Abbas's Simple, Old School Acropora Tank: Metal Halides, Kalkwasser and LOTS of Food!

[@jaysrealreefuk]

Absolutely fantastic video. Abbas has a beautiful reef tank and has some excellent advice on running a successful tank. Looking forward more of this series.

[@queencityreefs]

What an incredibly beautiful reef tank 😮. Great tank tour. 🙌🏻👏🏻👌🏻

[@TyFairclough]

Lovely tank. nice to see people's different approaches. sound and video (lighting) was decent too, which isn't straight forward but makes it so much better to watch

[@TomoBishBosh]

awesome video, getting out there to see other people's tanks, puts things in perspective for the hobby and highlights the differences between everyone's experiences. Looking forward to more!

[@Cycnoches2012]

Abbas thank you for sharing your passion with us, it's a beautiful system! Reef Dork thank you for all the right questions. could use a little more camera time on the tank.

[@AFCRichmond2782]

Congratulations marvellous reef tank 🐠🐟👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@ioaquatics]

I feel like i need to increase my flow now after seeing this tank

[@Rinop321]

I said the same thing 😂

[@TheMastmark]

especially if you have sps dominant tank, lps and softy doesn't need this much

[@DansReef]

Lovely tank & great video Alex 👌

[@stick_head]

Very inspiring 🫶✌️

[@DaltonReefing]

Really like the Aquascape. Looks fantastic!

[@jlstacey5]

Stunning tank!! 🔥 Tonnes of colour and I love that Mustard Tang! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@garynelson1940]

A great video! Really enjoyed this….. Good to hear what other reefers do to keep a system like this 👍🏻

[@scottt9870]

Love this style tank! Great tank tour as per usual

[@hurrensreef4228]

Amazing tank great vid look forward to seeing more like this 👍

[@Rinop321]

Holy flow!!! This tank is great!!

[@rudra7615]

I’m glad videos like this are done as I know there are some gems in the UK and we need someone like Reefdork to share, inspire and get the light on these reefers, so thanks for moving into this format of videos. However, I think this could be reduced further and more camera on the corals and tank. Can’t deny how good wWC coral videos are, I’m not talking about underwater cameras, just closer shots of the tank after the intro of the reefer. Parker’s reef does this good as well. I hope to see more and more closeup of the corals! I’m all about finding and finding some gems corals. Just my opinion!

[@ReefDork]

Couple of people have said that - will do next time 🙂

[@ricotter9233]

Good too see someone else using the accursea calibration water. I was losing loads off lps (polyp bailout) i tried everything. It was all because my salinty was 1.020 and my refractometer was reading 1.025 It realy should be made common knowledge that using ro water too calibrate a refrac does not work... Great video tour Reef dork, and great tank (im with you on cable management too, best intentions till you have too preform maintenence 😂)

[@bradleyparker1458]

Amazing tank and brilliant video Alex

[@jamesyork5196]

I think after seeing this I’m going to remove half my sand and put my LPS on my bottom glass. What an epic tank

[@timjohnson3913]

Awesome taste in fish!

[@thomasthecat951]

Beautiful tank!!! Ha ha my foxface did the same thing about a month ago. It went nuts on my convict tang. There fine together again.

[@surrey_reefer]

Gorgeous tank. What about an episode with a couple of different nano tanks? See how different even a small tank can be?

[@ReefDork]

I was thinking of your Evo actually - can you email me? [e-mail]

[@stevehedges3158]

Will this episode be uploaded to your podcast site so I can listen to it in my car on Spotify? Please do. Thanks

[@ReefDork]

No, afraid not - I only upload the livestreams as a podcast

[@jonathanstephens7804]

Beautiful tank guy knows his reef tanks. Really like the sound of more uk tank tours, will be a good thing for your channel I guess it generates a lot of views! Quite funny his no.1 was Kalkwasser and If i am correct you are no longer using it? lol

[@ReefDork]

Yep, stopped using it a few months back! Abbas was one of the people who got me into it in the first place...

[@Wiljuchi]

Looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing. So the tank had no mechanical filtration I could see at all?

[@ReefDork]

Correct

[@thebaseballman897]

I have a 125 gallon reef tank and I was wondering what to stock it with, any suggestions???

[@ReefDork]

Go with what you like

[@xLUGUBRIOUSx]

Hope he has a good door stop.

[@martincsaquatics]

Nicely put together video covered just about everything other than mechanical filtration I couldnt see a roller or socks so does he rely on his skimmer

[@ReefDork]

No mechanical filtration, just the skimmer and scrubber

[@Reefkpr1]

That tang is a Acanthurus pyroferus. Also known as a Chocolate tang or a Mimic Lemon Peel Tang. He called it a Mustard tang perhaps by accident.

[@NorfolkReefer]

What’s the difference?? I have a juvenile mustard tang which looks to be turning the same way as a chocolate. I think they are very similar fish. 🤷‍♂️

[@Reefkpr1]

@@NorfolkReefer Maybe its the difference between USA and abroad?? Not sure. I'm not able to post a picture of what we in US call a Mustard tang but if you google search it, it should turn up. Not trying to be confrontational, I just happen to have that exact gorgeous fish and have done some research on it. Whatever it's call it's an awesome fish. I enjoyed watching mine turn from yellow to it's full adult colors. 👍

[@NorfolkReefer]

@@Reefkpr1how strange!! Acanthurus guttatus is also known as a mustard tang. Mine appears to be going more the chocolate tang look!! Either way I am happy!! Maybe it’s location and wholesaler identification 🤷‍♂️

[@barelyreefer]

Those fish are thick!!

[@RyanFelt]

What are the pieces that he mounted to the rock to hold the frag plugs?

[@ReefDork]

Not sure I'm afraid

[@AbbasReef]

Home made using Putty

[@timjohnson3913]

@20:10 we call that the chocolate tang in the US. The mustard tang is the Acanthurus Guttatus here. (Not that the US naming convention makes any sense because it doesn’t!)

[@ReefDork]

I was thinking it's not what I think as a mustard tang

[@matthodges7209]

Great video Alex. How fat is that gem tang though !!

[@NorthEastSpiders]

So the kalk mixers connected to the ATO? I was under the impression that was a bad thing? Sorry, still learning!

[@ReefDork]

You feed ro water into the kalkwasser stirrer which means you can choose how much you add. Which is different from putting kalkwasser into your ro reservoir - that way you have no control over how much kalk gets added and the ro pump sits in kalkwasser which will rot the pump

[@NorthEastSpiders]

@ReefDork ahhhh ok that makes sense. I'm just gonna have to bite the bullet and get a single continuous duty dosing pump aren't I 😅

[@MichaelPybus]

Is there a solid doorstop drilled into the floor? All I keep thinking is the door swinging open and the handle smashing right into the tank.

[@robertsmith5475]

I was thinking the same thing cringing

[@AbbasReef]

There is a door stop.

[@hurrensreef4228]

Do you know who made the tank?

[@ReefDork]

Aquarium Connections

[@skiracer8148]

So he does not dose kalkwasser just lets it dose at the same rate as evaporation?

[@ReefDork]

He doses it evenly throughout the day - just below the amount of daily evaporation

[@steevareno2002]

Those Neptune probe holder magnets break open and rust.