instead of yellow tang, i missed Kole tang so much!!!

My dream fish would be a moorish idol. I love a challenge currently trying to get a mandarin to eat.

My Tomini tang always takes a dump in the same corner on top of my Acantho - free food!

My dream fish are fuzzy dwarf, parrot quoyi, blue spot tamarin wrasse, and blue striped tamarin Most of my dream fish are pretty cheap. I like them for the color and the way they behave. I have all of them but the blue line bc I don’t have 1+k to drop of a fish that doesn’t do well

Did you take into account that the rocks might be taking up some of the 12L discrepency?

Nudis take like 04 months minimum mate

My tomini tang goes to the same spot each time

Hey Alex, would you or Ryan ever keep an eel? Like a snowflake moray?

Another issue with torch corals is if you look at them cross eyed they die!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Need to send Ryan my GHL setup apparently, got mine doing deep blue in the evenings and whiter during the day, based off Telegrahams AB+ spectrum for them. He's only an hour away, can do it for him and get some corals while I'm at it.

Give me another year and hopefully mine will be worth a visit in Basingstoke 👍

i have a super start "superfish" heater on my tropical tank, as part of that bundle, and yeah i've seen major inconsistencies with it, a load of rubbish for sure!

This was a very useful review. Thank you so much for being so genuine in it. These are cons we all would realize when using it but it’s import to be aware of it prior to such any investment. Thanks again.

1:06 , yes my Kole Tang does the same thing, poops at the same place, luckily my corner has good flow and it does not pileup

Finally! Well done mate!

For anyone who’s ever watched @reefdork videos over the years I’m looking for some clarity on setting up my tank. Alex suggests that on day 1 he turns the lights on the tank, doesn’t suggest whether that’s at a low intensity for a certain amount of time or a shorter photo period. But in another video advised on leaving the lights off for a month. Which recommended option is best. I have a Red Sea reef led 50 that I am currently running at 20% blue 10% white for 5 hours with 1 hour of moons at 10%.

So ammonia does not hurt corals (within reason)? I imagine nitrite is also not a huge concern?

Alex. What’s the name of your motorbike channel?

My dream fish is a flame angel

for anyone wanting a small nem only tank, check out a small aio cube tank. dont put any extra powerheads in the display, and instead buy a bigger return pump. that way its enough flow for a simple nem tank without having any propellers in the display for them to get sucked into.

Really appreciate you being open and honest. It’s such a hard hobby. Love what you do.

After farming berghia my perspective on aiptasia has completely changed. Seeing a large patch of them gets me excited and I wish I had it for berghia food haha.

Do you always run your lights at just 20%?

Wow - The extension on those Goni/Alve is insane! looks stunning

Thank you for sharing your experience on dealing with white spot and medicating, I have just recently finished recovering from a white spot outbreak roughly the same time yours started so i was waiting for this video to come out to compare experiences. I lost 9 fish similar to you but i didnt have the capability to have a quarantine tank, i used 'polyplab medic' for my medication method for 30 days. The parasite cleaered and there has been no signs of it for 8 weeks now and just started restocking the tank yesterday. I can understand the hardship of losing your fish with the emotional and financial aspect but again thank you for sharing as your video will help others in the future who will have white spot problems and allow them to battle it the best they can also allowing others to help/support them via your video comments. Top viedo 👍

All my fish were badly infected (In the gills too) with white spot, I dipped my pellets in freshly crushed garlic oil and installed a uv as per advice from an expert, I did not lose a single fish and the white spot never came back.

Hi Alex, how big your top up tank and how long does it last? Many thanks, steve

U might want to change your title from weir to rear ?😅

The red gonis polyps are extremely long , how? 😂

How large of a UV sterilizer do you have?? I find if you double the up on uv can manage the disease. Along with periodic doses of garlic and ginger. It will not eradicate but will manage it.

It's hard when you put in three times the effort you should have put in by doing good practices and without going through stress, hard feelings, losing animals and also losing money. I keep saying it; aquariums are a learning experience for life. Glad you managed to solve this big problem in the end! - Ramón

Really well done video. 👏

Copper power is the only copper medicine I will use it saved my entire tank of fish have to use a Hanna copper checker

I have a great tip I only found out 6 mouth ago and it’s changed how I qt all my fish from now on so first of all I bring the fish up to temperature then I fresh water dip them for 10-15 minutes this is the main reason iv changed how I do things as the fresh water dip on the fish kills all diseases and bacteria on the fish so you have a clean fish then I observe the fish for 20 to 30 days but thinking of skipping this as since fresh water dipping my fish have always looked amazing

I woukd at least do dips before a fish gets into a quarantine tank or into a display from one. There is a product called safety stop and the first part I believe contains formalin so that will treat your fish odf any velvet, brookylenlla or uronema.

I'm surprised that ich wiped out so many fish I've had ich outbreaks but it never killed more than a few at a time.

That little UV would struggle to keep up parasite management, you would need a pentair 80watt for that big of a system

Turn the cade aquarium into a coral/invert quarantine

The reason why these and the same family members servive most parasite infections because they have no swim bladder

Nice to have fish back in tank, no better time to get some fish in the freshly cleaned QT and do some observations, you could try & buy two or three at a time to speed getting the tank up & running, you should use your QT tank for larger fish and your Fluval evo for smaller fish, your tank will soon be stocked up again ☺️

Tank looks awesome already ❤ You’re not going for a copperband 🤔 I’d thought that size tank would be perfect for one

So if the Royal Gramma wasn’t showing signs of disease, presumably in the shop where it was bought from, what triggered it to release whatever disease it had when placed in your tank?

I didn’t hear anything about quarantining the clean up crew that may carry white spot, will you be quarantining the snails for weeks

Interesting, I occasionally get outbreaks of whitespot that shows up on my tangs but it never seems to cause any issues, they keep eating and are back to normal after a few days. I just kind of accept it's one of those parasites that's almost impossible to avoid.

Now that you are looking for stocking up the tank, would you do multiple fish at once or slow ramp up in numbers? Also, it would be great to have the video on your observation period.

I had a HORRIBLE aptaisia outbreak in my mangrove tank, which is tied into my reef, and went with berghias to take care of it. I didn't realize just how long it takes for them to wipe out a bad infestation as you wait for them to reproduce enough to do anything. Almost 4 months before I noticed a difference, but then the aptaisia practically disappeared overnight. Not for the impatient Funnily enough, after that I started finding dozens of them in my sump, which was also loaded with aptaisia, so they did me a nice favor there. Better yet, suddenly the 3 or 4 stubborn aptaisia in the main display also disappeared out of nowhere and I knew damn well it wasn't my freeloading copperband or longnose butterfly 😂 Then late at night I saw a berghia crusing around on my overflow box and see a couple almost every night now, so they must've eliminated the aptaisia in that tank as well. Really surprising because I have a small army of wrasses in there, including a huge red ring wrasse, 3 leopards, anempses, and 5 halichores. Makes me wonder how true it actually is that wrasses will wipe out berghias. I think the nudibranchs hide so well during the day in the rockwork that the wrasses can't get to them and only come out at night when all the wrasses are asleep. I'm starting to have a go at breeding them to sell off now because the owner of my lfs wants a steady supply of them 😂

A kleinii butterfly fish in my opinion the better fish to go for for aiptasia

I have velvet and white spot how long fishless untill i can bring fish again?