My holy grail Soft Coral! Uh, tank crash incoming?

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Fiji Yellow Leather. It is a coral that used to be somewhat common and popular in the reef aquarium hobby that has faded in popularity overtime. It could have something to do with the inability for hobbyist to retain the nice, canary yellow coloration of this subtle but elegant coral. After much searching, I finally got my grubby hands on a nice sized colony, and wait til you hear the story behind this!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Fiji Yellow Leather Coral
0:47 Fragging Goldenrod, Miyagi Tort, Pink Lemonade SPS
3:16 We got it! Yellow Fiji Leather Coral colony
5:40 Ad - Magic Spoon
7:03 Story Time - Yellow Fiji Leather second chance
9:45 Carbon Reactor
11:40 Coral Issue - Light? Coral Warfare? Bad Bacteria?
15:53 Rehoming Bernadopora
18:00 Ok, serious coral issue...
21:10 Ok ok, really serious coral issue...
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[@InappropriateReefer]

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[@josephfriedrich9792]

Years ago I won a Deepwater toadstool. Life happens and gave away my livestock to a lfs(which closed down during covid). A few months back, after getting back into the hobby, I stumbled across a Deepwater from a fellow reefer. After picking it up, I found out he picked it up from the same lfs, so I got my original Deepwater back!

[@PurposePlastics]

If had to guess, one of the contributors is the highly efficient carbon is stripping some of your trace elements.

[@ten4tango]

second the carbon - pull the reactor out and throw 1/2 cup in a bag.

[@gritter781]

I have one that I've grown from the size of a pencil eraser, to the size of a dinner plate. I've had it for around 5 years and it was rather neglected for about 3 of those years (zero water changes, very little light). It came in on a rock with a larger one that I brought in directly from WSI, Fiji. I thought it was cool so I stuck it on a frag plug and kinda forgot about it. This was before the Fiji ban, obviously. After shutting down my business a few months after hurricane Harvey this was one of the few corals that I still had and as stated, I thought it was cool so I held onto it. I had no idea at the time that what was a very common coral would become so hard to come by a few years later. I actually fragged it for the first time about a week ago because it was starting to shade a nearby acro. I've got quite a few frags that I intend to grow out (I have a large frag tank) into colonies as well, so fragging will be exponential. When the time comes, I will sell the frags cheap. My intent is to help bring this coral back into the hobby (as much as one guy can, anyway), not get rich off of it.

[@Va4444]

I work in a mall so Christmas season keeps me busy, oct.. I was trying to Hire a bunch people. I didn't even know about Jake Adam's passing away. I heard him say rip Jake Adam's n looked it up n wow. He is gone. That was my favorite in the REEFING industry. King of REEFING hacks. What a terrible loss. He was too young, so sorry for his family

[@Rodolfo_Reef]

I'm Brazilian marine aquarist, I loved your video's, your family is beautiful and funny. I like the channel 💗

[@MicrobiusBlue]

I would say it was the carbon quickly stripping your water of organics and in turn causing a sudden increase in par penetration and causing light shock...seen it happen many times over the decades to people myself included

[@InappropriateReefer]

Quite a few fellow reefers, including myself, agree with your assessment! I'm not glad that I joined the club, but hey, here I am!

[@TattooedDancer91]

Pigments are inorganic. Carbon doesn't remove anything organic

[@byronmobbs2441]

I hope things recover soon. Always appreciate your honesty and showing us the ups and downs of reefing. Makes me feel better when something doesn’t go quite right in my tank knowing that I’m not alone in these misfortunes.

[@fatheadedfish]

I did exactly the same thing after listening to Jakes podcast when is first aired. He kept talking about the ‘old school Fiji leather’. I hunted one out and paid £100. A lot for me. Now Jake has sadly passed I’m glad I have this awesome leather to remind me of all the times I listened to Jake/ watched his channel.

[@faiz_latif]

wow massive tank is actually starting to look full

[@trevorcrothers3734]

Dang that jawbreaker above the other ones is awesome really nice

[@James-zo9fj]

1:52 "What the heck!?!?!" - so relatable

[@HBReefBros]

Those Bernardaporas are agressive! I accidently brushed my forearm agaisnt mine while doing some tank cleaning. Later I realized it stung the crap out of me and had a nice big rash from it. It's finally almost gone after almost 2 weeks now.

[@harisqureshi9897]

Leaving the tank like that is hard but uve got to prioritize things and focus on other stuff as well Hope when u get back things are in a better place All the best

[@PnCBio]

If those lights have warm whites, those pop my yellow fish and corals more than anything else.

[@rickg8439]

Addition of the carbon and new lighting is the issue... Carbon made the water clear resulting in an increase in PAR.. plus you added lights, again increasing PAR

[@kingtidecorals]

NO WAY! Its fate.. she found you! What an awesome story, killer video my friend! Can't wait for a frag! LOL

[@jcfaur77]

I went through a bleaching event when I added too much carbon at once. Happens esp if your system is not used to running carbon.

[@seangriffiths9163]

I bet when the camera stopped filming you removed that piece of cereal 🤣 I remember you owning this Fiji yellow leather. That awesome that your coral has returned home.

[@Garethaxz]

Lol, it's awesome that you got your hands back on an old colony, that's pretty damn rare! Speaking of holy grails, I would just about kill for a nub of that pulsing pink sinularia in the 10 gallon, impossible to find that coral over here.

[@buzzy4537]

The first.....sponsor?!Btw the 45g💕

[@scotty2salty327]

Yeeeees!! Yellow Fiji Leather! I miss these guys. I had one like 18 years ago. They are very hard to come by and I haven't seen one in the Rochester, NY area in years. Nice find man! Hope it gets nice a d yellow for you.

[@gritter781]

Crank up the "white" spectrum and you will see far more yellow. This thing looks fantastic under ~10k, but is a dud in a box of windex.

[@banasophia]

I loved my Fiji yellow… one of my favorite corals, too… had to trade it when it eventually got too big for my nano tank.

[@jahsreef8386]

Have fun on your trip. Hopefully golden rod does okay while your gone and tank does well while you’re away.

[@Pokeepogo]

That’s amazing that the coral ended up coming back home to you! And those sicce pumps are actually amazing. I work at my LFS and we use em in our maintenance kit and the amount of abuse it gets and still works amazing 😂

[@jjmccloud]

What a journey this been! You get it lined out, I have faith in you! I think your guess on the lights are a very good possibility, but doing more then 1 thing at a time makes it so hectic if something disrupts the process as you know lol. None the less, the tank still looks amazing 👏

[@queencityreefs]

What a bummer. From the video, it appears like too many variables took place to be able to pinpoint the cause. I'm sure that cereal into the tank at the end didn't help 😉🤣

[@brymac1227]

I have my fiji directly under a 6500k t5 bulb and it is bright yellow. About 300 par and decent flow. Increasing your cool and warm whites should help.

[@Joshthereefer]

Second this. Had great success keeping mine yellow under 6500K T5

[@harlowcreek]

try 14% T5 bulb if they colored up back in the MH days. i feel thats where everyone is missing out is the UVB

[@ten4tango]

Not the end of world - if the golden rod kicks the bucket, you've got a primo acropora spot.

[@edwing9735]

AI BLADE is a big difference compared to your Ali express bar

[@onlyphins]

Thank you for sharing your reefing journeys. I have learned a ton from your videos. Keep up the great content. Love that you involve your beautiful family as well. 🙏🏽🤙🏽

[@diyreef]

I think you underestimated the impact of the carbon reactor. Been there, done that. I’d pull it offline.

[@InappropriateReefer]

I may very well be, I always thought it’d just be pulling out pollutant. How did running Carbon Reactor impact your parameters?

[@diyreef]

@@InappropriateReefer I don’t think it is so much a parameter issue, but one of rapid change in PAR due to removal off coloring organics. Essentially, corals get blasted with a higher intensity of light.

[@InappropriateReefer]

@@diyreef chatting with Daniel and he pointed out the same thing; on top of that I also switched light. Thank you for the clarification, it makes sense! 🙏

[@ArrickthaRed]

I hope everything works out when you are gone.

[@lisafoster4468]

A nice-sized dose of carbon wouldn't be a bad idea...it's a pity, it looked great in there. Some aminos may help the recovery, from what I hear.

[@jahsreef8386]

Time for a 240-300 gallon 😂 😂

[@burtminshew4812]

Yep it's the light. Low light acros

[@squidarcherb9707]

Good luck!

[@tylerchurchill7085]

Love when you upload new videos!!!!

[@InappropriateReefer]

Love when you watch! 🙏

[@christiancorals816]

Hopefully they will come back 🙏

[@thomasdirocco]

The carbon could have also improved the water clarity and increased the light penetration to the corals

[@jerryzhao3026]

My Bernadpora has poor polyp extension though...

[@InappropriateReefer]

When mine was out in the open under the light + flow, it was a beast! It seems to like flow.

[@rasmuskok]

I suspect that too much/efficient carbon can mess with your corals....

[@reelbocafishing5904]

very nice

[@dazsboxofwater]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 🪸 enjoy Japan too dude. ,have a great trip ✌🏼

[@gabesreef]

Have fun in Japan

[@InappropriateReefer]

Thank you!

[@cantusaurus8530]

Carbon not being rinsed could be the culprit, or the carbon being too aggressive and taking out trace elements rapidly

[@InappropriateReefer]

I lightly rinsed the carbon but did not thoroughly rinsed it. I remember carbon dust being a contributor to HLLE in tangs, how does the dust affect corals? I see mentions of trace elements being removed by carbon a few times in comments -- let me do some research on this, I always thought carbon only removes pollutants and potentially metals, would be good to know if it does also remove useful elements too!

[@cantusaurus8530]

@@InappropriateReefer I don’t know for sure if the dust affects corals, but I thought it could possibly affect corals since it can affect fish. But I think the main thing is just a bunch of changes is stressing the coral, and making them succumb easier to bacteria. BUT. As far as bacteria and coral disease. I have been through it! I went through an almost year long battle with ALL types of stony corals being affected. Some bacteria/pathogens i believe are a lot more dangerous. And I think it all depends on the balance in the tank. Generally I’ve researched and most people lose one to several corals, but things usually improve when things are stable in the tank. But for me things kept persisting, and it seemed as if the bacteria was just affecting the healthy corals no matter what. The imbalance in my tank was insane. But I finally tried a product to try and help things. I’m super skeptical about certain products claiming to help with STN/RTN. But this product shocked me. If things get worse I’d use it. It’s the Fauna Marin STN X. It’s VERY expensive. But I think it really changed things. I did the full 10 day treatment, and I added ecobalance occassionally during treatment, and some after. And then I just didn’t dose anything and kept things stable. I was shocked that nothing looked stressed from the treatment. I left skimmer on but just made it skim super dry so it didn’t pull out anything from the treatment. But all my urchins, and inverts weren’t affected at all which shocked me… I can answer more questions if need be. But I think you should be fine if things don’t persist and more corals don’t become affected. But maybe consider getting this product just in case.

[@Reefer_NYC]

awww snap

[@opethmike]

Kentucky Fried Chicken dipping?!

[@jonathanhenry5465]

I think you messed up with the carbon. It strips too much stuff (i.e. trace elements). And then combine that with new lights. Recipe for disaster. Hate to see it, I'm sure it's stressful but you got this.

[@InappropriateReefer]

Thank you, I'm dialed back the light since and stopped the carbon reactor (will run it for an hour maybe every other day instead of 24/7). Thanks for the heads up to y'all, I would never have thought the carbon reactor would impact the system so much. Always learning!

[@CO.Reefing]

How did you add the ai blade to your lights? I have one that I want to mount between my 2 XR15's but don't know how to yet exactly....

[@jonericksanchez]

If they die you’ll have more room for Acropora. 😊

[@thesilentone4024]

Question do you have any clams if so are they small normal or omg big.

[@marcopalazzo9349]

I had a massive one years ago.

[@InappropriateReefer]

It’s a classic coral!! Did yours have the nice canary yellow?

[@drugmonkeyrx7965]

HOLY ANACROPORA BATMAN!!!😂

[@InappropriateReefer]

🦇 👨🏽

[@jameswithers3066]

Bloody hell, so how much par is your Xenia getting then?

[@luisgalvan7219]

What percent do Troy run those radions ? And what’s schedule? 😊on the small tank

[@InappropriateReefer]

The percent doesn't really show the full picture since they're paired w/ strip lights (AliE bars before, AI Blade now); the 135g was running ~300 PAR at the top of the rock work. It's now ~250 PAR at the top. Small tank if I remember right is chugging along around ~320 PAR at the top part of the tank.

[@opethmike]

May I have a hug?

[@InappropriateReefer]

🤗

[@Coralhead_]

Hi, How do you put on and take of the filter from your camera so fast?

[@InappropriateReefer]

I use this bad boy here because my point and shoot camera does not have filter thread, magnet: amzn.to/3Y0P8DQ

[@Coralhead_]

@@InappropriateReefer awesome thanks!

[@dissumshit]

How did you get your CSB nem bubble up like that?

[@InappropriateReefer]

Honestly didn’t do anything different! BTAs just seems to look and be however and wherever they want! 😆

[@dissumshit]

@@InappropriateReefer dang I wish mine would bubble up. Like that one. Maybe one day

[@ReefReview]

Do you sell those golden rod frags? I’d love to get one in my tank

[@jonathangonzalez9782]

Same

[@InappropriateReefer]

I do sell / trade locally in the DMV area; Although going to hold off for now until whatever is happening is resolved 🥲

[@BryznsReef]

Do you put putty on the sps before putting them on rocks whenever I try to frag my sps the whole thing falls off 🤣

[@InappropriateReefer]

I only did epoxy putty for one of the larger piece of SPS attaching it to rock. All the other ones I just use super glue gel, lol. Or if there's a crevice and the frag is a loose frag, I would glue it to a plug first, then glue the plug to the rock structure.

[@SB-ju4yf]

Have you done an ICP? I had severe zinc contamination caused by a bad brand of activated carbon

[@InappropriateReefer]

I have not yet, will be sending one out this coming week 🤞

[@96Mayfly]

red montipora is sensitive to potassium

[@ESREEF]

Where is the PURPLE TANG?

[@homegrownfrags6531]

Ok... forest fire digi is green skin red polyp, bubble gum is blue skin red polyp, green tip...

[@InappropriateReefer]

Mine did have green skin red polyps.. Did being the key word here 🥲

[@homegrownfrags6531]

@@InappropriateReefer ohhhh dang, been there 😪

[@hixyhicks]

I gave up my reef tank because if running costs and i was s#it scared about power outrages😠

[@kay4897]

Would you be willing to make an axolotl tank for "make a wish"?

[@InappropriateReefer]

Absolutely; want to email me [e-mail] with the details?

[@jcfaur77]

Bro, can you please ship me a frag of the goldenrod. Ive twice bought a "goldenrod" online. Even specifically asking to make sure it's a goldenrod and both times they are just regular green anacropora.

[@Ariefeht]

Pull the carbon

[@bigbearmeetslittlebear3401]

Not the leather... I have three in a 50 gallon with acros months etc

[@bigbearmeetslittlebear3401]

*montis

[@timmywood9677]

I think your new light are your problem

[@lamshao]

Do you really eat Magic Spoon? It taste like poison to me😜. My leather looked super yellow 20yrs ago lit with actinic power compacts

[@DoYouEvenFishTank]

Great video as always mate, but I am sorry to tell you that is not a Yellow Fiji Leather, not even from the same genus I am afraid... Unfortunately it is just a plain old common Australian Toadstool Leather, you can get them to have a mottled colour effect sometimes but it is never going to go yellow (it is pretty much in peak colour now). They are mad chemical produces (they also shed large films that are also toxic) so ozone and/or carbon is a must. A lesson re-learned on the lights hey, don't changes things that are working well.......🤣🤣🤣

[@InappropriateReefer]

NooOOoOooOo say it ain't so!! 😂 But hey, I'd rather know it than continue chasing a dream! I guess the hunt continues........? (And yes, I feel like I relearn the same lessons once every few years, lol!)

[@Joshthereefer]

You’re sooooo wrong 😂. It’s definitely a Sarcophyton elegans.

[@traynice9633]

Jake Adam died?

[@justdabubbletip1452]

I highly doubt it was the leather coral. Stop changing everything. Your smarter then that.

[@InappropriateReefer]

I thought I was too but you know how it goes.. 🥲

[@opethmike]

you're*

[@DetroitAquatics]

is this the asian kid from the internship? the movie?

[@shanephillips8403]

Sell me a frag please 🙏

[@rubenespinosa1685]

Love your videos. But tea your frags are way to small.Stop being cheap your known in this hobby 🤣🤣🤣😂😅😅. No offense

[@youtubeisownedbytiktok7813]

did he just say the raha rampage?