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i haven't come into the studio in a long
time this way guys
here's the 20 gallon refugium macro
display
it's going to be a mushroom dominate
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all right
today i'm going to show you what my
sunday routine is on all the tanks
i do everything on sunday so let's get
into it
okay to get to the 20 gallon sides and
back to clean the glass i have to remove
everything from the cabinet so i put the
light up i take all the knick-knacks off
and take the shelf out
i just use this razor scraper to clean
the front and the sides and if i'm going
to see the back of the glass in this
case the 20 gallon
black background i'm going to clean that
off and keep it clean i just like the
way that looks
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what i do here is take a square block of
filter foam and filter floss and
whenever i'm cleaning the sides i stick
that in the back compartment after the
skimmer and that way any of the big
particles that come off the sides of the
glass will collect in there
more recently i've been keeping a foam
block and filter floss in the back
compartments of my aios and all my tanks
it just polishes the water makes it look
good and it does collect quite a bit and
you'll see that coming up
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what i'm doing here is i use this turkey
baster to blast the rocks of any of the
detritus that settles on there this is
toward the end and you'll also notice i
have a submersible cheap cascade 300
it's probably about 20 dollars and it's
just a submersible filter with some
filter floss and foam blocking and it
stirs the water up more and takes in all
the larger stuff just to make everything
go a little quicker with the cleanup
here's the infamous reef glass skimmer
it's great for 20 and under if you would
like to use one i've had this for about
two years now and i usually clean this
about once every two weeks or so
when the tank is old like this one is i
always vacuum what gravel i have in
there i've been feeding this heavily
with the file fish and it's always had a
higher phosphate level so i'm always
vacuuming the gravel each time i do a
water change all right guys so
let's have a quiz how much of a water
change am i doing here
you're right if you said about 20
that's what i'm doing so i had all the
water mixed up temperature ready
same salinity
and we pour it in in the big home depot
bucket
and this is how i do my water change
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having a few issues with the macro algae
tank i have to call the guys down at uh
reef cleaners i'm getting this kind of
mom
growing on the exterior parts of the
macro algae maybe you guys can help me
with that i've never kept a macro algae
tank per se so i'm going to call the
guys at reef cleaner and find out if
that's normal
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okay where to begin with the 5 gallon
macro algae refusium gravity fed i have
to climb up on top of the cabinet and
what i decided with this one is the same
as my other tanks i want to keep
everything clean even the refusium
especially that it's a macro algae
display so what i'm going to do on my
sunday is i'm going to clean all the
sides on this
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lately i'm just liking everything really
clean that feeling of seeing through the
glass through the aquarium it just
really looks nice to me
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i turned the return pump off on this so
everything settles down in the refugium
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and then after it settles i'll go in and
siphon the bottom with my gravel vac and
get all the
excess that's floated to the bottom and
clean it up as much as i can and this
will serve as a partial water change for
the 75 gallon because it's feeding down
into the tank
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all right so you guys know i like to
keep my tank glass clean and that
includes the back i'll take out the
pumps today
and i'll clean them out
and i'll put them back in
and no water change just cleaning today
i did a water change last week so i'm
not going to do one this week
so you can see how dirty it is so the
filter floss and sponges
i make extras and lately i've been using
them all the time i've been using the
sponge
and then the floss on top of the sponge
and i've been changing the floss
every other day
if you see this other one that i just
took out how dirty it gets
so what i do
is i place the floss right up against
the overflow box area
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this section here
and that collects everything that goes
over and in time it'll it'll flow over
this
but this collects everything and keeps
the water really nice and polished
that's the way i'm doing it now i change
back and forth a month from now i might
be just taking the floss out and keeping
the filter sponge in
for a large particulate that may be
traveling over but i like the way the
water looks when it's polished and as
long as things look really healthy
and are growing then i'll go with the
filter floss
so i'm going to really clean the hole
back out guys
i'm not going to film the whole thing
but you get the idea i'm going all the
way across top to bottom
so you can see how dirty it is see
there's two spots that i didn't scrape
from back here you don't really see it
that much
but it's dirty
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to clean the side i have to remove both
the wave makers the higer mini wave is
in the back
and the mp10
is in the front so i'll remove those and
clean the side
with the razor blade
this is about two weeks of growth
and the mini wave is a great wave maker
but it needs to be cleaned frequently i
usually clean it about once every two
weeks
on the other hand the mp10 i only clean
about once a month and that's plenty
and you can see where i took the pump
off
and that black marker line is on the
outside of the tank
i don't think i'm going to be able to
get around and show you but i put that
there as a reference so i know where to
put the dry side
on the back of the tank so it goes back
in the same spot
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i forgot to turn the green light on in
the back cabinet there i wanted you guys
to see it i'm not doing the whole video
over again see it
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