Who makes the poly filter pads ?

Great inspiration about to build a 40 breeder reef myself. Tank looks great

Keep it going please 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

My single male ram cichlid will be triggered cause he will be in breeding mode while my beautiful gourami pair are already breeding 😆😆😆😆😆😆

I have a Bolivian ram cichlid🚩 with my male 3spot blue gourami🔵 and Female opaline gourami🔵 he will be triggered by jealousy over time watching my paired gourami 😊

I literally can't hear anything even with my noise cancelling headphones.. the voice is too low

Supp Mike! What happened to the female clown? It looks like another fish?

You could also put in a wolf or a yoda dawg

Caves and teslas in my tank

This tank/video is what got me back in the hobby. I dove in head first wasted a bunch of money on a big name tank with a sump and all the equipment. Failed miserably. Multiple times. So I went to the local pet co got a 40 gal tank, a marineland emperor pro filter and started over. Huge success! Had to break the tank down so I could move. Had about a 8 month break from the hobby. Making water tonight to get back in again. Same ol 40 breeder same filter….different light this time. Orphek Atlantik icon…way over kill but I want to try acros this time!

Love the guide, short and sweet. I have had my 406 for one year now so I'm doing my first cleaning. Definitely not going too crazy

Your wavemaker still running??

Hi Mike have you heard of Greg Jones? Because he stopped making videos for a long time.

Old school popped up on my feed , what’s up from the shadows

Still riding with ya

ill buy a few of the anemones. if you ever wanna sell some and ship ill pay :)

Is that cyano bacteria or coraline algae? Anyway i like your videos, keep the good stuff going.

Mike Great To See You Back On KZbin!

4yrs to get motivated 😂 glad I’m not your partner!

Cyano disease is the red slime in tank possibly

Still here! I always enjoy watching your content. Would love to see you build out something new. However, I understand the time commitment. I’m traveling a lot myself and having a new tank isn’t in the cards for me either. I sold all of mine about 2 years ago. I miss the hell out of it though. Keep coming back occasionally and give us some updates!

Still here and Fired Up!!! Yea I’m back to making videos and shorts; it’s crazy and harder to come out with content nowadays then when we first started out.

Mike,looks great as all yours do…I almost forgot your name ❤

Bro you definitely still have subscribers especially me being from Mass!!! I support on Facebook and KZbin!!! When I first started in the hobby your videos are what got me going man !!! Go pats!!!

I moved to Southern California from Florida over a year ago (tired of hurricanes) and gave away four of my five tanks and all my fish and plants. So stressful trying to keep my fish alive during power outages. I have one empty 55 acrylic that I’m hanging onto. Your 40 gallon saltwater tank has been an inspiration to me to go saltwater. I understand completely how it’s difficult to find the time to enjoy your tanks when family and life takes up all of your time. Hobbies aren’t fun when they become a chore. That said, I’m hanging onto to my last tank until I find the time to set it up. I do miss your planted tanks as they were amazing.

A MASS Aquariums video is always worth a watch. It's nice to hear experienced hobbyists talk about things the mainstream channels won't touch. Majority of channels are all cookie cutter these days...

do water change its not that hard

Please do a waterchange.

I echo your sentiments on the hobby . It's a struggle.

You ou say the seals can’t last forever (a long time) and I have heard people say that but I have many tanks that still have good seals after >34 years. Most of those are just standard 50g, 20g, 10g retail tanks. Nothing special. I have a few I made and those too ard fine decades later.

nice to hear from you , nothing wrong with enjoying life .

Interesting and well done.If it's not broke don't fix it i feel is the moral of this story 👍🏼

What a great little tank Mike. Who doesn't love clown fish. Real good to hear from you Mike, glad you are keeping well my friend.

Just my 2 cents on tank lasting a long time.... I have a used 135 gallon Oceanic(no braces in the middle) that I bought in 1993. It lived 18 years as freshwater and 13 years as salt and is still going strong.

Bristle worms😂 Took me a minute

Glad to you Post Looks awesome

Good looking clowns.

This is the tank that got me into the hobby, I feel you on all the other hobby, I'm hooked on breeding clowns now I have 5 pairs two spawning and couple hundred baby's @dirtywaterclownfish on Instagram!! Love seeing your videos and posted. Look forward to see more videos

Dang. found your channel years ago and haven't looked into the hobby after I moved and sold off all my stuff. I moved back to my parents house where I started the hobby last week and kinda wanted to get back into the hobby and I see your video come up!

What up my friend 👊🏻. Cool stuff

Hey Mike! Still here! You're like the zebra pleco that is a pleasant surprise when he shows up out of nowhere! Always good to see your content, and I'm glad to see the salt water tank is still going strong. Zo's are true Bostonians....they "love that dirty water". Hey you live your life, the family's the most important. The kids will be grown and gone in a flash if you're not paying attention.

He’s alive!

First mass-hole

liked and subd !!

Hi Mike! I just found your content and this particular tank was appealing to me because I just started a 40B mixed reef tank myself with an Aquaclear HOB. Would love to know more about your setup, what light you’re using, what corals, etc. Mine is heavy softy and LPS with a couple SPS. I didn’t see a list with all of your videos about this tank and I didn’t see a way to search. Looking forward to diving into your planted aquarium content, also as I have a 75 gallon planted community tank and a 16 gallon cube planted tank with neocarodinia and Vietnamese cloud minnows.

So I made the mistake of not fully closing off the tubes and learned my lesson. I’ve saved this to my favorites for the next time I do this to avoid a meltdown as my floor pools with water from my tank 😂.

Excellent video. I am just exploring (live in CT, spend winters in FL) so I am not sure about how that would work. You're very sensible, I understand everything you said. Appreciate the links. Have a good day. How often do you have to change the water if at all??

🎉Just subscribed. Clicked on a random video first about air stones or bubbles not looking at the time line. You looked like a kid lol. You look good not saying that. Hell I aged 20 after the pandemic.Anyway always had aquariums since I was since I was young. It was my mothers hobby I was around 6. Stopped in 2021.Yep life happened. Now setting up a small 10 gal planted tank for fun.Anyway your full of knowledge you may get the bug for something new never know. Great video!

Update

I installed this on my rain soft RO system, does the pump run all the time, hooked it all up correctly but the pump never shuts off.