the sand.

AtReef - 8 years ago

+Babak Morshedizadeh yep I have them 2 they work miracles

Babak Morshedizadeh - 8 years ago

I do use a turkey paster from time to time, but Benny does a better job than me. I have zero algae on my rocks, well, I can't see it.

Babak Morshedizadeh - 8 years ago

I don't clean my overflow box, actually, I have live rock rubble in it, and my overflow box is filled with tigger pods. They keep it mostly clean. I know food gets stuck there. I have a few short mangrove plans in the overflow box too. I don't have a nitrate issue, so I think the tigger pods are busy (and they are HUGE). In fact, since the food gets stuck in the overflow box and is eaten by the rigger pods or otherwise broken down by the bacteria (I do dose small amount of aquavitro remediation every week directly into that overflow box and let it go from there), there is practically no need to clean the course sponge on the other side of the overflow box. It is NEVER dirty. Maybe I wash it once a month when I change my carbon, GFO and aquavitro purfiltrum. I don't use any socks either. If anything makes it to my sump, it is eaten by tigger pods or is grabbed by the skimmer. I think the buildup of algae in my overflow box is actually working like a mini-algae scrubber :-)

Babak Morshedizadeh - 8 years ago

Is this a week worth of build up???

Babak Morshedizadeh - 8 years ago

I got to get your glass cleaner. Love it!

AtReef - 8 years ago

+Babak Morshedizadeh yes the glass cleaner is fantastic and strong, I highly recommend it

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Babak Morshedizadeh - 8 years ago

I noticed you don't have a chiller. How do you maintain your water temp? I keep mine with my chiller at 78 F (maybe changes less than 0.5 degrees F per day. I learnt early on chiller is critical in a reef tank. I recommend one. And I would NOT put it in my cabinet area (if it is enclosed). I have less than 30 gal water, so my little Chill Solutions CSXC-1 works perfectly.

AtReef - 8 years ago

Thank you so much, and you are absolutely right i am looking for one actually

Babak Morshedizadeh - 8 years ago

The Lifter is not a air pump, at least as far as I know. I have 2 of them, one helps me when I am dosing something over a long period of time and the other runs 24x7 to keep my syphon (on my overflow box) primed all the time. Oh, I have 3. Sorry, and one is used on my coil de-nitrater (although it is mostly gravity fed). I would use a regular air pump. I don't use it, since my 2 power heads moves in my auto top off reservoir the water anyway.

Babak Morshedizadeh - 8 years ago

I have a 15 gal reservoir for my auto top off. My total water volume is under 29 gal. To do water changes, I actually mix my salt in my reservoir for auto top off, using RO/DI of course, and I also dose 1 mL of Alpha (aquavitro alpha, the better version of seachem prime). I get it to 1.026 (my salinity in the tank) at the SAME temperature as my tank is. My reservoir has 2 power heads (450 gal / hr each), bot at the very bottom of the tank. It also has a canary pump which sits so flat at the bottom of the tank, it basically leaves less than 1 cm of water left in the 15 gal tank after the pump is turned off. Also, it has a heater (of course). I then take a syphon in my display tank and start to take 5 gal at a time out. As the water comes out of the display tank, the water level in the sump's return area drops, and auto top off brings in freshly mixed salt water. Oh, I let it sit over night, and usually the pH is a match to my tank, maybe 0.1 or 0.2 points higher (tank at 8.1 and fresh salt water at 8.2 or 8.3). I rarely get any build up on my glass (front display). I let natural light hit part of the sides of my tank just to grow little algae for Benny, my Lawnmower Blenny, he loves to snack on the glass. Anyway, I change 5 gal per week, but at times (when I was screwing around with my alkalinity) I had to do major water changes; I have done 2 X 15 gal changes in 2 day period (so, it's not 100% because I do 5 gal at a time, and I wait 2 hrs in between the 3 X 5 gal changes, each day; but it is darn major). No mini cycle. No spikes in Ammonia, Nitrites or Nitrates. I do add SEED every day for 5 days after such a major change and I do not run a UV sterilizer anyway. The bacteria is on your rocks and glass et cetera, not in the water. I noticed you run a UV sterilizer, so you don't have much bacteria (well, you have some in your sump water and some in your display tank as they multiply but as soon as the go through your UV, they are dead. A mini cycle is caused if there is a major pH shift, or a rapid salinity shift or temperature changes. At least, that's my personal experience. Oh, I usually do only 5 gal per week, so I don't fill up the 15 gal RO/DI for water changes all the way, only partially. Once the canary pump has sucked out all the water, I fill it again with RO/DI, usually to around 7.5 to 8 gal, unless going on vacation, then 15 gal. I know there is some salt left in the auto top off reservoir, so it's not pure RO/DI, but that's minute and it does not concern me. My refractometer still reads zero.

Kayvit Lopez - 8 years ago

Thanks this I one of the best Reef tank cleaning videos I have seen. Thanks for all of the useful help. :)

theduckdk - 8 years ago

Lol like a Pro? You mean like a Rich man.

AtReef - 8 years ago

+theduckdk thank you for your comment but, it took me 3 years to gather all of these equipment, lol I wish I could just buy everything right at the same time but I got all my equipment one at a time and finally I put them all together to make this system.

Jon Pickhaver - 8 years ago

hi what was your reason for changing the salt brand you use in your original videos ?

jongalt26 - 8 years ago

Another quick question, how did the marinepure block work in regards to nitrate control?

jongalt26 - 8 years ago

+AtReef That;'s great news!. I'm currently cycling a new 150 gallon tank which im upgrading from and transferring from a 93 gallon tank. I control nitrates for the 93 with a remote deep sand bed which is tremendously bulky (but very effective). For the marinepure I have a 4" block a 1" block and (2) quarts of the spheres in the 150 right now and I would love to eliminate the remote sand bed.

AtReef - 8 years ago

+jongalt26 it was fantastic but in my case it was taking too much space in my sump and I did not have a place to hold them, but I think if you are looking to get one they really help.

jongalt26 - 8 years ago

Thanks for making this video! How do you like the Neptune Auto Feeder

AtReef - 8 years ago

+jongalt26 this feeder works great, I had many other feeder but I could not use any of them because they would never work correctly and everyday they would dispense different amount of food but this feeder is money well spend

jongalt26 - 8 years ago

+AtReef Awesome thanks, i dont mind noise but want something that works.

AtReef - 8 years ago

+jongalt26 thank you so much Jongalt26 for your comment, I really like the feeder, it was always hard for me to remember to feed my system but using this feeder has made life much easy for me. as far as the unit itself, it is fantastic, and dose great but the only problem that I have is that it is noisy when it works.

g2s1m - 8 years ago

Wow! awesome equipment, awesome tank and you have all in place! just awesome! congrats!

AtReef - 8 years ago

+g2s1m thank you so much, it took me a long time to collect all the item that I have here but finally it all works together

e - 8 years ago

NICE setup !!! Do you have a video that describes everything under neath the tank? Very well organized, designed. I'm curious what the details of your setup are. Thanks.

AtReef - 8 years ago

+e Thank you so much for your amazing comment, I am still in the progress of getting more equipment however I should be done with them soon and should have the video up as soon as possible.

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fadifanous - 8 years ago

just curious, are you middle eastern?

AtReef - 8 years ago

Yes i am persian

Rotter Tube Reef - 8 years ago

good video for the beginner and advanced as a reference. it is important to keep your water overnight, at least 12 hours, letting the salt dissolve. lots of things happen to salt when put in water and you don't want those chemical reactions happening with fish present. for mixing salt, it's a 1/2 cup salt for every gallon. nice job.

goxcpre - 8 years ago

+ROTTER tube Reef Yeah I second that. Always let SW mix overnight.

AtReef - 8 years ago

+ROTTER tube Reef thank you so much for such fantastic and informative comment I am very happy that you liked the video.

William Duong - 8 years ago

im sure, more that 20% water change will not give you a mini cycle, i think BRS said even at 50-100% water change doesnt give them any adverse effects. i love your set up though, that plumbing is off the hook. keep up the videos

AtReef - 8 years ago

+William Duong you are right but I think that big parameter change could result in an unbalanced tank, by doing it this way I think it could prevent big changes

eric olsen - 8 years ago

Sha Na Na bro. Dude your a clean mad man. whew I could never keep up with you bro. Great job. Keep vids coming

AtReef - 8 years ago

Thank you so much for your lovely comment lol

Dre87 - 8 years ago

Great Job! Enjoyed the Vid

AtReef - 8 years ago

+azapata87 Thank you so much for seeing my Vid

First Massage - 8 years ago

really enjoyed everything watched all your vids. will be interested to see how you design a cover for your stand. is it noisy? please document thanks can't wait!

AtReef - 8 years ago

+First Massage thank you so much for your input, I am working on the cover and soon I will have it lol. as far as noise I have to say that my setup is extremely silent

R e e f f r e d - 8 years ago

Like!!

AtReef - 8 years ago

+R e e f f r e d thank you so much

Phil Maznyk - 8 years ago

Fantastic video. Very well done.

AtReef - 8 years ago

+Under The Tide thank you so much I am happy that you enjoy the video

Kickingandshaving with Kojak - 8 years ago

A lot of the stuff you do is overkill lol. Nice plumbing and nice setup! cant wait to see more videos

AtReef - 8 years ago

+Kickingandshaving with Kojak thank you so much I will take that as a complement lol. I am very happy that you enjoy the video and will post more soon.

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