I'm not lazy.
I've known this video was eventually going to happen,
so I deferred maintenance for like the last year for, for all of you.
So you're welcome.
My first fish tank and Marine Depot are proud to present the final installment
and saltwater aquariums demystified
maintenance
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I really believe variety is good for your fish.
So I feed twice a day a mix of pellets of flakes of frozen and refrigerated
today.
I currently use Brightwell reef code a and B and I have these cam OER come our C
A mower. I don't know how to pronounce it. I'm sorry.
I have two of these and I just haven't set them up yet.
So until then a cap full of day seems to keep the reef healthy and happy.
First of all,
it's relaxing and second of all just make sure your fish and your livestock are
healthy.
Just to be sure,
just in case you see something in this video and you're like, I need that.
Links are below
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I got two tanks that currently don't have an auto top off system,
so we've got to go old school.
95% of all of the scraping of the glass I do is with the flipper,
but sometimes there's just places the flipper get like your overflow box or the
we're so for those I use the Kent Marine, I think it's gotten pro scraper too.
And then I also have a handheld size one for my smaller tank.
Some of my tanks use filter socks for mechanical filtration.
Some of them use sponges. That's about it. By the way,
if you want more detail on my maintenance schedule and checklists that you can
print out, just click blog below
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I've got three tanks with auto top off was VARs.
I probably evaporate two gallons of water a day, so it's a big job.
Take a five gallon bucket. Let's get to work.
Everybody needs a break. Okay,
well we've got about two hours of testing so I guess we should get going.
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when it comes to mixing up food,
I use this disgusting blue urine cup. I,
I think it's a urine collection cup. Like when you go to the doctor,
you can get like a four pack on Amazon and they're the perfect size for foods.
I use a variety because again I think variety is the spice of life and I think
your corals really like variety.
So for my all natural food I use Felice reef coral.
Then I use quite a few different reef nutrition products.
And then a couple of my favorites are Polyp Lab reef roids and coral frenzy.
And then I also have a frozen option from my man V2O fish foods.
Just love their stuff.
I used to feed silver sides,
which are these really fishy smelling fish, but I have found that my enemies,
I'm not saying all anenomes,
just my anemones seem to eat part of it and then spit the rest out so I don't
feed those anymore. Here's what I feed. I do reef nutrition,
better brine and my SIS feast. Then for the veto fish foods,
I use fish and reef number one got a lot of shrimp in there, miny mysis.
I think this is probably the anemones, favorite food.
And then spirulina, which is brine shrimp and mysis.
Then I use Hikari mega Marine,
got a lot of shrimp in there and then I use Piscene energetics, PE mysis shrimp.
I think they're hungry. Let's go feed them.
Let's just go to the rest of them.
Just use the gravel back and if you don't want to spill dirty,
disgusting saltwater on the ground, use a clamp to hold the end in place.
Trust me, it's worth it.
One of the first purchases I made over five years ago was an RODI system.
$200 best money ever spent
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Oh, we're on the home stretch.
I only have one monthly task and I forgot to put the chemicals out.
Hold on. Wait a second. Wait for it. There we go.
I don't run chemical filtration all the time, but I do run them sometimes.
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what are the chances?
I actually ran out of paper on the last one every six months.
Do a vinegar bath with all of your pumps, whether it's your wave makers,
your utility pumps, your return pumps. I haven't done it in a year.
It's a pain to do because you have to disconnect everything.
You have to soak it for several hours with vinegar. Then you have to clean it.
You have to rinse it. You have to put it back,
but it will save you thousands of dollars and keep your pumps working for a long
time. I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it, but guess what?
There's the last thing I got to do. Let's do it.
I am, well, we did it.
Episode 10 done. Why don't what's next for Marine Depot in my first fish tank
to the next week to find out how to refund everyone.