Leather Coral Spawning in 8 ft Reef Tank

ADVERTISING

LuxoGear Emergency Whistles with Lanyard

Shop now »

NOCO Genius GEN5X2, 2-Bank, 10A (5A/Bank) Smart Marine Battery Charger

Shop now »

RHINO USA Boat Trailer Transom Straps (2PK)

Shop now »

LUCKY Kayak Portable Fish Depth Finder

Shop now »

Seaview 180 V3 Full Face Snorkel Mask

Shop now »

Most popular comments
for Leather Coral Spawning in 8 ft Reef Tank

Live comments
Comments on YouTube

colin mcgrath - 7 years ago

Amazing tank! Wow

Cayla Hulett - 7 years ago

Such a beautiful reef!!

Hasini Jayawardena - 8 years ago

These are very Beautiful......

braiden key - 9 years ago

beautiful!

CartoonsZ Channel - 10 years ago

wow what is your water parameters?

Christof Naude - 10 years ago

wow best looking tank I have seen in a while!!

Jarrett Eagles - 11 years ago

Your tank is really nice ! We r in the process of building a 300 gal and hope it is somewhat like yours. Great job!!

Ziggy Higgins - 11 years ago

I love my tank but its not worth even looking at now after seeing your lovely tank makes mine look like shit if one day I have a reef tank that looks 1 little bit like your I will be happy love it man geate job its the best tank ive ever seen

danichan19 - 11 years ago

This is an amazing feat. It's hard enough to get fish to spawn, now multiply this by 100x! I have NEVER seen this in home aquariums, except for mushrooms, but that's another story. Congrats!

10. comment for Leather Coral Spawning in 8 ft Reef Tank

GtTap - 11 years ago

Nice tank i have mine in work right now hope it looks good. Check out my videos.

flaherty5862 - 11 years ago

Freaken WOW!

Rafael Gonzalez - 12 years ago

Beautiful indeed

AntonyTrickrider - 12 years ago

Thats a happy corall. U done it right!

Mansa Musa - 12 years ago

Very nice tank, leather coral, and video!

ibizalover2000 - 12 years ago

Your aquarium is absolutely incredible! congratulations! For a tank to spawn in synchrony with the great barrier reef, you definitely know what you are doing mate!! Can you please tell us what coral food you use, and how often please? Much thanks!

Josh - 12 years ago

can i ask where you bought your tank and how much was it

kyle callaway - 12 years ago

THATS AMAZING JUST THE RIGHT AMOUT OF FISH CORAL EVERYTHING TOTAL BEUTY

Jaime Andueza - 12 years ago

@Mauritianman2003 Squirt the water gently over its closed polyps. Repeat every 10 min until they come out. Then give them some brine shrimp. if you repeat this for some days, you will train it to come out whenever you want. I feed mine 3 times a week.

Jaime Andueza - 12 years ago

@Mauritianman2003 I am running T5s. The lights on while taking the video are the normal ones usually on, half white and half actinic blue. You need to train your sun coral to come out during the day. You need a bit of patience at the beginning but eventually it learns. to start, entice it with the water with the juices from the head of a prawn.

20. comment for Leather Coral Spawning in 8 ft Reef Tank

KmaNsReef - 12 years ago

what lights are you running right now ? Also, while taking your video what lights were on. I havve a sun coral about that size and i wanted to know how do u keep it open during the day light ? mine is always closed 90% .

shardinio - 12 years ago

This is the best tank i HAVE EVER SEEN!

Evan Henley - 12 years ago

thats the most beautiful reef tank ive ever seen. the coral placement is awesome

HappyHoney41 - 13 years ago

Awesome and inspiring tank. I'm subscribing to this one.

ReefCollege - 13 years ago

beautiful reef tank

Gregory Montalbano - 13 years ago

What lighting are you using? Please any information on your tank setup would be great! Beautiful Tank!!!!!!!!

CheeseBon - 13 years ago

<3 the sun coral cluster! nice tank

Jaime Andueza - 13 years ago

@JuanmaThesecret . There is no blue paper. It is a clear glass. The light in the tank must make it look blue I guess...

Juanma Rodrigues - 13 years ago

Hello, beautiful tank!!., is it a blue paper that you use for the aquarium, or does the color of the room?¿¿ thnks

Jaime Andueza - 13 years ago

@Russpuss83 Thank you :) I have found a local guy that collects water from the beach, he filters the water for a day or so, makes it the right temperature and delivers it to me. It is quite handy because he does it all, he drains the water and fills the tank again...

30. comment for Leather Coral Spawning in 8 ft Reef Tank

Russell Richards - 13 years ago

Jamie...incredible tank....I'm curious to know what kind of salt your using. Or if your using an ocean water from a local fish store. Thanks Russ

Jaime Andueza - 13 years ago

@admirehomes Hope these tips help

Jaime Andueza - 13 years ago

This water change regime means that I can feed both corals and fish as much as I want. The clam is doing great. I has grown significantly since I bought it and it looks happy (at least for now). I have never kept clams before this one and I don't do anything special for it. To be honest, I think the secret is the water quality, because my equipment is not the best... Hope this helps.

Jaime Andueza - 13 years ago

It goes to show that good quality water and good feeding can do the trick. The lighting system I have is pretty cheap. I have 8 light fittings X 2 T5s each that cover the full top of the tank. They are not the top of the range either. If anything they are pretty average. To keep the water clean and in good conditions, I change 95% of the water every 3 weeks. I only add Calcium and Reef Builder. I also run an ozonizer for 3 hours per day to keep the water nice and clear.

admirehomes - 13 years ago

You say you have t5s on this beautiful system, so I have to ask how your claim is doing under this type of fixture bro :)

Mathan Hari - 13 years ago

wow

Peter Frans - 13 years ago

Beautiful tank ... that's all I can say about this ... Simply amazing !!!

Jaime Andueza - 13 years ago

LBCREEFER . It is pretty easy to care for. Leathers are very hardy corals. All I do is feed them Reef-roids twice a week. It does the trick. All corals seem happy. drslayer800 the lights are plain T5s. There are a few of them...

drslayer800 - 13 years ago

what type of lighting do you have? by the way tank looks amazing

Gregory Montalbano - 13 years ago

Very nice!! My Leather coral spawns the same way, it's the same species(Sarcophyton) tank looks great!!

Jaime Andueza - 13 years ago

The tank was about 15 m when I took the video. :)

Jaime Andueza - 13 years ago

I have another video that may show the spawning a bit clearer. I will upload it soon. The sun coral also spawned the following day, I have that on video too. Well spotted about the coraline. I regularly scrape it off the glass with a blade. The rocks inside are fully covered in pink/purple coraline though, which really enhances the appearance of the reef. They were fully covered within 6 m just by keeping good water quality. You are right about the age of the tank though, close enough at least

brandon429 - 13 years ago

I can't be 100% sure its coming from the 'stool per the vid. the vid shows among the nicest large reefs Ive seen, you are not lacking duncans or azooxanthellates nor lps worth about $300 apiece minimum where Im from. One other ponderance, there is not a single spot of coralline in any corner or any pane of glass I have to put this assembled reefs total age at less than a year>? brandon429 4 seconds ago

Jaime Andueza - 13 years ago

U may have heard on the news about the flooding in Australia. Unfortunately, Brisbane (where I live) was hit pretty badly. My place was also going to flood, so I had to make a decision to either take my chances or play it safe and dismantle the tank to save all the livestock. The choice was easy... but it means that it will take a while to get back to where it was. I have taken the opportunity to upgrade to a bigger tank :) I do have one other video...And I agree, not too bad for an amateur!