About a month ago. I did a meet-up for you guys at my local fish store one fish two fish while there I?
Couldn't help myself and I bought more fish and more coral for my saltwater aquarium
So before we get into this update on this tank. Here's a quick montage of what happened at that meet up so today
I'm taking you guys along to a local aquarium meet up and Roughly the plan is to do a short meet and greet
I'll also escape an aquarium there isn't going to be a barbeque a raffle there will be some giveaways
And I'll also be doing a short Q&A and this is all going to be happening right here at my local fish store
one fish two fish in the ring
everybody doing
Smita, how will you sing? Hey? No way Charlie? Hi Carrie?
Charlie's 10 Sally's tenth, hey curly
Looking good
I'm gonna get these guys on camera is it on camera. You want to sign it double?
hopefully
Something so this earth orbit
Everyone that wants to cast time. I touch your test yeah
yeah, of Course -
Grace I need you to sign your head all right joey about you. You know second down their name in here
Thank you. God no, take it off
ladies look
It's gone custom
It's for a year in a row
one hey
Olivia, Olivia
well
I don't even get in the door and Jeff's got to bring me over to Asian Arowana tanks and first thing
I say is how much?
you
Because want to be in the boat
All right, so the Q&A is over. We're now going to go ahead and set up an aquarium
I think there's some youth here that I'm actually going to get them to do it so I can kick back and enjoy myself instead
There's this two young ones are going to set the tank up so far. It looks like they've got some
Planted tanks oil in there. Have you guys ever set up a planted tank before?
You have it is your first one awesome. Maybe you want to do one at home, then wall room?
I'm going to do a giveaway t-shirt right so you guys lunch off my first mongoose t-shirt for example
Drive one more than on one Tommy be
let's
carroll event
For the next 15 minutes everything in the store will do 50 percent off whatever you want
you
All right jeff yes, so this has been an amazing been nice to do something locally
It's nice to promote the local hobby get some new kids in here
And you know just show them what we can do and you know just get them looking at fish tanks
They did see a few people buying their first fish here. We came out amazing. Yeah, we want to do this again
Clearly we need a bigger spot patel yeah, and maybe a little bit more to being true to say, but yeah
We had we had too many people in today that this wasn't
Certainly not enough room to do everything the walkthrough and all that stuff so no
I think we do something big for sure we appreciate you
matching another credit card yep
You guys couldn't expect me to come here and help on poor fish good to see you. My man - Joy
So that was definitely a fun event. I'd love to do something like that again however
We got to jump into this update and the first thing
I want to start with is the fish you see about I don't know 14 15 years ago when I used to read Aquarium books
One of the first fish that I was attracted to in the saltwater, Hobby
Was the cardinal fish whether it was going to be the banggai or the pajama cardinal?
I definitely needed to have one of them
So when I seen they had banggai cardinals at one fish two fish absolutely had to have them and I know that the tank is
approaching
Overstocked at this point. It's only 35 gallons
You know with five fish so I also got a shrimp and of course the hermit crabs and snails, but again
we're going to be upgrading this to 120 gallon Tank and
Again, I just couldn't help myself. It is definitely an Impulse buy. I wasn't planning on it
But once I surround myself at Coral that I can actually buy and bring home. You know it's
Becoming a new addiction with that said I've got one male and two females
And they're absolutely amazing you guys know that
I'm kind of attracted to you know black and white fish that are kind of contrasting and the bad guys absolutely offer that
Even the clowns that I have are black and white. They're more of a designer's type. They're the frostbite chills
I believe which is a pretty awesome
Clownfish to have with that said I'm not going to be adding any more fish to this system
Until we move everything out to the gallery I do plan to move everything out to a cube aquarium out there
temporarily until we have a 120 up and running for a proper reef now a lot of the coral here was inspired by
Different events that I've experienced over the past year or over the pass six months to be honest with you first and foremost
One fish two fish Jeff there gave me a rasta coral a while back
I didn't want any coral, but he said look just try it you got to have it
And he gave it to me on the premise knowing that I'd probably be back buying a whole lot more once he kind of got
Me addicted to it
so thanks Jeff the wrath of Coral started off with you know two or three polyPs and
Now it has over 20 at least but I credit that to the lighting system that I've recently upgraded to
about a month ago it went from Having ten
polyPs that had gained over the past few months to having double that within a very short period of time
We'll talk about the lighting here in a second though, I
Also, got some pulsing Zinnia or pulsing Zinnia or however you pronounce that I've always wanted this coral it did take a while to
acclimate to the tank Perhaps when I did my
Pest treatment and dipping I might have done it too long or wrong, but it did take about three weeks to pounce back
But it's doing really well now this is a type of coral that I wouldn't mind having throughout my entire
Aquarium and to be honest with you. It's really cheap
You know I wasn't necessarily attracted the price
But it was a nice surprise to know that one of the coral that I've always wanted was a cheaper price
I love this guy because as all of its little extensions are constantly pulsing
Almost looking like little hands trying to grab food and they don't stop when I was at worldwide corals in Orlando
I also became in love with the fact that they're big aquariums head
nothing, but
corals as a
Substrate and I was like I need to have that that's something I want to do so I got a plate coral for the bottom
of the tank and speaking of the bottom of the tank you'll notice that
I've slowly removed the substrate over the past couple of months the substrate caused me more problems than it was worth
And I do want to switch to having coral as a substrate as opposed to a substrate that play coral is absolutely awesome
I think that's what it's called anyways again drove this video
You might hear me mispronounce things or call things the wrong word or you know not name them properly
But now I've got all these names in my head of what I think they're called
So correct me if I'm wrong in the comment section below or you know at least post their proper names or I'd love to know
What your guys's favorite coral or fish is out of this tank as well so again
Let me know all of that in the comment section below
play Coral is pretty awesome though throughout the night it kind of shriveled down into a
Coral that's like half the size that it once was and every night
I think I've killed it til the next day where all the tentacles kind of expand and then the coral gets bigger?
And I swear it's moving around. I don't think they actually move around, but you know it's definitely growing in this tank
I feel like it's doubled in size since it's been in here. I'm probably just imagining things
But I definitely love feeding it it can grab things with his little tentacles and bring it into its mouth that's always enjoyable
I had no clue it had a mouth, or it could do that
So seeing it for the first time was hilarious when I was at reef stock in Denver
I also came across the hammer corals, and this was the number one coral that I saw that I was like
What is that? I love it? I need to have it
It just so happened to be a very affordable coral very easy to keep which was right up my alley, so
Exactly what I wanted matched my skill level for the saltwater, hobby, so I got a few of those as well
And then a couple of different colors then of course the Duncans. I really like these for a couple of reasons one
I hear they're like the canary in a mine where if something goes wrong with your aquarium these are the first thing to
Exhibit signs of stress so I thought this would be a good idea to add as an early warning sign that something might be going
Wrong, but these guys are doing amazing in this tank
You know growing. They're actually getting quite big
I have no idea how big they get but I have a feeling because they're going to get a lot bigger than I anticipated
If you guys have any further information on any of these corals let me know in the comment section below
I love getting additional information from you guys
And I know that the comment section serves as like part two to the video to a lot of you, so leave
Whatever you need to leave in the comments below then of course the flower pots, or Gone Aporia
I think it's what those are called and
Here's a little backstory to that before this tank came to Fruition before you guys seen it
I was talking to Jake Adams of refill ters
We talked quite a bit, and he always gets really excited about certain coral, and you know
Tells me all about them and tells me why I likes them and his excitement is infectious
just as I know what my passion and things I get excited about with you guys as
infectious for you
So when he was talking about these guys that I finally seen it for the seen them for the first time I was like man
No wonder he likes them
further back though he told me
He knew that
I was going to start it with just fish and rock and that's kind of what I wanted to do and he said
No start out with coral, and I was like no, I just want to do fish. I want to keep it simple
He's like. No you're going to go to coral eventually just started with it. Now. Do it properly
ETc ETc, and you know I hate to admit it, and I'll never say this ever again
But jake is was right, and I definitely should have went with Coral first
I think I'm a reefer at heart and I just have to admit it perhaps. This is my coming-out party
But I got a couple of colors of those guys and those are really cool
They're going to get pretty big and expand and you know almost cover a section of wherever I put them so I'm excited to see
What happens there all of the coral is just kind of randomly placed?
I don't know if everything's placed properly if you know it's I should be lower, or higher
Or mid-range so you guys have any suggestions let me know in the comment section
Well, all I know is that the coral is doing good. Whatever. I'm doing here is working and
They're all growing and displaying properly as far as I know and I don't even do a whole lot
I mean I do why water changes once a week maybe 10 20 percent and you know top off the evaporation
That's literally it. I don't add supplements. I don't add anything to the tank
I'm probably going to have to start supplementing the tank though
But that will come in time as soon as you know I add more coral
And they're depleting the nutrients in the tank or whatever then it in the salt mix I?
Don't know I will say that I've never been so excited or interested
In this tank until I added the coral the fish are awesome
But the Coral are probably a little bit better as for the lighting you'll notice that. There's a new light
That's actually just the aqua lumination. Hd prime. It's a smaller light than I used to have on it, but again
This was a light that jake told me to get instead of getting this
little Chinese knockoff light that I got on Amazon they go for about a hundred cost me about 150 bucks with shipping and tax but
When I told them that seems like no get the hD prime you're going to get a much better life far more flexibility et
Cetera Et cetera, and you know I was just so hooked up on the prices 100 bucks. You know
165 Watts and when I put it on the tank. I thought it looked great. I thought I made the right choice
Until I made the plunge and added this tent light to this tank and the corals and colors
Actually look the way
They were supposed to on the older light they were kind of washed out everything kind of looked the same
but I attributed that to me being colorblind and
Thinking maybe that's the way they're supposed to look I can't really tell the difference in the colors
but now that I've added a proper light I can clearly see there's differences in the tank look a lot better and the raster for
example
Doubled in this number of polyPs when as soon as I added that light within about 30 days which I don't know if that's normal
Or if that's faster than normal but to me it was pretty amazing to see anyways guys. Hope you enjoyed today's video
I'd also like to thank you for watching and if you join me this coming Sunday
I will have a new aquarium gallery update for you