you don't need a lot of stuff to be
successful but you do need to maintain
pretty well
20 gallon is the first time i've kept
sps in such a small
sized tank i didn't say water change
wednesday
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guys what's up checking out my plugs
underneath the table on
new location
i have to say i'm really liking the way
it is
thanks for your compliments on my design
change
so here's the setup for the new five and
a half gallons position
that's fine you know i'm not very good
with
as you can see i have a lot of spaghetti
down here
some guys are really need about
this you know they put everything up on
the wall you know i have one thing on
the wall there the rest is kind of
hanging you know i
recognize everything it's not too
tangled if i add another plug for the
hang off the back i have plenty
i have two plugs i could rearrange these
a little bit and make more
i'd like to thank some of my new
followers from instagram
they've come over and subscribed to the
channel
that's awesome i just started to post a
bit out on instagram
and it was recommended by my faithful
subscriber
aussie reefer so
great idea aussie i appreciate it so my
plan originally for today
was to do the water change wednesday
questions and also adding the
hob refusium to the 5 gallon
but i'm not sure about time guys
i took a beating on the long video in
terms of
how long people watch it i think they
get bored so i'm going to scale back my
time so i'm sorry about that that i went
too
long on that last video but i felt it
flowed
i don't know so i'm going to keep them
around 10 minutes
around that area from now on i didn't
say
water change wednesday all right let's
get into water change wednesday
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all right christian
asks i have a 15 gallon and do 10
water changes on fridays when and how
often should i feed rephroids
that's part one so let me answer that
first
i feed refroids once a week
just before i do my water change that
way if anything
drifts around i did a video on it on
feeding
that way if any of the refroids float
around and go unconsumed
they'll be taken out with the water
change i'll feed an
hour before the water change he also
asks about
brightwell aquatic aminos i think he
means brightwell's
coral amino i do
the coral amino once a day
10 drops now i think my feeding video
said eight
or something like that but i do ten
drops i turn my skimmer off for about a
half hour
and i notice the colors of my corals are
really doing well
so check out this pile of stuff that i
grabbed out of my box
of reef stuff what i noticed
about my pseudo
move that never happened there it is
it's penske
how much extra stuff that we collect
we probably all have a place for all
those little pieces of hoses you cut off
and for some strange reason
for me anyway i think i'll always need
them again
here's another one have you ever tried
keeping sps
in such small tanks if so have you been
successful
well this 20 gallon
is the first time i've kept sps in such
a small size
tank i think so i've kept them alive but
it's almost going on a year now
i'm not saying i didn't have some issues
i had that rtn
on the acro but that seemed to after i
cut that part off it seemed to have come
back
and my pocillopora is growing all over
the place so
any sps it would be pocillopora you
almost can't kill them i have one in
here
which is growing really well
and i have more than enough growing
there because they've naturally
spawned and spread and they're almost to
the point where i have to pick them
out the other thing is reefers with
large aquariums have trouble with sps
so if you want to try it give it a try
it all depends on what makes you happy
and enjoy the hobby
like i get disappointed when things die
you know here's a small pile of mine
and i plan on gathering some things out
of this pile
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to make the hob refusium
for my five gallon tall
she has no clue that i'm recording
she's sending really nice pictures
barry's aquarium asked
what is your suggested snail per hermit
crab ratio more crabs question mark more
snails or an even number of both
also what type of snails and hermits do
you suggest
guys i've always used astrias and hermit
crabs the blue legs or the red legs
normally it's one per gallon of each
but when you're dealing with maybe a
hair algae issue
i would say favor a little bit more on
the crabs
than on the snails the hermit crabs will
really pick apart
the hair algae and then the astrias will
come in and kind of mop up so to speak
so if you do have to unbalance it i
would say a few more
crabs than astrias and one per gallon
i like to make my wife happy so i'm
sending a response to that pic she sent
me i'm saying
filming thumbs up
two hearts and nice
well that's how you keep it going guys
this is a little mishap you don't think
leds are hot this is when i was taking
apart my old ai prime and i
leaned it on this for about 30 seconds
and we had a meltdown there's the hob
some parts i have an extra
ato pump chris h
left a really cool comment i thought he
says
just shows you don't need the mega
budget or fancy stuff to make it happen
great job this was in response to me
going over to my brothers and doing a
whole
video on my brother's tank with the hang
off the back if you're new to the
channel you can check that out i think
it's called
to twin 20 gallons or two times 20
gallons
and it's true you don't need a lot of
stuff to be successful but you do need
to maintain pretty well you got to do a
great maintenance schedule to eliminate
a lot of the things that probably
help that so for example i'm taking the
skimmer off
maybe in place of the skimmer i'm gonna
do the refugium maybe my water change
will be a little bit more than normal a
lot of this guys is
trial and error you're gonna have to go
through errors
to find your way this is a good point
also guys look i've done this for a long
time and i'm sure
there's some viewers that are watching
right now
that have done this for a long time what
i do doesn't necessarily mean
that it's the right and only way i'm
sure you've heard that before i can only
tell you what i'm successful with
that's all
all right guys that does it for this one
sorry about the late upload
it happens i'm working during the day
and tuesday i was
dog tired last night so have a great
rest of the day
and i'll see you on sunday take care now
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all right let's get into the questions
jesus all right let's get into water
i just wanted to say thanks again to all
the new subscribers
guys that have been with me there from
the beginning let's keep
this tom reefer train rolling i just
wanted to say
thanks again to all the news
let's keep this tom reefer trainer
rolling
and i'll see you have a great rest of
the night and i'll see you sunday
is in my mind on these videos i really
am
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they're fun though
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you