Welsh Native Marine Aquarium

[@TheCuggsmeister]

Wow Mark, it looks fantastic. As a UK resident myself it's great to see what aquatic life lives on and around our shores. And with so many KZbin channels being USA heavy, you hardly ever see videos like this. Excellent stuff.

[@MrMelontastic]

Ah man i love it!!! Something nice about a localised aquariums rather than all the bright stuff, just really natural

[@AlfieM-White]

Great to see frequent uploads again Mark🐠❤️

[@SequoiaElisabeth]

Love this series, brings back fond memories. Thanks for sharing with us.

[@MontysWall]

This is one of my favourite of your builds that you've ever done, absolutely wicked! So fascinating

[@eues803]

Hi Mark, I would never be able to imagem that yr tank would look so lovely as it is with just one walk at the beach on o very low price and having the company of yr wife, great job!!

[@badboyzkilla1]

I love your setup in that tank and the evo and all your knowledge you inspiring me and others ,, keep the good work 👍

[@jenniferburk7965]

I'm loving these. I'm about as far from an ocean as possible so I didn't know how much variety you have available. The best part to me is how natural you've made it look.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Hi Jennifer. Thank you for watching 😊

[@James-ye7rp]

Hey Mark, I absolutely love what you have done here. Looking forward to watching the progress.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Thanks James. 😀👍

[@seizedcarcass8440]

Loving this series! I want to see this done again with a 50 gallon lowboy aquarium like the huge paludarium is in. Basically a big tidepool

[@rickrodriguez6675]

Mark Mark Mark you truly out did yourself with this sweet setup. My friend as a U tuber I thank you as always for the video. 😎👍

[@tylernaturalist6437]

Love this mark, I need to do this with some of our local tide pool life over in the states, you seem to have similar species to those found in Maine

[@aeon90q1]

after seening the natural habitat in the last video, this is now more like a very clean impression of it:) I really like it though.

[@AnimalsUnlimited]

Great memories when I was a kid messing about in rock pools - always wanted to do this 😁 great set up - thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[@stevecadman1630]

That aquaruim looks amazing 👍

[@1022wil]

you out done yourself on this one can't wait to see the updates on this tank

[@jamesshepherd2480]

It is great to see some one From united kingdom doing aquarium videos. Especially a little bit of everything from the hobby can’t wait to move to have more room to give this ago. Been keeping fresh water aquarium for 3 years or so and been watching mark for well over a year now and the information u can get is great help. Glad you haven’t thrown the towel in after the paludarium bust. Keep fish keeping people 🥳🐠🦐🇬🇧

[@annalee7403]

My favourite aquarium KZbinrs all hail from the UK.

[@lisathewhitewolf]

Gorgeous little tank. Best of luck going forward!

[@deanhargreaves5958]

Looks well mark some thing good coming out from your disaster keep the videos coming

[@twunderaquatics1770]

Absolutely beautiful!!! Loved this video. Liked

[@Ravan_Caw]

Nice native tank there Mark. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@NAVEENKUMAR-pu8yd]

Wow amazing Mark. Looks amazing really nice tank. First tank I have seen done like native. Love the videos

[@seangriffiths9163]

🔥👌 cant wait to see what little fish you can find.

[@Wal48]

Amazing that you pick all these things up for free. Much more interesting to me because it’s native flora & Fauna. Be interesting to see how this evolves.

[@tombombadil1646]

The tank looks great! I love your videos!

[@johnfloydman7735]

Fantastic Mark 👍 as nice as any tropical tank🙏

[@alanpitkeathly3055]

Looking great Mark I like the way you do the native aquariums they always look awesome 👏

[@6578u]

wonderful! greetings from germany. i realy love your videos!

[@tookmyhandle2]

One of my first marine aquariums was a cold water tank I filled with all sorts of creatures from the tide pools of the california coast. I was 7 when I started the tank. The crown jewel of the tank was an octopus I caught at the beach. It was a really fantastic tank. Some of my fondest childhood memories are going to explore the rock pools on Saturday mornings at low tide with my dad.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Memories of the beach. Wonderful times.

[@ianspicer3885]

What a great new tank so much going on in such a short time , I look forward to watching it grow especially when more fish go in 👍👍👍

[@alfiehowie4652]

Nice tank Mark keep up the great work 👍

[@nataliaspencer4280]

Fabulous, Mark. The colour blend is on par with a coral tank. Maybe better. Watching the shrimp go walk about from the outset is mesmerising & comical.

[@AquascapingLiverpool]

Not sure I’ll get anything anywhere near as nice looking, but I’ll be 100% going to forage the Mersey when I get my new set up ready 👊🏼

[@dentednj]

The first time you zoomed in on the lettuce, it looked like there was a baby whitish anemone attached to the bottom of one of the lower leaves. This looks great Mark. Thanks so much for sharing your wildlife.

[@dentednj]

Ha! I just saw towards the end when you noticed the little anemone.

[@wotrulke5868]

Fantastic reef tank full of colour and life 🦐🐠🐟🐚🐌

[@TheMikeharris7]

Cool! Doing something similar to this on the Texas coast. Couldn't find anyone else doing it - your channel was the closest. We have lots of oyster reefs here so I thinking of making it an oyster reef tank.

[@CHillStone32]

Hats off to you Mark. That looks incredible 😍

[@PENFOLD1962]

Absolutely amazing work truly stunning, I'm really surprised how all the weed looks! I'm used to seeing it all limp on the rocks etc. If I lived closer to the beaches I would be really tempted to give it a go. You've done an excellent job Mark and you make it even more interesting with your knowledge. I'm looking forward to watching it grow and age. A BIG-THUMBS-UP ALL DAY LONG. Take care my friend 👍😷👍

[@joannecummins5265]

Absolutely love this. Just as colourful as a reef tank. Can’t wait to see what is added next...💕

[@Kidkster1]

Fantastic as always Mark

[@mattkinsella9856]

Great work! I grew up on the beach on the Isle of Wight and you are right about it being a slice of home in your workshop. Really nice.

[@brianmanning9793]

New to the Chanel and this has me excited brilliant my friend

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Thanks for watching and subscribing.

[@BarryLowis]

Absolutely brilliant Mark. Thanks so much for sharing this adventure with us. Cheers Barry

[@notbadsteve]

Love this tank bruv. Funny how much colour there actually is. When we're down the coast, every seems brownish and washed out, but in the tank it all pops. Nice to see all the life acting naturally rather than closed up and looking dead when the tides out. Nice work. 👍

[@paulking4097]

That looks amazing Mark ... I would love to try something like this down under.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

You should! You've got it all down there

[@KZ.Ellis1]

What a beautiful idea, and result! You are truly an inspiration!

[@marcuswhitmore6622]

Looks incredible, amazing colouration as well. The power heads are creating brilliant movement in the aquarium. This is going to just keep getting better.

[@SMASHFISHING]

Great video mark ! Do you get strawberry anemone were you are ? They have lovely spots on them , the tank is looking amazing , can’t wait to see what else you put in it , keep up the great work

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Yes mate we get them further up the coast. Foraging trip all planned for tomorrow. Exciting stuff.

[@wilsonliu9392]

Looking great mate, natives are underrated as always!

[@lisasaxon7828]

Wowzer Mark, I can’t help but always write a message before I even watch your video. Just the look of that tank set up is totally awesome. I so so wanna just “try” create a lil tank even if just for fun. I know I must have respect for all the lil creatures of the sea and would never gather things that I’d have no idea on how to keep but it’d be so cool to maybe collect a lil crab or mollusc things amongst the rock pools and even keep for a few weeks then return. Anyhoo..as usually in start watching the video now and see what exciting things you have to show us...ME 😂💙😀🐟🦀🦑🐙

[@amberdy12]

really appreciated. lovely aquarium

[@marobird19781]

Awesome tank Mark really enjoyed the info you shared with the native plants and corrals from around your area. Totally different from what I have seen here in the states. Can't wait to see the progress on this tank and the channel.🤘

[@Jeppesen76]

Love the aquarium. Looking forward to the next video. In my opinion this is more interesting than a tropical tank. Cause it teach us about our native fauna (or what it’s called)

[@rosssavory6567]

Seriously amazing 🤩 looking forward to seeing the progression

[@philthytanks4952]

looks great! cant wait to see how everything settles in and grows

[@rayp4008]

Looking great (especially after the beach teaser), now must wait for phase 2.

[@kevinpowell7948]

Thanks for the education, beautiful native aquarium 🍀

[@danielybarra8680]

the tank looks great mark.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Thanks Daniel 😀👍

[@ImperialKneazle]

Amazing to see this coming together - thank you so much :-)

[@tigerick7291]

That is fantastic.👍

[@jnburdn1083]

Amazing tank i love the idea

[@mystique_tinajones4423]

thats an awesome looking tank :)

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Thanks for watching Tina.

[@swimforward1700]

Beautiful tank! Nice work❤️

[@karenhieatt5581]

Just beautiful

[@lorenzospina3174]

This type of saltwater aquarium are awesome. In Italy we have Mediterranean saltwater aquarium 😉.

[@wreagin1]

I absolutely love what you do on your channel. I’m not ready to do salt water but I would really love to do a local fresh water tank. Really inspiring.

[@joannaspivey566]

I remember wanting to do this as a child. Lots of knowledge and equipment required to do it right of course. 🙂

[@smedspets695]

I'm jellous I live in the dead center of the usa never seen the sea. Never been within 500miles of it. I did start a reef tank last year and it's amazing.

[@Rummynose]

Beautiful tank!

[@Bearak_]

FANTASTIC job, Mark! Very nice tank. I've never seen anemones and such feeding, so this was fascinating for me, and I LOVE the shrimp! Do you know what type they are? They very much resemble what we in the US (maybe there as well) call "Ghost Shrimp"...they're often used as feeders for freshwater aquarium fish here.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Common prawn . Scientific name: Palaemon serratus. Thanks for watching.

[@tookmyhandle2]

Mark, you should consider collaborating with the guy from the channel The Fish Locker, who is in cornwall. He specializes in marine ecology and fishing, but he does some absolutely fantastic videos exploring rock pools in cornwall. It would be neat if you went collecting together!

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

I've watched some of his videos we're very like minded. He seems a nice guy I'll look in to it. 😀👍

[@tookmyhandle2]

@@MARKSAQUATICS I have no idea how far away cornwall is from you, but they seem to have some neat creatures-- and the guy who makes the videos does seem to share our fascination with all of this!

[@nalixl]

Amazing tank! Great job! Please do remember to take your fleshlight out when filming (@6:30 in the background) ;-)

[@Talkingdungbeetle]

Love it. Wish I could set something up like that where I live. Sadly the laws on the British Columbia coast don’t allow it.

[@davidanderton2437]

Beautiful looking scape Mark

[@krispy3681]

Absolutely love it

[@mikekayanderson408]

Looks great !!! K

[@eskimojulie]

Loving this !

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Cheers Gary 😀👍

[@24bidy]

OMG Mark the aquarium look beautiful. Can you do a video about sea edible PLEASE

[@simondm96]

Looks stunning

[@davidmills4643]

Looks brill, how often will you have to do a water change thanks

[@mamag8753]

Looks amazing!

[@bakotako]

beautiful man

[@dasfabelwesen]

This looks insanly good

[@stevenbisset4491]

brilliant 👏

[@aliceholbert1246]

Love it

[@aydenc4421]

Another great vid!! Any chance you could show how to make a sump?

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Yes that's something I could do one day.😀👍

[@danielclark8094]

I live in Jersey, we sure do get the Pacific rock oysters. You a Guernsey boy?

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

ALDERNEY lad

[@lisasaxon7828]

Will you take us with you next time foraging? I wanna feel like I, with you as you find the lil critters you’ll be keeping. 🙂 Oops I just realised I’ve not watched the foraging for this one from a day ago...lol

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

My last video I was down the beach collecting all the stuff for the tank .

[@gumpysee3644]

great tank and do you collect or make the water yourself also how much is a standard chiller and i see you dont have a skimmer , are they not needed

[@peterjones8841]

Hi, great set of video's showing the build up and upkeep of the tank, the native marine is definitely one of My favourites ,I have a small set up myself, and I'm evolving it all the while , could you recommend which chillers are best to use ? And of any sellers only most I've seen for sale don't seem up to the job temperature size Many thanks pete

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Hi. The chiller I used was a Lando chiller

[@joseglafargue4746]

Hi Mark i just wondering how you detach Sea anemone because. here in Est canada there are attached on Big rock. i love your tank

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

I use a wooden toothpick and very carefully lift up the foot until it comes away.

[@joseglafargue4746]

​@@MARKSAQUATICS Hi Mark, Thank you so much

[@quint3570]

Damn awesome

[@charlottevictoriamepham8365]

how do you water change this kind of tank looks very pretty i must say

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

I'll do a 20% water change every two weeks . I use marine salt and mix it myself.

[@lrrw-v4l]

Mark do you think a set up like this would be possible to do outdoors without a chiller? As they are native species the logic would be that they would be okay in outdoor temps. Or do you think a chiller would still be needed due to the sun heating up the tank in the summer? I have always liked the idea of an outdoor tank.

[@simondm96]

I think you'll need a chiller to cool it during summer. The sea is a large heatsink so it stays pretty cool even during high outside temperatures. Conversely make sure the tank doesn't freeze in the winter

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

I would definitely put a chiller on the system to control the temperature.

[@reconnaissance7372]

My neighbors probably think I'm growing some crazy weed from listening to my house.

[@Shaden0040]

Hook up with James from the fish Locker channel. Maybe he can obtain some mussels and cockles for you. He lives in Cornwall/Devon area and he is a fisherman and shore scavenger for scallops, razor clams, etc. slong with edible crabs, velvet crabs, and lobsters,

[@freakygoblin3068]

Hope you find a butterfish and blennies. Blennies tend to be characters...

[@heed5410]

Amazing aquarium how much did it cost to build?

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Just the aquarium?

[@heed5410]

Whole setup? minus livestock

[@doncheko6866]

Where can I buy this type of aquarium mark :( sorry for bugging

[@lisasaxon7828]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Periwinkle ...it looks just like a snail...plus the others

[@2A_supporter]

Finally 3 years later

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

🤣👍