Ep:6 Best Biome Cycle? Insta Coral vs. Aquarium Rock vs. Dark Rubble vs. 100% Water From the BRS160

[@BRStv]

Entire Biome Playlist. kzbin.info/aero/PLBaMLrfToJyyywPKnlV7P--e6VG3umjW6

[@poen876]

This is so interesting!! Currently cycling my first ever tank. 2 weeks in and your series is super informative

[@-Tholos-]

I love this series, I'm about to start my second tank (my first time starting from zero) and this has given me so much new information. My first tank was an established tank that I bought with fish and corals included and I regret not starting it up my self.

[@PoolPartyToaster]

This series is awesome. I inadvertantly caught your lecture that was involving this experiment after my childeren were watching fish videos. It has absolutely inspired me, and i feel like this data can be a great contribution to the microbiology and marine biology schools of science

[@sampster5000]

I'd love to see your notes posted so I can follow a long better and then go into more detail afterwards to better understand it. This is a really great series and is helping further the aquarium hobby.

[@BlueDamsel]

Love the series! Never thought I'd be so fascinated by rock!! 😄💙🐠

[@sandroaces]

This is gold and important to keep people in the hobby thank you for doing this at great expense. A thought how can we nurture the stuff we want doing the process to keep the bad at bay. For example Tropic Marin says the carbon dosing only feeds the good stuff. Or bottle bacteria.

[@RobBoryckiGolf]

Great job on this video

[@SyphriX]

I’m a freshwater aquarist and I can’t stop watching this series. I can’t help but wonder how this same science plays out for freshwater planted tanks. I’d love to see someone perform similar experiments there.

[@klausjunker4229]

Seems to me that freshwater doesn't have any of all these issues. With freshwater l only had tve green film on the glass and q bit on rocks. Saltwater seems to be one big struggle with algae etc compared to freshwater.

[@SyphriX]

@@klausjunker4229 Well that's definitely not my experience with planted tanks. A quick glance at popular planted tank forums will suggest many people struggle with a variety of algae, cyanobacteria, and dinoflagellate outbreaks. Especially in the first few months of setting up new tanks. And in heavily planted showcase tanks, these problems can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars in plant deaths if not dealt with quickly enough. It seems like much of the science around the microbiome in the saltwater tank would be similar or the same in freshwater. Copepods exist in freshwater too, and it wouldn't be a stretch to think they may serve many of the same functions as they do in saltwater.

[@klausjunker4229]

@@SyphriX Wow!! Never ever experienced anything of that in my freshwater days or even heard about it.

[@wmars4655]

This series was at the perfect time i just upgraded from 55 to 120 gal tank. I heard one thing and i ran with it. Multiple live rocks from every lfs in my area and ocean live rocks with sponges and tube fans. Tons of hair algae but one month in and its pretty much under control due to clean up. Also had a benign white flatworm outbreak but after adding 3 wrasse its much better almost minimal. Tons of bacteria added from multiple companies during first month and copepods. Added corals and fish after 2 weeks. Just wish i had quarantined the wrasses but i wanted the flatworms gone, now i have ick. I just added 55watt uv and cleaner shrimp, 🤞. I gotta learn that tank transfer method but for now no new fish for a few months i guess.

[@magas82]

Great series! Right now I am doing a fish-free cycle using live sand and cured LifeRock from WWC with Microbacter ammonia and nitrifying bacteria. I am two weeks in and realized that I don't really know when to add the first inhabitants. Do I wait for the tank to completely cycle first before adding fish and a cleanup crew?

[@sampster5000]

Just wait til you have no more ammonia

[@BRStv]

In terms of the nitrogen cycle, you'll want to make sure there is no ammonia present and that any levels of nitrites are near zero as well. If that's the case, then you can start by adding a hardy fish. Continue to keep an eye on ammonia as that's the biggest concern fish-wise in the early going of a new reef tank.

[@jules2545]

I have been following your excellent series on the biological functionality of a reef tank, thank you for taking the time and effort to do this. Perhaps we should think of the holistic nature of the reef tank. It would be very interesting to monitor water chemistry and see how it relates to the tank biome. For example if certain bacteria do better under certain higher or lower levels of various elements within the water make up? This videos have started me thinking about the usefulness of water changes, from a bacterial point of view do they have a positive or negative effect?

[@BRStv]

In terms of water changes, removing water from the water column isn't likely to have much affect on the bacteria population since most of the bacteria we care about live on surfaces. If you're siphoning your sand bed, you're absolutely impacting the bacteria population negatively. That said, there are legit benefits to siphoning the sand, so the take away here is just to do it in sections and not all at once.

[@leviclark4305]

Can we get an update video on the BRS 160? It looks great and I'd love for you guys to go over all the types of coral in it and fish stock list

[@BRStv]

Ryan will be starting what we're calling 52 Weeks of Reefing: Season 2 soon, so you'll probably get your wish for an update very soon 🙂

[@abyankabir1910]

Hey, I am going to get a 5 feet peninsula tank. I want to use Ai Hydra 32 Hds’ so I was wondering if I should put them parallel to the tanks length or perpendicular? Since it is a peninsula style. Also how many of these lights should I need for this size tank to grow lps and also sps corals? In Bangladesh is it about 220v so will I need a converter or does it already heave a transmitter inside?

[@hotmess3421]

PLEASE MYTH BUST, THE NO HANDS IN THE TANK VERSA HANDS IN TANK. I'm curious if it changes any parameters at all. Maybe dirty hands, lotion or hand soap testing?

[@fuffoon]

My tank will be 6 months old at the end of August. Corals have been in since week 6. Got through the uglies, all of the traditional ones, without losing a coral. Some frags have doubled in size already. Only the lightest colored Tenuis are being slow and stubborn but they are doing OK. I have not added Mg for months yet its reading 1500 constantly. I think I should try another test kit just to be sure. Shouldn't it drop slowly with growth?

[@BRStv]

It's always a solid idea to double check when something doesn't seem right. That said, in some cases, water changes can go a very long way in replacing magnesium. Of the "big 3" (calcium, alkalinity, and magnesium), it's the slowest to be consumed, by far.

[@fransdehaan2916]

Are this tanks started with bacteria from any brand?

[@Jnvd3b]

How long was the rubble in the mature tank before being moved to the experiment tank?

[@BRStv]

6 months +.

[@tomg5405]

Why in your experience with established sand and rocks did you turn off the lights?? This will probably just kill the good photosynthetic biome and allow the bad to take over. You should do it again with lights on.I also really want to see a tank with life sand+established rocks+ a good proportion of corals, not just a few sticks and a real clean-up crew.

[@travishess8272]

Isn’t it bad to cycle a tank with fish? Isn’t it harmful to the clowns?