My path towards NATURAL FILTRATION WITHOUT EQUIPMENT | Ep.61
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗥 ➜ / aquasplendor
𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗨𝗠 ➜ • Nano Reef Aquarium
Everyone wants a reef aquarium without maintenance. This is my effort towards having a nano marine aquarium that has less maintenance by using invertebrates such as feather duster and some reef mussels that capture organic matter.
No Skimmer, No Biomedia, and maybe one day, just simply, water...
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How I built this nano reef aquarium:
• How to make a Saltwate...
The dimension of this AIO Nano aquarium:
60x30x20cm 36L (24x12x8") 9G
Camera and Lens I used for doing my videos:
Sony A7SIII, 90mm macro, 24mm, 50mm
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The Feeding music is DOPE!
Ah finally someone noticed :D
I've been holding that one for while, was waiting a moment to introduce it :)
@@AquaSplendor What is the music in the "And now We Feast" section? I like it a lot. :)
@@olcayboz I don't know the name sorry
i have no idea about the mechanisms for larger scaled bio filtration but a good amount of Marine Tech Bio Blocks and/or balls. I ran a pico reef tank without mech filtration. It's all about the nutrient export. Macro algaes (Chaeto) and/or an algae scrubber.
Beautiful tank!
Great video
I think to achieve natural "filtration" one must not remove all filtration media, but rather replace most of it with more biological mechanisms. I think that using a sump as a location to house both micro and macro algae along with various sponges will be of great benefit. In addition you work with a larger volume of water which seems to benefit stability. Even without a sump this advice still applies however.
what in nature does what carbon does?
@@altops4490 Carbon, depending on the form it takes can accomplish various things.
In the form of CO2, it's beneficial to the growth of aquatic plants (algae too) because the water inhibits these plants from accessing CO2 in the air.
More commonly, the activated carbon that is submerged in the filter is used to help trap pollutants. Carbon can absorb various toxins which can help prevent damage to your delicate ecosystem.
This reef is pure art.
Hey Nicolas!! Super cool video as usual, your tank is looking really good congratulations! I've read that sponges have this huge capacity of filtration, have you ever have had sponges in your tank? And What was that red sphere? Greetings.
I do have some sponge in between the coral (yellow one) but can't really film it. You can see one of them in the playlist at some point (don't remember the espiode).
Planula :)
This is a good challenge. I think you could implement an auto water change system using two ecotech versa or similar (x1 pro T). This could reduce your intervention. Perhaps 15-20% daily. You can do the math and see for yourself the costs. Nature brings in tides and washes of nutrients so you have the import (feeding), you just need the export automated. If you try to create a self-sustaining ecosystem with zero water change and zero input, you may have to accept algae as part of that balance too. Keep the content coming and thumbs up!
As a reefer I've accepted Algae a long time ago haha :P. I often wanted to try auto water change but I don't have proper space for this and $. I avoid using equipment as much as I can, trying my best to keep it simple for my audience, it's a philosophical approach for this build. But it's a very good suggestion thank you mike! Something I'm wondering is how much the growth of the corals can absorb all this organic income, for now I add more than it needs/absorb but I want to know/try how long can I push my water change and perhaps one day, make 0 water change? (Witch I doubt but wanna know/try). To this day I haven't find the right balance with my tank, with food, amount of carbon/gfo/resine, water change volume and schedule, mostly because I was adding coral after coral, and I have one last batch after this no more, and it's at that moment I might find the right ratio for everything, I always tune a little bit each time, it's fun challenge :)
As always still jelly of your long polyp toadstool leathers. I havent gotten lucky enough with my lfs to have any yet
I had a colony of the green one before, I have a lot of frag of this one!
Does your LFS have softy? My LFS in general ignore the softy :( The big sarco I bought it online
@@AquaSplendor my lfs has more zoas leathers, and mushrooms for softies. I actually want to ask them if they can order a plating monty for me
Asking what kind or brand of light do you have for this tank? Thanks
Prime 16Hd later, Radion G5 XR15 Pro
Hello sir may I know tank dimensions
Check in description all details should be there :)
@@AquaSplendoroh sorry I dint notice
Nice Video. Greets from Germany
Danke
I really enjoy your channel and appreciate your hard work!! Amazing!! What type of fish is butter? I have a nano too. A fan from Mexico! 👍🏻
Hola, Gobiodon okinawae
Amazing lovely tank! Congratulations :) I would kindly like to ask you something, what liquid do use dose to the tank? Thank you and regards from Switzerland :)
Heya!
Hmm for the dosing its currently the red sea alkalinity powder, you can see previous video or the next couple one I show it.
Merci!
What is the name of that big pinkish toadstool leather? It’s beautiful
Sarcophyton, don't know the species, color can change depending on light/water
O problema destes vídeos é que nunca sabemos se passados 2 ou 3 anos ainda funcionam?
Sorry not sure to understand your question?
It's a little baby Sun Coral 🤗
It's a bingo :D
goniopora can not feed on large sized food. Try rotifiers such as reef roid
Yup I I give them that :)
Sea squirts they move water around
This is a 35L without algae.
@AquaSplendor my bad I don't know much about this 😁
Hey man
No skimmer
No adds
No water change since 7 months
Just a refugee with chaetomorpha, lot of rocks (75% artificial, 25% wild)
Some cyano, asterina, planaires (in frenc but my corals (even SPS) are growing A LOT
I have a 60 liters
You don't dose anything?? And your sps grow a lot??
@@AquaSplendor yes ! But it's montipora +++ really easy. Hydnopora not a lot, stylopora not at all lol
@@FishandPeace it's amazing they are alive without dosing anything, the must love that stability!
I lose my sps in my frag tank because I don't dose, just today my alk was at 118ppm (155 target) corals are piss off 😑
@@AquaSplendor so sorry for you man...
New videossss
there is no such a thing of not maintaining the aquarium
at least water changes are required
I personally believe, after all my years in reefing, that our little eco systems need bacteria added from time to time and some form of amino acids. It's made a big difference in my reef.
Yup amino are is really a good source of food! I add bacteria but not on a regular basis, only when shake the system, just by prevention. I would love to know if x bacteria fight against y bacteria since I love biodiversity
Don't use superglue for mussels. They are able to stick to the reef and if they can't move anymore due to the glue, they will die.
Stunning video. These are the type of videos that TH-cam was intended for. I started a 20 gallon waterbox cube 4 weeks ago I can't wait to see the possibilities
They deserve a metal for keeping SUN coral on the first try
Gorgeous tank man 👍 trying to achive this too in my tank but the sponge and NPS making it hard
Yup those thing required so much food 🥴 but coolest animals!
Natural filtration, all day! ✌️
:) Long Live Bacteria.
Camera and lens? Great video
Check description of the video should be all there
You’re living my childhood dream and I’ll surely follow your path. Your video meant the world to me. Thank you ❤
I think I just finished binge watching this series for the third time now 😅. I recently added my first corals to my reef after 6 months of learning and they are doing well, this has been such inspiration beyond what I can explain with words, thank you!
Awesome! thank you so much for watching the series! Glad your coral are doing well :)
Aqua Splendor...where are you?!
I'm missing you so badly 😥
Still at the same place, will make a annoucement in few days/week
Wow, *so long video! Almost nothing* (5-9 seconds at the end) about natural filtration!
You might have miss the point
What camera you use for this video? ❤❤
Check in description of the video.
11:33
Planulae from the Tubastraea
What’s the red ball thing?
Timestamp the moment, I don't know what you are referring to.
What’s for the music?😮
Don't remember sorry
all i currently use is a heater and i use a small gravity filter....the filter to me is better than powerheads. its moves the tank water and helps with detritus. i have 4 very small fish the tank is a standard 10g can buy anywhere. i have to feed the fish the tanks is too small to take care of itself completely. i also keep 8 corals and 1 sand anemone. this tank has been stable and growing for 9 months now. i would add i keep as many green plants in there as possible, even 1 mangrove. my sub is mostly crushed coral, sand like no less than 4 inches deep. they make dirt sub for fresh tanks i have found useful putting places that cant be seen, little things i cant spell love it. short of water changes and fish feeding the tank dont require much really....it gets better with time.
Bro, your video hypnotise me. Good work on this one. That's also the first one of your channel. Ill take a look at other video of yours. ❤
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Best natural filter = sand.. deep sand^^ with a lot of microfauna in it! your tank is beautiful!
I’m loving all your videos absolutely brilliant thank you
This inspires me, and the music is getting me motivated haha
Another beautiful video
Excellent video again. If I were you though, I would get rid of the sun polyps and any other non photosynthetic corals. This would make keeping your nutrients so much easier and would allow you better control of your system.
Yes, but I like it :), its what desastabilize my tank currently, without it I would have almost achieve a full natural filtration.
Phosphate is the main issue currently.
award winning effort
Truly spectacular
Father Fish method here on TH-cam is the only way I'll ever do my marine and freshwater tanks again. Wish I knew about it 25yrs ago.
What equipment do you use for salt water tank ? Thank you
Good work .your approach is exactly what I'd like to do. Alas time and money hinders
Yeah, money... I will come back to this later ;)
So what is your verdict on the elos food? Does the fresco makes any difference than the dry?
Compar to dry? I (not me) really love it. Fish seems to have a better time to digest. It doesn't work well for coral but they have other food for that. Typically I feed the coral and fish takes what ever they want from that. My only regret with those can: since I have nano I will have to throw away where frozen it last longer
How did you manage such a clear closeup shot of your feather duster?
Nothing special, front face macro and covering the lens from light leaks.
Take care with that Hanna salinity checker. I would check it with a refractometer every now and then. I didn't have mine even 6 months before it told me 3ppt higher than it actually was and I calibrated every 2 weeks. Refractometers are the way to go. Just sayin. =D
I'm gonna shock you: I only calibrated once... in one year, insane right? And yes I double check with other instrument.
I take extra care of this instrument, maybe that's why? I always shake in RO/DI water after each use and clean it a little bit.
@@AquaSplendor That's good I'm glad you haven't had the same experience, I do use three other Hanna checkers never a problem, so maybe i got a dud for the salinity checker. I took great care with it as well then it started calibrating 3ppt off. I noticed it when I tested a batch of new salt. Thanks for the reply and happy reefing.
What lighting settings do you use on the AI Prime ?
I'm using a Radion G5 Pro
This tank is really harmonious 😍.
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Very beautiful video! And artistic sound! In my opinion - especially as you have so many filtrating animals, you definetaly can remove the whole mechanical filtration! As long as you have around 5 cm of sand. Process in the substrat will get rid of nitrates, or hold dem under control!
Yeah I could honetly remove the floss filter, it's not necessary with my water change. I keep it mostly because of my video, it capture many debris that would get in the way in my clips.
If I would remove all filter and less water change I might need to add some bio media I trhink for the nitrate, depending of the amount of food I add of course. It's an interesting balance.
@@AquaSplendor I really would try to eliminate any filtration, because even with a biomaterial acting as filter you would filter out zooplankton which occures naturally and is best food source for your corals and clams! Just in the beginning the water might be a bit more cloudy, but it is going to be regulated by itself after a few weeks! Try it out, it is going to be perfekt! 🤗 5 cm of sand will provide elimination of nitrates as I said due to anerobic condition.
@@rara5212 I had initially 4-5cm but it was too much for the tank. If you follow the playlist you will know I use zooplanckton from the very beginning 😋
Mussels are great at pulling unwanted stuff out of your tank but that can become a problem if they die because they release everything back into the tank, it’s definitely possible to do just try to make sure if they happen to die, that you remove them immediately.
It's in front me everyday 🤗
@@AquaSplendor nice, keep up the awesome work my friend. Your video quality is amazing and I’m just waiting for your channel to explode at this point. Tanks look awesome as always too!
@@taylorpinkowski9411 thank you, my channel won't explode, pretty much the opposite 🥲
what fish do you have in?
All info there:
www.nano-reef.com/forums/topic/411323-%E0%BC%BA-%E1%B4%80q%CD%8E%E1%B4%9C%E1%B4%80-%EA%9C%B1%E1%B4%98%CA%9F%E1%B4%87%C9%B4%E1%B4%85%E1%B4%8F%CA%80-%C9%B4%E1%B4%80%C9%B4%E1%B4%8F-%CA%80%E1%B4%87%E1%B4%87%EA%9C%B0-%E0%BC%BB/?do=findComment&comment=5912056
Mantap,indo hadir
luar biasa :) (Indo in my aquarium :P )
Keren goby nya mantap om
What was that song when you went to feed ?
No idea, just love it :)
@@AquaSplendor I found it. Great tune indeed.
Did the sun coral reproduce on their own?
Yep! :)
@@AquaSplendor what's the trick?
@@mohamadosman9236 massage 💆♂️, but mostly food he can grab, I give him chunk of little shrimp. And it doesn't like high phosphate it seems.
Did DinoX work?
Nop
@@AquaSplendor anda how did you solve this issue?
@@GTStudioAnalog Watch the playlist, or ep.40 - 49 and hem 55? (temperature mostly)
Can u make a discord server?
Sorry YT take all my energy, discord is more for pc game
Alright
There is no such thing as full balance in a marine aquarium. There is only The Cycle. The Cycle is constant and neverending. Tanks that look amazing at two years old look might look awful at five. If they still look good, they won't at six, or seven... or ten. Each passing year is another tick closer to some kind of massive crisis. Even Julian Sprung himself can't keep a tank forever - I've seen two videos of his massive living room tank taken maybe five years apart. In the first one the tank has a whole middle section with SPS. In the newer video the SPS is all gone. Eventually, you will come to embrace The Cycle and the Constant Change. There is always a crisis. The aim is to keep the crises small. And always, there lurks the spectre of Old Tank Syndrome, which means you need to pull everything out and rearrange it as if you are a typhoon or hurricane hitting the reef. When should this occur? It all depends on your Cycle. How can you tell it's time? It depends on your Cycle. Source: Me, a reefer since 2003.
Well, I completely disagree with this but I understand the point you raise.
The tank live as long you put the work in it.
The only major difference in long run is the trimming, and reshuffling of coral because of lack of space, reducing down. But that's the gardener's job, and in reefing not many people do this.
There's no such thing as old tank syndrome, it's an old human syndrome with a lack of discipline, being too lazy and conplentive. But life gets in the way and you must do something about your tank, which includes shutting it down for most people.
Source: Me, a reefer since 1999.
@@AquaSplendor What's your oldest continually running system?
"Artemia food [from Elos] is not in a frozen state, which keeps the nutritional value", says you, but what about enriched frozen artemia food? Is/are all artemia food lower in nutritional value? Please clarify this statement because it sounds as if your review is bias because of the free sample. "It wasn't a request but it's welcome" sounds like a warning call to compromise and an invitation to more flowery reviews from you toward manufacturers who want cheep PR in exchange for free samples. Please don't compromise your your integrity for free goods so that you can feed your hobby like many other TH-camrs have done.
Here we go, perception hit again.
No matter how hard you try there will always be someone who's gonna hate/discredit/don't trust etc...
So first, this is absolutely not a review at all.
The "welcome one" simply means It's something that interested me and wanted to try. That food always interested me because of packaging, it brings something that is different that no one else do (to the best of my knowledge, maybe there's others, idk). FIY I never said anything in my exchange with ELOS about food, just wanted to try their salt since it seems close to the Tropic Marine is use (but they are different... at least it's clean) He give me 3 type food. You only see 2 in the video. The other one I haven't understand yet correctly the pros and cons of it, I need more time which is why I didn't show it. I was actually more interested in their food than their salt, so this is a bit why it's welcome.
For the frozen statement: (I might use the wrong word with nutritive, it's not the right wording) A fresh "meat" is much better than frozen meat. Frozen meat means that has and are been frozen/unfrozen and the cycle of frozen/unfrozen (opening door of your freezer) degrade the food with time depending on the oxidation with polyunsaturated fats and other elements. The taste and flavor dissipate which makes it less attractive for fish. The goal with food is to have zero contact with air and been use as close as possible vs the time it was collected. Their food is taken from live to can in a very short time period. (I don't remember it's an info I've been told 3 years ago) Once you use the can you have 1-2 weeks to use it after that, trash. I've been told that you could freeze the Cyclop but this defeats the purpose of their food so I don't share this detail. Frozen food can keep their nutritive value for many months, in theory, but in practice it's an entirely other things. People keep frozen food for years sometimes. Some products have the whole package been exposed to gas exchange once it's open. (Open/close reopen/close degrade the nutritional value). The can format is food that is consume more rapidly (because of our habit and knowing it won't last as long as frozen). Anything fresher is much better in every way possible. In the end, food diversity is important and That food from Elos bring something the other don't have. There's stuff like vitamins A and D that aren't really affected by the freezing process but in frozen food, there's less "juice" where a Can have that "juice" that contains all the minerals that can be used by corals/fish. Which is why they(frozen good) are enriched, sometimes to add new stuff, sometimes to add what they lost or will be lost. Don't get me wrong, I use frozen food a lot (too much), I prefer this to dry but they all have different pros and cons.
For the integrity, this is why I put a Disclaimer at the very beginning of the video. I don't have access to ELOS product but I want to try. So yes, I did had to make a compromise and get free product because I couldn't buy it. I believe that I'm the MUST transparent TH-camr aquarium channel (fresh/salt), I don't hide anything at all when I have ALL the reason to do so. Whenever I got something "Fishy" I say it or disclaim. I declined MANY product over the past year, just this week I decline two. I ask for product, it's very rare (3-4 ocassion in 3 year) when I think it brings something a bit unique and that I see a potential or simply just because I like it.
Do you think I fucking care about a 12$ can or a 60$ salt bucket when I invested something like over 30k in my channel?
People are been expose to paid/free advertisements and don't even know it... Many companies hate me because they know I would have said X thing or say stuff that is not flattering. The more the time passes by, the less company are interested in me because they know how I operate I have zero tolerance for bullshit (and I decline products, or don't show on YT or IG)
My biggest regret on TH-cam has been being honest, it's the worst thing I could have done but I'm stubborn. Soon I won't be able to produce the content I want because of that exact reason. But I'm stubborn and believe preaching by example, one day, I hope, will pay off. I'm going against the wave.
@@AquaSplendor let haters be haters man. he probably just finding faults in your perfect video. the editing was good, the music was good and the quality was superb. all that matters is that your tank is thriving. the fact that you bordered to write a lengthy explanation to hate comments shows how proud you are of your works and i respect that.
Great videos! The quality of your content is amazing and I look forward to new seeing how your tank is doing. You are completely in tune with your tank. It is a truly amazing set up you have on such a small scale. I keep small tanks so I can appreciate yours and how well it is doing. Very cool!
Thank you :)
Let's say this tank is like a baby for me :P