I remember Jake Adam's talking about cycling a tank with corals there's a reef builders post about this. "Adding corals first is fishless cycling with a difference. It’s better for fish, better for corals and you’ll experience less erratic water quality issues as a result"
Checking out your videos too after you've been so kind to come over to mine. Reef tanks is nothing I'm familiar with, but I love to learn, so you got me interested and I keep watching 😀
Seachem Prime saved my first ever clownfish, I'm completely serious. Moby was laying flat on her side on the sand bed so I dosed a full cap of Seachem Prime and by evening she was back to normal. ❤
Looks great so far! I recently just broke my Fluval Flex 9g down and moved everything over to a 26g. I still have my 9g used as a frag tank. Keep it up!
Nice to see a budget build not using a overpriced, over spec light! I have the same tank as a QT but whilst working on restarting my EVO I have this with 2 fish and some coral frags running as its a nice little tank. I am running my own custom 12.6W light and going well. Thanks for sharing that you don't need all the special equipment.
Looks like a fun build - just as an FYI I have 2 100W Nicrews on my tank and they are not enough for BTAs nor RFAs all of mine have gradually shrunk over the past year with just the Nicrews, the Maxi-minis are fine as they are basically indestructible. Added new lights and anemones are growing again - that is without regular feeding though so if you are going to feed them 3x/week you might get away with it. This of course is anecdotal but this is with 13 rock flower anemones, 8 maxi-minis and 3 btas.
Thank you for the information! I’ll look out for that. The bubble tip definitely stretches during the day. I’ll look out for a stronger light. Or move the bubble tips to my other tank and pray they don’t move to a spot that kills my torches or sps 😂 What size tank do you have?
@@RespectTheReef 103 gallons but 60 display as a lagoon 3'x2'x14" - try it but I noticed a definite shrinking in size - again random feeding not religiously of both the BTAs and my RFAs - but again it took a long time I am looking at long-term but hey as the guy below says - possibly the Kessils have a different spectrum? IDK again most info is anecdotal.
@@RespectTheReef also as per the other person on Reef2Reef the Kessil 880s are outputting a good 250-300 par even in the 14" lagoon the nacres do not put out half that amount. what's his face - reef something lolz the ex-army guy - did readings on the Nicrews 150s I have the 100s and his readings were for a slightly higher tanks but not 24"
Hey Respect the Reef, I just wanted to tell you something about Nicrews but as you have no email I will post here. Got my Nicrews last April 30th 2023 installed on opposite sides of the tank, today I was working in the office from home luckily when I heard a crash and a splash and suddenly the 1 dual 100watt Nicrews mounting arm snapped at the base - the cheap plastic bit that holds it to the tank and the entire unit fell luckily on my screen and only got a tiny portion wet. If I had no screen it would have just landed splash in the tank and everything would be fried, got it out and had to mount my new PiXels on the one side until I get the RMS for them - so be warned about Nicrew lights, seem great but I am now waiting for the other side to snap as well :(
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I remember Jake Adam's talking about cycling a tank with corals there's a reef builders post about this. "Adding corals first is fishless cycling with a difference. It’s better for fish, better for corals and you’ll experience less erratic water quality issues as a result"
@@TheMushroomTech that’s been my experience
Checking out your videos too after you've been so kind to come over to mine.
Reef tanks is nothing I'm familiar with, but I love to learn, so you got me interested and I keep watching 😀
Thank you 🙏
Seachem Prime saved my first ever clownfish, I'm completely serious. Moby was laying flat on her side on the sand bed so I dosed a full cap of Seachem Prime and by evening she was back to normal. ❤
@@falcolf it’s amazing stuff to have around. Especially if you had a fish die off. It can save your tank
Cool ! Nice budget minded equipment list . Thanks 😊
@@lovermansmith9082 thank you
Simple scape but looks very nice. Great episode 👏🙌👌✌
@@queencityreefs thank you
Looks great so far! I recently just broke my Fluval Flex 9g down and moved everything over to a 26g. I still have my 9g used as a frag tank. Keep it up!
@@rdirtytwo awesome! It’s a sweet little tank
Nice to see a budget build not using a overpriced, over spec light!
I have the same tank as a QT but whilst working on restarting my EVO I have this with 2 fish and some coral frags running as its a nice little tank. I am running my own custom 12.6W light and going well. Thanks for sharing that you don't need all the special equipment.
@@Polymate3D not at all. And the pump upgrade wasn’t necessary because that cheap wave maker worked fine. But I already had the pump
Nice setup!
@@ebikesandthings thank you
To control my pumps, I have a wireless power strip. You can turn each piece of equipment on and off via wifi, and even remotely if you wanted.
@@IceNein763 great piece of equipment. I use the Kasa plug which does that. I’ll check out that power strip
Looks like a fun build - just as an FYI I have 2 100W Nicrews on my tank and they are not enough for BTAs nor RFAs all of mine have gradually shrunk over the past year with just the Nicrews, the Maxi-minis are fine as they are basically indestructible. Added new lights and anemones are growing again - that is without regular feeding though so if you are going to feed them 3x/week you might get away with it. This of course is anecdotal but this is with 13 rock flower anemones, 8 maxi-minis and 3 btas.
Thank you for the information! I’ll look out for that. The bubble tip definitely stretches during the day. I’ll look out for a stronger light. Or move the bubble tips to my other tank and pray they don’t move to a spot that kills my torches or sps 😂
What size tank do you have?
@@RespectTheReef 103 gallons but 60 display as a lagoon 3'x2'x14" - try it but I noticed a definite shrinking in size - again random feeding not religiously of both the BTAs and my RFAs - but again it took a long time I am looking at long-term but hey as the guy below says - possibly the Kessils have a different spectrum? IDK again most info is anecdotal.
@@dpp898 the a80 is what I originally planned on putting on this tank. As soon as a used one comes around I’ll probably snag it.
@@RespectTheReef also as per the other person on Reef2Reef the Kessil 880s are outputting a good 250-300 par even in the 14" lagoon the nacres do not put out half that amount. what's his face - reef something lolz the ex-army guy - did readings on the Nicrews 150s I have the 100s and his readings were for a slightly higher tanks but not 24"
@@FishOutOfWaterToronto I’ll try the Nicrew for now. I can always change lights. I appreciate your input though. All information helps!
Great videos... how about an update video brotha?
Great video! I could not find the ato in your links? Thx!
@@knels5288 forgot to add it!
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sea-chay 🙃
@@reef.villainoh the pump? My bad
@@RespectTheReef you good doggg
Hey Respect the Reef, I just wanted to tell you something about Nicrews but as you have no email I will post here. Got my Nicrews last April 30th 2023 installed on opposite sides of the tank, today I was working in the office from home luckily when I heard a crash and a splash and suddenly the 1 dual 100watt Nicrews mounting arm snapped at the base - the cheap plastic bit that holds it to the tank and the entire unit fell luckily on my screen and only got a tiny portion wet. If I had no screen it would have just landed splash in the tank and everything would be fried, got it out and had to mount my new PiXels on the one side until I get the RMS for them - so be warned about Nicrew lights, seem great but I am now waiting for the other side to snap as well :(
@@FishOutOfWaterToronto thanks for the heads up.
Dude how is your GSP so neon?!?!
@@SaltyJaytee the blue light and the type of gsp it is