hey guys welcome to the tom reefer
studio here we have the 20 gallon mixed
reef cube look at that guy i've always
liked overflow boxes even in the nanos
up top we have the five gallon peninsula
i use all my blues and in the back we
have the infamous six gallon tall 22
inches high by eight inches wide the
higher mini wave and over here this is
the focus today the 10 gallon peninsula
mixed reef
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hey guys
today's focus is a 10 gallon i thought
i'd
give you a little
demonstration of the size sometimes we
don't realize how small these nano reefs
are you know when we're showing close up
so this is it this is the 10 gallon
we're gonna dive into it i'm gonna show
you what's going on update it for new
viewers i'm going to show you
a little bit about how this all came to
be seven months old so this is still
relatively a very new tank new viewers i
had a serious algae problem which is
normal for a new tank i'm gonna show you
how i fix that i'll show you what i have
in the tank and i'll also show you how
this build came to be
i have something so unusual to show you
guys so hang in there and watch you
gotta see this today it's incredible so
i'm going to show you that today too
this is a cheap 10 gallon a 25 10 gallon
tank that i added an overflow box to
so it's worked really well i've always
liked overflow boxes even in the nanos
for oxygen exchange and you can put
filter floss and you can put the pump
down in there
all right let's take a look at the
inhabitants i have in there we'll look
at the corals
and then we'll look at the fish
so
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i get a lot of questions about lighting
my lighting schedule what i've posted in
the community tab is the lighting i have
over my 20 gallon
with the 16 hd here i have the ai prime
sole
and these are my settings for that
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my lighting schedule is very much the
same in all my tanks
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this is the ai prime sole there is no
red or green in it it's just the blues
and the cool white i usually start out
with about 60 percent
of cool white i use all my blues and no
red or green and i have my cool white at
65 at this point now i didn't do that
right from the beginning i probably was
at about 60 percent but only went a few
hours a day maybe three four hours at
that peak and then ramp down so my
ramping period now
is seven am it ramps up till eleven
and then it starts to ramp down at about
six pm and it goes off at 8 30.
my parameters in here have been running
very low nutrient as far as nitrate
my phosphate is usually hovers around
1.0 a little less
last time i checked it was .07
so i like to keep it under one but like
i've always said it depends on the tank
for example i know my 20 gallon is not
under
one it's probably between one and two
and everything looks really good in
there so i'm not so concerned about the
numbers but phosphate you don't want to
get too high because then you'll start
to get the algae explosions all right
let's take a look down inside this
overflow box really simple but it works
really well in the back here the
overflow i just keep a little filter
flaws to collect the detritus from going
over i normally have a little
screen in here
to kind of prevent any snails and
hermits from climbing over but they
don't seem to be so i took it off
and then i put this filter sponge
underneath it it's a more coarse
filter sponge it just holds the floss up
the ato micro down in there and i have
the higer
50 watt
mini heater which is done really well
the mini heater actually has a
thermostat control on the outside
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so
dose kalkwasser in my ato the container
is a three gallon container and that
lasts me about a week i'm putting about
a teaspoon in three gallons i usually
recommend a half teaspoon per gallon but
what i'm noticing a good portion of that
settles out so i've been down to about a
third of a teaspoon per gallon flow is
the heiger mini wave
that's been a little bit of an issue
it's perfect for this size tank but
what's happening here's the tom reefer
description of how the flow works it's
coming this way and it goes across the
front
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comes around here and then i have my
return
pushing this way so there is a little
bit of a slow area in here
and that's probably why the hair algae
is worse in this situation you knew
reefers if you're trying to get your
flow right you want to try to get flow
in as much area as you can
my six gallon if you look at this really
quick the flow down towards the bottom
is very minimal if you notice there's
not much at all and i don't have any
hair algae in there fish i've said it
before i have the dotty back in there
the orchid dotty back i have the six
line rast oh man finally caught him
there he is i saw some sand cloud
and he's in on that
snail guys
doesn't look like he's moving right now
but i think he's just latched on to it
tried to get the snail and the snail
might have clamped down on his nose
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you guys are witnessing the end of the
six-line wrasse i tried to pull him
apart the snail is clamped down on him
a pretty fish six line is a beautiful
fish but my guess is it needs a bigger
tank too close to all those snails and
hermits i fed it regularly it wasn't
like it was hungry that's just the
nature of the six line
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so those of you who want to get a 6 line
no way in 10
larger than 50 i would say
and hopefully it wouldn't do the same
thing there
i have a peppermint shrimp in there who
i'm not thrilled about him either
you know he climbs on stuff but
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he's nice and red and healthy he hasn't
really bothered anything to an extreme
so until things are closing up and not
opening and i really see problems i'll
just keep the inhabitants like they are
for now i also wanted to mention for the
hair algae stage i did do
fluconazole i did a three week treatment
which eliminated all the algae except
the bubble algae so as far as the bubble
algae is concerned i'm going to just
keep an eye on it i don't like
trying to pull those off because if the
bubbles burst it just spreads spores and
it'll get crazy i know emerald crabs
sometimes work they've never done a job
on mine when i've tried them so i'm just
going to keep an eye on it all right
guys that should do it for this one have
a great rest of the day and i'll see you
on wednesday or thursday take care now
guys
you