- Today, in the Five-Minute Saltwater Aquarium Guide
in this series, you've learned nearly everything
that you need to know to get started,
but what about those inevitable questions?
What about the inevitable tank upgrade
or oddball challenge that fell into your lap?
What's next?
That's comin' up.
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Hey, I'm Ryan, your host at BRStv
in the Five-Minute Saltwater Aquarium Guide.
This is a clear, simplified, and direct path
to setting up that first successful reef tank.
Today, we give you some of the final tools,
not just another episode of what to do,
but where to find information unique to your journey
and, in some cases, personalized answers to your questions.
After 29 Five-Minute episodes, I can confidently say
in less than two and a half hours
or the time it takes to watch a single movie,
you're better prepared than a vast majority
of reefers doing this for their first time,
and maybe even better prepared
for that second more successful tank.
In that spirit, I have three final tools to share
that should put the polish on this experience
and really bring it home,
first of which is personalized questions
with direct answers.
You're always gonna have questions,
and our friends at Reef 2 Reef
provide what I believe to be the single best arena
for getting qualified answers.
In conjunction with that, I believe one of the best ways
to get the right answer is a combination
of supportive sources that confirm each other's accuracy,
sometimes in a single resource.
I believe the #askBRStv Facebook group delivers on that.
In this case, you get to ask the BRS team your question.
The team answers almost every question directly first,
followed directly after with the best
of what the BRS reefing community believe
to be the most helpful answer.
That unique combination hones in
on some of the most helpful answers fast.
Even if you're not an active Facebook user,
the group is a great tool that organizes conversation,
media resources, and notifications on your phone,
which also happens to be a camera and research tool
that's almost always in your pocket.
This kinda thing didn't exist when I started,
but I sure wish it did.
Outside of that, you just watched 29 episodes
on setting up a first reef tank
and created that baseline of knowledge.
This series mostly focused on the how
or a clear direct recipe for success.
There'll be a time when you wanna dig in deeper,
know the why, or supporting evidence behind
why things are done the way they are,
as well as the research or best tools for the job.
In that case, BRStv has over 1,000 other reefing videos
that cover almost every aspect of setting up
and maintaining all kinds of reef tanks.
These go way beyond the how
and help you understand the why
these methods work so well.
Hunting down these resources on YouTube
can actually be a significant challenge,
but we got two options.
First, check out the BRStv channel page.
We have playlists or series dedicated
to the best gear of the year,
investigative and research topics,
so we challenge every idea we can in reefing,
but, also, the most popular series
is absolutely the "52 Weeks of Reefing"
where we track the setup and progress
of 160-gallon reef tank.
Not all that different from the five-minute guide,
but done in 20- to 30-minute episodes
for those who are really ready to dig in
for a more advanced look at each topic.
Even newer is a special series
where we partnered with a thought leader
in livestocking coral with worldwide coralists
to produce a hybrid method
to a simple, but stable, more advanced reef tank.
That said, the YouTube channel page
is not a very effective way
to organize 1,000 videos,
specifically if you wanna find the latest,
most relevant work.
We upped our game this year
and organized them into the header category
of the Bulk Reef Supply website.
Now, all the newest, most relevant, or best information
on any topic ranging from chemistry, additives, pumps,
or plumbing is neatly organized
into a dozen major categories
with a handful of refinements below.
Between the five-minute guide,
those more in-depth series,
mobile access to the BRS team and larger BRS community,
I don't think there's a question or challenge
that can't be solved.
If you'd like to see the behind the scenes
of our BRS studio and the 50-plus reef tanks,
the team behind them, the experiment lab,
and even the warehouse,
check out our whole tour right here.
But there's always another series in the works.
As I speak, I'm building my own personal dream tank
in my own home.
If you're interested in what that process looks like,
after 15 years of reefing, what I want in my own home,
this is the BRS360.