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I want to say that my 6-year-old loves your videos. He and I built our first tank together. He is so excited about every change to the tank. We love to watch the videos together. We finally have baby shrimp.

I love that in the saltwater part of the shop MD is like a little kid, “Ooh, a starfish, can we have that? Ooh, a crab, can we have that?” and Matt is the parent going “No sweetie, no, not that one, no, not yet, you’ll have to wait.” 😂

"This is a really long episode" NO NO NO it's not long enough, give us more !

You can raise mealworms yourself really easy. They grow up into a beetle and will breed in a pretty simple setup. That way you'll always have live food (your archers would probably love them too). Easy and very low cost as they'll eat mostly oats or other grains.

Since you didn’t mention it in the video I’ll just put it here; research palytoxin if you are going to handle zoas and palys - it can (doesn’t have to, but can) be really dangerous Looks great! 😊 a good start👌

you 2 together is the best thing you have both done, really enjoying the content all the banter and knowledge makes even a long video not long enough lads

This was a fun episode. You guys make a good team because MD can ask all the questions beginners have and Matt can answer a lot of them. I don't think I'll be starting a saltwater tank, but I still enjoy learning about them and watching the process.

Get a wavemaker in that reef tank 👍 Your filtration is done via the rocks hence you need more flow in that tank.

Always like MD’s videos. But the addition of Matt has made it where I am looking everyday for a new video. You two are awesome together. And the videos are great!!!

Probably your best video. It had just enough of both salt and fresh water to interest both demographics I think + a store tour is always amazing ++ editing time skips to see the aquarium grow and mature are always exciting

MD and fish shop Matt your going to love the coral when they settle and start growing I have the fluval Evo 13.5 saltwater Nano tank full of soft corals and its amazing

Congrats guys! I love macro algae; looks like the two species you've got there are Caulerpa prolifera (the green one haha), and a species of Gracilaria (the red one). The Caulerpa should explode and potentially even take over the tank, but all those macro's will be incredible habitat for copepods. The Gracilaria, like Matt pointed out with the Caulerpa, will eventually make "roots" from anywhere on its structure; cool thing about macroalgae is it's technically one single cell (even though it doesn't look like a typical cell), so the "roots," "leaves," and "steams" are all just a continuous piece of the same single cell structure. Can't wait to see how this tank turns out!

Love the videos. As someone who started saltwater this past year, one thing I learned is when you check the salinity, do it two times because the reading will be off the first time. The reason for that is the water dries and salt residue is on the refractometer. Just put your drop on, then close the lid, open the lid, wipe it off and test again. Don't even bother looking at the first reading. It could be off as much as 3 points!!! Also the other big thing that was hard for me to adjust to is that Corals are not plants. They are animals so you have to treat them like you would your fish. Don't just chuck them in and hope for the best. Looking forward to how the tanks turn out!

It's like watching kids in a sweet shop😊 I know the fun of creatures you have to wait to appear. Sadly Steve my pleco suddenly popped his clogs yesterday 😢 my tanks not the same without him!

I fell in love with the hobby as a kid when my dad kept saltwater. Now, as an adult, I have 3 freshwater tanks. I would love a small salt water tank but I'm so nervous about the cost

Get lots of copepods. They will help with diatoms and algae

Algea used in reef and saltwater aquariums to take nutrients, thats why we use them in sump and under special light or you can use plants light, nutrients comes from fish and from food that desolves. For corals you need to use par test for using the correct light for the corals put in

Freshwater is like the introductory to the game and reefing is like you've graduated and doing well in your field lol. I will say though, having been in the reefing game 20yrs and currently having a large reef, my planted freshwater tank still draws eyes for different reasons. The fresh is like a beautiful garden and the reef is like you're on shrooms at the Wonka factory. 😆

I'm not into saltwater aquariums but I'll always give a like in support!

Matt is a freaking savant dude!

I'm so excited to see the Marine tank mature. Thank you for adding them to the studio. The pufferfish are the cutest.

You should also do a brackish tank with a green spotted puffer. Some macro algae and plants can survive in brackish! Could be a cool challenge and GSPs are so much fun to keep

What a great team Matt and you make MD!! Your knowledge, experience, and personalities make the channel so fun and interesting to watch!! And kudos on putting Matt's KZfaq and Instagram info in your video description. The Two Fish Keeping Compadres!! Saludos y bendiciones desde Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico!!

I'm in Indiana, and I agree with you, Matt! Cadbury chocolate is sooo much better than Hersheys 😉 Also, the Wyoming clowns look like ducks!

Yawls friendship is phenomenal keep it up!

Great advice about feeding the puffers! I am going to try using dried soldier fly larvae to feed mine.

Great video, so much fun! I love the additions to the salt water tank and the puffers are amazing, I cannot wait to see their setup. Thank you so much for the video, they’re always a highlight of my day.

The light refraction through the rainbow tank at 7:20. So fitting. *chefs kiss*

Currently cycling a similar sized setup. Pumped to follow along with this series and get ideas for my own setup!

Really enjoying watching you learn something new in this episode! I don't know much about reef tanks either so it's nice to learn alongside you :)

Love that shop. Well done Adam for not being camera shy👍

Good call on the anemone Matt it would move around in tank when first put in and potentially string the corals in that tank

I have a 300 gallon acro reef tank that is about 4 years old and my acros are just now growing into large colonies. It takes time but it is so worth it because they are absolutely gorgeous. I have a green slimer that is growing out of the water and ready to frag. Good luck mate..

29:00 I normally don't like decos but the castle looked nice and imagine that being overgrown with moss, some ferns,...

Loving the branching out to saltwater! I hope there will be a bit bigger tanks in the future also! Maybe like 50/50 fresh/saltwater? MD, I also want to say that your vids are something I look forward to since you where still in your shed, I absolutaly LOVE them and you should know they help me going trough a rough couple of years in my life. Keep up the good work guys!

thank you for this video, i now want to get a salt set up more than ever. watching your content for so long and being in the fresh water hobby my self (also on the selling side of fresh water) something about your enthusiasm for salt water made me want to do it more than any salt water channel ever has.

wow so amazing fish tank, many natural decoration for bettafish

The saltwater tank is really interesting to learn about. I am enjoying seeing it come along. I love the puffer fish you have! So cool! Gina

To be fair it's pretty easy to keep mealworms and breed them yourself. We had a colony that went on for over a decade, well past when the gecko we'd initially gotten them for passed away. Kept them in a plastic bin about the size of a shoebox with a substrate made of wheat flour, wheatgerm, and something else -- fed them thin slices of sweet potato. Put a paper towel on for them to have shelter. They do turn to beetles when bigger so keep a mind on that but they're really easy to keep (waxworms are moths so harder to deal with). We kept them in the closet the washer and dryer were in so not in bright light. :) Look forward to seeing the puffers' new spot.

As a reptile keeper - I'd say, avoid dried mealworms as an alternative to live, unless you're desperate. They lose so much of their nutritional value and basically just become dried out husks. But you can also easily get them wholesale, or start your own breeding colony.

Guys, you can get live mealworms at lots of places, and other insects. Like pet shops. Because lizards will eat them too. Loving seeing and hearing about all the fascinating differences with the salt water tanks and species. Looking forward to the next stage

Just letting you guys know that I have learned a lot about settling up my fish tanks and the salt water tank is looking great you two together is brilliant I am from Australia so you guys are getting around thanks again

Would recommend adding nutrients especially with macroalgae as your asking for dinoflagellates with double 0 phosphate and nitrate especially with a tank started with dry rock and sand

Fantastic episode, can't wait to see future developments of the rockpool and also the pufferfish tank! Really liked the longer episode full of content 🙂

Watching you two together is so entertaining. I bought a drill 45 gallon hex saltwater tank. I won't start it until after our house si fininshed being built. But it was on Facebook Marketplace for $70.00

The two of you are pure entertainment gold!

I use freshwater fertiliser products with my macro algae, they work great. I have to use the products that contain no3 as well the traces or the nutrients bottom out to quick.

Macro algae are usually put in the sump to remove nitrates, phosphates and keep the water parameters good for the corals to thrive. Therefore they need "food" which a new set up will not provide after the tank cycle is finished. I never had a macro algae only tank but I've had some in my reef tanks and they never lasted more than a couple of months. The better you water parameters are the harder it is for the macro algaes to survive.

Excellent setup for a beginner marine aquarium.

😅 this was hilarious, MD pointing at things and Matt just went like Nope , Nope. You can't have it. Like a child and parent explaining everything. This was so fun to watch

Cadbury is my local store and those Altums have been calling my name for months! Just can't justify the price currently!

Glad to see you guys branching into salt water - way too adventuresome for me!

Neo phos and neo nitrate from brightwell is designed for reef tanks to raise nutrients

Love the content! This is actually my local fish shop where thanks to this channel I spend most weekends and weekdays buying more fish related items 😅 next up is a 260L Reef tank wish me luck as I’ve never attempted salt water before! 😬

I’m from Louisiana and I love your show I loved this episode wish it was longer

please do more videos like this! Im enjoying the saltwater journey

Merry Christmas MD and family. You guys have given me all the inspiration and information to start my first tank in the new year. Cheers 🍻

It easy to raise your own meal worms. I added a mister to my leopard gecko tank. Then I fed some meal worms, which He hated. Well, the meal worms became beetles that laid eggs in the sand. I now have baby meal worm which the leopard gecko still will not eat. They can grow quickly and reproduce. Added bonus, my Betta enjoys munching on the really tiny mealworms.

You may actually incorporate the castle design in a scape. More like a "ruins" type of scape. We'd like to see you incorporate some common aquarium decorations into a planted scape.

Not a big saltwater person but its always a pleasure to watch you two together. Happy Holidays.

This is sooooo good! I know nothing about salt water but ive been so interested from the start 😍

Oooh yes, MD & Matt building a koi pond outside now would be great!!! I just built my dream koi pond this past summer. My retirement project and I absolutely love it!! As I love all my tropical aquascaped fish tanks I’ve always had too!! It’s a hobby that grows & grows every year! 😅😂🤪

Niiice were getting into saltwater at the same time!! Ive got a clown and some little coral frags in a 2 gallon pico doing great!

My favorite Englishman..... Love y'all work.......

Great team, wonderful conversations, questions , and compete answers! Never ever considered Salt water tank ,now possible option. Matt is correct about Hersey chocolate!

This is quite nice. Love the progression!!

You should get some green star polyps they are super easy to take care of and super beautiful

Absolutely loved seeing all the saltwater species

MD great videos, enthusiasm is brilliant

You need to get to Shirley Aquatics in South Birmingham if you want to see big carp like those guys, MD!

Wow the clown fish are awesome. I had no idea they had some many different colours. The

You should look into starting a mealworm farm, we did this when I was in primary school and just kept them in a plastic bin, it would save you buying them all the time. I love your videos and I’m learning so much, iv started scaping my own tanks at home! 🤭

I struggle to pick a favourite fish but pufferfish are one of the front runners. Currently I only have pea puffers (including a 'home made' one) but definitely looking to get another species in the near future

those amazon puffers triggered ptsd bought 10 of them and when i finally got them my canister filter died that very night when i was sleeping... after that always keep a back up air stone in all my tanks

Loved this longer episode, and love that you like little critters for your salt water. Just missing a few shrimp too :)

That Aquatropic tank was excruciatingly cute. :)

W' saltwater it Is essential to measure the salinitiy and chemistry to make sure they match when transferring corals and livestock.

What a long episode! And still not long enough! 😁But yay, finally some of MD's patience gets rewarded with some life for the marine tank. Of course, having to go to a shop and picking out stuff will so severely test that patience again... Either way, it was great seeing you two kids in your own type of candy store again, hee! I'll definitely be looking forward to seeing how the little marine tank will develop!

Omg you pronounced algae like a true American 😂I’m proud MD 🤣🤣

Love all your content lads! Really look forward to seeing new posts. If anything you need to post more often!

I'd love to see things in a clear viewing cube! you could pour into tanks from them too ....

Love the long episodes. This is some of the best content on KZfaq!

Most frag plugs are made of pressed aragonite sand.

No dipping corals before putting in the tank to minimize pests making it into the tank?

A few comments about it been a long video never noticed, they say time flies when your having fun 👍. Great vid look forward to the update on this one.

DansFish came up with a good solution for keeping Amazon puffer beaks filed down: balls of repashy mixed with oyster grit. Fishfood meatballs with enough shell in them to keep those teeth trimmed.

Altum angels would be an awesome addition to the fish room

I love the longer episode! The tank looks amazing- you have way more patience than I do =)

Hey buddy happy holidays .I got into salt water few years back now I have 3 reef tanks the last one it's 120 gallons it's been a Learning Journey and a lot of money spending on corals and saltwater fish

Aw come on guys, you are always ineresting! Don't believe I have ever seen a boring one, and together, well, twice as interesting and fun! Oh and informative too. Anyhow, nice episode! Was good to see both salt water and fresh interests in this one. Years ago, longer ago then either of you guys are old..LOL, I had a 55 gallon salt water tank. Three anenomies, 6 clown fish and a coral banded shrimp. Loved that tank but it was so much work back then. I think the hobby has gotten so much easier now. I sold that tank and it's inhabitants, when I moved back up to NY State. I do miss it. I'll live vicariously, through your tanks guys, if that is ok. :) Thanks for the update, and the puffers are just too cute!!!

Merry Christmas you two ❤️

Cant wait to see how the marine tank adventure progresses. I'd love to give saltwater a go, it just seems so daunting.

A cool video would be a waterfall mudskipper tank with a few other species, land, and water

Thank you so much for this video. My passion is saltwater, so I really enjoyed it. You might need a brighter light for the corals and try to feed them with zooplankton. All the best and thank you again.

Hey MD & Matt! Yes it was a long episode and Yes all of it was fun and interesting (and Yes, imo it would've been OK if it was even longer!).

you can breed mealworms yourself and save some money if you get a good bin with dirt substrate and toss in vegtable scraps and fish food.

I keep tarantulas and fish and any week or dead crickets go in with the fish and they love them. It seems to make the fish breed more.

If you love the little critters you should fill it up with Sexy shrimp, anemone shrimp and some pom pom crabs. Those were some of my favourite little critters when I had a SW tank. There's a quick video of one of my anemone shrimp on my profile.

Dude did a whole 360 @11:58 LMAO