Bring Island Life Home With a Caribbean Biome Reef Tank!

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BRStv - Saltwater Aquariums & Reef Tanks

Жыл бұрын

What's better than a tropical vacation? Bring your Caribbean oasis home with you! In today's latest BRStv Garden Series tank build, Matthew is showing us how to put together a unique biome LOADED with gorgonians, sponges, and macroalgae. We're covering it all from sand and aquascaping to sourcing all of the unique aquarium livestock you see here! Check it out!
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@2milesbelow676 Жыл бұрын

This guy would have been great for carnival cruise commercials !

@josephposada1830 6 ай бұрын

He was a schoolteacher 😂

@lorenzospina3174 Жыл бұрын

My favorite reef the Caribbean 😍. Greetings from Italy .

@bluefish537 Жыл бұрын

this guy brings good vibes

@SuttenPlant 10 ай бұрын

This tank is gorgeous and I'd love to do a similar build as my first tank! Is there any way we could get an update on how the tank is doing a year later?

@nanoaquamania Жыл бұрын

Need a dedicated channel for 100% captive bred fishes/corals.

@brianaltmann613 Жыл бұрын

So detailed. Looks awesome!

@DanVoels Жыл бұрын

Beautiful setup!

@big21o3 Жыл бұрын

That looks great!

@artistic_spaz3724 Жыл бұрын

The mesh on the weir is a great idea! Wish I would have thought of that before I lost my pistol shrimp and goby!!

@sunnygoold9449 Жыл бұрын

Incredible Matthew - now I want one!

@duffmcgruff2831 Жыл бұрын

That is a beautiful tank 😍

@keishalacounte4225 9 ай бұрын

This is what I am creating! I don’t know why the video didn’t show up for me at the beginning but I am soooo into pipefish and gorgonians

@sumatevetmed1522 Жыл бұрын

Been waiting !!!!!!

@papertowel2458 Жыл бұрын

I love Algaebarn. Last order I got from them (Macroalgaes), I got Aiptasia. It's been a fun time.

@TattooedDancer91 Жыл бұрын

everyone has aiptasia, and every tank gets them at some point.

@papertowel2458 Жыл бұрын

@@TattooedDancer91 Yeah except I take precautions to make sure I don't get them. The one time I didn't. got it from them. They pride themselves in pest free algae.

@CalcioFan4Ever Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see a snowflake eel biome. Since I'm making a tank macoalgae tank just for my snowflake eel

@HobbyGenix Жыл бұрын

It will be very interesting to see how the sponges, NPS and scallops fare in this small tank.

@peterpoop Жыл бұрын

Why what do they usually require? Them red scallops look cool. Never seen them before. Do they do well in a normal reef lps tank

@HobbyGenix Жыл бұрын

@@peterpoop Because they are all non-photosynthetic, they require a lot of the right kind of food. This tends to either result in them starving, or the tank becoming eutrophic and overrun with nuisance algae. Perhaps things have advanced since I last had sponges and NPS coral, which is why it will be interesting to see.

@peterpoop Жыл бұрын

@@HobbyGenix ah ok thanks for the info

@Wildlifebio Жыл бұрын

Dead within a few weeks. This is just the youtube version of “Tanked” 🤣

@thoms-zeeaquarium Жыл бұрын

Beautiful tank Matthew! Will u there be updates? I wonder whether it is possible to have long-term success with this type of tank.

@jdamommio Жыл бұрын

I think having an open corner in the screen top for the mangroves would make removal of the screen much, much easier than having to thread the mangroves through the feeding portal every time you remove it, to say nothing of their expected growth...

@JeepinReefer406 5 ай бұрын

How about a tank update? I started a Macro tank inspired by this about a year ago, lets just say it didn't go as planned.

@YouBetterCallSaul Жыл бұрын

Pretty crazy setup. A lot of things in this tank I’ve never seen before👍🏼 I take it the seahorse tank isn’t up and running anymore?

@Eric_Allen Жыл бұрын

Amazing production quality. Very detailed. Beautiful tank. I love it!

@chrisgalea7737 11 ай бұрын

This tank is so beautiful. In love with it, Matthew. I have to ask. Do you still have those red and yellow gorgonians non-photosynthetic? I know they are hard to keep. This tank has given me so many ideas now after i get my first saltwater tank set up. Thanks for all that you do. Great information in your videos.

@leviclark4305 Жыл бұрын

Love this tank and would definitely like to try one like this in the future

@noahhess3700 Жыл бұрын

What are the plans to keep the filter feeding and nps organisms alive? I don’t want to be critical, but I feel like this system isn’t viable long term: - wild type mollies can easily reach 3-4”, a trio in a 15g is a pretty heavy biolode. The gulf pipe will reach 7” if it can get enough food to last that long. - flame scallops have a painfully low survival rate; even in nps tanks with heavy feeding most just waste away. An organism that is beautiful, but usually condemned to a slow and cruel death in aquaria. - heavy feeding needed to support all the nps gorgs would foul the water quickly and with regularity. - Mithrax crabs will turn to predation with lack of algae to graze on. Again, I don’t want to be critical, but am concerned that this video may be misleading. Even if the community of organisms were able to coexist in such a small tank long term, the consistent feeding and high volumes of water exchanges required would surpass the ability of the average aquarist. Just my two cents.

@mryes413 Жыл бұрын

Is there any update on the Caribbean Sea tank?

@ramon14me Жыл бұрын

Great to see your back I had lost all hope when I did not see any new videos. Thank you as always your informative and honest.

@astronomical5799 Жыл бұрын

Matthew's videos are regularly posted on the Bulk Reef Supply - Saltwater Aquariums channel.

@airn09 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely fascinating, cant wait to spend the time to make one

@Scott-cy6zv Жыл бұрын

Awesome Video!! When I treat my tank with Chemiclean. I know to remove my carbon and throw a air stone into the tank for more oxygen :). Matt will the Chemiclean kill my beneficial bacteria… and how many water changes will I need to do after a few days of treatment?

@seanaustin8516 Жыл бұрын

Yes the first one and the first comment 🤟🤟❤️❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👑👑💥💥💥🔥🔥

@Hozay1 Жыл бұрын

Without the mangrove, do you reckon this tank with all other algae and live stock as doable with a kessil a80? one word to describe this video..inspirational. Thank you 🙏

@TheAlmostPanda Жыл бұрын

I ran a similar macro tank for some time and I would say the Sun kessil a80 would be doable for a small footprint 10 gallon tank like this. Honestly, an AI Prime is overkill if you're just running a mostly white spectrum anyway. Freshwater lighting will get you further for cheaper. I Used a twinstar 600e over mine to great success(my tank was a shallow lagoon so a single a80 would've been too little). I now run a Smat Farms g5 v2 over my 25 Lagoon which is a fantastic light for the price.

@xisotopex 8 ай бұрын

why the activated carbon continuously?

@dusk1947 Жыл бұрын

This one is cool. I love that BioTopes are starting to bleed there way into reefing.

@avatargunner6776 Жыл бұрын

What type of salt water fish are all good to put in that style of tank stock?

@Cosigner22 Жыл бұрын

Google

@laurenhepp4681 Жыл бұрын

Do you still have your seahorse tank? Would be good to get some tank updates for your other tanks. 👍

@abyankabir1910 Жыл бұрын

Hey, just wondering if for a 60 inch peninsula mixed reef tank should I get 2 reefbreeders photon v2 plus 50 inch or should I get one photon v2 plus 50 and and 2 reefbreeders lumen bars? It will be a mixed reef but I do have plans on turning it into a sps dominated tank. Please let me know, thank you!

@Cosigner22 Жыл бұрын

Why not utilize the Google machine?

@abyankabir1910 Жыл бұрын

@@Cosigner22 I’m sorry, I don’t remember asking you.

@noahhess3700 Жыл бұрын

I started with one 50” fixture and it’s good for the moment. When my sps start to shade out the lower parts of the tank I might add some bars, but until then it’s a little overkill

@abyankabir1910 Жыл бұрын

@@noahhess3700 hey, thanks for the reply! Just one question, how does the shimmer look? Is it too static? I was hoping you could tell me please. That is the only reason I am not sure if I should get these lights.

@noahhess3700 Жыл бұрын

@@abyankabir1910 They have decent shimmer! It isn't the crazy shimmer that Kessils have, but I actually prefer the look as it is present but not distracting.

@orpheus1180 11 ай бұрын

So many species in here that aren't going to last very long... porifera sp. and flame scallops, nps gorgonians?

@austinholtz349 Жыл бұрын

Mollies get way to big for a tank of that size.

@PissBoys Жыл бұрын

Oof, that is a lot of livestock in that little tank.

@kaianuanu Жыл бұрын

As a Floridian, the intro had me soo triggered 😩

@kaianuanu Жыл бұрын

Never heard a steel drum hum though lol

@user-gj8zp3cl8b 11 ай бұрын

When you try to put on a fake smile, you get this disgusting grimace. Why do you keep trying to fake a smile? Did someone tell you that if you fake a smile and try to talk, it will attract an audience? You've been duped.