What's fascinating is how this is a cannister filter tank without a refugium etc..this alone is mind blowing to the majority and you manage nitrates with bacteria and high nutrient food. This is a topic that would be welcome to be explored in a future video
A canister is basically a sump on its side without the space to hide equipment. My canister run system (only 40 gallons) is almost 5 years old and still thriving.
Some excellent reef keeping philosophy in this man. I believe that there is no piece of equipment and/or magical additive that can substitute affort and attention to detail when it comes to reef keeping. Pretty awesome to have you as a local, keep up the awesome work!
Thanks for the tips. As basic as it sounds, it was interesting to hear about cleaning the glass to keep the snails cleaning the aquascape. It makes so much sense, but never thought about it. (I clean mine, but usually after it starts to look a little dirty).
I love your videos especially when I have a canister filtration reef that is going on 5 years. When I found your videos I subscribed asap. Thanks so much for taking time to do these videos. You continue to confirm what people said I couldn't do, use a canister filter on a reef tank. Mine is a 125g peninsula style rock work mixed reef. I was wondering how many heads do you have for flow? Your Euphilia corals are beautifully flowing.
Hello Mikey, very good explanation of the Hevy in, heavy out, I was heard that before but it was not fully clear to me why or how, it makes sense to me your comment about doses NO3 and PO4, actually, I bought salts that you have recommended (Mono Phosphate potassium and also the Potassium Nitrite), my doubt now is how I have to dissolve it, how concentrate it will be fine, and also how often dose it, one question from my side is, Do you make water changes if yes how often and how much water do you change?
Brilliant video Mike, great to see another quality Aussie TH-cam channel. Awesome tips, I’ve been in the hobby a long time and there’s some new ones here even for me. Also I started carbon dosing today to feed/increase bacteria, not to reduce no3 or po4 bit so that the bac can provide food for corals. I thought it was interesting that you mentioned feeding the bacteria as I haven’t heard of carbon dosing solely for this purpose anywhere else.
Only a week or less, it’s not a necessary step but it may help if you have anything with organics. In my case, my rock was once live but then dried out. The kalk does not need to be super strength.
Excellent and healthy looking corals and fish . Amazingly clean and thriving tank. What is the acrylic plastic pipe like fitting at the far rear and right side of the tank ? Some sort of filtration? Just noticed a bubble trap in it rising and lowering.
Great tips, wished I knew some of these things. Definitely will be using these tips and what you are essentially saying is patience. I also recommend start with fish first to cycle without lights.
You have a pretty nice tank there and some good information personally I believe when you keep a little bit of nitrate and phosphate that also helps keep out cyano algae and helps keep your tank cleaner it seems to work for me
Honestly, its a lot of initial investment: an RO maker can run you $100-$250 for a functional unit. But for his quality of an aquarium, you're gonna need a protein skimmer, autodosers, wavemakers, a litany of cleaning tools etc. Its not super hard to maintain, but the intial investment will run you up a pretty penny.
In my case, I used manmade "real reef rock 2.0" which actually comes seeded with media and wet, unfortunately, all of that dies once it is shipped and dry. So there is dead organic matter inside. If someone were to use marco rock which is mined from a quarry, rinsing it in a tub of RO is an added precaution.
Great tips, love how clean your tank looks. My tank has dry rock that is covered in diatoms, what’s the easiest/best way to get rid of the diatoms without having yo remove the rocks and bleaching them? I live in HI and we’re not allowed to have live corals, not even sure I can get a cleanup crew like snails.
Diatoms are caused by high silicates and other dissolved organics. Your best bet is to use Aquaforest phosphate minus or rowaphos to remove the silicates. Make sure your source water is RODI to remove silicates as well. It may not get rid of it but I could help. You should definitely try to find cleanup crew to consume it too. They are essential. Best of luck
Tank looks awesome! 👌 Great points! Soaking dry rock in RO water is interesting! I'm about to start a new tank and will try this! 👍 Might reconsider UV as well 🤔
I added a uv and it reduced glass algae but over time, it is less effective due to the glass sleeve getting dirty and I ended up removing it. It does work well if maintained though
Thanks, the flow comes from an MP40 set on multiple modes throughout the hour. I use constant, short pulse, gyre and reef crest. It rotates through the modes throughout the day. The main trick is to ensure flow continues to move throughout the aquarium in a circular motion.
Hi! how are you doing? I really liked the Video. I will use synthetic rocks and new substrate. How long can I leave them immersed in RO water? before moving to the tank?
Nice. I will be adding some dry sand to an existing 12 month old system, just for additional top up. Would you recommend I run the dry sand through RODI water with kalk?
No need to, just wash with tap water and then maybe rinse using your tank water. No need for kalk, I only do that to rocks and it was unintentional but worked out well!
Very inspiring aquascape, reef and overall aesthetics. Glad to find your channel. 👌 One surprising choice to see is the open top…I’d personally be too worried about wrasses etc carpet surfing..but as the saying goes “there’s no decisions, only trade-off’s”. A+ content. 🙏 Cheers from Canada. 🍻
It will be the next video, I needed to find more content and ideas to make it a full video and it did not suit the theme of this one, It was on my mind this whole time. I will make it for you :)
Its really up to you, 1 week or 1 month. I think this step is not essential but it maybe contribute a small % towards success. Carbonic acid and other nasties will be taken out of the rock
Thanks for that video, definitely pick some things up. Interested in hearing about the curing dry rock process with kalkwasser. Do you need to put saltwater in, or can you just use RODI water with kalkwasser? Do you need to heat the water?
No need to heat and you can put the rocks in a tub with ro water and kalk. It’s not necessary but it does help a little. It’s just an extra step that reduces carbonic acid
I wonder if my LFS will sell or give me some coraline algae...my 1G pico has been up for around 6 months now, and the coraline algae is spreading from the coral plugs, but it's pretty slow going, and don't have any on my rear glass or hardware yet. Also...I have been using a tiny acrylic tank, and to clean the glass I use a...Magic Eraser! I cut a small square off one, and stick a skewer with some super glue into it. I put a larger piece of Magic eraser on one end, and a tiny piece on the other, so that I have a part that can do most of the main "glass", and then the small end gets into the nooks and crannies that the larger one can't. I only clean the glass when I do water changes once a week. I don't use a filter or a skimmer. Just water changes.
Grab the frag plug and scrape the coralline algae into the tank. Of course a little more can go a long way :) if you have a reefing community I’m sure there’s plenty. Any LFS that tries to charge for algae scrapings would be a joke!
@@Mikeymikemike I am new to the town I am in, but they have a decent LFS, considering I am in Northern Ontario and it's the only one that deals with salt water for miles. I am sure they'd give me some...I was only there once so far, and the guy who takes care of the reef stuff wasn't in, but I bought some phyto and a $10 two polyp Zoa! They had a bunch of $10 frags...and that's $10 Canadian pesos...so like, $7 USD? I am sure some coraline algae won't be a big deal. I'll ask next time I am in there. For now though, I'll give the plugs a scraping and see if that helps spread it around the tank. Thanks for the tip!
Hi I've adopted a lot of your setup and tips on my own reef ie filtration, calcium carbonate dosing....etc. I'm cleaning the glass every day due to a light dusting of cyano. I've recently turned my light up by 10% aswell. Can I ask what lights your using and what in line uv are you using please?? I have the biomaster 850. Thanks
Merci pour votre vidéo, très bons commentaires afin d'être proactif concernants les algues. Changer les bas aux 3 jours élimine aussi les phosphates et nitrates (+ l'utilisation du chaeto). J'ai moi aussi utilisé la méthode de la coraline et cela commence à donner de bons résultats. Félicitations pour votre magnifique récif, et en passant superbe peinture sur votre mur! Thank you!
Following your concept of heavy in heavy out with nitrates and phosphate dosing along with carbon dosing. I was wondering if using a smaller amount of biopelets in a reactor for carbon dosing?
Biopellets have their advantage in that you are not dosing daily, however they need to be tumbled. It's up to you really. I find dosing removes one piece of equipment from my system
I run uv sterilizer 24/7 at a low flow rate and I carbon dose Tropic Marin bacto balance every bay on a dosing pump and add 3ml of Vibrant every other day when I feed and I haven't had to clean my glass in months. The expensive flipper scrapper has become a great seaweed holder from my tangs though.
Great video as usual. How do you like running wave mode constantly? I like wave mode myself but I have a standard overflow, and the noise gets too loud with the constant sound of splashing.
It does not run on wave mode constantly, there are variations through the hour. You can tune it so it does not splash :) I find 500ms to be the sweet spot.
@@Mikeymikemike I wish I could, but my overflow is such, that any wave I create, you hear it crashing over the overflow. Maybe I need some Lilly pipes 😃
I've heard other sources claim you need a protein skimmer for carbon dosing to be effective. What's your take on this? Are they just referring to the nutrient export?
Fantastic scape Mike! Thanks for sharing. Do you have any advice on what to do if you’ve accidentally dropped Big Mac into the tank? (Asking for a friend.)
Always amazing. Curious what mode(s) you run your mp40 and at what intensity to keep acros happy without disturbing the sand bed. Shocked that only 1 is needed!
I run them on a mix of modes up to 90%, my sand stays in place even with 100% blasts, mature sand tends to stick together for some reason, possibly bacteria films
Love this mentality! I'm in cruise control mode...lol. Hoping to take as much pride as you do in my next build...coming soon! Thanks for another banger.
@mikeymikemike I have a fluval 307 cannister filter on a 60 gallon right now it is going through a pre-filter sponges, bio filter (sponge), ceramic cylinders then carbon and gfo on top would you suggest anything different right now my nitrates stay around 16 ppm (would like to get them down) and my phos stays around .1
That's not too bad but I think the biggest thing is frequent cleaning of the prefilter will help. Another thing you could do is use a gravel vac to do water changes as it will keep your sand free of detritus.
It’s up to you, biopellets or liquid carbon like nopox. I personally use Aquaforest -NP pro as it has not fed any cyano in my experience. But I’m sure all others would be ok.
Good video man, congrats, in terms of coraline, its true that when it covers the rock, its more dificult to the algae to get fixed, but i know that coraline also covers the millions holes in our rock, making it hard for the bacteria to fix, what you think about this ?
I know its like bearing dirty underwear, but could you show in the next vid a stage where you would say is the worst your tank looks? I have to say that was one on the most pristine looking reefs ive seen and I cant believe you dont babysit it 24/7 to have it look so nice! Little bit jelly TBH :D
To be very honest the dirtiest this tank looks through the week is about the same. Maybe the glass inlet pipe is a little brown/hazy but that’s pretty much it. My planted tank on the other hand! Wow that’s a mess that’s going to get shutdown and remade!
@@Mikeymikemike tq mike, i would like to do like u, canister tank, i calculate cost it was saver than sumps tank, saving cost for more preety coral... I wil stay following u, if any not understand pls teach me tq mike
I don't know anything about aquariums or how I stumbled upon your channel but this simply fascinating and amazing! Subscribed to your channel. Awesome stuff! Cheers!
Really good advice Mikey. Beautiful tank! How long have you been keeping a marine tank? You seem like a freshwater guy making corals substitute your plants, it sure is unique
There will always be enough food, these guys graze all day long. In fact they have so much food, they keep reproducing in my system. The abundance of food is essential for reproduction. Snails are also much easier to remove than algae :) a dead snail is very unlikely to crash a tank, if anything they just become food for other critters very quickly. If your tank previously crashed from snail deaths, you have other problems.
@@Mikeymikemike no I ment on a new system bud. It usally takes a good couple weeks to grow algea. If you just add a ton of snails in one go you will have die off. Let's say the max you want for a tank is 40 snails/inverts like hermit crabs add 5 or so every couple of weeks or every month until you reach the max you want in there. If you go nuts when you only have 2 clowns in the system and no real nutrients or anything it will take a while for algae to grow. The die off will cause ammonia/ nutrients problems that will fuel even more algea and then the snails will not keep up. I've seen it happen first hand. And not all snails will eat hair algea and some will grow faster than it will be eaten. I appreciate all the other points you mentioned. I try to learn something every day! Cheers
That's a good point, people can add them when the time comes. I failed to mention that. I added all of my clean up crew after a 2 weeks of darkness, and then 2 weeks of light. By then Diatoms were starting to pop up and I added all my snails. Max snails from day 0 with no food could be problematic, you are right, the easy solution is to just feed them food :) They will eat it.Thanks for your clarification. I'll even add an note in the description to the vid to say wait or feed snails if you add them all at once from day 0.
I'm more the scientific laid back reefer type.... do all the research and then lay back and think about it, rarely implementing any of what I learned. 🙈🙈🙈
What's fascinating is how this is a cannister filter tank without a refugium etc..this alone is mind blowing to the majority and you manage nitrates with bacteria and high nutrient food. This is a topic that would be welcome to be explored in a future video
will do! I think I will explore canister filter reefing in detail for my next video, since my first one was a very basic overview.
A canister is basically a sump on its side without the space to hide equipment. My canister run system (only 40 gallons) is almost 5 years old and still thriving.
Great information on your beautiful reef system!! Keep it up! Subscribed, and looking forward to more content! 🤓
Thanks for the sub!
Some excellent reef keeping philosophy in this man. I believe that there is no piece of equipment and/or magical additive that can substitute affort and attention to detail when it comes to reef keeping. Pretty awesome to have you as a local, keep up the awesome work!
Thank you Luke! Much appreciated!
Thanks for the tips. As basic as it sounds, it was interesting to hear about cleaning the glass to keep the snails cleaning the aquascape. It makes so much sense, but never thought about it. (I clean mine, but usually after it starts to look a little dirty).
Your tank is truly amazing.
Its great to see an absolutely pristine reef tank run on a canister filter. Top marks and will be following your tank. Thanks 👌🤩
This is great advice that can get new people started and help them have long term successes.
@6:00 the cleanup crew - did they starve once the algae was gone?
Great video! Just starting up a new tank so this is really helpful. Thanks and keep up the good work !
Great advices! Amazing aquarium and aquascape! Your aquarium inspired my new 120 gallon reef tank aquascape.
Thank you and I wish you success
Nailing it Mike. So many people complain that upkeep is hard. I think fixing the swings from not maintaining are way harder. Great vids mate!
Fantastic video, you sir have a new subscriber, looking forward to the next one, thank you for the tips
Thanks for the sub!
Currently setting up a dual canister filter reef tank, learning so much from your videos, any updates on your tank?
Many thanks Mikey I’m off to clean my back glass . 😃👍🏴
I love your videos especially when I have a canister filtration reef that is going on 5 years. When I found your videos I subscribed asap. Thanks so much for taking time to do these videos. You continue to confirm what people said I couldn't do, use a canister filter on a reef tank. Mine is a 125g peninsula style rock work mixed reef.
I was wondering how many heads do you have for flow? Your Euphilia corals are beautifully flowing.
Hello Mikey, very good explanation of the Hevy in, heavy out, I was heard that before but it was not fully clear to me why or how, it makes sense to me your comment about doses NO3 and PO4, actually, I bought salts that you have recommended (Mono Phosphate potassium and also the Potassium Nitrite), my doubt now is how I have to dissolve it, how concentrate it will be fine, and also how often dose it, one question from my side is, Do you make water changes if yes how often and how much water do you change?
Another amazing video!! Fantastic 😁👌🏼
Awesome video man. Awesome looking tank.
Much appreciated!
Brilliant video Mike, great to see another quality Aussie TH-cam channel. Awesome tips, I’ve been in the hobby a long time and there’s some new ones here even for me. Also I started carbon dosing today to feed/increase bacteria, not to reduce no3 or po4 bit so that the bac can provide food for corals. I thought it was interesting that you mentioned feeding the bacteria as I haven’t heard of carbon dosing solely for this purpose anywhere else.
Thank you and glad you enjoyed it, please share and sub :)
Awesome video three questions what vinegar do you use and how much and how often do you dose it ?
Plus can you dose on a establish tank ?
I don't use vinegar since it can lower ph when dosed direct to the display. I use Aquaforest -NP pro
@@Mikeymikemike thanks mate
Hey Mike how long do you soak the rocks in kalkwasser?
Only a week or less, it’s not a necessary step but it may help if you have anything with organics. In my case, my rock was once live but then dried out. The kalk does not need to be super strength.
Excellent and healthy looking corals and fish . Amazingly clean and thriving tank.
What is the acrylic plastic pipe like fitting at the far rear and right side of the tank ? Some sort of filtration? Just noticed a bubble trap in it rising and lowering.
That is a surface skimmer that removes the biofilm
Great tips, wished I knew some of these things. Definitely will be using these tips and what you are essentially saying is patience. I also recommend start with fish first to cycle without lights.
Thank you :) My personal perspective on cycles is to start with corals first and lots of them, but I guess it's up to the individual.
You have a pretty nice tank there and some good information personally I believe when you keep a little bit of nitrate and phosphate that also helps keep out cyano algae and helps keep your tank cleaner it seems to work for me
Can you elaborate on the use of kalkwaser to cute dry rock and sand? What is the process?
will revisit this video when I start the next build!
Keep us updated on your new build!
Makes my want to try a Salt Water Tank. I am just not sure about water changes. RO water adds up I bet. Love your Aquariums.
Honestly, its a lot of initial investment: an RO maker can run you $100-$250 for a functional unit. But for his quality of an aquarium, you're gonna need a protein skimmer, autodosers, wavemakers, a litany of cleaning tools etc. Its not super hard to maintain, but the intial investment will run you up a pretty penny.
I love your tank mate, I think I might add one similar to my home office
I’m really enjoying hearing about your tanks. At some stage would you be able to talk to us about your fish and why you chose the ones you did?
Certainly!
Beautiful tank! Please tell me what kind of heater do you use? Maybe you can record a video of cleaning the filters?
Will do. I just use the oase biomaster thermo heater
Great tips man. Honestly never thought about letting the man-made rock soak in R/O for a while
In my case, I used manmade "real reef rock 2.0" which actually comes seeded with media and wet, unfortunately, all of that dies once it is shipped and dry. So there is dead organic matter inside. If someone were to use marco rock which is mined from a quarry, rinsing it in a tub of RO is an added precaution.
@@Mikeymikemike ohh yeah nice! I have heard of that, never seen it in-store though!
Great tips, love how clean your tank looks. My tank has dry rock that is covered in diatoms, what’s the easiest/best way to get rid of the diatoms without having yo remove the rocks and bleaching them? I live in HI and we’re not allowed to have live corals, not even sure I can get a cleanup crew like snails.
Diatoms are caused by high silicates and other dissolved organics. Your best bet is to use Aquaforest phosphate minus or rowaphos to remove the silicates. Make sure your source water is RODI to remove silicates as well. It may not get rid of it but I could help. You should definitely try to find cleanup crew to consume it too. They are essential. Best of luck
Good tips! Nice tank. What is that arch of coral and how did you get it that way?
The corals grow and get trimmed :)
Tank looks awesome! 👌
Great points! Soaking dry rock in RO water is interesting! I'm about to start a new tank and will try this! 👍
Might reconsider UV as well 🤔
I added a uv and it reduced glass algae but over time, it is less effective due to the glass sleeve getting dirty and I ended up removing it. It does work well if maintained though
What type wave makers do you have right there ans your flow looks amazing
Thanks, the flow comes from an MP40 set on multiple modes throughout the hour. I use constant, short pulse, gyre and reef crest. It rotates through the modes throughout the day. The main trick is to ensure flow continues to move throughout the aquarium in a circular motion.
Ok cool your aquarium looks AMAZING!!!!
Nice one man, took me a while to get to it - but a great video!
Thanks for the time :)
What do u use to clean ur glass pipes? Solution?
I use an ADA pipe brush and a spray of bleach.
@@Mikeymikemike will bleach be ok afterwards to put into the tank? and how much is considered a spray?
@@MaverickTide of course give it a thorough rinse after. :) yes it’s safe if it’s been rinse and dried. Use as much as you like I guess :)
Would appreciate to hear a top 5 easiest SPS in your opinion that you keep!
Can do! Good idea
What were the cuc member names? Trocus snails, ect?
I really, really enjoyed your video & u gave some very good advice! 😀👍
Hi Mike, noticed you hv hermits w your fleshy corals. R you not worried they may eat them ? Wats your tricks ? Good day.
These hermit crabs seem to not eat corals, I can’t say the same about hermits where you are from :)
Hi! how are you doing? I really liked the Video. I will use synthetic rocks and new substrate. How long can I leave them immersed in RO water? before moving to the tank?
You can soak them for a day or two if that helps, it's not always necessary but I do it as a precaution.
Hi Mikey what kind of lights are you running for your particular set up? Thanks
Hi, I use Radion g5 xr30 on Ab+
@@Mikeymikemike I have 2 ai primes 16 hd would that work for a 90 gallon about 3 feet and half wide?
subbed. thanks for sharing from that big brain.
Nice. I will be adding some dry sand to an existing 12 month old system, just for additional top up. Would you recommend I run the dry sand through RODI water with kalk?
No need to, just wash with tap water and then maybe rinse using your tank water. No need for kalk, I only do that to rocks and it was unintentional but worked out well!
@@Mikeymikemike Ok thanks for the help. I really love your tank. Keep up the good work.
Very inspiring aquascape, reef and overall aesthetics. Glad to find your channel. 👌
One surprising choice to see is the open top…I’d personally be too worried about wrasses etc carpet surfing..but as the saying goes “there’s no decisions, only trade-off’s”.
A+ content. 🙏
Cheers from Canada. 🍻
Thank you. Yes the tank surfers a real thing I’ve had happen in the past. Ironically this tank killed a blenny because of the wave maker …
When is that video ato coming?
It will be the next video, I needed to find more content and ideas to make it a full video and it did not suit the theme of this one, It was on my mind this whole time. I will make it for you :)
@@Mikeymikemike great ! thanks looking forward to it
How long are you curing your rock in rodi and kalk for?
Its really up to you, 1 week or 1 month. I think this step is not essential but it maybe contribute a small % towards success. Carbonic acid and other nasties will be taken out of the rock
Thanks for that video, definitely pick some things up. Interested in hearing about the curing dry rock process with kalkwasser. Do you need to put saltwater in, or can you just use RODI water with kalkwasser? Do you need to heat the water?
No need to heat and you can put the rocks in a tub with ro water and kalk. It’s not necessary but it does help a little. It’s just an extra step that reduces carbonic acid
Do you know of an article or video that explains this a bit more. Interested in doing more digging about it to learn more.
I wonder if my LFS will sell or give me some coraline algae...my 1G pico has been up for around 6 months now, and the coraline algae is spreading from the coral plugs, but it's pretty slow going, and don't have any on my rear glass or hardware yet. Also...I have been using a tiny acrylic tank, and to clean the glass I use a...Magic Eraser! I cut a small square off one, and stick a skewer with some super glue into it. I put a larger piece of Magic eraser on one end, and a tiny piece on the other, so that I have a part that can do most of the main "glass", and then the small end gets into the nooks and crannies that the larger one can't. I only clean the glass when I do water changes once a week. I don't use a filter or a skimmer. Just water changes.
Grab the frag plug and scrape the coralline algae into the tank. Of course a little more can go a long way :) if you have a reefing community I’m sure there’s plenty. Any LFS that tries to charge for algae scrapings would be a joke!
@@Mikeymikemike I am new to the town I am in, but they have a decent LFS, considering I am in Northern Ontario and it's the only one that deals with salt water for miles. I am sure they'd give me some...I was only there once so far, and the guy who takes care of the reef stuff wasn't in, but I bought some phyto and a $10 two polyp Zoa! They had a bunch of $10 frags...and that's $10 Canadian pesos...so like, $7 USD? I am sure some coraline algae won't be a big deal. I'll ask next time I am in there. For now though, I'll give the plugs a scraping and see if that helps spread it around the tank. Thanks for the tip!
Hi I've adopted a lot of your setup and tips on my own reef ie filtration, calcium carbonate dosing....etc.
I'm cleaning the glass every day due to a light dusting of cyano. I've recently turned my light up by 10% aswell. Can I ask what lights your using and what in line uv are you using please?? I have the biomaster 850.
Thanks
Merci pour votre vidéo, très bons commentaires afin d'être proactif concernants les algues.
Changer les bas aux 3 jours élimine aussi les phosphates et nitrates (+ l'utilisation du chaeto). J'ai moi aussi utilisé la méthode de la coraline et cela commence à donner de bons résultats. Félicitations pour votre magnifique récif, et en passant superbe peinture sur votre mur!
Thank you!
Thank you for your comments! Merci
you're great, thanks for everything!
I wonder if carbon dosing in my 3 yr old established reef tank would still work, or if carbon dosing only works when you start off doing it
Hmmm I’d say top up your tank with bacteria if you haven’t and then go from there
Following your concept of heavy in heavy out with nitrates and phosphate dosing along with carbon dosing. I was wondering if using a smaller amount of biopelets in a reactor for carbon dosing?
Biopellets have their advantage in that you are not dosing daily, however they need to be tumbled. It's up to you really. I find dosing removes one piece of equipment from my system
I'm a little late to the party. What dosing pumps do you use and what carbon solution do you use?
Hi, do you run UV unit 24/7?
Would be great topic about lights, runing time, light schedule par, etc.
I ran UV 24/7 for a month and then removed it. Now the system and glass algae are in a nice balance. It will take awhile for glass to go brown/green.
I run uv sterilizer 24/7 at a low flow rate and I carbon dose Tropic Marin bacto balance every bay on a dosing pump and add 3ml of Vibrant every other day when I feed and I haven't had to clean my glass in months. The expensive flipper scrapper has become a great seaweed holder from my tangs though.
Great video as usual. How do you like running wave mode constantly? I like wave mode myself but I have a standard overflow, and the noise gets too loud with the constant sound of splashing.
It does not run on wave mode constantly, there are variations through the hour. You can tune it so it does not splash :) I find 500ms to be the sweet spot.
@@Mikeymikemike I wish I could, but my overflow is such, that any wave I create, you hear it crashing over the overflow. Maybe I need some Lilly pipes 😃
I want to buy synthetic rock from Aquaforest, what do you think about this product!?🤔
Amazing tank!!!
Thank you!
what wavemaker is that?
Hello Mike! Nice tank! I see you use zeolites. Do you replace them often ?
I replace them every 6 weeks but I find they are not needed as time goes by if nutrients are already too low. They become good housing for bacteria
I've heard other sources claim you need a protein skimmer for carbon dosing to be effective. What's your take on this? Are they just referring to the nutrient export?
Bacteria gets eaten by coral m, it can also be mechanically removed through filter sponge. The main consumer is actually coral since I have so much
Fantastic scape Mike! Thanks for sharing.
Do you have any advice on what to do if you’ve accidentally dropped Big Mac into the tank? (Asking for a friend.)
Thank you! I’m not sure but I hope your friend has good filtration!
What bacteria product do you dose and when do you know it’s time to add some
A combination, Prodibio and AF Pro bio S, I just dose fortnightly but you can follow the recommended dose, Pro bio S is daily.
How come keeping your phosphate low is not on your list?!
I guess it should be too! Good point!
What are advanced polymer bacteria?
Always amazing. Curious what mode(s) you run your mp40 and at what intensity to keep acros happy without disturbing the sand bed. Shocked that only 1 is needed!
I run them on a mix of modes up to 90%, my sand stays in place even with 100% blasts, mature sand tends to stick together for some reason, possibly bacteria films
Love this mentality! I'm in cruise control mode...lol. Hoping to take as much pride as you do in my next build...coming soon! Thanks for another banger.
Thanks Remy! Let me know if you ever want to team up for a chat :)
@@Mikeymikemike I would love that!
Great looking tank man!
I'm just commenting to say, Mike is gonna blow up fast..faster than cyano build up
Haha cheers!
@mikeymikemike I have a fluval 307 cannister filter on a 60 gallon right now it is going through a pre-filter sponges, bio filter (sponge), ceramic cylinders then carbon and gfo on top would you suggest anything different right now my nitrates stay around 16 ppm (would like to get them down) and my phos stays around .1
That's not too bad but I think the biggest thing is frequent cleaning of the prefilter will help. Another thing you could do is use a gravel vac to do water changes as it will keep your sand free of detritus.
Tank looks great Mikey. 👍 Got me thinking about the back of the glass now 😅 The advance polymer bacteria foods are bio pellets?
It’s up to you, biopellets or liquid carbon like nopox. I personally use Aquaforest -NP pro as it has not fed any cyano in my experience. But I’m sure all others would be ok.
Good video man, congrats, in terms of coraline, its true that when it covers the rock, its more dificult to the algae to get fixed, but i know that coraline also covers the millions holes in our rock, making it hard for the bacteria to fix, what you think about this ?
Coraline will only cover the light exposed surfaces so the rock is still plenty porous :)
I know its like bearing dirty underwear, but could you show in the next vid a stage where you would say is the worst your tank looks? I have to say that was one on the most pristine looking reefs ive seen and I cant believe you dont babysit it 24/7 to have it look so nice! Little bit jelly TBH :D
To be very honest the dirtiest this tank looks through the week is about the same. Maybe the glass inlet pipe is a little brown/hazy but that’s pretty much it. My planted tank on the other hand! Wow that’s a mess that’s going to get shutdown and remade!
Please show us your lighting and your sump ..
My previous videos go through this very quickly :)
Do you carbon dose at the same time as KNO3 and KPO4 or do you split it up into different parts of the day?
I dose nitrates in the morning and night, I dose carbon at night. There is no specific reasoning for this.
My english not good, so May i know wat u r dosing n when, in ur previous video i m not so understand, tq mike
KNO3 2ppm every day, K2SPO4 0.03ppm every day. Aquaforest -NP Pro, and food. Dose to your aquarium consumption.
@@Mikeymikemike tq mike, i would like to do like u, canister tank, i calculate cost it was saver than sumps tank, saving cost for more preety coral... I wil stay following u, if any not understand pls teach me tq mike
I don't know anything about aquariums or how I stumbled upon your channel but this simply fascinating and amazing! Subscribed to your channel.
Awesome stuff!
Cheers!
Awesome, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it and if you ever do start an aquarium the youtube community will happily help!
Wait.. I see you are from Asia, right? Corect me if I wrong. Where do you come from?
I live in Australia (if the accent didn’t give it away)
Great tips!
Really good advice Mikey. Beautiful tank!
How long have you been keeping a marine tank? You seem like a freshwater guy making corals substitute your plants, it sure is unique
Thank you! I have been reefing for awhile now but I can’t decide which one to stick to. It’s hard to be a slave to two masters
@@Mikeymikemike why not both!
Good advice ABC...123...
Haha thanks! I always mix up my abc and 123…
Nice
Interesting
Stay away from the advice " buy as many snails as you can" your tank will eventually crash because there will NOT be enough food at one point.
There will always be enough food, these guys graze all day long. In fact they have so much food, they keep reproducing in my system. The abundance of food is essential for reproduction. Snails are also much easier to remove than algae :) a dead snail is very unlikely to crash a tank, if anything they just become food for other critters very quickly. If your tank previously crashed from snail deaths, you have other problems.
@@Mikeymikemike no I ment on a new system bud. It usally takes a good couple weeks to grow algea. If you just add a ton of snails in one go you will have die off. Let's say the max you want for a tank is 40 snails/inverts like hermit crabs add 5 or so every couple of weeks or every month until you reach the max you want in there. If you go nuts when you only have 2 clowns in the system and no real nutrients or anything it will take a while for algae to grow. The die off will cause ammonia/ nutrients problems that will fuel even more algea and then the snails will not keep up. I've seen it happen first hand. And not all snails will eat hair algea and some will grow faster than it will be eaten. I appreciate all the other points you mentioned. I try to learn something every day! Cheers
That's a good point, people can add them when the time comes. I failed to mention that. I added all of my clean up crew after a 2 weeks of darkness, and then 2 weeks of light. By then Diatoms were starting to pop up and I added all my snails. Max snails from day 0 with no food could be problematic, you are right, the easy solution is to just feed them food :) They will eat it.Thanks for your clarification. I'll even add an note in the description to the vid to say wait or feed snails if you add them all at once from day 0.
@@Mikeymikemike that's nice bud! Looking forward to more videos wish my tank looked as good as yours!
First!! 😄
What happened to your videos
I'm more the scientific laid back reefer type.... do all the research and then lay back and think about it, rarely implementing any of what I learned. 🙈🙈🙈
I am a bit like that with cars. All the research but no purchasing. Enjoy :)
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