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all right let me explain
at this moment of recording which is
105 eastern standard time
i have 995 subscribers
so my thought was i better
do it now because i know before tomorrow
when this is released i'm gonna be at a
thousand
or as soon as this gets released
tomorrow
i'm gonna go over a thousand all right
so today
i'm going to tell you and show you
three basic things that you should do
with your pico reef
to keep it stable growing
and healthy this is just in case
i go to a thousand before this video
comes out what am i supposed to do wait
until wednesday no way
you guys have been waiting a long time
for this me i haven't been waiting for
it
you guys i know some of you have
i bet you can guess the first one of
course
for me tom reefer water change
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all right there's the pico tank i have
the lid off here's the ladder once a
week i'm gonna have to climb the ladder
to do this
and then i'm gonna siphon from the pico
right down into the let's do this home
depot bucket
i just have the top off and the light
showing what we can do here this is not
the actual lighting
so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
take this water level down in the water
change
probably about two-thirds down to stress
out the royal grama it's only been
in there about a week so i've tested
nitrate
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all right guys so i got to go up the
ladder for this
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what's really cool about the picos guys
are they're just so easy to change water
and look at this how nice this works out
see that that's detritus on the bottom
and because of the way my flow is it
accumulates all in that one spot which
is perfect
you can do this if you'd like to i added
a
sponge filter there it's just a piece of
sponge
and i put it in there and what it does
is it collects any of the
detritus or large pieces it's not a real
fine sponge but it collects anything
that goes over the overflow
and it keeps the bottom to some degree
clean gonna pull it out and look how
much that's collected
see that i'm not using this as any kind
of biological filtration i just want it
to remove detritus
and all this stuff see that so i'm going
to rinse this out now
forgive my arm but to get this going
you're going to have to see my
arm okay i started to siphon i'm going
to push that way down there so i can
look up inside here
so i'm trying to do this so you can see
basically i'm siphoning all the detritus
off the bottom
moving it around
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all right let's let's stop it there
there we go what about wearing the hat
like this
all right guys if you want to take less
of a chance
you could go with the pump from this
bucket
and then but i'm going to go the
chancy way
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gotta go a little bit more let's turn
the pump on and see what we got
i think from now on guys i'm not gonna
take that chance
because if i miss you know what i mean
i'll probably just submerge a power head
down in there set it up where the bucket
is over here
and just pump it in a little slower but
safer
turning the pump and the heater back
on
there it goes it's below the sensor
and i don't want that so i need to add
more water
remember guys this was all temperature
and salinity matched so there's no shock
for corals or fish what i mean by the
line
is if the water level is on that line
i know i put the same exact amount of
water back
in and that the return pump
obviously won't run dry you know if i
end
what's even more crucial is when i turn
on the sensor
if that water is not to where the sensor
is or the line they match
the sensor will go off and the ato will
pump
more water with kalkwasser in it
and that wouldn't be good i just wanted
to show you guys there's the detritus
that i pulled out on the bottom
so in all seriousness guys i wanted to
thank the subscribers
obviously i have maybe a thousand
and it's because you guys subscribed so
i appreciate that i'm glad you like the
videos enough to hit that subscribe
button that's kind of cool because i
know how i am i'm pretty
picky about subscribing number two
is placement you have to be
careful about where you place your
corals in a pico reef in a nano reef for
that matter in any reef tank
actually because eventually they grow
and if you have a coral like a hammer
that has
sweeper tentacles that sting then you
run the risk
of killing other corals so that's why
i'm not overloading
the tank with corals here
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the third one is adding calcium now some
of you
more advanced reefers may say well
you're getting enough
in the water change and that may be true
but what i like about dosing kalkwasser
because of stabilizing dkh
ph and it will also
add a little calcium to the water if it
should start to decrease
when the lps start to grow
and it'll also precipitate a little
phosphate which is a good
thing i wouldn't do any tank without
kalgwasa and my ato
which is something i've always done
all right guys what do you think
that does it for this one i think right
yeah i agree
all right so i hope you got something
out of this you pico keepers this is the
way to go
maybe you've been doing it and you're
doing it a little different way that's
fine too
as long as you're successful guys that's
what it's all about is success
success keeping things alive and
flourishing
and having fun and looking at it and
just enjoying it
yeah all right so have a great rest of
the day
and i'll see you on wednesday take care
now
all right let me show you the picot this
is about an
hour and a half after the water change
i'll show you how things are starting to
open up already
let's check it out
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there you go see they're opening up
already
water's a little a little bit cloudy at
this point this is only about an hour
and a half after
so there you go guys
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all right
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