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Salty man Reviews just salt and coralline build up. It can be cleaned off if you don’t like it. It will spread and turn purple eventually

David Ladds the heater is in the second chamber next to the skimmer.. what your seeing is the led light tube in the refugium 👍🏻

Karen Nation no dosing at all. Just kept up with weekly water changes. Keeping a tank well maintained is far easier then adding chemicals, as far as hard corals go I haven’t had a great deal of experience keeping them. It’s mainly just being soft and stoney. Some hard corals will benefit from dosing calcium. It would be worth doing some research on the coral you intend to keep and see what would be best to dose if dosing becomes a requirement

Karen Nation yes it’s real Caroline algae. I started the aquarium with dry rock and it naturally went though all the maturing stages as it became live

Paulo Pacheco my rock was purchased dry so it had to go through stages before it became live and the Caroline built up. If it had been purchased live then this would not have happened

Hadyn Rowlands Hi there, Jebao CP-25 is the current wave maker I’m using. I can’t rate it enough, it’s fantastic for this aquarium

Kamran Khan Hi there, as far as return pumps go I would recommend an adjustable one. I’m still running the stock pump that came with the aquarium but in my opinion it’s “under powered”. With an adjustable you can control the flow better depending on how much media your using, you don’t want the back of the aquarium filling with water before the pump can return it to the main display and vice versa. I would recommend getting a good quality adjustable and having a play with it until you get it right. In regards to wave makers please see my newer videos as I’m now running a Jebao cross flow and I would highly recommend it. There’s lots of info and links in some of my videos on with wave maker Thanks

@@bayles9031 thanx mate

666baraka I’m still just running the Fluval light mate, I haven’t seen any real reason to replace it just yet.

paul deacon luckily mine has never dripped. The best bet would be to empty the chambers remove the tap and then just refit it again using PTFE tape on the threads to create a better water right seal. If it continues to drip then it could be the tap “shut off” itself, I’m which case you may need a new tap. If you’re like me and don’t use the tap then I would just put a blob of water safe silicon down the tap itself to seal it off completely

Nathan Benstead Its around 135ltr with the chambers if I’m not mistaken. I would say the viewing display holds around 100ltr

@@bayles9031 thanks it looks great 👍

@@bayles9031 I'm planning to get a 140ltr soon

Nathan Benstead that’s awesome. Look forward to seeing it 😉

Thank you for the support Paul. The tap is just a basic screw fitting unless yours is different to mine? I used a little bit of PTFE tape on the thread as a precaution just to ensure it was a water tight fit. The tap will remain below the aquarium and the there is a smaller section that will sit inside the chamber. I have never used this feature if I’m honest.

Thank you Paul, I haven’t really noticed a difference in my electric bill tbh, I suppose it all depends on the hardware your planning on using with the aquarium

Yes I have seen people achieve this. Either using and overflow box or using the drain valve, I can only see this being beneficial

@@bayles9031 i have a tunze 9003 skimmer so I'm kind of stuck where i can fix it. But i have a big basket of siporax in chamber 2 but i do feel that it would be better swaped around.

richard jones Personally I prefer the skimmer in chamber 2 as it then gives me the option to pre filter in chamber 1. The aquarium is designed to use the first chamber as a skimmer chamber but that’s the beauty of it really... You can customise it all you want

@@bayles9031 yeah i personally think it needs more chambers. I am seriously thinking about sumping mine. I upgraded from an AO60 to a reefspace 900 then downgraded to the m90 lovely tank but having a few issues with GHA but it's mostly down to my maintenance but i also believe my filter setup isn't the best.

Hello again 😀 We turn the light on blues at around 9am for an hour. Then from 10am until 8pm the main lights are on. Then we have the blues on for an hour from 8pm - 9pm. Then in total darkness throughout the night Hopefully that makes sense? Basically 12hours of light and 12hours of darkness but the first and last hour are on blues. We tend to use full beams. Never really use the dimmer settings If you run a refugium light then just run it the other way round. If the aquarium lights are on then the ref light should be off and vice versa Hope this helps. Please note that this works for me fine and my corals seem to love it, but it may not be great for others. Everyone’s aquariums will be different. Maybe use this as a starting point and make adjustments accordingly Good luck 👍🏻

Bayles90 Thanks for the help I have the m90 just starting out new to the hobby been following all your vids and flipped the battle like yourself ! so just figuring everything out ! Running for about 3 months now just on a constant battle with nitrates other then that everything been great !

Sammy Prince jr That’s great, glad I could help. If your aquarium is converting the ammonia into nitrate then I wouldn’t worry to much. To eliminate nitrate just do larger water changes or 2 a week instead of 1 I had the same issue in a smaller tank. I just added a water change into the routine mid week and it solved it.. I went from doing a small one once a week to doing 2 larger ones per week. With a marine aquarium you’re really looking after the water. If you can keep the water good then the rest will look after itself.

Bayles90 never had ammonia or phos or nitrite issues just nitrate ! gonna start doing that on the water changes see if it helps with the nitrates thanks !

Sammy Prince jr Yea you won’t have high readings for ammonia or nitrite as it’s being converted into nitrate. The only way to remove nitrate is with water changes as it can’t convert any further. Nitrate is the end product of ammonia after the conversion process. Issues like high nitrate are usually caused from over stocking or not changing enough water Let me know how you get on

666baraka Hi mate, At this point I had filterfloss, carbon and ceramic media on the shelves. Please Note I took the ceramic media out before I actually ran the aquarium so I just had 2 shelves with media present. The rock in chamber 3 is alfagrog, basically a small dry rubble media that eventually will become live This was the first layout I had. Please check my update videos to see how it’s all changed along the way

@@bayles9031 I have watched all your videos. So helpfull. Was just wondering what was best for back chambers. Just got tank last week

666baraka it’s a tough one really it all depends on what suits you. Some people I’ve seen run the skimmer as first point of contact. I prefer to use the filter floss as the first point to remove larger particular. I like the way I have it currently the best with the algae scrubber

@@bayles9031 last question I promise lol. How many kilo of rock is that

@@666baraka4. Its fine, you can ask as much as you want haha. I'm afraid there isn't a definitive answer to this question. If i remember rightly i just picked loads of bits i liked the look of in the store, they weighed it and charged me accordingly. I cant remember how much it weight of the top of my head. Sorry

You will only get them second hand now as I believe they’re discontinued. If your lucky you may find them in stock on the odd website to order but I haven’t seen one come up for a while

@@bayles9031 yeah I feared they where discontinued. Love yours man. Keep it up. Looks amazing

Hi Sammy Prince jr I don’t do mine very often really as it does not bother me. But when I do I use a Stanley scraper www.stanleytools.com/products/hand-tools/paint-brushes-supplies/paint-scrapers-and-blades/carded-window-scraper/28-593 Check this link out 👍🏻

No not at all, Due to 25% weekly water changes combined with the size of the aquarium we have not needed to dose anything

No problem. Glad my videos are helping people out. My return pump is still the same one I got with the aquarium. There is a small grill on the unit. Make sure that’s open fully in order to have it on full flow. I am considering a replacement as I would like more surface movement, the only issue with an all in one is getting the balance correct so the water is exchanged properly between the main display and the chambers

The aquarium was initially purchased from Charter House Aquatics online Here’s a link charterhouse-aquatics.com/ Remember the also price match other sites and offer finance options, there is a possibility you may struggle to find them now as I believe they are no longer in production Thanks for the support 👍🏻

Hi there Currently I’m using Rowa phos. Seems to be doing the trick so far 👍🏻

Mine pretty much does the same to be honest. The level stays ok for a day or two and then I loose around a quarter of my last chamber Ive always just assumed it’s general evaporation. I don’t use and auto top off system of any kind. I just keep a small 5L canister in the cupboard and manually top the last chamber up every day to avoid it getting to low and effecting the salinity

Hi Jodi As far as aquariums go, they are all going to make noise. But luckily this one is on the quiet side in my opinion The return pump is a very low frequency and the wave maker is pretty much silent (even the original Fluval wave maker that I replaced was very quiet) Usually the loudest thing on any salt water aquarium is the skimmer, the Fluval skimmer that comes with the aquarium is quiet as far as skimmers go I wouldn’t see any issues in having it in a bed room. Plus if one component is louder then you want, it can always be replaced

@@bayles9031 That's all I needed to know. I'm gonna buy it. Thank you for your reply. Happy reefing!! :-)

Mine came with the aquarium and it’s the second version I’m pretty sure you cant purchase the first one any more The first has a magnetic slider and the second has a touch button, that’s the easiest way to tell them apart. You can get them separately from Fluval or some aquatic stores