Hi everyone and welcome to my channel Aqua Splendor my name is Nicolas Marion
and this is gonna be my frag tank so this frag tank is gonna be stand alone
and I don't to be to have anything like connect to this aquarium and I
want to have this video like super straight on the point so I'm gonna show
the equipment I'm going to show how I build this stuff so let's get to it so
this is gonna be my frag tank as you can see it like it's a kind of a shallow
and there's a reason behind it if you wonder actually the the dimensions like
it's 90 centimeters long 40 centimeters wide and the height is a 30
centimeter and the reason why I want this kind of dimensions because first I
need a small tank but I mean like a shallow tank so it's gonna be like more
easy for me like if I have like frags I can reach more easily and the other
reason also it's because you don't need like have a strong light that cast
the light ships on there frag any is just make the stuff like it more easier
and put the light to cover a more big area and you
can see it's a rimless tank all my tank, aquarium tank, are always
rimless this is my go-to and there's unfortunately need to protect the bottom
because it is gonna have like some pressure so what I have I have like this
old Mouse carpet mouse pad that I'm going to use and I'm gonna just like cut
like in half so I'm gonna put like a on each corner I'm gonna put them and you
can see there's my level so I did some days some tests for the level and I
found out that it was just kind of alright but I need to do some a
correction so I'm gonna do some question to make sure like it's a little bit
level, not crazy level because if there is like an
accident of water I prefer to have the water spread in front of me and maybe on
the side because it's just easier to clean if there's like a mess so this is
the reason why I'm gonna offset just slightly just a little bit
so I'm gonna work on that and if you wonder for the equipment this is
the filter I'm going to use it's gonna be pretty much like my the
heart of my friend thing I found it like really more simple to have like a
canister filter instead of having a sump it's, I have a small
apartment so if I can like just compact the stuff together it's gonna be more
simple for me I'm not going to use the the bio
that's like inside of it I'm gonna do the carbon that come with but this is
gonna be pretty much like the equipment I'm going to use so I'm going to use the
for the bacteria this Brightwell bacteria the Microbacter 7 and
I'm gonna use the bio bricks oh and by the way like there's none of this
equipment it's like sponsoring I just bought everything so this thing I'm gonna
use I'm gonna test this stuff because I think it's like its super solide
piece of product so I will put to the test I bought two of them so this is gonna be
the bacteria to remove the nitrate and stuff etc.. etc.. etc..
for the light I'm gonna have the prime HD (Soon Prime 16) and with the arm and I'm gonna use
the Nero 5 pump, for the heater I have the eheim
I think the 100, not quite sure so can I use that heat and because I spent like so
much money I'm gonna use like every all the power bar yeah don't judge me and
I'm gonna use some GFO and this is gonna be where I'm gonna put all the
frag tank so I'm gonna cut like a chunk of it and I'm gonna put that inside of
the tank so this is pretty much like the essential equipment that I'm gonna use
for that thing
all right so I just leveled this frag aquarium, unfortunately I have to level the
aquarium like from the bottom of the aquarium it's not ideal but due to
circonstance I don't have a lot of choice because the that things
like super old and I can't puts stuff on the bottom there's like some issue with
that furniture so I'm gonna cross my finger and so right now I'm gonna just
put some water inside of it and make sure that there's no leak and I'm gonna
my fingers again!
all right so while I wait to see if there's any leak I'm gonna cut that egg
crate and to the dimension for this aquarium but I'm going to leave like a
some like 2/3 inch of space just in case like for the pump or for
any kind of like maybe the filter so I'm gonna leave some some space just in case
and so I'm gonna use a cutter like this what I use for the coral and I'm
gonna just cut this eggcrate
all right so this is the surface for my frag plug and look at that it's like a
glove whew Wow Oh, what are the odd seriously they are made because of that now as you can see
it fit in tank but the egg crate need to be lift like from around this area
and the reason why I want to have this is because of
the let's say the Nero5 so what I'm going to do is like I'm gonna
just count the number of square the goal is to put the Nero 5 just
underneath the the egg crate so 1 2 3 4 5 so I think like this 5 square of
height is gonna be enough like to just put the flow like just
underneath the frags alright so this is my leftover for
the egg crate I'm gonna build some leg on the egg crate for the frag plug in my
aquarium so four for each corner of my aquarium
so I'm going to do one for demonstration and after this way I'm just going to use
a tire like this to hold everything together so here an example for one of
the corner and one of the reason I forgot to mention the reason why
I just like to use like that height is because I'm gonna use the the Brightwell
bricks and I just wanted to make sure like it fit correctly to the frag tank
thing so as you can see I still have like plenty of space so that's pretty
good and I'm gonna put two of these in the frag tank so I'm going to build three
more and after that I'm gonna attach the corner to the to the eggcrate
all right so I just finished the rack there way go so it didn't took
long as you can see we still clear oops it's night so it took me a little bit a
while but the product is there so it's time to put in it
oops um I might miss something in my plan
alright so it wasn't that bad it's just because I have to like to just push so
as you can see I left I left some space and it's pretty much into the tank very
well oh that's a really weird looking but um yeah there we go
I think I measure like this effect correctly because the or is pretty tight
so I have the filter just over there so it's pretty tight and look and
so this is gonna be like for the can filter and its gonna be another thing over
there and just look there's the nero5 just over there and it fit just
perfect so I think I'm gonna leave it like this
and it's gonna leave me like a lot of space for have a look at a lot of frag
so I thought about something while I was emptying the the
water from the tank it was a tap water and I thought hey you know what if I put
like a skimmer just in case I might not have enough room so I took my skimmer
from my other tank this is the like the Tunze 9004 from tunz tunz how do you
pronounce will turns it whatever you how you pronounce it and so I might just cut
like just three row over there to make sure like it it fit I wasn't planning like to
put the skimmer inside of the tank maybe you might be surprised by that but
just in case I need a skimmer I'm gonna just cut those row over there and I also put
two extra support in the middle to make sure like it doesn't break in when I put
some pressure so we should be fine
so for the filtration I use the filter canister like this I'm
going to use inside this chamber so the mechanical part, the coarse side I'm
gonna use it the carbon that was provided in the filter and for the last
Chamber I'm gonna use some GFO just like that, I like to hole this stuff like this.
It' time to put the salt so I have two salt and since I have like trouble with that
one I crushed my tank with this one you can see the video up there I'm gonna use
the red sea blue bucket and instead of putting like a 1.035 salinity gravity
I'm gonna put like 1.020 or something like that and go stop stop by
lowing the salinity in the water what I heard is it's going to accelerate their
processes of proalification of the bacteria inside of the water so after
maybe one week or two I'm gonna put the the normal salinity into the frag tank
all right so I just hook up the filter and the flow seem to be pretty good I like that
you see there's a little bubble but it's going to like fade away eventually so
this is the canister right now there is a lot of tubbing so might need to chop
those to be eventually but for now it work I'm just gonna leave it like that
um so yeah that how it look, i like that.
So one little trick some people use that they put like a shrimp into that
aquarium to put like some bacteria and stuff like that
but I I got a better idea yeah that's right let's put that into the tank you
know sometimes you get a stepped up your game I guess alright
Oooaah it touch!
Alright so now for the most important part of the aquarium I'm gonna use those bricks from brightwell aquatic they're supposed
to be like the biggest surface area product available so I'm very curious to
test it out and just like surprised that it looked like a little bit pink to my
eyes so this is what I'm going to you so this is one you can see the thickness so
I'm going to use a lot of these and I'm gonna fill up with bacteria and
hopefully this is gonna filter in my my frang tank alone
so here's the brick I'm gonna use the microbacter7 from Brightwell
all right so also for the bacteria I just pull up my bio media that I use in
my current aquarium so I'm just going to take maybe like just a sample you can
see there are seeded with bacteria and I'll kind of I don't know
so yeah I'm gonna use that get those little one and I'm gonna just see the
aquarium with that
and another thing also I I got is the Bacteria balls
It's called bacto Reef balls by Fauna marin and I got a like a sample of
them so I'm gonna use for the tank and the cool thing with that is if I can
open with my hand so you see the ball right now look at that just like a
magician they will just disappear
I think we can't see them that's the thing like once they got into the tank
it's really hard to notice them like they they're almost like invisible the
refraction is pretty much a similar so those bacteria should fill the tank and
yeah so I think i'm cover with bacteria plenty of it so that thing need
to be cycle and I'm going to cycle it for like maybe I don't know three weeks
I will see what happened and I'm really counting on this to filter this aquarium
so crossing my finger all right so this is how I built my Frag aquarium I hope you
learned something if you have any suggestions for me how
to improve that thing let me know down below I will always take a look on the
comments and thank you for watching