hey guys welcome to the tom reefer
studio
new viewers here's the 20 gallon mixed
reef cube
look at that guy
change that out it's usually really dark
brown up top we have the 5 gallon nano
lps dominant
will slow way down in growth in the back
we have the infamous 6 gallon tall 22
inches high by 8 inches wide are
extremely difficult to keep and over
here we have the 10 gallon peninsula
mixed reef and today's water change
wednesday guys so let's get right into
it
all right guys welcome to water change
wednesday again on thursday new viewers
water change wednesday
is a question and answer format
ask me any question you want below the
video in the comment section i'll answer
it there and then i try to answer it
here i wanted to thank the new members
for joining the tom reefer train
membership i really appreciate it guys i
hope some of the extra things that i'm
giving you i can do it because the
overflow box and here's plastic
are satisfying and fun hey guys just
having my morning coffee let's keep it
going and thanks a lot
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stephen b asked me about filter flaws
steven i use that blue backed filter
media you can buy it in rolls on amazon
and it's got the white side and then a
blue side that's finer and that really
eliminates
all the detritus
when i change that out it's usually
really dark brown or greenish brown you
want to get that right where the
overflow comes in so you want that as
high up on the box as possible what i
would recommend is as a minimum you
should change that out once a week so
kalyn asks me about calcium and
alkalinity and ph i have a few videos on
those kalin if you check back into the
parameters and chemistry playlist
however i'll give you the real short of
it here it is important you have a
balance calcium and alkalinity
you want to be above 420 on your calcium
and you want to be between 8 and 10 dkh
if they get too low you'll start to see
that your corals
especially your sps if you're keeping
any of them will slow way down in growth
alvaro said i seem fit push-ups sit-ups
lunges for legs and when i was a young
guy i lifted weights and worked out all
the time i had some professional
football tryouts for you sports guys
back in the early 80s for the washington
redskins at the time and there was a
league called the usfl this is american
football for you guys outside the states
i was a wide receiver
zachariah picked up a torch coral from a
local fish store that wasn't very
healthy and he asked me how to nurse it
back to health just perfect parameters
guys you know keep your calcium and
alkalinity up keep your nutrients
down
and do your water changes just a healthy
environment will nurse most corals back
to health now if it's got some kind of
fungus or bacterial infection then
you'll probably have to dip it but if
it's not if it's just looking unhealthy
and some of the heads
are you know receding try to nurse it
back with good water parameters and see
how the shadow of diablo asked me how
did i choose my glasses i wasn't sure
what he meant by that sylvia helps me
choose my wife does all my choosing for
me whether it's clothes or glasses
anything that i wear it's my wife helps
me choose aaron asks me about coloration
on his sps sps
are extremely difficult to keep and
really to determine what's causing
things to happen with them he said he's
losing color in that one
but all his other ones look great
so i'm not one for moving things around
if you've done something a little bit
different to your tank some form of a
change that you did just before you
noticed the coloration
diminishing
then that might be something that you
could look at sometimes people say that
if your nutrients get too low like your
nitrate that that can affect the
coloration of your sps i've always kept
my nitrate down real low trace now trace
on a test doesn't mean that there isn't
any nitrate in your water it just means
it's all getting used up and it's not
testing in your water column that's a
tricky subject you know if you start
raising your nitrate by maybe adding
more food or however whatever method
you're going to use you run the risk of
an algae outbreak so
i do dose amino acids
in my tanks
try the amino acids and see if that
helps and keep everything the same and
if you did make a change did something
different
don't do that again i got a couple
questions on battery backups and i guess
here in the states it's because
of the hurricane that came through chris
talked about a battery backup too and he
mentioned that he's down in louisiana
all he can manage to do is run an mp10
for a few hours a day the key with no
power guys is oxygen and temperature
obviously but it's the summer months
here so it's really oxygen if you can
keep your water circulating
throughout the time of the outage
you run a good chance
of saving your stuff if it's too hot
he's doing what you should do you get
some ice blocks and you just have to
keep putting these ice blocks in your
water which lower the temperature down
you know try to keep it as low as
possible sometimes people you know 86
degrees they've things have survived you
may lose some but if you can keep it as
stable as you can
and these blocks of ice and baggies that
usually can get you through it what i'll
do with that one is i'll put a link
below this video and it'll link you to
where i found
a great
battery backup method that i use and i
just followed that one at the time i
just had the 20 and the 5 gallon and i
kept almost everything running on there
the whole time from my backup so i'll
put it in the link below y'all salty
checked in he asked me what i would do
differently with my gsp the next time
around i kind of complain about it once
in a while at first i was trying to
avoid the complaints but now it's really
getting out of control in my 20 gallon
so what i would do is put it on an
island rock or put it on the walls of
the aquarium like i'm doing in my six
gallon but if it's on an island rock
then it's just going to grow on there
when this first started it was such a
small piece we're talking about five
years ago it was a little piece in my
ten gallon that was on the main
structure of my rock so over time it's
just spread all over so that's what i
would do differently all right guys that
should do it for this one have a great
rest of the evening if you're watching
it at night i'll see you on sunday we're
going to do the 10 gallon update
everything on sunday with this take care
now
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