I saw Kmart and immediately got nostalgic 😭

I was about to comment on this very thing. Havent seen a K-Mart in 15 years hear in the States. Its all Walmart. So no Skimmer?

Kmart is big in NZ but doesn't sell fish tanks

Haha I was about to comment Kmart don't exist over in the US. I love this little easy setup you have here. I've always wanted to have a 90gallon reef ready tank but just didn't have the funds nor the time to do it.

Kmart still exists in the US, but only 20 locations.

There’s a lot of truth in what you say. One of the things I really appreciate about this channel is how it shows what can be achieved without all of the complexity and cost. KISS. I have been a bit of a “black sheep” running my 3 foot and separate 75L reef aquariums on a simple canister filter and T5 lights… no skimmer. There were some limitations on what I could keep but the clowns were breeding and the morphs becoming plague like, so it worked. I’ve since upgraded to Hydra lights and probably the most important change I’ve made has been maintaining stability via an ATO and RODI (the LFS sells this for $5/25L). That slow bleed of heavy metals and other “unknowns” using dechlorinated tap water is quite real in my experience over the long term, so RODI would be mandatory for anything beyond fish and basics like morphs.

YES!! Totally agree! 🙌🙌

What started as my 10 gallon QT tank turned into a 2nd tank when my twin clownfish didn’t get along. It has 2 rocks, 2 pvc pipes and a HOB filter with a sponge and some little biosphere like things it came with. It’s been the easiest tank I’ve ever had! Thinking of finally adding a light to it (it was by the window before) and maybe a softy or two

It's not just in aquarium hobby this is riff even reptiles etc too. I have multiple epaulettes sharks in a livestock water through, with couple of canister filters. Been that way for years and they're growing massive and happy

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren Good presentation. Unfortunately like every aquarist? The most critical aspect is lost on 99% of those wishing to keep/maintain an aquatic environment is their complete ignorance that unlike all other pet keepers, the aquatic caper is 100% reliant on the aquarist's ability to maintain EVERY aspect of this environment. 99.9% of all aquatic animals and plants will die after a very brief time. They all do. It's a tragic hobby. Unlike rabbits, cats, dogs, birds, reptiles etc, an aquarist has to artificially maintain the oxygen/CO2 and waste environment survival using very complex methods. Keeping a cat, dog, rabbit, rat, mouse or reptile is so much easier because their actual "environment" is 99% already catered for by the same process as the owner's requirements. It's basically called air as we know it. Aquatic care is extremely complex in comparison as this task is now totally reliant on artificial technology and almost no aquarist has any idea how to do this. 99/9% of home aquarium keepers absolutely guaranteed of death and mayhem within a few months at best. The entire domestic aquatic hobby should be banned as it is extremely cruel. I absolutely hope that this practice will be banned in the not too distant future.

Hehe 🤩🙌🙌

Thanks so much!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌 oh awesome! They are super hardy hey!

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren The Maroon and Darwins are my favourite but they are all really nice, not to hard to breed ether but the fry are to small for me to see these days, keep up the good work, great video for kids to get into the hobby 🙂

Will definitely keep you posted! Have started a playlist for this tank for all the updates on it! 🤩🙌🙌

There are only 8 world wide, and none in Australia so you can get it from their website. At least I assume that is how she got them. Correction: There is a difference it seems. There is Kmart which we know of here is the US and then there is Kmart Australia which has a slightly different logo (and is the one she has in the thumbnail) which still has over 300 stores across Australia and New Zealand.

When I was in Australia a few years back. I got some blasts of nostalgia! DVDs and CDs all throughout their Best Buy, Kmarts etc.

Kmart is massive here in Aus.. a bit like Walmart over in the US I think except they dont sell guns ;)

Hello, just thought I’d recommend the native feeder shrimp (macrobrachium sp.) because they grow to be medium yabby sized and are pretty interesting and have big long front claws that are still pretty narrow and weak so it might be a bit easier to handle and clean the tank (especially for a kid that might get their little fingers a bit close). You could keep a small group of them in a tank this size unlike yabbies. They also aren’t escape artists like yabbies are. Just thought I’d recommend them since they’re so cheap and fun, and probably better suited to a small tank like this one (yabbies will want a bigger hiding spot which will take up most of a tank this size). Also, their claws are smaller so if you ever wanted to get a few nano fish too or cherry shrimp or something they could live with the big arm shrimp pretty safely. You can find them at pet stores as “feeder shrimp” or go scooping with a net at your local creek. Best of luck with the new tank!

Anemones need quite a lot of light, I can't recommend any that would do well with the kind of light featured in the video. I also wouldn't recommend any budget lamp not meant for aquariums. The one showcased in the video claims to only reach 38 PAR, and the lowest level of PAR I'd ever recommend is 50 for a few bottom dwelling soft corals. Do yourself a favor and buy a real light in order to keep your coral alive and to watch them grow. The A80 Tuna Blue Nano Light is a great light for nano tanks.

@@ryanb.8393 this, the one thing you should never cheap out on is a light

To be fair decent lights give control. You can get some fantastic park out of £100 black boxes. Unfortunately only way to dial them is raise or lower them (which isn’t the end of the world but a pain in the bum in 2023!)

Got any links to these? The ones I could find were quite a bit more than that.

@@KingErasmos I can 3d print one for you

So youre just gonna have an ugly bottle stuck to the side of the tank?!? It doesnt have a sump....

Thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌 yeah great idea painting the background!

Have a look at BRSTV as they did some detailed tests on how different coloured backgrounds affect total PAR.

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren added bonus it just scraps off with a blade so if you want to change the colour its very easy to.

Hehe thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌 that’s the goal! 🤞

Sorry to hear you've been castrated 😔

Tell her to set up a saltwater tank for $4.000,-; maybe she'll give in then;)

@@martijnvanbeek4387 Nah Mate she's pretty good there are fish tanks every where. So it's not too bad to have a loss now and then😅😂.

Thank you so much! 🤩🙌🙌

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren Those Xenia are beautiful

Haha that’s it hey! Once you get that first taste in the saltwater hobby there’s no going back 😂🙌

Yessssss!! Do it! 🤩🙌🙌

Oh awesome!! It did in the 6ft when there was no flow, so will be interesting to see if it will eventually start to pulse in this tank. 🤞🤞

Ok that's good to know, I was beginning to wonder if I had 'true' xenia but mine looks just like yours. Probably there is too much flow for it then. hmmm 🤔

Thank you so much! 🤩🙌🙌

@@SimpleAquariumsLauren your welcome 👍

Kmart in Australia

Thank you so much Matt! 🤩🙌🙌

It’s Walmart but with more class