Jel0XD thanks! It does take a bit of time to take the pictures and process them, and also to put the video together. But it’s very gratifying to see the progression over time, and very happy to share the results with the community

thanks!

Tyler Jaax thanks Tyler

thanks!

Thanks!

Abran Salazar thanks!

thanks Lee!

Mark Carley thanks Mark

Thanks Jeremy - stay tuned - i'll be updating this video with three years of growth. please sub to the channel and check out my other videos on parameters, lighting and flow! cheers

SGREEFER310 awesome, thanks

goodefx5 managing expectations is good for sps success :)

thanks Dave!

Unicornia thanks!

thanks!

thanks!

thanks! it takes a bit of time, but worth it IMHO

Philip Wu thanks Philip! Much appreciated

Thanks Alex

Kurt Scoville thanks Kurt

Aziz Alshark thanks Aziz

AmroAzul I liked the stability on the level of two years really beautiful👌

thanks Mathew. please sub and hit the notification button to get alerts when then 3 yr growth video comes out, in a couple of month!

I am already a subscriber and I get your notifications. Looks forward to the 3 year video update!

awesome, thanks Mattew!

Tru Reef ;) will come sooner or later

glad you liked it

thanks!

FEBUS AQUATICS thanks!

thanks Sylvester!

thanks for the tip, but what do you mean about having it on the edge?

AmroAzul TV on the edge or vertical side of the rock

You can still get a few things for $20 to $30. You typically get better deals from home reefers vs LFS, but I think some of price increases are justified. It’s expensive to run a reef and the costs of electricity and reagents are always increasing. So it make sense for the frag prices to also increase. The vast majority of reefers sell frags as a cost recovery mechanism for their expensive reefs. Just my thoughts!

thanks!

Eye Everything radions xr15s

thanks!

0.2 to 0.3 :) My tank has been running at about 0.15 for the past 3 years. Thanks for watching.

thats my electric myagi tort

That RR Mr Pacman

thanks!

Omar Cadenas thanks Omar. Mushrooms are really easy and so are hammers and torches if you get decent lights. Birdsnest corals are also fairly robust if you have desert light

@@TheBioReef thxs

Aquatic Oasis I only offer them locally - are you in Canada

Ash I added the first acros a couple of weeks after starting the tank... I cycled the dry rock in a brute garbage container and I moved a couple of bits of life rock from my nano when I started the reefer. I had not detectable ammonia or nitrite 2 days after running water and I can tell that critters on the life rock where still alive so I added the fish right away and the acros a week later

Thanks!

AmroAzul TV i like your aquarium and your corals are Beautiful

Poderoso77 much appreciated!

Matyas Castro thanks! I only noticed a spurt in growth when I added my third light. I haven’t shifted at all from the sps ab+ light program

Oh ok I must have gotten confused with the spectrum change that you mentioned in a lighting video when you watch the tank. I want to try lower kelvin lighting with LEDs to test acro growth. With metal halides the lower K bulbs made a worlds difference in growth

Matyas Castro somebody did an experiment with running all blues, sps ab+ vs full spectrum lights and found no diff in coloration / growth... I think it was posted on ecotech’s channel

Thanks so much. I’ll look at their channel

do it do it do it :)

Tony's reef keeping thanks Tony! Sorry in Canada

King Knight I mostly use either ecotech glue , tlf putty or Krazy glue gel

@@TheBioReef Thx Q

i am using radions XR15's,

@@TheBioReef Thanks

yeah, similar to mine

Kelly's Reef thanks Kelly! All info on dosing can be found here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jOCKrc2n2pirlKc.html briefly, I dose kalkwasser via ato, then supplement with Redsea’s Alk / Ca / Mg buffers. I also occasionally dose potassium nitrate and phosphorus to maintain nitrate and phosphate levels

actually, you hear correctly 0.2 to 0.3, although now my levels are between 0.15 to 0.2 ppm (measured by hanna ULR checker). I know this sounds really high based on the 'wisdom' of keeping nitrates and phosphates near zero. But in my tank, and many others, these levels don't seem to cause issues or noticeable algae in the display

That is great! I was just going on articles like this one that seem to indicate that calcification, or growth, would be strongly inhibited with high phosphate levels. reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-09/rhf/index.php however, your growth looks great so obviously there is more to it than just a phosphate number! Cheers.

yeah, i've read Randy's articles... and also read the peer-reviewed literature that he cites (the manipulative experiments that elevated nitrates and phosphates and documented reduction in growth)... i have a few ideas of why perhaps we should expect a 1:1 extrapolation from increasing nutrients in the great barrier reef to our reef tank. 1) all other factors are not equal; so possibly, high nitrates and phosphates can be tolerated at higher that NSW alkalinity / calcium, etc. 2) Most of my SPS have been in aquaculutre for a while; perhaps they adapted. its commonly assumed that wild colonies are more finicky to keep than the 'named' acros that have been in tanks for 20 years or so; perhaps there was an acclimation / artificial selection that has allowed some corals to tolerate high nutrient conditions. Either way, according to 'theory', my tank should be full of algae and show low-no growth... but it doesn't. why? is my tank unique in some way, or is it perhaps that the theory is not all worked out yet.... thanks for your comments by the way, i appreciate thoughtful discussions! cheers!

you heard correctly, 0.2 to 0.3 ppm (not 0.03 or 0.04)... i know that is considered 'really high' and perhaps catastrophically high by some. But, i let my phosphates rise above 0.1 ppm when i was battling DINOs, they stayed at between 0.2 and 0.3 for about 4 month, and went as high as 0.4 ppm for one week. Nitrates where around 10 ppm; my SPS looked great!!! I've since started growing chaeto in my fuge, and my nitrates are about 2.5 ppm and my phosphates are 0.1 ppm now.

@@TheBioReef dinoflagellates?

thanks! so long as you keep pruning them, then they should be fine

thanks Daniel - they vary a bit. have a look here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bK6qfKxk1Zvep40.html for the latest month's parameters and here for my testing and husbandry kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jOCKrc2n2pirlKc.html ; i don't add aminos - well i did early on but i think it contributed to some of my tanks' outbreaks, so i stopped using it.

yeah coral naming in the hobby is not an exact science! i always thought that reverse superman is red with blue polyps, not pink with blue polyps, but i've never seen one in person, so i can't comment. I am fairly certain that mine was sold as 'pink mystic' and it is indeed pink when you see it in person.

TrulyTanked this Tort was mislabeled as Cali Tort from a LFS that typically imports wild colonies. So not exactly sure what it is ; I cal it miyagi because it’s the closest thing based on pics

AmroAzul TV very nice coral do you have any frags?

TrulyTanked I do but only if you are in Canada

That suck Tampa Bay Florida here

I use putt from two little fishes

radions xr15s gen 3

What your light setting?

if you are near the Toronto area, then PM or a frag... alas, can't ship internationally

@@TheBioReef I live in U.S. in Kentucky. I would be willing to pay for the shipping. Idk if shipping to the us it consider internationally from Canada or not . I sure appreciate you getting back to me!

@@markiemark9268 Sorry Mark, can't ship to the US :(

@@TheBioReef thank you for your time .. happy reefing . Great looking tank !!!

Hi Salman. good luck with your tank. I seeded my tank with live rock from my nano. i didn't really have to wait for the nitrogen cycle to establish (because of the bio filter provided by the live rocks). I added a few SPS a few weeks after tank startup

Alright! Thanks. I will do the same. I have a nano about a year old now. Will use live rocks and some sand to seed! Thanks!

i should add that if you have any nuisance pests in your nano, then obviously you may want to start with dry rocks. Also test your new system with a couple of cheap SPS frags first

Sure! Will do that! But we in India don't have much choice about selecting corals. Plus nothing n sps is cheap. Least would be a 40$ frag. Corals are banned here in India ! Not even maricultured are allowed to be kept. Some rules they have set! They themselves need some awareness on this stuff.. Well, will surely update. I have coralline algae growing on my equipment though.. Should that be a good sign?

salman shaikh yes Coraline is a great sign

$60 I think

Radions

once a week, 5 L, using instant ocean (regular, not reef crystals)

thank you

Arman Dallakyan about 8.5 and 450

@@TheBioReef great range main i am running @ 490 cal 10.5 alk so hard to stabilize the cal and alk i don't even dos , i run my calcium reactor for 5hrs aday

I only do frags for folks in and around Toronto

Okay, just wanted to see, trying to expand my knowledge of coral and expand my tank, thanks for the reply

Joey Gross Np!

Most of the time, i use the TLF putty. But i just tried the DD putty and i've been liking it a bit better. It tends to stay pliable for a longer period, giving you more time to use the product. The DD putty does give off a lot of residue when in the water relative to TLF however

@@TheBioReef ohhh okay...which color do you use...the grey or the coraline algae one?

grey

try to emulate a successful tank. water chemistry, light and flow are all important... there are many systems out there, so pick a proven one and give it a go

@@TheBioReef ocean revive. Rw4. Powerhead. I dont want to blast my lps. Sps. A few at the top

aquaticNStuff you say me-yah-gee and I mi-yah-Jee ... no biggie

will do Brian. a lot of my husbandry info can be found here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jOCKrc2n2pirlKc.html tips on lights here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7ddrZagv6-mn30.html and flow here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g8mZnM9qsrScdqs.html