What My Red Sea Reefer 625 G2+ Looks Like After 1 Year
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ย. 2024
- My Red Sea Reefer 625 G2+ is 1 year old! While a lot of the first year has been obstacle-free…a couple new challenges of recently surfaced.
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Remy, regarding Vermetids. I have used bubblebee snalls in large counts for years in my QT tanks, they do very little, but help a bit. For me the very best thing has been adding Yellow/Canary Wrasses (Halichoeres Chrysus) they make a huge dent in reproduction by eating young snails before they get established. I've added them twice to different tanks and both times there was much bigger impact than bumblebee snails ever have had for me. Both times I saw a drastic reduction in new snails after introducing one. Give them a go, they are the only thing that has always helped me get ahead of the curve with Vermetids.
Good for you with the Blue Ridge. A word of warning on Blue Ridge though. It slowly flows over everything that it can. Nothing can withstand it. I've been growing it for 22 years now. It is covering most of one of my 75 gallon reefs!
Cheers,
Chris
A+++ setup and coral selection! It was cool to finally meet u dude 🤙
Man can't wait to get old in this hobby i love Reefing Amazing reftank update
Something new ALL THE TIME! It keeps you on your toes for sure! ~Remy
Glad to be a little part of your growth. Tank looks great
The progress is impressive. Great video Remy.
I had a Tunez and was good for 5 years. Jake did a video on Gravity float which was the best advice. One less electric component to go fail. Hobby never the same without Jake.
Thanks! -Remy
Nice update! Tanks looking great! Now just waiting to see Raj’s tank update video…
It's about dang time for the update. I was starting to think I would see The Corner Reef selling your stuff from another tank breakdown!!🤣😁
Lol! Funny how busy you can get with everything else and don't have time to deep dive on your own tanks. The tideline is now filled with live rock from the Solomon's too! ~Remy
@@ReefBuildersVideo that's good to hear! I think a video analysis of that live rock would be cool
Great update, love the mixed variety of corals you got going on! That LFS Blastomussa is a stunner, nice find. The Manilla spy is on my bucket list, definitely going in the next tank build when I upgrade.
Best of luck with the STN, hope ICP gives you the answer for the remedy.
Cheers 🍻
Arie
Thank you! Realizing how bare the tank looks as I scaped for SPS to fill in the gaps. Maybe the 2 year update will look more full, lol! Fun to document it's progress though. ~Remy
Super excited and hard to believe it’s been a year since the launch of this build! Bare bottom is a B**** to start up🥶
Thanks for the update 😎👍
PS: we are good here in Tampa bay… storm was cranking though!
Try and stay safe out there! Monster of a storm! ~Remy
Looking nice! So much further along than Raj's sump around the world build!
That's all I really strive to do. Although I do know I don't have the gear he's got so he's really just given me a head start and will surely beat me later! lol. ~Remy
Thanks for sharing!❤
Finally! See you in a year...lol! ~Remy
@@ReefBuildersVideo lol….hopefully not!
Looking good Remy 👍 hopeful your purple tang doesn’t grow up to be a prick. Mine did lol. You could probably get away with adding a nice Genicanthus angel or a pair.
Oh, it will for sure! The desjardinii is hanging with her in size so hopefully that keeps aggression down. If she starts to get aggressive, maybe thats when I add some new fish to mix it up a bit. ~Remy
@@ReefBuildersVideo a sailfin in my experience is a ‘good’ boss of the tank. Best of luck
Red Sea ato user here, it sucks less now. they did some firmware updates and it seems to be OK for now.
The amount of returns I had on those when they first came out was insane
Tank hasn’t exploded yet so that’s good
Real good! ~Remy
Just a word of inquiry, given you have noted some STN.
The nocturnal isopods you showed at 7:49, next to the vermetid: I do not know if they predate or consume corals; however, I had a similar species in my own tank which had notable issue establishing coral. And those isopods would congregate on frags well after dark in large numbers and agitate the coral. There was an anecdotal correlation between those isopods and the coral receding. Just something to look into if you're having issues. It's worth investigating with a flashlight at 2 am.
I personally went through great pains to reset that tank going as far as bleaching the rock, and had a multiple week effort to dip and quarantine my frags at the time. When the frags went back into a clean system, those same frags then thrived. However, that progress could also have been the other changes which go along with resetting a tank. I don't want to give the idea too much weight, it's pure anecdote. But I did want to pass it along for consideration.
Thank you! First thing I thought of reading your comment is the wild sand. I dipped one of the acros last night just to see if anything came off - negative. I'll scope it out with a flashlight tonight. ~Remy
@@ReefBuildersVideo What I observed was: They're nocturnal and benthic, staying mostly in the rock work and crevices during the day, and they don't swim.
I took a struggling frag or two and elevated them on a frag rack, checking at night to ensure none managed to crawl up to it. Those corals stopped receding, which prompted me to take action on the rest of the tank. I'm no marine biologist and they're nocturnal, so the few predatory fish I knew of were ineffective as a biotic control. So I opted for a chemical treatment at that point.
I also found my Goniopora and Platygyra were unbothered. While my Acropora and Euphyllia were extremely agitated by them. The other corals were somewhere in between.
Again, it's only a one-off anecdote. I'm not saying to take rash actions. But, it something you and Mr. Clemens may want to look at.
Looks great Remy!
I watch my bumble Bees eat vermitids all the time. They only eat the small ones that haven’t started branching away from the rock. I’ll try to get a video next time I see it
2:15 In the UK this is grown and often referred to as a blue Porities rather than a digitata. Either way lovely coral!
@@Richs_reef we have confirmation that is indeed digitata. Common name German Blue Digitata
@@ReefBuildersVideo it definitely looks like a digitata - tank is looking great Remy.
Raj reef tank update next, yeah? His system must be pretty mature by now. Back when he had that beef with Salem on RT, he was only a couple Chihuly light fixtures away from completion! My eyes are peeled.
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Looking great Remy. You going to the coral show 10/5 in STL?
I will be there! ~Remy
Looking good 💯👏👌🙌🔥
Id put sand in it though. 😉
Lol! I've got sand in the Solomon tank next to it. This one is staying bare bottom lol ~Remy
oh for all for reef, if you're going sps, eventually it won't keep up on alk. you'll need to suppliment alk with kalk or soda ash.
Thank you for this. I kinda figured there would be a changing of the tides. Good for smaller mixed tanks but I can see where there would be a point it just couldn't keep up. ~Remy
I also got TBS live sand. I love it. I didn’t end up with any fish pathogens though (AquaBiomics verified). I wonder how common that is with TBS (and others).
Nice ! Why is chemi clean used. as last resort . Would you be so kind as to explain the risk ? Looking forward to your next update 😊
Chemiclean is an antibiotic and there is some data to suggest that while it does what it says it does, (clears the current visible cyano bloom) it may also have a negative effect on the bacterial microbiome as a whole. There's a lot of new eyes testing things like this. To each their own and I'm not discouraging the use of the product but as I am testing my own aquarium's microbiome regularly, I don't want to chance adding in an antibiotic. ~Remy
@ReefBuildersVideo Thank you very much for the reply , how do you test your microbiome ? This is interesting. Thanks again . Love you work 😀
Im following al reef therapys in chronoligical order im at 79 where you are talking about leak testing the red sea. So wierd to see. But ill catch up around christmas i think haha
Sorry for this video...spoiler alert! lol ~Remy
It's a Great looking tank. Can i ask what your nitrate and phosphate levels are, please? I had quite a bad cyano outbreak 2 months ago, I tested both and they both showed 0 on my salifert tests, i have been dosing both and phosphates are now at 0.03 and nitrates at 10 and cyano is receding. I haven't changed my flow in over 3 years, so i couldn’t put it down to flow being the cause.
Last check NO3: 8.8 and PO4: .02 -Remy
@ReefBuildersVideo did you phosphates bottom out before you had cyanobacteria? It's taken me nearly 2 months of slowly raising to really see a difference. All the things I had read suggested flow as an issue, but i didn't believe that, so I tested and started dosing, finger's crossed that was my issue.
What are your parameters for the heronensis? I have one that’s just not doing well :(
Major parameters are all pretty normal. NO3: 8.8, PO4: .02, Alk: 9.0dkh, Ca: 400...haven't tested MG lately. ~Remy
@@ReefBuildersVideo ok thanks. What about light/flow?
How much All for Reef are you dosing in milliliters per day for that tank?
Not much in the grand scheme of things. I keep the alkalinity at 9 and 17ml/day (for now) keeps me there. ~Remy
The Redsea facebook group is filled with posts about people having issues with the Redsea ATO product. I think its been a real problem for them, I've never used it but from what I've seen on that group, I wouldn't touch it with a 10ft pole.
Whenever I had any issues it was always while I was gone on a trip, lol. Osmolator has been solid though. Figured I had it and it wasn't on a tank yet. Might just leave it?! We'll see. ~Remy
German blue digi
YES. ~Remy
Don’t like the RS ATO. Calibration is crap. When needs replacement will be with something else
I recently upgraded to a Cade tank which has ATO in the back with a float valve in the sump. ATO is gravity fed with no pump. First electricity-free ATO system in 20 years of reefing. I've never felt so free. 😂