The final stage of a REEF AQUARIUM | Ep.64

[@reconnaissance7372]

I love how this was slowly built into what it is Nicolas, I'm like 7 months into piecing my first reef together and it's massively motivated by you hehe.

[@AquaSplendor]

Awesome :)

[@Bayernpower8]

Mega Super Video ! Gruss aus Deutschland

[@Heyreef01]

Beautifull tanks, very nice video. Corals color are gorgeous.

[@DaRiggghhh]

Love this type of video

[@stigblue]

I really love your content man!

[@AquaSplendor]

tak skal du have!

[@stigblue]

@@AquaSplendor hahaha dit dansk er meget godt! 😄🙏🏻💪🏻

[@AquaSplendor]

@@stigblue 🤣

[@atfinthehouse8631]

Excellent!!

[@fishpony1211]

Even though i was nervous the whole time for ur aquarium, it came out great! Nice work.

[@AquaSplendor]

I do love making people nervous hahaha

[@fishpony1211]

@@AquaSplendor hahaha success!!!

[@vai_ser_marinho]

Looking sharp!

[@lorenzospina3174]

Great job man 😉.

[@AquaSplendor]

😁

[@Ricardo-dn3yn]

Hey Nicholas! Great video. So many changes in your aquarium. Congratulations!!!

[@atfinthehouse8631]

Toadstools- frag and place in basket with frag rubble is the best way. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@AquaSplendor]

It's also the best for lazy people lol

[@ChippWalters]

Yep, super video! Now I'm so ready to start my own nano "haircut!" You should consider using a 5 gallon jug "always on" water change. That where you can use it little fishies 5 gallon salt packets and just mix your salt water and swap out the jug and it will continue your water changes and won't mess up anything in your tank. I can literally do a water change in under 4 minutes. Most of the time is just mixing the water and the salt but in fact that's not even necessary based on the fact that you're only moving a tiny bit of the water into your tank at any given time.

[@ChippWalters]

Here's a video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZOWeYd9j9dskLM You won't need the heater because you already have one in your sump. You can cut a bulkhead in your sump or do a siphon overflow and use an Apex Pmup pump which works really well.

[@AquaSplendor]

You mean a continuous water change? Since couple months now I always have my bucket of saltwater that I mix in advance. Doing the water change isn't that long (around 5min?) the mixing I just let the pump for a while and once I feel like it I remove the pump and clean it (tap water...) put the pump back, store the saltwater bucket. I change my habit a little bit (by doing in advance) because I've notice in the past I was waiting for the salt to be fully mix or I was playing with the level of salinity (sometimes I put too much salt) Now think about this I probably should mark the bucket and mark a bowl for the amount of salt it need to be 35ppt... uh.. anyway, I'm lazy.

[@ChippWalters]

@@AquaSplendor Yes, it's a fixed volume continuous water change. It just makes it very easy to add a water change or multiple water changes to your system without having to empty the tank and fill it back up. It also provides a great way to add water volume to your tank because now you have five more gallons for everything.

[@AquaSplendor]

​@@ChippWalters Yeeaahh, I've been considering that avenue, but it didn't fit the phylosophy of my build, wanted to show something that doesn't have much equipment. My other issue is to put line around my appartment,... yeah, I still think about it time to time. I must admit that I love to remove big nasty chunk of water. Never know, maybe one day :)

[@jburtlanders]

I prefer to hear your voice and see you. I love the excitement I hear

[@AquaSplendor]

:)

[@mtice321]

how do you get all that frag glue off of your fingers?

[@AquaSplendor]

I take a shower every day lol and probably wash my hand 4-5 time a day The only part I hate is on the nail, that usually last longer

[@Mikeymikemike]

Awesome update! Good to see that prevention being promoted. I need to take your advice as sometime I let things slide for awhile until I see stinging haha. Keep up the great content!

[@AquaSplendor]

Pretty soon you will have more scolly than sand lol

[@leatherturtle8373]

corals are funky

[@victorharris7411]

Get a Filefish for the Aiptasia. That's the fish main food source

[@AquaSplendor]

No. 35L. and it's not his main source and varies between fish liking.

[@jbslagoonreef]

Beautiful reef tank, I'm upgrading from my 125 gallon tank to an 180 gallon tank. I want to do an island aquascape and use a minimum amount of corals to allow them to grow to full sized colonies. Thanks and love your videos

[@AquaSplendor]

That's the way to do it :)

[@stevemunn367]

Great video, always love your videos, but with you talking is was so much better 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧

[@AquaSplendor]

:)

[@kyleb.7870]

I've got a ton of tube worms in my sand bed any suggestions also some sharp things growing I think maybe vermetid snail 🐌 I've had my tank for 5 years and I just started noticing them one day

[@AquaSplendor]

If they don't hurt anyone, it's better to just let it be. Coral happy? don't change anything!

[@tomassilveira4300]

Great video!! Tank is looking great! Can you just tell the name of the big coral that you cut in pieces because i couldnt understand

[@driftereagle2226]

I believe the one you're referring to was the sarcophyton 🙂

[@AquaSplendor]

Don't worry, no one understand me. Green Sarcophyton, what species, I don't know.

[@tomassilveira4300]

@@AquaSplendor oh okay thanks

[@dondonbedo5534]

I'm really missing new videos from you😥 Hope you are doing well.

[@widodododo9516]

mantap ...

[@carterroad2347]

maybe its time for slowgrowers, chalice for example or some sort of echinata

[@altops4490]

for aptasia in view, 7watt blue lazer 30 sec a day till gone usually less than a week

[@kim2796]

Pas mal

[@ericksonsouza6479]

Pandora paly is really beautiful in blue lights, at night. But in white lights.....its kinda...meh....and yes...it grows reaally fast.

[@sandorkarcza7124]

Hihi! How big is this tank?

[@AquaSplendor]

Check the description in video, all info there!

[@ddr8993]

Be careful when fragging zoas. There are reefers who have been sent to the emergency room due to their toxins

[@78matt]

I scraped the back of my tank and pushed my hand pretty har against a large zoa colony. I felt a little burn and went straight away to wash my hand. But it blister the whole area took many months to heal and the skin is still dark in that area over a year later. I have touched it many times before by accident without incident.

[@ddr8993]

@@78matt oh jeez... That's yet another way to go wrong with them. Good thing it wasn't as bad as the others. We really need to have a regularly updated compilation of these reports so we can better protect ourselves

[@gansales3940]

Fluconazole?

[@AquaSplendor]

;)

[@crandis1690]

I also tried killing my Pandora's by injecting aptasia x directly into their mouth. They closed for 2 weeks before opening back up 🤦‍♀️

[@AquaSplendor]

That's torture! lol, I'm not that patient sometimes. I think even that Zoa I covered with the F product was still alive, but I cleaned one time I scratch a bit to get the stuff out when I was doing the water change.

[@sunnygoold9449]

I salut you ;)

[@AquaSplendor]

For a moment I thought you speak french lol

[@shinucafe]

Satanic symbol summons frog spawn parts.

[@AquaSplendor]

I do my best with the tool I have but I'm curious to know what some of you, the technique you use to frag your coral? ReVive: amzn.to/3lV9KuG (Think about it in the same way you use H2O2 or Alcohol on your wound) Seachem Glue: amzn.to/2ZbXsV2 (My favorite Cyanoacrylate Gel, tested 13 types so far) (Check in description for the rest)

[@reconnaissance7372]

The first coral I propagated was GSP. I bought two frags of a nice looking GSP and sandwiched a bare plug between them. I think the next one I will do is Leptosaris as I could just use a razor to slice me a little piece. I've been thinking about taking a Dremel to a Chalice for a while but it seems a little more intermediate.

[@simonlockley-evans9349]

This isn't about fragging but will help you with aiptasia. Identify the aiptasia position. Heat a blunt hypodermic needle over a cigarette lighter until it has a lovely glow. Pull the rock out of the water and rub the needle over the aiptasia position. I've used this method for 20 years and it works 100% its very accurate and the aiptasia does not spread.

[@AquaSplendor]

​@@simonlockley-evans9349 Holymoly, you are not kidding around haha, do you work on animal farm and make ID prints? :P The challenge with aiptasia comes when you don't want to take the rock out (for various reasons). I will definitly try your method one day, just to hear the sound of cry/burn, like a omelette on the morning lol