I finally set up this Fluval 5 gallon I had sitting around and I used this video for inspiration awesome natural look🔥. Auto top off is a life saver for nanos.
Awesome video as always. I think with how "toxic" most people in forums or chatgroups are towards newer hobbiest, its nice to see someone who encourages people new to this wonderfull hobby. Keep it up man😁👍
Very nice intro to your nano, one small recommendation for your sandbed. Simple wooden chopstick, drag it against your three coners to remove detritus and allow new sand to refill area, it will keep your tank more presentable and the detritus moving stimulates your macros to feed. I know, I do them to all my nano tanks and I specialize only in nanos. My sandbed stays clean and lets me know when I have to stir the sand again. Your tank is already emmaculate and this will make it much nice as I can see the detritus buildup and it takes away from the beauty of your tank. Ho[pe that makes sense.
The tank look so good! The fish are giving nutrients that are making this possible I am basically doing this but fishless and I have to dose phosphate and a lot of magnesium. Great learning experience!
Beware of xenia. I just gave my xenia to my lfs. I would remove about a third of it every week. It was on its own rock island. A weed is an understatement for it
You should check out the aqua knight v2/reef breeder nano light. I have one on my evo for about 2 months now and the corals started growing like crazy after upgrading the stock light to that. Going to set up a budget nano with that soon.
Dang since you’re sponsored now does that mean no budget tank videos? Especially interested in the cheaper lights & other cheaper versions of these small expensive parts please
I also have a soft coral community tank with a deressa clam and a rainbow bubble tip anemone as the center pieces and I love it. I took a fluval 6 gallons spec and turned it into a refugium and hooked it to a drilled 50 gallon cube. I do not have a skimmer but instead have a tidal hob to do the surface skimming and I never get a film on the surface. The corals are zinnias, leather trees green and purple, devil's hand, toadstool and several different pallies. I've tried zoa's but there's too much chemical warfare going on they're never happy and end up dying back. Plus I am a murderer of SPS and LPS. My passion is actually freshwater South and Central American. But I wanted to see if I can successfully do a Coral tank it's been running for almost 6 years. I started with the fluval spec with all tiny little frags of coral. But now you can't see any bare spots on any Rock in there it's covered. So cool to watch it grow it's nice to buy colonies but it's even nicer to grow your own. If I could change anything I just wish I could have Zoa's. But definitely lovin'it. I keep it next to a large tank with some large cichlids in it, but yet when you walk into the room your eyes are drawn to the saltwater because of the colors and the lighting.
I’m just trying to understand this set up as I’m thinking of trying something like this myself. So there is no sump or internal filter? Just heater, wave maker and ATO (not even necessary)?
How are you controlling the phosphate in this tank? Reason I ask is my Xenia didn’t start pulsating until I was able to reduce the phosphate in my tank. Your Xenia are looking happy, happy, happy.
I would love to have a reeftank but im intimidated about water changes and mixing up saltwater. I have no car so i cant get my water from a store as my back is too broken to use the bus for it.... I am also afraid that even if i mix the water right i get my salinity wrong cos if evaperation. I probably overthink water changing cos I never saw someone how they make it Could you maybe make a video about tips how to mix saltwater for your reef and how to get the salinity right?
Hey man, no worries, mixing water is super easy. You just need a way to measure salinity (amount of salt in the water), a refractometer (~$30) can reliably tell you. You'd just have a bucket of water, add salt into it and keep measuring, until you get the right amount (35 ppt). If you overshot, just pour some out and add water again. Simple. Water will slowly evaporate from your aquarium, but won't while you are mixing your water. As to getting water to your house, if budget allows, an RODI until (~$150 - $200) is always a solid investment, especially if going to the store & transporting water is problematic. Alternatively if you are doing a small tank, you may be able to use delivered drinking water (those 5 gallon jugs), or maybe even order pre-mixed saltwater from PetCo. OR if you are really daring and don't mind a little algae... heck, I used tap water straight out of the faucet for years and it has been fine, I just have a little more algae, lol. YMMV depending on the quality of tap water in your area. For actual suggestion on mixing saltwater, check out Bulkreefsupply's video on mixing saltwater, they go in-depth of some of the do's and don'ts. Just don't get intimidated, this hobby can be pretty simple if you plan to start out with simple to keep corals.
@@InappropriateReefer tank you so much for your reply, now it seems much easier as my area has the best tap water of whole germany. I could get maybe some diatomes if the saltwater ones also like silicates as the freshwater do. I dont mind them at all, just some scrubbing every now and than from the glass ^^ Im glad to hear that a refractometer doesnt cost as much and you dont kill your corals by using something else as RODI water
Was there a process for you to teach the bangaiis to eat dry foods ? I’ve had mine for months I feed dry daily but they never accept it so I feed frozen to make sure they don’t starve. Anything helps! Thanks.
I lost the mate for one of this pair before, and for the 4-5 months the original pair have been in this tank, they would not touch any dry food and were strictly going after frozen & liquid. After one of the original pair passed, I specially waited until PetCo got a group in that would eat flake (I asked them to feed at the store), I bought two, and waited until the 3 fish figured out a pair (the original fish picked one of the new ones), and along the way the original fish "learned" to eat flake from the new fish before I rehomed the odd-man-out. So in my particular case, the new fish that already came eating dry food "taught" my original fish to eat them, I did not have luck weaning the original pair onto dry food. I was also afraid to go too long starving them in order to force them onto dry food from frozen. Sorry if this is not too helpful...
Toggle Bolts into the dry wall ceiling (amzn.to/3kbH0PM); that's also how I hung the heavy lights + rail over my 135g, as well as the heavyyy T5 Hybrid light fixture over my 45g.
Interesting, I did not know of this morph, thanks for the heads up! Almost looks like the "Enlongated Xenia" from back in the days. Let me see if I could track a frag down!
@@InappropriateReefer Tidal Gardens and Corals Anonymous are selling them! I got some a few weeks ago for my Xenia garden and it adds a really nice red pop!
9:30am-6pm - 20% Intensity, UV: 100, Violet: 45, Royal: 75, Blue: 65, Green: 50, Red: 35, Warm White: 50, Cool White: 50; overall Schedule Intensity is 71%, I think I was in the process of slowly ramping it up and then I forgot, lol.
Hey I.R., I've recently gotten the same sumpless ato to go with my duetto. When I first plugged in the skimmer the output caused a really strong flow in my tank like a small jet. I have a 10 gallon btw and have the 1nder carbon in the sumpless. Do you find the flow coming from it to be good? It doesn't look to be too strong in your tank
RED?! NO NO NOO!! ..It has to be a cool name!.. buy regular red..but SAY you got some Macintosh 2.0's or PimplePoppers ... orrr the Fraggle Rock Ricordea ..the new Redrum Smoorshum is hot nowadays. ... a $300 Barry Allen perhaps.. Or the uber rare UB40! Great Vid! Alot of people including me needed to see tanks like this right now. (As I drain my 125 system & change from internal tower to external shadow overflow on side with a faux cabinet to hide that & the 4 foot tall pentair uv!.. But all due to trying & beat bryopsis & diatoms for good that continually reappear on the megaflow tower days after 3rd entire tank rocks sand & coral cleaning & peroxide dipping.
Your tank looks really clean. How to you get rid of copepod? Mine they came with the coral I bought from Lfs and had copepod infestation in my tank now :( How often you clean your sand bed?
9:30am-6pm - 20% Intensity, UV: 100, Violet: 45, Royal: 75, Blue: 65, Green: 50, Red: 35, Warm White: 50, Cool White: 50; overall Schedule Intensity is 71%, I think I was in the process of slowly ramping it up and then I forgot, lol.
My main display tank has a sump, overflow, and pump as well as a light. No reactors, no skimmers, no internal powerheads. Mixed tank-LPS, Softies and rock anemones-with a few sps. Sump is montipora and pocclipora growing like weeds under a couple par 38 actinic leds-22$ for the pair. 10 gallon water change once a week- with a booster change every couple months. A balanced tank needs no filtration or chemicals. A sps tank is more like growing sugar crystals or a science project-which is fine-but pretty far removed from average reefer needs.
Your last sentence really hit home for me. 😂 May I ask how large is your tank? Trying to get a sense of what percentage of water change you do once a week. Cool to hear that Monti & Poccliporas are growing fine under the PAR38!
I finally set up this Fluval 5 gallon I had sitting around and I used this video for inspiration awesome natural look🔥. Auto top off is a life saver for nanos.
"radion xr30 is a little overkill for this 17 gallon softie tank". Biggest understatement of the year.
Justtt a little... 😂
I have a Radion Gen 2 Pro over my fluval 13.5 gallon softy tank.
Awesome video as always. I think with how "toxic" most people in forums or chatgroups are towards newer hobbiest, its nice to see someone who encourages people new to this wonderfull hobby. Keep it up man😁👍
I'm glad I stayed for the final comment. Seeing a healthy colony is healthy for us. I'm really tired of looking at tanks full of frags.
Genuinely my favourite tank on TH-cam. I keep revisiting this video to remind myself what my new tank will look like once I've moved house.
I swear to god thank God for these reef TH-camrs totally got me covered i’m only four months into the hobby and I’m loving it 🤘🤙
One Radion alone is more expensive that my whole 18 gallons nano 😢, that little tank is a beauty , love it!
That is the way to go 👍
I love my super easy tank. I dont do anything but feed and refill the ato. Maybe one day I'll test the water 🤷🏾♂️
Was waiting for a vid like this thanks so much! Shoutout MD !!!
Some red/dark orange Ricordea Yuma could look really cool in the bottom middle!
Wow that mangrove has really grown a lot! Great video
This is such a beautiful tank and the colors are just jiving for me. Thanks for sharing
It's gorgeous!!! I'm inspired to branch out from salt water now.
Very nice intro to your nano, one small recommendation for your sandbed. Simple wooden chopstick, drag it against your three coners to remove detritus and allow new sand to refill area, it will keep your tank more presentable and the detritus moving stimulates your macros to feed. I know, I do them to all my nano tanks and I specialize only in nanos. My sandbed stays clean and lets me know when I have to stir the sand again. Your tank is already emmaculate and this will make it much nice as I can see the detritus buildup and it takes away from the beauty of your tank. Ho[pe that makes sense.
Very pretty! Soft lots of movement, plants... something to aspire to from fresh water person ...
Beautifully displayed, felt in love with your Xenias!
Greetings from Perú 🇵🇪💕
Thank you Patricia, friend in Peru! 🙌
Gorgeous tank, perfect size
The tank look so good! The fish are giving nutrients that are making this possible I am basically doing this but fishless and I have to dose phosphate and a lot of magnesium. Great learning experience!
Gorgeous ❤
Tank looks epic 😎
10:02 What macroalge is that? Looks similar to Caulerpa taxifolia. Thankyou! :)
It would be very cool if the Cardinal fish have babies!
Awesome little tank 👍 keep seeing videos that make me want to add some xenia! Always loved the look of it, but fear it spreading too! 😅
I am feeling that pain in the 135g... I am starting to find little pieces on the opposite side of the tank, lol!
@@InappropriateReefer oh no 🙈 maybe just for my nano then, but not the bigger tank coming 😅
Beware of xenia. I just gave my xenia to my lfs. I would remove about a third of it every week. It was on its own rock island. A weed is an understatement for it
Oh man! This video felt very professional.
My "work shirt" probably helped. 🤓
I wouldn’t alternate the lights to two different schedules because it can confuse and disrupt the cycle the corals are on
You should check out the aqua knight v2/reef breeder nano light. I have one on my evo for about 2 months now and the corals started growing like crazy after upgrading the stock light to that. Going to set up a budget nano with that soon.
May i know which kind of leather is the large one on the right of the tank? Is it a devil finger?
Beautiful love this one.
Whats a good online store to get marine plants? My local pet stores don't have good variety...
Yes, a great entry-level tank.
Dang since you’re sponsored now does that mean no budget tank videos? Especially interested in the cheaper lights & other cheaper versions of these small expensive parts please
I'm with you on that.
Looks awsome nice job!!
Can you list the names of the corals, this is exactly the look I am wanting but new to the hobby so like to have a list going to the store
What’s the name of the gorgonian in the left side on the Xenia rock
Nice choice, it's my favorite type: Purple Candelabra
This is perfect and inspiring!
I also have a soft coral community tank with a deressa clam and a rainbow bubble tip anemone as the center pieces and I love it. I took a fluval 6 gallons spec and turned it into a refugium and hooked it to a drilled 50 gallon cube. I do not have a skimmer but instead have a tidal hob to do the surface skimming and I never get a film on the surface. The corals are zinnias, leather trees green and purple, devil's hand, toadstool and several different pallies. I've tried zoa's but there's too much chemical warfare going on they're never happy and end up dying back. Plus I am a murderer of SPS and LPS. My passion is actually freshwater South and Central American. But I wanted to see if I can successfully do a Coral tank it's been running for almost 6 years. I started with the fluval spec with all tiny little frags of coral. But now you can't see any bare spots on any Rock in there it's covered. So cool to watch it grow it's nice to buy colonies but it's even nicer to grow your own. If I could change anything I just wish I could have Zoa's. But definitely lovin'it. I keep it next to a large tank with some large cichlids in it, but yet when you walk into the room your eyes are drawn to the saltwater because of the colors and the lighting.
I’m just trying to understand this set up as I’m thinking of trying something like this myself. So there is no sump or internal filter? Just heater, wave maker and ATO (not even necessary)?
Nice reef 😊🤘
How are you controlling the phosphate in this tank? Reason I ask is my Xenia didn’t start pulsating until I was able to reduce the phosphate in my tank. Your Xenia are looking happy, happy, happy.
Super nice setup, I love this tank! What type of gorgonian is that thick one? Looking for something similar with super easy care.
I would love to have a reeftank but im intimidated about water changes and mixing up saltwater. I have no car so i cant get my water from a store as my back is too broken to use the bus for it....
I am also afraid that even if i mix the water right i get my salinity wrong cos if evaperation. I probably overthink water changing cos I never saw someone how they make it
Could you maybe make a video about tips how to mix saltwater for your reef and how to get the salinity right?
Hey man, no worries, mixing water is super easy. You just need a way to measure salinity (amount of salt in the water), a refractometer (~$30) can reliably tell you. You'd just have a bucket of water, add salt into it and keep measuring, until you get the right amount (35 ppt). If you overshot, just pour some out and add water again. Simple. Water will slowly evaporate from your aquarium, but won't while you are mixing your water.
As to getting water to your house, if budget allows, an RODI until (~$150 - $200) is always a solid investment, especially if going to the store & transporting water is problematic. Alternatively if you are doing a small tank, you may be able to use delivered drinking water (those 5 gallon jugs), or maybe even order pre-mixed saltwater from PetCo. OR if you are really daring and don't mind a little algae... heck, I used tap water straight out of the faucet for years and it has been fine, I just have a little more algae, lol. YMMV depending on the quality of tap water in your area.
For actual suggestion on mixing saltwater, check out Bulkreefsupply's video on mixing saltwater, they go in-depth of some of the do's and don'ts. Just don't get intimidated, this hobby can be pretty simple if you plan to start out with simple to keep corals.
@@InappropriateReefer tank you so much for your reply, now it seems much easier as my area has the best tap water of whole germany. I could get maybe some diatomes if the saltwater ones also like silicates as the freshwater do. I dont mind them at all, just some scrubbing every now and than from the glass ^^
Im glad to hear that a refractometer doesnt cost as much and you dont kill your corals by using something else as RODI water
Is this kind of thing possible with fish and rock only or do the corals and algae contribute to the stability of the tank?
Great video
What is that species of feathery caulerpa?
Was there a process for you to teach the bangaiis to eat dry foods ? I’ve had mine for months I feed dry daily but they never accept it so I feed frozen to make sure they don’t starve. Anything helps! Thanks.
I lost the mate for one of this pair before, and for the 4-5 months the original pair have been in this tank, they would not touch any dry food and were strictly going after frozen & liquid. After one of the original pair passed, I specially waited until PetCo got a group in that would eat flake (I asked them to feed at the store), I bought two, and waited until the 3 fish figured out a pair (the original fish picked one of the new ones), and along the way the original fish "learned" to eat flake from the new fish before I rehomed the odd-man-out. So in my particular case, the new fish that already came eating dry food "taught" my original fish to eat them, I did not have luck weaning the original pair onto dry food. I was also afraid to go too long starving them in order to force them onto dry food from frozen. Sorry if this is not too helpful...
Hi mate! Do you still need to concentrate on calcium, mag and alk? Thanks
I'm into the softies as well I'm looking for more colorful ones though something different got any suggestions let me know
Long time viewer! I might’ve missed it but what did you use to hang the radion? I’m struggling to find a way to hang my Viparspectra
Toggle Bolts into the dry wall ceiling (amzn.to/3kbH0PM); that's also how I hung the heavy lights + rail over my 135g, as well as the heavyyy T5 Hybrid light fixture over my 45g.
@@InappropriateReefer wow such a simple solution! Thank you!
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What's a good affordable grow light for mangroves?
You should get some ruby red Xenia in there!
Interesting, I did not know of this morph, thanks for the heads up! Almost looks like the "Enlongated Xenia" from back in the days. Let me see if I could track a frag down!
@@InappropriateReefer
Tidal Gardens and Corals Anonymous are selling them! I got some a few weeks ago for my Xenia garden and it adds a really nice red pop!
What intensity are you running this xr30 at over this tank. I have watched all your other videos on this tank and you never talk about it
9:30am-6pm - 20% Intensity, UV: 100, Violet: 45, Royal: 75, Blue: 65, Green: 50, Red: 35, Warm White: 50, Cool White: 50; overall Schedule Intensity is 71%, I think I was in the process of slowly ramping it up and then I forgot, lol.
@@InappropriateReefer thank you for your response I have a g3 xr30 over a fluval 13.5 running ab+ at 33% overall mabey i need to slowly ramp it up
Hey I.R., I've recently gotten the same sumpless ato to go with my duetto. When I first plugged in the skimmer the output caused a really strong flow in my tank like a small jet. I have a 10 gallon btw and have the 1nder carbon in the sumpless.
Do you find the flow coming from it to be good? It doesn't look to be too strong in your tank
If you want some red, how about some deadpool mushrooms
Solid idea, I think I'll look into that or some general run-of-the-mill red shrooms!
RED?! NO NO NOO!! ..It has to be a cool name!.. buy regular red..but SAY you got some Macintosh 2.0's or PimplePoppers ... orrr the
Fraggle Rock Ricordea ..the new Redrum Smoorshum is hot nowadays.
... a $300 Barry Allen perhaps..
Or the uber rare UB40!
Great Vid! Alot of people including me needed to see tanks like this right now.
(As I drain my 125 system & change from internal tower to external shadow overflow on side with a faux cabinet to hide that & the 4 foot tall pentair uv!..
But all due to trying & beat bryopsis & diatoms for good that continually reappear on the megaflow tower days after 3rd entire tank rocks sand & coral cleaning & peroxide dipping.
Your tank looks really clean. How to you get rid of copepod? Mine they came with the coral I bought from Lfs and had copepod infestation in my tank now :(
How often you clean your sand bed?
Copepods are good
I'm running the same xr30 over mine! 😂🤣 what schedule do you run? I can't seem to dial mine in. 😕
9:30am-6pm - 20% Intensity, UV: 100, Violet: 45, Royal: 75, Blue: 65, Green: 50, Red: 35, Warm White: 50, Cool White: 50; overall Schedule Intensity is 71%, I think I was in the process of slowly ramping it up and then I forgot, lol.
@@InappropriateReefer you're awesome! Thank you! 🙏
Nice Bro
My main display tank has a sump, overflow, and pump as well as a light. No reactors, no skimmers, no internal powerheads. Mixed tank-LPS, Softies and rock anemones-with a few sps. Sump is montipora and pocclipora growing like weeds under a couple par 38 actinic leds-22$ for the pair. 10 gallon water change once a week- with a booster change every couple months. A balanced tank needs no filtration or chemicals. A sps tank is more like growing sugar crystals or a science project-which is fine-but pretty far removed from average reefer needs.
Your last sentence really hit home for me. 😂 May I ask how large is your tank? Trying to get a sense of what percentage of water change you do once a week. Cool to hear that Monti & Poccliporas are growing fine under the PAR38!
Amen, high end sps more like a science experiment than reefing. Hahah
That's a cool idea to have sps in the sump where they can get free higher flow
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nice I like
I like red discasoma mushrooms
Great idea, I will try to find some ;-)
My goals is to make my Reef Tank look Like Yours...
Thanks man, you're too kind!
"AMC didn't go to the moon"...YET.
Just watching this and just said the same thing… 8 months later lol
Or the right I 🤔
love that asian american accent
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CAN I HELP PLEASE
Hang some dragon breath macro from a string or somthing different ;)
Put a bunch of variety of small fish in that tank. More activity.
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Why not red macro for your blank spit in the back??
Nvm. You literally said dragons breath in your vid as I typed this.
ATOs in nano reefs are unnecessary imo
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