Big Changes in my SPS Reef Tank
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- I am BACK with an update on my Innovative Marine 170 gallon EXT NUVO SPS dominant reef tank. The acropora in the tank struggled for a few months over the summer and I had a little bit of burnout... but I am back at full force. It took me some time to get this thing back into a condition I am happy with and now share with everyone else.
If you want some background info on my system, my last update should cover most if not all questions about the system.
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Long format sounds great
Okay cool. I still probably cut out about 10 minutes of rambling out of this vid and was thinking of cutting out more, but I guess there is a market for longer videos. I personally like to hear how other reefers think and enjoy the longer videos.
I enjoy the longer videos, great job, cheers!
Gorgeous tank! Adding sand to mine was one of my best decisions for my reef.
lol, I hate taking care of it, but it does look much much nicer than the bare bottom.
Really super update; thanks. Enjoyed format, length and walkthrough.
Thanks!
Great update! Glad to see the Tomini, Melanaurus, and sand star have settled in
Yep, I was worried about the yellow tang being a dick, but it seems to ignore the Tomini.
Love the long format!
I think that we all experience those lulls in the hobby. Unfortunately many people give up and call it quits when that happens. I think the best decision is to just wait it out because the lull will end and the spark always seems to come back. Glad you waited it out! Your tank looks beautiful, and I think better with the sand bed! I also prefer the longer format too because your advice and commentary is very valuable to the rest of us who strive to have a tank even half as nice as yours!
Thanks! I actually have been thinking about doing a video on how to set up and design a burn-out proof tank and how to avoid calling it quits by making things easier. Too many people run 'hot rod' tanks but then when they get burnt out, its too much stuff to maintain.
Bye Bye! No seriously, thanks for sharing your awesome reef tank. Inspired. 🤓🤘
🤘Thanks!
Great tank. Inspirational.
Thanks!
Stunning reef aquarium!!
Thank you very much!
Awesome job! Looks amazing 👏
Thanks!
Looks much better. I just added sand to my reef
Sand is nice, and hopefully worth the effort to keep it clean!
Looking beautiful mate
Longer videos are better 😊
Thanks!
Hello, I got into the hobby about 1 year ago now. I have a bunch of mixed corals, mostly LPS and softies with a few SPS pieces and plate corals. It is very frustrating when you buy a coral, put it into the tank, see it really explode like there's no tomorrow and think "Wow it is doing amazing" then sadly the day after tomorrow issues start to appear. In my case I love fish and I love movement in the tank, so I have some torches and sometimes if it is not my clowns killing my torches it is my dwarf angels nipping away at everything. I guess we cannot have the best of both words 'literally' right hahaha. You have some very beautiful corals in there, I also found over the past several months when the tank was completely stable I tried to use the corals that did well with all the fish and aquarium shenanigans and 'frag' or 'split' them from the bigger existing ones that grew out and could handle the tank situation. It is such a sensitive hobby to be in, and unless going full leather corals I don't see it being easy in any case. There was a point where I thought I will get a massive carpet anemone and do clown tank only lol!
It’s gets easier over time but never ‘easy’. There’s a reason why most of my fish are in the ‘beginner fish’ category 🤣
@@NBurgReef At the moment for fish I have 1 Blue Tang (Dory / Blue Hippo), 1 Yellow Tang, 1 Yellow Tail Purple Tang, 1 Mimic Tang, 1 Foxface Rabbitfish, 1 Pacific Blue Tang, 1 Sailfin Tang, 2 Dwarf Angels - Flame angel & Coral Beauty (RIP Corals haha), 2 Diamond Gobies, 1 Lawnmower Blenny, 2 Maroon Clownfish, ( I can't remember if I miss anyone, I think I got them all written down, I am at the office now lol.)
@@JohnnyBlankify that’s a lot of tangs! I hope your tank is big, lol.
@@NBurgReef We've got a lot of tangs you are right. And they all get along very well, thats because we got them all when they were literally so small, almost still invisible! It is a peninsula tank, the Neptunian MG180 - About 700L +-. It is made here in China, and they are really good priced here too. Well, speaking of which. Red Sea tanks also made here, and when you go to the local factories you can literally buy any of their tanks for 50% of their asking price just without the brand name 🤣🤣
Enjoyed this episode 🔥👏👌💯
Thanks bud!
Looks real good with the sand
Thank. I agree, it looks much brighter.
You have a dream there. Can you maybe make a video about your light? I also have the Straton gen 1 and I would be interested wich settings you have.
Thank you
I've had a few people ask, so I will at some point.
What has your experience with those triggers? What kind are they? Have they been playing nice with corals and inverts? Awesome video
they were great. they would occasionally carry a hermit shell around but they can’t really get in it so I would say invert safe and 100% reef safe. their mouths point upwards so they must almost go upside down to eat something off the rocks. they did frag a lot of sticks for my because they’re clumsy and big, but don’t eat them. It got bad when they started mating which is why i rehomed them.
Very nice long video, can you share information your vacuum sand tools please,,,my tools is take forever 😮
Yeah, I am going to make a Deep cleaning video, but I use a python brand long or large gravel vac. I pinch the hose when it fills up with sand to lessen the flow thru the tubes so the sand drops. If you hold it straigh up and down (90 degrees or perpendicular to the botttom) it will suck up a lot of sand, but then tilt to about 45 degrees and the sand will fall out of the syphon. Good way to stir it up without sucking it all up in the waste water.
Still looks tops, barebottom or with sand,
Incidentally, which sand did you go with.
Thanks
Caribsea Live Sand - Special Grade. its a little bigger than typical sand so it doesn't blow around as much.
In terms of dosing what are you doing ? Great Video! Thanks
ESV B-Ionic 2 part and kalkwasser. I do like 5-7ml of sodium nitrate per day, but probably doesn't have an effect anymore.
Are you doing anything to combat the brown spots on your sandbed? Mine looks just like it and I believe they are large cell amphidiniums.
Not really other than syphoning every week with water changes and adding sand cleanup crew. Mine looks like diatoms in person, but could be 'sand dinos' like you suggested. Maybe I should pull out the microscope and look.
I'm glad your sps is working well. Can you please show us your color chart?
Yeah I probably should do a quick light video.
Did the centropyge bispinosa eat corals in your aquarium ?
No. it’s in its nature to nip everything in the tank, not just rocks and coral, but it does no harm. new additions get nipped more which may affect polyp extension but after a while it stops when it realizes it’s not food. I’ve never had a dwarf angel eat coral, just nip.
What’s up man. I have a similar setup (5x2x2 instead of 2.5 width though) but with 2x ATI Stratons. I have 3 MP40s, I put 2 on one side and 1 on the opposite. What flow schedule are you running with your new setup? Can you screenshot it and link the photo? Thanks!
One of my MP40s is pre-mobius, so that one is just reef crest. The other is mostly reef crest with a 30 minute long pulse (2 sec on 2 sec off) every other hour during the daylight hours. The MP40s are off set so they're not pointing directly at each other so I get a little bit of swirling in the tank which is good.
Where are you located? Do you sell/ship?
Washington DC. I only sell locally at this point… but someday I will.
@@NBurgReef darn. I'm really trying to get my hands on some golden rod anacropora
What lights are them?
ATI Straton Gen 1
Thank you