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the reason why i'm so excited is that this item you're witnessing history now this item right here
is my first freebie and it's from the nice people at reef glass so the next sunday reef
tanks around the world i'm giving the reef glass away take a quick look at it here it is
it's 30 and under gallons guys comes with the little knobby thing on the top
this is your holder you can put this in the back compartment
of any of your nano tanks it fits right in there look how narrow it is it's perfect
all right this goes down the only thing you need to get for it it's got hose
all you would need to get for it is a air pump and a little collection bottle for the
skamate that flows over and that can be used anything can be used for that so there it is
reef glass that's why it's important to say where you're from and address all right new
viewers today it's water change wednesday what water change wednesday is you ask me a question
below the video in the comments section i answer it there and i'll answer it here and i'm also
going to show you some maintenance things i've been doing i like to keep you guys updated on
what's going on with my tank so in between the questions i'm just going to show you a little
bit about what i got going all right all right let's get right into it water change wednesday
that tank last week guys i have to say to start the video off
it's art man at artherium i think that's how you say it i'll put it down here on instagram
if you want to see more images and some video at artherium he's a really nice guy
too we'll answer your questions what a tank last week so check him out on instagram so
i think it's gonna go away yeah they're pulling forward hopefully it won't happen again
all right so first question fabrizio asks what my settings are on the ai prime soul and a lot
of you guys may be using that new viewers if you're just starting and you're looking
for a light the ai prime soul is a really decent light for over a 10 gallon and under if you go to
20 you might need two at that point because the tank starts to get wider but i have my settings
40 royal blue 35 blue and 60 cool white that gives me the feel and
the look and the par i want up on the top for the fire digita
that's about 350 par and then down toward the bottom drops down to about 180 and then out to
the sides because it's over the center it drops down even lower so that's my settings on the ai
prime sole thanks fabrizio all right guys you've seen me up here before what i wanted
to show you is just some basic maintenance i'm noticing a lot of hair algae growing on the back
wall of the pico and i just want to remove it and keep it clean this is all i'm doing
i'm just showing you what i do here new viewers this is kind of the way my video goes
i'm going to show you this blade also so what i do is i just go in and scrape it off i just come down
inside and go straight up i don't go up and down because i'm trying to remove as much
hair as i can the other thing is i keep my return pump on that way anything that floats around that
doesn't come out it'll get collected in the sponge in my overflow box here's another question about
this scraper believe it or not it's such a simple thing it's something we use every day
jk asked about is this an old school oops is this an old school razor blade and no it's really not
this razor blade is supposed to be stainless they always say they are
but they're really bad stainless so see it has two holes in it and this little screw
which is stainless screws into it but there's no way around it jk you have to replace this
i would do it every month there's a little rust on the top but none on the bottom and i flip it
over those of you are concerned about a tiny bit of this getting into the tank don't worry about
it i've been using rusty scrapers forever it's not going to affect your tank look how rusty this part
gets all right that's that the screen put the scraper back together as you can see how easy
this is you know it's so easy to line the hole up and you just screw it in now that it's taking me
like 10 minutes come on come on come on come on all right you know what there it goes just got it
there we go there we go it's not as hard as i just made it guys they usually go right in
oh great all right i'm falling apart here next question parkour asks he says his gsp
is not growing green star polyp can you please tell me how to make the green star
polyp grow faster green star polyps can be tricky or they can be easy as can be
they do like a higher dkh and calcium and they also like a lot of light
what keeps mine in check in certain areas is it's in the shade if it's not getting a lot of light
it's not going to open up and grow fast so i would say light calcium and a good dkh
a couple people ask me about f1 am a big f1 fan now when they saw that little cutaway
i got into it last year i watched a documentary i forget the name of
it but it had all the drivers and the whole thing i didn't realize
how cool george mattoon asked a question about a 25 gallon lagoon and if he runs
an mp10 on that we had some back and forth on that an mp10 can be an extremely strong
wave maker i have one in the 20 gallon but i have it set between three and four
depending on what i see the tank doing it's three out of ten or four out of ten
if i put that up to 10 in my 20 gallon it would almost push the water over the side
but it does have the ability to go way down so i told him on a 25 gallon lagoon it's probably
longer it's probably 20 you know some odd inches long if he puts it on one end keeps it low and
then he positions his corals in the appropriate spot he said he has mostly softies so what i
would say is don't put them right in front of it angle it maybe you put it towards the back of the
aquarium like i did then the water will go along the back and it'll circulate around the front so
by the time it gets to the front it's not real strong and obviously you're not going to put any
corals up against the back of the aquarium unless it's a peninsula then you run into a
risk of too much flow across the back that's what i would do george
now i'm going to do the same thing on the 5 gallon in the back there's some hair algae growing up the
back wall and i'm going to clean that off all right so i've already done a little bit because
i forgot to turn the camera on so here we go i'm just going up so i can reach in the back
i've moved this rock structure forward this is one big piece here see it i can lift it up
that's all one piece that i connected from many little pieces so you can check that out
i believe it was five gallon something check some of my beginning videos from about a year ago
and we'll see it how i put it together all right guys so that's how you get rid of hair algae
off the back of your tank and that should not grow back in my estimation because of the low
nutrients it's not going to grow back we'll check in on that from time to time to see if it is
mr tony said espana below all my videos now guys new viewers below the video
i have the requirements for reef tanks around the world sometimes i just talk
way too much so have a great rest of the night and i'll see you on sunday take care now guys
you