Week 42: Reef Tank Maintenance: 5 minutes a day can transform your tank: 52 Weeks of Reefing #BRS160
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http://brs.li/BRS160_Week42 It's Week 42 of 52 Weeks of Reefing, and this week we are showing you how 5 to 10 minutes of work on your tank a day can equal years of success! We'll share what our daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly maintenance schedule looks like for the BRS160. Done well, maintenance can be part of the fun of owning a tank rather than a chore. It can also be the difference between a nice tank and an epic tank as well as a two year or ten year success. Maintenance is generally broke up by how often it needs to be completed, i.e. Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and even Yearly. Here are some examples of tasks you may need to complete on your tank: Daily: Quick wipe down of the glass, magnet clean glass, fish and coral feeding, a quick skimmer check, potential daily dosing of additives, and potentially running some tests, filter sock replacement, etc Weekly: Additional tests, dosing weekly additives, emptying/cleaning filtration like protein skimmers, potentially weekly water changes, etc Monthly: Filter media changes, potentially monthly water changes, checking and refilling automatically dosed elements/additives, monthly testing for slowly consumed additives like magnesium, cleaning powerheads and pumps, etc Yearly: Bulb changes, a string of a few larger water changes spread out over the course of a few days to replace a large volume of your tank's water, cleaning your sump. *Legal Stuff* The purpose and content of this video is to provide general information regarding the products and their applications as presented in the video. Aquatic sales solutions, inc. And its officers, directors, employees and agents disclaim all express or implied warranties, in any way, related to the products and their application as presented in this video, make no representation or warranty regarding the products and the application as presented in this video and shall not be liable for any direct or indirect losses or damages of any type, including but not limited to punitive damages, or from personal injury or death resulting from or in any manner related to the video, and the products in and contents of the video. The viewer expressly agrees that aquatic sales solutions, inc. And its officers, directors, employees and agents shall not be liable for any damages or losses related to the products in and content of the video and hereby agrees to hold the foregoing harmless from any such losses or damages.
Calcium in our bodies is the most dispersed and most essential nutrient. In saying that, our bodies absorb more calcium than any other nutrient that enters our bodies. I just wonder if this stands true with corals as well and therefore I can understand why a C.R is vitally important to ones reef filtration system.
Corals require a steady stream - if you will, of calcium and like our bodies, they too absorb it at an alarming rate.
Just my 2 bits worth!
10. comment for Week 42: Reef Tank Maintenance: 5 minutes a day can transform your tank: 52 Weeks of Reefing #BRS160
Question I have this zoanthids in a quatrain tank in the window to get light with a light freshwater led light to help out. But it won't open or hasn't in a week and this weird black things keep showing up. And I have have been feeding it with coral food.
Can't get the bottles of the coralrx hard to find in localy going to have to order online.
And for you clown herm with the diamond back goppy don't get the pistil spring for him I got one and he's is bearing my clear up crew but that might also be because I had no rumb rock in the tank but know I added some. Just going to have to wait and see.
20. comment for Week 42: Reef Tank Maintenance: 5 minutes a day can transform your tank: 52 Weeks of Reefing #BRS160
I wish I could put a before and after picture of my tank on here. I rarely did maintenance for 3 years and it showed. 2 months ago I started a daily maintenance routine and my tank looks amazing. I definitely recommend the aquarimate app. You put in your maintenance tasks and how often they should be done and the app reminds you when it's time to perform them.
30. comment for Week 42: Reef Tank Maintenance: 5 minutes a day can transform your tank: 52 Weeks of Reefing #BRS160
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET7Whbv5_Sg
i've had the tank over 2 years now and my corals and fish are fine ... after 2.5 months the corals start getting unhappy and pop right back up after the water change ... i can't get anemones to stay alive to save my life but everything else is a-okay. also, i dose my tank with vodka ... 10ml doses 4x a day. i get a lot of red algae still but the green and hair algae is gone. wish i could keep bta's alive ... ugh
50. comment for Week 42: Reef Tank Maintenance: 5 minutes a day can transform your tank: 52 Weeks of Reefing #BRS160
https://youtu.be/gs1s-9JoVhY
thanks so much....keep going!!!!!!!
The water evaporation is very quick in my tank so I'm constantly topping up with R/O water about 10 litres a week.
I have a 275L tank and 130L sump with a refugium and skimmer and I sugar dose once a day.
I'm trying to cut out water changes (I know there's debate on this whether is good/bad).
My question is, is the R/O top up sufficient enough to cut down on water changes?
a little maintenance can go a long way