hi guys welcome to the tom reefer studio here's the 20 gallon tube
3.5 gallon pico reef
gallon tall and the newly relocated 10 gallon peninsula reef today what we're going to focus
on is peninsula reef i want to test the water in this because i just moved it yesterday
and i want to test for phosphate in this one and i also want to put some focus on the
3.5 gallon i'm gonna do a water change oh wow i see a little white dot on my royal grandma but
it's not ick but isn't it funny every time you see one little white dot on your fish you think it's
ick it's not though it was just a little whatever they are today's water change
wednesday new viewers what that is you leave a comment or a question below the video
and i answer it there and then i try to answer it here however like last week i had mentioned
if it's one i've already had i won't answer it here and i'll leave a link out there what
i would suggest guys look through my videos for the topic that you're trying to get an answer for
i have answers to almost everything out there ask me any question you want and we'll answer them
on water change wednesday all right let's get into the video water change wednesday
do
this is the studio here it is i just made a move yesterday with the peninsula reef
and today what i wanted to do along with water change wednesday today i wanted to
change the water in here a little bit do some testing see what the phosphate level is in here
maybe vacuum the sand bed a little i had 0.3 on this about a week ago and i've done a 50
percent water change move the tank up here and i want to test the phosphate again and i also want
to change the water in the pico silas asks what beginner coral can he get for his tank
he said it's been running over a year now talk about going slow that's awesome i mean you don't
have to go that long any of the leathers you know there's a lot of easy corals i do have a video
on i think the five easiest corals to put in your tank something like that i forget now
but any of the leathers are good you know i don't want to mention green star polyp they're easy but
they can be number one they can be intrusive and number two they can be picky sometimes i've heard
a lot of people say they close up and stay closed for months you know so what good is it it only
looks good when it's open what else do i have in there xenia of course xenia grows like a weed it's
nice and uh also kenya tree so any of those what i'm gonna do guys is do a change on the 3.5 gallon
pico up there i'll show you what i do all right guys so what you need you guys know this i just
i just figured i'd show you what you need is one of these a bucket and your hose i put the bucket
over here that's going to be for my siphon i come up here and i put the kessel to the side i take
the top off this is the top new viewers this is the top the kessel just rests on the top of this
i don't know i'm kind of particular about stuff i like to keep the light on the tank is that
bizarre it's like i was thinking you know if i'm a fish or i'm a coral and suddenly the sun goes out
i know it's being obsessive all right so take my lid off
and i'll do a little i'll just clean the front glass
i have two snails in here guys two asterias and i don't want to completely deplete them
so from there i have to unplug everything pumps heater i just have one plug for this whole tank
maybe i don't know a 25 change depends on how i feel in the moment
queen city reefs and more asks me how does your wife feel about
your hobby and reefing how much time do you spend my wife sylvia is great with the hobby
my time is not a lot of time spent on the reef keeping i spend about two hours and a half to
three hours on the weekend on sunday i usually do the water changing on sunday we've mentioned
this even though i use water change wednesday it's the videos guys i'm up to the 15 hour range with
recording everything doing the video and then editing takes a long time x watson x asks about
what's my experience with bleaching sps because of shading from other corals and that's a very common
thing even sps dominated tanks reefers are always cutting off the ones that are blocking the light
from the other coral and that's the only way to do it you don't want to always move sps corals
sometimes you find that perfect spot and you don't want to move it usually what you wind up doing is
trimming or taking away whatever's above it to let more light in and if it's an sps dominated
tank then you're just fragging parts that block the light from hitting the one mean chen made a
cool comment he said he loves me and he loves the videos and he also said we had the same haircut
if you want to call it that i just buzzed mine off as you can see i'm getting light up here
got a little bit going on top and i i arranged the video so you don't see the top so much you know
but you can see it thanks for the comment humping sometimes i don't like to lower the water level
below the coral level the dunkin and the hammer they have a mucus that forms over them so there's
nothing wrong and it's not harmful to lower your water levels so the corals are exposed and you
want to let that sit there for an hour but for 10-15 minutes they're fine that way don't laugh
siphon start did that kind of close there we go no detritus just the water today
i don't know if i'm blocking your view here i'll show you what it looks like when you
go below the coral so this is going to be a 50 water change i'm going to stop it there
i'll quick show you what that looks like brandon asked me about pumps he's got a 20 gallon
long and he wanted to know if one big pump like a nero three or two smaller pumps i've
heard of the nero 3 but i don't have any experience using it but as a generalization
if you don't mind having two pumps in your 20 gallon that creates a better counter
current flow so for example you could have one higher mini on the right side and one on the left
side they're so small you know a few inches facing into each other or you could have one in the back
and one in the front and that creates a circular flow and then don't forget you
also have your return flow coming into the tank the best flow you want in a reef tank
is what they call counter current flow you don't want it laminar well it's either laminar or
linear linear works i know but i think it's also laminar anyway you don't want it one direction
all right because one direction is kind of the same so mine is kind of one direction with my
mp10 in the 20. it does this but i also now have a pretty strong return
coming down from the back so it intercepts this flow see that can you guys do that i was a drummer
believe it or not guys it's doing two things at the same time let's see if you can do it ready
it's like rubbing you know it's like patting your head and rubbing your belly at the spear
it's like patting your head and rubbing your belly at the same time can you guys do that
you probably want to do this but i can do this and this say
lost it there for a minute this lighting let me get up here
i'm like thrilled about this lighting all right there you go so you can see there they create
a slime over it and then i'll just fill it back up all right so i used to carry the whole bucket
in but you know it's such a small amount i take three or four trips with this container right here
all right so then what i do is you have to have decent aim
so you can see the flow in here now it's a gentle flow a little bit intense back
this is an interesting one james asked me is there an interesting fish that i
have always wanted to keep as far as fish because they can't be kept in a reef tank i've always
wanted to keep a trigger fish and in particular the clown trigger or the picasso trigger and being
that my background is art i've always felt that the picasso trigger it looks like pablo
painted on this fish it's incredible i've always wanted to keep one of those
or the clown trick all right so what we're going to do is vacuum the sand bed a little bit
let's go in here and vacuum some of the sand bed like tom riefer preaches
i'll test this tomorrow
because right now it's all disturbed and that will affect your test result anytime you do
anything to the tank you want to wait until the following day to do the test 24 hours
all right if you recall guys on saturday i did a 50 water change in the tank before i moved it
and now i vacuum the sand bed and now we're
taking a test so this is three days later here's the results
i think that does it for today guys we did the pico water change we did the water test over here
on the 10 gallon so that should do it have a great rest of the night thanks for watching subscribers
thanks for subscribing and uh let's keep the tom reefer train rolling it's growing pretty fast
guys it is it's starting to grow i don't set goals for myself on youtube i'm not going to set goals
it's all about the algorithm you know this last video that i just put out the peninsula reef is
performing a little higher than some of the others why does that happen i have no clue you know so
anyway that's all i guess all right have a great night take care we'll see you sunday take care now
you