@@00Mass00 I haven't tried Seachem specifically just yet, but in general phyto should all work. I have tried live phyto, Brightwell and Tropic Marin phyto. All of them work well.
Roger, thanks for another beautiful video. As an amateur reefer, I made the mistake of purchasing a beautiful goniopora frag 2 days ago - and placed it in front of another new favites frag. I knew once I had place the order late night during a flash sale that I would be in trouble. But anyway, the goniopora started melting / giving off translucent stuff directly onto the beautiful new Favites frag, and totally destroyed it within a few hours. Lesson learned.
Thank you mannankhan. Really sorry to hear that. Yes, I can relate. And thanks for sharing your experience with us. We shall always leave enough space among corals to prevent them from fighting with each other.
I agree whole heartily about your advice on goniopora! In my experience the shorter tentacles are more sensitive. I believe one of the differences in success is the type and how heavy you feed. A lot of reefers keep feeding to a minimum as they believe its key to low nutrients. In my opinion it is a confusion of terminology. I think nutrients are food and not nitrates/phosphates which can be byproducts of broken down nutrients. If you have a system that can keep nitrates/phosphates in a good range yet feed a high volume of a varied diet helps the reef tremendously. Such as your stunning reef! Thanks for sharing great video! 👍
Thank you! Yes, I can't agree more. The longer the tentacles the hardier the species. And it not only applies to gonis but also holds true for other stony corals. Most SPS don't feel happy when nitrates go beyond 10. So, yes, corals need food, not nutrients.
Thank you Britney! My pleasure. I have another anemone fragging video that has been helping me relieve through panic attacks in hard times. We are actually capable of so much more than we imagine. It’s truly unbelievable, the tenacity of life! th-cam.com/video/bMEVwhlIqwQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for sharing fantastic video.. I have dose corals too... Green and red and orange red and rainbow too... I can wait see after one year's late... I started this hobby just only 4 years still have trouble all corals too..Again Thanks for sharing fantastic video again..
Thank you! Antigua is such a wonderful place of natural habitat of coral reefs! I wish I could be there some day! I’m using iPhone 12 Pro with an optical filter. I live in Hong Kong.
@@zzyz Come on over! Filter? Which filter? I have 2 and neither filter out the blue like that (Huawei P20 pro). I do keep Caribbean corals. Still, Pacific varieties are more colourful. I import from Miami now and then. Thank you for helping educate! 🤝🏻 🌴
@@mybeachshack There are many brands out there if you search for coral lens. I purchased one from a small manufacturer in China. I think most of these filters are more or less the same. Heard that sponges from Caribbean are wonderful, although there are very few available on the market locally.
@@zzyz The lighting is so crisp and white. Looks like 12k on the video. Gorgeous. I didn't think Red Sea LED could give you such a nice spectrum. Did you use a camera filter??
I recently began dosing live phyto to my tank. I got a huge bacterial bloom and I believe it was caused by the excess nutrients in the water. I then began concentrating the phyto. I have a 3 litre bottle in the fridge, I let it decant for a day, remove the top half water and replenish it with more phyto and so on, as I produce more phyto. This way I dose a smaller volume of water with less nutrients and more plancton. From time to time, I will also repeat the process adding just fresh saltwater to the 3 litre bottle. Do you spot feed phyto?
Good idea. I used to culture live phyto with added nutrients. The more nutrients added, the better growth and the better quality of reseeding. But that brought the problem when it came to feeding. I then turned to purified live phyto (without nutrients) which was 10 times as expensive. I think your approach to concentrating the phyto is a great way to save costs.
@@zzyz I only began doing this recently so I don't know how far can I keep concentrating phyto without killing it. But I think that by now it's 4 or 5 times more concentrated than what I used to have. I now pour 20% of liquid into the tank with the same amount of phyto. And as I said I can improve this method even more by decanting, removing the top half of the water and adding fresh salt water. The idea of decanting the phyto and keep concentrating it didn't arise from the nutrient problem but because I already had to much space in the fridge occupied by phyto :) . The nutrient reduction was a very welcome side effect.
Wow, that's very concentrated. I noted that the first batch of phyto was pretty healthy without much sediments on the bottom. But then they started to lose vitality after 4-5 batches. Have you noticed this? Maybe I contaminated the seed, making it less pure.
@@zzyz I almost lost the culture in the beginning, it would start to lose the deep green and gain a more dry green look. I managed to bring it back by adding more fertilizer. Right before deciding to concentrate the phyto I noticed that the phyto in the bottles in the fridge was settling down at the bottom faster than before, so I noticed the same reduction in vitality you did. But not in the ongoing culture and I have not been careful about preventing contamination. Right now the culture is the darkest green I have ever had it. It sits at around 15-18 degrees C and only gets light from a window. I split it every 9 or 10 days.
@@LightSearch Thank you for the information provided. I guess temperature might make a difference in your case. My room temperature was somewhere around 25-30 and I never put them in the fridge. Keep up with your culture and good luck!
Thank you Brian! Broadcast feeding is good enough. If you have a newly added goni, then target feeding it a few days yields the best best before you put in the display.
Thank you! Try to surround the anemones with branching live rocks so that they won't be able to sting nearby corals and will eventually bubble up over time.
@@henniepretorius1721 You are very welcome. I never feed anemones as they will grow too rapidly otherwise. Of course you may feed them once a week if you want them to grow like weeds. They are great eaters.
Dear Roger, ..your tank is great...I can take care green gonio well, but not with the red gonio...I got diificulties with red gonio...being bald is always occured...have you experienced red gonio being bald?..how to avoid it?...thanks
Thank you Andrew for sharing your stories. The colony I saved long ago was a green goni. I never had issues with the red ones. But some red species tend to extend less or recover more slowly than the green ones should clean up crew harass them. Most problems with goni lie in the feeding. Try to feed them with phytoplankton and they will thrive. Wish you good luck and keep us updated!
Bro, I need to know what you have in this display tank. I know you laid it out some in the other video, but do you have it all written down by chance? I'm working very hard on making a beautiful mixed tank like you have.
@@zzyz thank you so much. You have the voice and knowledge for TH-cam. Please stick with it, you'll blow up soon enough with these high quality content videos that are easy to follow and enjoyable to listen too.
So you used Phyto Gold M and Phyto Green M 2ml twice a day. For how long did it take to see the result? Did you spot feed or Broadcast? Can we mix brightwell Phyto with fish food and Broadcast as i feed the fish daily.
Yes, that's true. It took a week for the colony to fully recover, but I could obviously see the condition improve day by day. I simply broadcast while the skimmer remained off for half an hour. I think you can mix. It won't affect either fish or corals.
I don't turn off the return pump and wave makers, but I do turn off the skimmer. Although I never target feed, it is highly recommended to do so when a goni is weak due to starvation.
Thank you. The red nems seldom move. The green nem sometimes did. The trick to put them where you want them to be is by piling up branching rocks around their feet. They will climb up the branches as you wish.
They are usually found in shallow pools so my guess is they like some run off water which would explain phytoplankton and manganese that are found in surface waters. Rule of thumb is if you can keep it alive over a year you are doing good.
Thank you Arthur. I dose 2ml each at 9 am and pm every day. I would say phyto is not a must for most other LPS corals. They are pretty hardy and growing fast even without dosing. But I do feed them with live brine shrimp nauplii everyday.
@@zzyz hello my friend and thanx for the info i am about to try some of them in a declined goni you know whats the difference between gold and green? Which one you suggest?
From what I understand, you really have to make sure you keep up the levels on manganese to keep these guys happy. Have you tried GonioPower from Two Little Fishies?
Can you please do a video about "Is it safe to keep a reef tank with kids?"? I just got into the hobby, but I have a young toddler and I am very much worried about palytoxins and other issues. Thanks in advance!
i have a iron man goniopora arriving next week i have just got some bright well aquatics phytogold m and phytogreen m will these be ok for the coral as i dont know what the m means
Thank you! They are very docile critters. Proper acclimation in a peaceful environment is the key before you are able to move it to the main tank. Deep sand is recommended but not a prerequisite. I have another episode on the husbandry of garden eels. Feel free to check it out: th-cam.com/video/MM9aSC1gUPI/w-d-xo.html
Here are the parameters: - KH: 8.9 - Ca: 440 - Mg: 1320 Hope that helps. Tissue necrosis thing is pretty species dependent. I find that the species with bigger polyps are much easier to survive in captivity than those with smaller ones.
How long it took your goniopora to improve visually? I had been dosing phyto (2 kinds, spot feeding reef roids) for 2 weeks and there is no improvement yet.
It took about 1-2 weeks to improve, observable day by day. If dosing phyto does not improve the situation immediately, I suggest looking into water parameters as well.
@@Simsung Sounds OK. PO4 is a bit high, but Gonis are not sensitive to nutrients. They live well in both low and high nutrient environments. If you are dosing a carbon source, try stopping it for a day or two. See if things improve. Mg is also a bit high compared with Ca, but I doubt that would be a problem. May I know what size is the phyto you feed the tank? Try a broad range of size, such as 1-30um, to cover even the most demanding species. That's what I can think of for the moment.
@@Simsung My pleasure. 1-20um sounds great already. Cheato will help reduce phosphates for sure. But keep an eye on them. They'll release nutrients back to the system upon death. When you dose trace elements, always start by a quarter or a half of the instructed amount. Trace elements, especially iron, would cause lots of corals to die off in no time, if overdosed. I wish you good luck.
Thank you Michael! I appreciate your effort in cultivating live phytos by yourself. Phyto culture will typically require supplement of nutrients. If you simply feed the tank without removing the excessive nutrients, then the tank water may be contaminated. I would suggest using commercial products instead if nutrients are your concern.
Increasing feeding is likely to raise nutrients levels, but algae in the reactor will also grow at a faster pace. The resulting NO3 and PO4 levels pretty much depend on the input and output balance. Liquid phyto is less polluting than powered counterpart. My NO3 has been around 5 since the cycle is completed and PO4 always undetectable.
My pink goniopora is not opening since day 1 for 3months now. He is still alive and i don't know why he is not opening yet.. my other corals r all good
If other corals are all good, it means water parameters are in check. I guess it's either afraid of sth nibbling at it or starving. Try to move it to another place and spot feed phytos. See if it would improve.
@@liftuppliv4707 I don’t do spot feeding. I broadcast feed twice a day 4ml each for the 70g. If you spot feed Gonis, you may reduce that amount by half.
@@zzyz I had a pink Goni that got covered in flat worms. We were advised to do a fresh water dip, which removed, permanently all of the flatworms. But shortly there after the Goni and its green and red mates treated similarly never came back the same. They all receded slowly on their skeletons. Their polyp extension has not been full, and the pink Goni lost it colour, its now white. Reef roids and gonipower along with amino acids dosing over the past few weeks have returned some poly extension ( very minimal )......I’ve had these goni about 1 year before my tragedy struck.........
@@liftuppliv4707 I have also seen pink goni of some species receding in color. Maybe it's species dependent. Healthy corals should be able to stand the fresh water dip. Perhaps it was already sick for a while. Keep the water params stable and target feed it. Hope it will get well soon.
i`m just starting getting interrest for the aqauarium hobby. your tank looks very nice. would you like to make a video of your set up. do you also have quarantine etc? thumbs up!
Thank you! Sure, I'm going to talk about setup and maintenance in my future episodes. I once had a quarantining tank, but gave it away to local reefers after I migrate all the fish to the main tank. I now doing quarantining inside the main tank with a specially designed breeder box.
@@zzyz I'll be patient🤞 (LORD OF PATIENCE I CALL ON U) i wish you could make more videos on your reef and feature your corals, filtration, and stuffs. :))
Sure. I hereby list the major cost below: - Tank: 1300 - Skimmer: 600 - Cooler: 500 - Live rock, sand, bio ring: 200 - Algae reactor and UAS: 200 - Lighting: 900 - Wavemakers, pumps and auto feeder: 300 - Live stock: 4000 - Monthly cost: 50 Hope that helps.
I searched a bit but none specified specific food that were critical to their survival. Some said zooplankton, others copepods or amino acids, etc. But I verified that none of them mattered.
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Hey man by far one of the nicest and diverse home aquarium
I wish I knew this earlier, but you made me confident about trying goni's again! Thank you
My pleasure. Wish you good luck!
@@zzyz Thank you! Do you know if Seachem Phytoplankton works as well?
@@00Mass00 I haven't tried Seachem specifically just yet, but in general phyto should all work. I have tried live phyto, Brightwell and Tropic Marin phyto. All of them work well.
Roger, thanks for another beautiful video. As an amateur reefer, I made the mistake of purchasing a beautiful goniopora frag 2 days ago - and placed it in front of another new favites frag. I knew once I had place the order late night during a flash sale that I would be in trouble. But anyway, the goniopora started melting / giving off translucent stuff directly onto the beautiful new Favites frag, and totally destroyed it within a few hours. Lesson learned.
Thank you mannankhan. Really sorry to hear that. Yes, I can relate. And thanks for sharing your experience with us. We shall always leave enough space among corals to prevent them from fighting with each other.
I agree whole heartily about your advice on goniopora! In my experience the shorter tentacles are more sensitive. I believe one of the differences in success is the type and how heavy you feed. A lot of reefers keep feeding to a minimum as they believe its key to low nutrients. In my opinion it is a confusion of terminology. I think nutrients are food and not nitrates/phosphates which can be byproducts of broken down nutrients. If you have a system that can keep nitrates/phosphates in a good range yet feed a high volume of a varied diet helps the reef tremendously. Such as your stunning reef! Thanks for sharing great video! 👍
Thank you! Yes, I can't agree more. The longer the tentacles the hardier the species. And it not only applies to gonis but also holds true for other stony corals. Most SPS don't feel happy when nitrates go beyond 10. So, yes, corals need food, not nutrients.
I just love the mix of bright of colorful corals against your beautiful rock coralline.
Thankyou so much for showing this! This relieves a bit of my anxiety during these times🤍
Thank you Britney! My pleasure. I have another anemone fragging video that has been helping me relieve through panic attacks in hard times. We are actually capable of so much more than we imagine. It’s truly unbelievable, the tenacity of life! th-cam.com/video/bMEVwhlIqwQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for sharing fantastic video.. I have dose corals too... Green and red and orange red and rainbow too... I can wait see after one year's late... I started this hobby just only 4 years still have trouble all corals too..Again Thanks for sharing fantastic video again..
Bright regards from Antigua !🌴 What camera are you using? 📸 Very natural colors.... Outstanding reef tank, btw. Where R U ?
Thank you! Antigua is such a wonderful place of natural habitat of coral reefs! I wish I could be there some day! I’m using iPhone 12 Pro with an optical filter. I live in Hong Kong.
@@zzyz Come on over! Filter? Which filter? I have 2 and neither filter out the blue like that (Huawei P20 pro). I do keep Caribbean corals. Still, Pacific varieties are more colourful. I import from Miami now and then. Thank you for helping educate! 🤝🏻 🌴
@@mybeachshack There are many brands out there if you search for coral lens. I purchased one from a small manufacturer in China. I think most of these filters are more or less the same. Heard that sponges from Caribbean are wonderful, although there are very few available on the market locally.
Stunning corals the colours are so well mixed there in great condition
Thank you Robert 🙏
This was so interesting, your tank is beautiful. Thank you for your time and knowledge.
My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for explaining about the different foods in detail
Wow the colors are amazing.what light and setting you use?
Thank you🙏
Thank you so much! I use Red Sea LED 90. The lights are on at 8am and off at 7pm, with blue peaking at 80% and white at 55%.
@@zzyz thank you Roger, its simply breath taking:-) stay well🙋♂️
@@trufion1135 My pleasure Trufion. Take care!
@@zzyz The lighting is so crisp and white. Looks like 12k on the video. Gorgeous. I didn't think Red Sea LED could give you such a nice spectrum. Did you use a camera filter??
You have such a beautiful tank.👍
Thanks for your very nice clip. How about your tank parameters?.
Here are the parameters:
- KH: 8.9
- Ca: 440
- Mg: 1320
- NO3: 5
- PO4: ~0
- Salinity: 1.024
Hope that helps.
@@zzyz Thank you very much
I recently began dosing live phyto to my tank. I got a huge bacterial bloom and I believe it was caused by the excess nutrients in the water.
I then began concentrating the phyto. I have a 3 litre bottle in the fridge, I let it decant for a day, remove the top half water and replenish it with more phyto and so on, as I produce more phyto.
This way I dose a smaller volume of water with less nutrients and more plancton.
From time to time, I will also repeat the process adding just fresh saltwater to the 3 litre bottle.
Do you spot feed phyto?
Good idea. I used to culture live phyto with added nutrients. The more nutrients added, the better growth and the better quality of reseeding. But that brought the problem when it came to feeding. I then turned to purified live phyto (without nutrients) which was 10 times as expensive. I think your approach to concentrating the phyto is a great way to save costs.
@@zzyz I only began doing this recently so I don't know how far can I keep concentrating phyto without killing it. But I think that by now it's 4 or 5 times more concentrated than what I used to have. I now pour 20% of liquid into the tank with the same amount of phyto.
And as I said I can improve this method even more by decanting, removing the top half of the water and adding fresh salt water.
The idea of decanting the phyto and keep concentrating it didn't arise from the nutrient problem but because I already had to much space in the fridge occupied by phyto :) . The nutrient reduction was a very welcome side effect.
Wow, that's very concentrated. I noted that the first batch of phyto was pretty healthy without much sediments on the bottom. But then they started to lose vitality after 4-5 batches. Have you noticed this? Maybe I contaminated the seed, making it less pure.
@@zzyz I almost lost the culture in the beginning, it would start to lose the deep green and gain a more dry green look. I managed to bring it back by adding more fertilizer.
Right before deciding to concentrate the phyto I noticed that the phyto in the bottles in the fridge was settling down at the bottom faster than before, so I noticed the same reduction in vitality you did. But not in the ongoing culture and I have not been careful about preventing contamination.
Right now the culture is the darkest green I have ever had it. It sits at around 15-18 degrees C and only gets light from a window. I split it every 9 or 10 days.
@@LightSearch Thank you for the information provided. I guess temperature might make a difference in your case. My room temperature was somewhere around 25-30 and I never put them in the fridge. Keep up with your culture and good luck!
Great information and beautiful tank. Just purchased phyto green m. Goniopora are my favorite coral. Are you target feeding or broadcast?
Thank you Brian! Broadcast feeding is good enough. If you have a newly added goni, then target feeding it a few days yields the best best before you put in the display.
Your bubbletip anemones are so bubly. Think mine is stretching to sting other surrounding corals. Really nice tank!
Thank you! Try to surround the anemones with branching live rocks so that they won't be able to sting nearby corals and will eventually bubble up over time.
Great advice will give it a go👍☺️
@@henniepretorius1721 :)
Sorry to bother you again😕how often do you feed your anemones?
@@henniepretorius1721 You are very welcome. I never feed anemones as they will grow too rapidly otherwise. Of course you may feed them once a week if you want them to grow like weeds. They are great eaters.
Heard that manganese is important as well.... dosing it improves goniopora stability
Yes, another friend in the comment session also mentioned so. Thanks for sharing your experience with us!
Dear Roger, ..your tank is great...I can take care green gonio well, but not with the red gonio...I got diificulties with red gonio...being bald is always occured...have you experienced red gonio being bald?..how to avoid it?...thanks
Thank you Andrew for sharing your stories. The colony I saved long ago was a green goni. I never had issues with the red ones. But some red species tend to extend less or recover more slowly than the green ones should clean up crew harass them. Most problems with goni lie in the feeding. Try to feed them with phytoplankton and they will thrive. Wish you good luck and keep us updated!
非常棒的视频~请问可以描述一下宝石花珊瑚进食时的样子么？我买了两只小鱼的宝石花粉末珊瑚粮，但是不知道珊瑚是否进行了有效进食~
谢谢！我试过target feeding看宝石花的表现，虽然触手有伸缩，但似乎并不是feeding response，而且看不到具体的捕食行为。事实上，broadcast feeding时，我没关造浪，他们的触手也没伸缩，但却茁壮成长，说明事实上他们确有进食藻细胞。如果他们有生长，说明肯定有效进食了，如果几个月后萎缩了，就说明没有吃到，比较困难的是伸展但不生长，就比较难判断，只能靠时间检验了。
@@zzyz target feeding确实一直没有见到触手会有变化，我试试继续一周一次broadcast feeding的能否让情况好转， 目前有点虚弱，触手最多伸出2cm
一周一次可能有点少，一般珊瑚粮指引是每天一到两次。我是早晚各一次，鱼粮不算。
@@zzyz 我一般是一周两次，一天两次，我的缸恐怕n和p会高
@@BeautyLifeStudio 是的，循序渐进比较好，加油！
Bro, I need to know what you have in this display tank. I know you laid it out some in the other video, but do you have it all written down by chance? I'm working very hard on making a beautiful mixed tank like you have.
Thanks Joe. For your information:
- Corals: toadstool leather, finger leather, torch, frogspawn, goniopora, alveopora, brain, acan, zoa, grass polyps, clove polyps, sun polyps, mushroom, acropora and montipora
- Nems: green and red bubble tip anemones
- Fish: anthias, yellow tang, clownfish, tailspot blenny, lawnmower blenny, chromis, damselfish, cardinal fish, royal gramma, pipefish, goby, sardine and garden eel
- Crustaceans: blue leg hermit crab, peppermint shrimp, cleaner shrimp, sexy shrimp, anemone shrimp, pistol shrimp and acropora crab
- Tubeworms, bivalves and echinoderms: red fanworm, sea shell, mussel, giant clam, black cucumber, tigertail, tuxedo urchin and turbo snail
@@zzyz thank you so much. You have the voice and knowledge for TH-cam. Please stick with it, you'll blow up soon enough with these high quality content videos that are easy to follow and enjoyable to listen too.
Thank you for your encouraging word. I will keep it up. And good luck to your mixed reef tank!
Is that a lyretail anthias at the end of the video in the crevice with the mandarin fish?
Yes, that’s a male lyretail anthias, the first fish I introduced to the tank.
非常高兴能看到这个视频，宝石花简直是太困难了，我每次都是在宝石花上3cm处喷珊瑚粮，但是它都会收缩，我感觉她没有吃到，你一般是喂食呢？也是在它上方喷射吗？还是撒在缸里不关造浪，随它怎么吸收
what is the name of the skinny snake looking thing thats standing up near the red goniopora
That's a garden eel.
So you used Phyto Gold M and Phyto Green M 2ml twice a day. For how long did it take to see the result? Did you spot feed or Broadcast? Can we mix brightwell Phyto with fish food and Broadcast as i feed the fish daily.
Yes, that's true. It took a week for the colony to fully recover, but I could obviously see the condition improve day by day. I simply broadcast while the skimmer remained off for half an hour. I think you can mix. It won't affect either fish or corals.
@@zzyz with M or S size ?
@@saiaman01 Both worked.
hey roger, thanks for the video :) how often do you dose phyto now?
Thank you cael. I'm still dosing once a day. Dosing at a lower freq may also work.
@@zzyz ah okay. what's the recommended dosage you would do and also do you broadcast feed or spot feed?
@@cael7919 I dose 4ml for 70g and always broadcast feed them.
@@zzyz 我刚记得你讲中文。感谢你给我的帮助。现在的疫情要小心哦！
@@cael7919 很高兴能和鱼友分享，也希望能帮到大家少走些我之前走过的弯路。谢谢你，现在疫情又有反复，你也多保重！
Do you turn off the return motor when feeding phyto gold and green? and Do you do target feeding?
I don't turn off the return pump and wave makers, but I do turn off the skimmer. Although I never target feed, it is highly recommended to do so when a goni is weak due to starvation.
Good video, nice tank. Just a question about your anemones. How do you get them to stay in your desired spot? Or do they move around?
Thank you. The red nems seldom move. The green nem sometimes did. The trick to put them where you want them to be is by piling up branching rocks around their feet. They will climb up the branches as you wish.
They are usually found in shallow pools so my guess is they like some run off water which would explain phytoplankton and manganese that are found in surface waters. Rule of thumb is if you can keep it alive over a year you are doing good.
Great video!
how much phyto, how often and when do you dose phyto? do you see benefits on goniaporas only or on other lps as well?
Thank you Arthur. I dose 2ml each at 9 am and pm every day. I would say phyto is not a must for most other LPS corals. They are pretty hardy and growing fast even without dosing. But I do feed them with live brine shrimp nauplii everyday.
@@zzyz how big is your aquarium, hmm and i thought lps don't consume phyto
at least that's what the internet says haha
It’s a 70 gallon Red Sea 250. LPS with observable mouths don’t consume phyto so far as I can see.
@@zzyz fair enough so goni only then
@@arthurman9021 Yes, I agree.
您好，请问我的宝石花类珊瑚触须一直不怎么长，但生长正常，还有phytoGreen是什么？我在BW里没有找到
So what product of Brightwell did you start to use specifically?
I used PhytoGold/Green-M.
@@zzyz hello my friend and thanx for the info i am about to try some of them in a declined goni you know whats the difference between gold and green? Which one you suggest?
From what I understand, you really have to make sure you keep up the levels on manganese to keep these guys happy. Have you tried GonioPower from Two Little Fishies?
Can you please do a video about "Is it safe to keep a reef tank with kids?"? I just got into the hobby, but I have a young toddler and I am very much worried about palytoxins and other issues. Thanks in advance!
Did you get one finally and if yes, any problems with the kids?
i have a iron man goniopora arriving next week i have just got some bright well aquatics phytogold m and phytogreen m will these be ok for the coral as i dont know what the m means
nice Garden eel! How hard are they to keep?
Thank you! They are very docile critters. Proper acclimation in a peaceful environment is the key before you are able to move it to the main tank. Deep sand is recommended but not a prerequisite. I have another episode on the husbandry of garden eels. Feel free to check it out: th-cam.com/video/MM9aSC1gUPI/w-d-xo.html
Hi, what light are you using?
I'm using Red Sea LED 90.
Can you tell wich phytogold and phytogreen you used please?
I used phytogreen M and phytogold S, both worked.
What are your mag, cal and kh level? Have u encounter any tissue necrosis before?
Here are the parameters:
- KH: 8.9
- Ca: 440
- Mg: 1320
Hope that helps. Tissue necrosis thing is pretty species dependent. I find that the species with bigger polyps are much easier to survive in captivity than those with smaller ones.
Goniopoa and Alveopora require additional supplementation of Manganum [Mn] and feeding.
Thank you for sharing your experience!
How long it took your goniopora to improve visually? I had been dosing phyto (2 kinds, spot feeding reef roids) for 2 weeks and there is no improvement yet.
It took about 1-2 weeks to improve, observable day by day. If dosing phyto does not improve the situation immediately, I suggest looking into water parameters as well.
@@Simsung Sounds OK. PO4 is a bit high, but Gonis are not sensitive to nutrients. They live well in both low and high nutrient environments. If you are dosing a carbon source, try stopping it for a day or two. See if things improve. Mg is also a bit high compared with Ca, but I doubt that would be a problem. May I know what size is the phyto you feed the tank? Try a broad range of size, such as 1-30um, to cover even the most demanding species. That's what I can think of for the moment.
@@Simsung My pleasure. 1-20um sounds great already. Cheato will help reduce phosphates for sure. But keep an eye on them. They'll release nutrients back to the system upon death. When you dose trace elements, always start by a quarter or a half of the instructed amount. Trace elements, especially iron, would cause lots of corals to die off in no time, if overdosed. I wish you good luck.
你好，請問你是用什麼燈呢？你是如何設定？
我用的是Red Sea LED 90。我之後會做一期有關照明的主題。不過簡單來說是大概藍光開到7-8成的樣子，白光開到一半左右。
好的，期待你的新影片
Thank you for the great video. Loved your tank so besutiful. I culture my phytoplankton, would you recommend it me using it? Thanks
Thank you Michael! I appreciate your effort in cultivating live phytos by yourself. Phyto culture will typically require supplement of nutrients. If you simply feed the tank without removing the excessive nutrients, then the tank water may be contaminated. I would suggest using commercial products instead if nutrients are your concern.
Things added to my list 👍
Thank you so much!
Do you use phytogold and phytogreen M? or S?
I used phytogreen M and phytogold S, both worked.
Hi Roger we’ve you been ,missing your vids 😢
Don’t you find though that feeding phyto increases your po4? If not, How?
Increasing feeding is likely to raise nutrients levels, but algae in the reactor will also grow at a faster pace. The resulting NO3 and PO4 levels pretty much depend on the input and output balance. Liquid phyto is less polluting than powered counterpart. My NO3 has been around 5 since the cycle is completed and PO4 always undetectable.
Wow. You make it look easy!
@@RavineDriver The algae reactor is the key, and that's the most natural way of managing nutrients.
I have a fuge but can’t a seem to pull enough out.
Hey Roger. Do you use NoPox to control Po4?
My pink goniopora is not opening since day 1 for 3months now. He is still alive and i don't know why he is not opening yet.. my other corals r all good
If other corals are all good, it means water parameters are in check. I guess it's either afraid of sth nibbling at it or starving. Try to move it to another place and spot feed phytos. See if it would improve.
@@zzyz when you spot feed, how much do you use and how frequently to you do it?
@@liftuppliv4707 I don’t do spot feeding. I broadcast feed twice a day 4ml each for the 70g. If you spot feed Gonis, you may reduce that amount by half.
@@zzyz I had a pink Goni that got covered in flat worms. We were advised to do a fresh water dip, which removed, permanently all of the flatworms. But shortly there after the Goni and its green and red mates treated similarly never came back the same. They all receded slowly on their skeletons. Their polyp extension has not been full, and the pink Goni lost it colour, its now white. Reef roids and gonipower along with amino acids dosing over the past few weeks have returned some poly extension ( very minimal )......I’ve had these goni about 1 year before my tragedy struck.........
@@liftuppliv4707 I have also seen pink goni of some species receding in color. Maybe it's species dependent. Healthy corals should be able to stand the fresh water dip. Perhaps it was already sick for a while. Keep the water params stable and target feed it. Hope it will get well soon.
请问我的Goni才买回来一个星期然后就不会开了。请问你有什么方法吗？
一般一周不开应该是水质问题，如果是几个月后不开可能就是喂食问题。当然也有可能有其他生物骚扰，可以放隔离盒看看是否有改善，然后确保水质各参数在正常范围。
@@zzyz ok...谢谢你
@@dsking539 不客气
@@zzyz 我昨天用brightwell koralmd 泡过15分钟后有所改善，今天用redsea reef enery plus and tm phytoni喂然后好很多了
@@dsking539 太好了，谢谢分享你的经验👍
i`m just starting getting interrest for the aqauarium hobby. your tank looks very nice. would you like to make a video of your set up. do you also have quarantine etc? thumbs up!
Thank you! Sure, I'm going to talk about setup and maintenance in my future episodes. I once had a quarantining tank, but gave it away to local reefers after I migrate all the fish to the main tank. I now doing quarantining inside the main tank with a specially designed breeder box.
My flower pot coral has big brown/ black spots on its skeleton
Keep water param in check, target feed it for a couple of weeks, and make sure no creature harassing it. See if things improve.
希望有中文字幕
好的，这两天会加
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I’m glad it’s not just my cleaner shrimp that likes to piss off corals 😂
ur tank is my inspiration to go on a reef tank. Now i have to burn some moneh moneh
Thank you Bailey! It takes time and patience but is also rewarding. Good luck with your adventure!
@@zzyz I'll be patient🤞
(LORD OF PATIENCE I CALL ON U) i wish you could make more videos on your reef and feature your corals, filtration, and stuffs. :))
Great! I will cover setup and maintenance in future episodes.
@@zzyzCAN'T WAIT TO BINGEWATCH XD
🤣
Bro please tell me the total price of tank including coral , fishes etc
Sure. I hereby list the major cost below:
- Tank: 1300
- Skimmer: 600
- Cooler: 500
- Live rock, sand, bio ring: 200
- Algae reactor and UAS: 200
- Lighting: 900
- Wavemakers, pumps and auto feeder: 300
- Live stock: 4000
- Monthly cost: 50
Hope that helps.
@@zzyz bro these are in dollar or in rupees
@@rusherzgaming3204 all in US dollars :)
@@zzyz thanks bro
@@rusherzgaming3204 No prob.
Love form indonesia
Thank you 🙏
Gold torch madura, beautiful coral from madura island, east java, indonesia.
Try it for your tank
Sure I will. Let me find a place to put them. Thank you for your excellent suggestions.
Mine gonipora grow like weeds. I feed heavy. All sorts of foods, along with dosing phyto, amines. My clowns host. So get lotso fish poo
Awesome! Thank you for sharing with us.
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好不容易看到中国人、我也是海缸爱好者。
哈哈，同路人，多指教。
@@zzyz 嗯嗯你在国内吗～
@@AbsoluteZero6714 我在香港，你呢
@@zzyz 那很近呢、我在广州。
@@AbsoluteZero6714 很近啊，多多交流。
华人吗
香港人
eh, the word on the street for years now is to feed goni's you act like you discovered this on your own
Yes, I experimented by control variables and found it on my own.
@@zzyz so you dont have google ? Took me 5 min of searching years n years n years ago that feeding them is what helps the most.
I searched a bit but none specified specific food that were critical to their survival. Some said zooplankton, others copepods or amino acids, etc. But I verified that none of them mattered.
知识从来不会自成一体，所有新知识都是从原有知识上一点点进步来的.并且这点进步需要付出巨大的努力.海外杠精请自重。