What's up y'all
Back again from the dead with yet another tank update video.
I know you guys are definitely getting sick of these at this point.
Seems like all I do on this channel now is tank updates.
But we need to pull you guys up to speed
because I haven't uploaded on my channel in over a month.
And for that I do apologize.
I've been having health issues recently that has made recording,
editing and uploading YouTube videos an actual nightmare.
But I really do want to get back on track and share with you guys what's going
on with all my tanks, because we have some exciting things coming soon.
You know, we have some exciting things
and I need you guys to get up to speed with what's been going on.
So, yes, yes, it is another tank update video.
But I guess this one's more exciting than the last one.
So at least there's some compromise there.
We're looking here at the beautiful Waterbox 220 gallon bild.
And I just started not recently either. Not recently.
It's been running for maybe like six
months or something embarrassing at this point.
I mean, embarrassing that it should not be looking like this at this stage.
I know you guys instantly are looking at me like what happened?
Why are there no corals, Stephanie?
Why are there no corals?
And I know you're very disappointed in me.
It's just we've had some issues, but the coral quarantine, OK,
we've had some issues which I will get to in a little bit.
But bear with me. I do, in fact, want to add a lovely
Duncan, a lovely zoa frag or a hammer or torch even.
It's definitely at the top of my priority list at the moment.
We're just having some setbacks, which I will show you guys.
I'll show you guys the coral quarantine
and what's going on with that in a little bit.
But I mean, yeah, definitely planning to get those corals in there ASAP.
The biggest update on this guy is that,
look, we added we added the little basic clownfish.
Yes.
We have added them to the tank.
They're so happy.
You know, when I first added them here, they were really confused because I'm sure
this is the largest body of water they've ever been in in their entire life.
They were kind of a bit overwhelmed.
Now they've kind of claimed the left section of the tank.
Also coming close to figuring out who's the female, too, which is exciting.
That little guy has been having some spasms.
So hopefully they get that figured out soon.
Definitely want to get them an anenemone
An anene anemone
An anemmenemone
for them in the future, give them a little home that they can make their own.
You know?
It'll be cute.
It's kind of funny because they're so small that you can't even see them.
Do you see them? I don't see them.
They are so small in comparison to this monstrosity.
As little as they may be,
they are in here and, you know, over time they'll grow and I'll fatten them up.
So I also added the first part of my cleanup crew, which is pretty exciting.
They're kind of all over the place right now.
But hey, I added some Astreas snails, some trochus snails, some scarlet hermits
and some fighting conches.
Got to have the fighting conches.
They're doing really well.
Kind of a funny story.
Well, actually, tragic story involved with adding my cleanup crew.
So I got a few members of my cleanup crew
from my local fish store, AquaStudios,
but I got the bulk of my cleanup crew
online at Reef Cleaners, Reef Cleaners.
But, yeah, the tragic story that happened was I placed the order with Reef Cleaners
it was a very large order actually.
When they arrived, I got the notification
that they were dropped off, went to my mailbox.
And when it came down to opening
my mailbox to get my dear cleanup crew out,
the key, the key would not budge.
The key would not open this door.
I tried everything and unfortunately, the post office was closed.
At this point in time, just my luck,
I had to wait until the next morning to go to USPS, the US Postal Master person.
They expressed concern,
but they didn't actually get anybody out to help me until four p.m. that day.
At this point in time, it's been like 24 hours
and my dear cleanup crew critters were stuck in that poor mailbox.
So very unfortunate when I got them out,
they were no, they were not with us unfortunately.
So I contacted Reef Cleaners just to let them know the situation.
I really had no expectations that they
were going to help me out because it wasn't their fault at all.
Heck, they actually ended up sending me a whole different shipment,
replaced my entire order, shout out to Reef Cleaners.
Ten out of ten customer service for real.
If you guys need any cleanup crew
critters, definitely check out roof cleaners by far.
I don't remember the last time I showed you guys my sump.
And I think it's because every time I look
at peoples sumps onine, everybody's sumps look amazing.
They look so organized, they're just so perfect.
They would bring even Marie Kondo to tears.
You know, they're just pieces of art,
honestly, and I don't know how ya'll do it.
Maybe it's just because it's my first sump,
and I'm still trying to figure out what's what and what goes where and how this all
works, but dang props to you guys because you make it look like it's so easy to get
this thing looking pretty and it's really not.
I think I just haven't shown you guys
what's under here just out of sheer embarrassment, essentially.
I mean, this isn't this isn't organized.
It really hurts my type A personality, honestly, I don't know if I ever brought
it up, but I did end up adding the filter socks to the sump area.
They definitely need a good cleaning now, which I guess is good.
Skimmer has been skimming, too.
I need to clean it out again, by the looks of it,
which man that thing skims and it smells so nasty.
You know, I know I mentioned earlier how excited I was to clean it out.
And I take it back.
I take it back.
That thing, definitely it it really gets to you that that smell.
It's very pungent, to say the least, but it's it means it's doing its job.
Well, my next steps here with the sump area is to obviously make it at least
try to make it look a little bit more attractive.
Definitely get the refugium in this first chamber here.
Get this refugium i'm going here.
I was going to use my Kessill 360X
that I have laying around in my garage thinking of attaching not I'm not really
sure what the best way to attach that thing in here is.
I've seen a lot of people do really cool
makeshift contraptions, but I did come across a little Kessil arm
that I think you can clip on the side of here.
I don't know.
Do you guys have any experience with those little clip mounts?
Because I don't know. I guess I've been looking into that.
I didn't even know that kind of thing existed.
Just goes to show how ignorant I am of sumps.
Oh, gosh, I am so glad that you can't
really see what's going on here because it is horrible
This is all of my wires.
So to say I lack any cable management is a total understatement.
This is really embarrassing.
And
just honestly, a fire hazard at this point
definitely need to plan a big cable management project here soon.
I actually inquired about getting a custom
controller board here, so waiting to hear back from them.
I don't really know what to do in terms of wire management behind this controller board.
This is just like overwhelming me.
And I'd rather just close the door and just not think about that.
The coral quarantine
Ok, so made a lot of progress on this guy
since last time I saw you, but not enough progress, I guess.
This is actually my first reef aquarium ever.
BioCube 29 gallon here.
Last time I showed it to you guys, it was empty.
There was no water and it was absolutely disgusting.
Ended up cleaning it out,
finally added some water, you know, the powerheads and whatnot.
I just recently added some old nasty media from my other tank.
Cycling process is definitely underway.
I bet you guys are wondering, Stephanie, why?
Why is why is the lid still on and why do
you still have those terrible Biocube oven-cooking lamps still on here?
Yeah, I mentioned in the last video I wanted to use that 360x Kessil light
that I had laying around, which I'm now planning on using on the refugium.
Last week I said I was going to put that on this coral quarantine tank.
Well, I think differently now.
Might not be the best idea just because I know
that the 360x designed more for keeping, like, LPS.
Which is fine,
but I do want to have sps in this coral quarantine tank in the future definitely.
And also, I think it's just the best idea
to have my corals that are in my coral quarantine adjust to my lights
and my light schedule before actually going into my big tank to make it as easy
as possible to make sure they're as healthy as possible.
I decided that I think I need to cough up a Radion.
Stick that thing on here.
Still need to get the little arm mount.
So I do actually already have my Radions ready to go.
Radion XR30p Gen 4s here
I just really have to get around
to getting that arm and getting that thing installed.
Just reminds me,
wow, it's going to be a long time until I actually have coral in that thing.
But hey
Patience is the game so I guess it might be worth it.
But hey, I might just like say screw this and just end up adding them early.
At least setting one up makes me feel somewhat responsible.
I'm also super excited to announce that I
added the second batch of fishies into the fish quarantine.
They're so, so, so beautiful.
I have your good ol' royal gramma here,
this little guy, a tank staple.
Honestly, I love these guys.
They're a little shy, cute, colorful selves are amazing.
Also very exciting,
I have my first set of Anthias
I love their coloration.
I also love that they are you know,
they swim in the general water column and they swim in their little groups,
they're just great fish.
Honestly, I was a bit overwhelmed when
picking out which ones I wanted to keep just because there's so many options
of Anthias out there and they're all really beautiful.
But definitely their pictures online do not do them justice.
I could never tell which Anthia was
which because the pictures were always different.
You know, you'd search like Lyretail anthias,
and like, no two pictures were alike.
So I guess it was kind of hard to tell.
But, yeah, I'm I'm really happy with these
guys, I got three Lyretails here, one, two and three.
OK, so these three are female, so they're nice, pretty yellow, orange.
Whoever decides is going to be the male is going to turn like bright red.
And that's pretty cool.
I think they're amazing.
Also, I got two of these Tierra Anthias and they're also really gorgeous.
I didn't initially consider these guys when I was thinking about anthias,
but they happen to be at the store when I got the lyretails come in.
They're definitely super amazing.
The coloration - can't beat it.
I want to look into adding maybe another one
Be a male, I guess, or female, depending on how these guys go.
Beautiful fish.
They're kind of sleepy right now because it is past their bedtime.
They've been eating really well, which is good.
I've been feeding them twice a day to make
sure they get those fat bellies here and so far so good
I have my fish quarantine
process or schedule, I guess all planned out.
And I did get a lot of the medications and stuff that I need.
I will be making a video here in the future, going over the specific
process of what I do and everything or what I plan on doing for these guys.
Stay tuned for that.
So cool to have more fishies in here
and hopefully we'll be able to see these ones in the bigger tank
You know, with all of the bubble algae,
aptasia and lord knows what other types of nuisance algae I have in my 40 gallon,
I really wasn't expecting y'all to actually think the tank looks great.
I mean, pretty sure you guys are just trying to cheer me up.
But, hey, I appreciate it.
And I love how you guys were so quick to jump to cutting off half of my aquascape.
You'll know that was a joke, right?
I mean, if I cut off that ledge, I let the aptasia win, and I can't let the aptasia win.
Right?
Almost looks like they actually belong there.
A new strain of ultra rare collector
Duncan's hit me up for those frags
And oh yes,
All hail
the Holy Aptasia Duncan's.