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a lot of work today guys
i gave you a little sneak peek in the
beginning just so you know what i worked
on
we have a lot to talk about new viewers
my name is tom this is tom reefer
channel
and i've just been adding to the studio
here
and we've just added this 10 gallon live
rock experiment
all right so here comes the live rock
guys
put it in the tank
and get it going so the first thing i
did
was to make an interior overflow box and
let me show you how i did that
oh
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i'm
make an internal overflow box
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also going to show you how i silicone
the
panels inside to make it an interior
overflow
the picot up here is exterior this one i
thought okay have a little more room
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dude
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all right so i have the two panels in to
create the overflow box
guys interior and
i wasn't going to clean up any more than
the front
but i'm noticing i'm a little picky
about this
so i'm going to clean up a little bit
here and i'll show you how i do that
i forgot to tell you this guys this is
what i used
to get the bottom off and top
you just flip the tank upside down
and you just score it it requires a
little bit of
elbow strength and muscle it a little
bit
but they come off all right so what i'm
doing here guys
is just soaking it a little bit with
paint thinner eventually it loosens up
and i can use the
scraper while that's soaking
i'm gonna go get the scraper i gotta
leave the studio to get it out here
i think where the hell is it now
see guys this is my problem i have no
memory left anymore maybe it's in here
out here
yes so you want to use this right here
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the idea with the live rock experiment
was
if your new viewer is to just measure
what's happening with the tank
week to week and i'll do subtle changes
to see what grows
if this were any more than 10 gallons i
don't think i'd be able to do it
all right here it is there's about 10
gallons of water in here
i'm assuming maybe a little less but
it should all fit in the tank
because of the volume of the live rock
get this
as close as we can
now we'll go get some hose and the pump
that i was using i'll use the cj
1.0 just to pump the water in
and that should do it in a couple
minutes let me go get that
all right so pumping the water in now
we're putting the salt water in
last i checked 1.025
what i'll probably do here is manually
add makeup water
so as time goes by i'll figure something
out with
the addition of the makeup water
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all right so the next thing we have to
do is put the rocks in
and then put the rocks in the live rocks
alright i wanted to point out something
guys before we start
this stuff right here is great
it's called insta-set it goes along with
this it comes together
and after you put the icy glue gel on
you spray this on it and it instantly
sets it up really quick
i'm gonna get some gloves on going into
the drawer
kind of cool this wi-fi mic
right guys dr tom reefer put his gloves
on
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i noticed it was here
liberal amount on this point and it was
here
maybe back here i thought i saw a spot
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um
no noise at all which is nice
i like that a little bit of bubble noise
that's just because we turned it on
all right perfect
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guys i'm feeling a little overwhelmed
with all these tanks i have now do you
realize i went from
5 gallons maximum water change
and now to do water change if i did them
all at once
if i do 20 even 20 changes
i'm up to almost 20 gallons of water
that's costing me salt you know
so anyway
yeah well it's a studio now now it's a
fish room
it's no longer a guest room with a fish
tank
it's now a fish room here i'm going to
set up the heiger today i'm going to put
it on this side
run it across this section here
this is coming this way it'll meet and
you should get some flow going around
here we'll test it out
those of you who have not seen the
height or this is awesome look how small
this is i've done two videos on this
it's tiny it's a little wave maker it's
programmable
and it's small
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all right let's see what this looks like
with the light
turn some lights off here so you'll get
an idea
this is off all right i got it guys it's
working
so here we go this is what i'm going to
do with it i'm going to come in right
about here
this is my normal setting at this time
of day it's like one o'clock in the
afternoon
i'm gonna come down low and just not set
it so high i don't want so much spread
see what happens
you don't get that much light i like
this defined crisp light and i just
won't
set it so high i'll take par readings
that'll be another video
and that's kind of the way it'll be i'm
really excited to see what grows in here
watch nothing grow off it it's gonna
take some time
you know it'll take some time if it
takes too long
we'll just start adding corals to it
let's take a look at it
all right so there it is
right i got my light
100 on uv and violet
40 on the blues
and then i have the 30 on the
white and i toned it way down from my
normal because i'm only about
6 inches away i don't like a big spread
guys you don't need it
and it just spreads out that's why i did
this light canopy
it's done with foam core board
and foam blocking it's temporary i just
didn't want to go screw anything in
or dangle anything if this holds up for
a while i may just stick with something
like this
i just think it looks pretty minimalist
it doesn't spread out over the sides
just the way i like it i got these other
glasses too guys
sometimes these are better on reflection
they don't reflect as much but right now
i'm completely
blurry these are for distance
you know so up close they're blurry
and then i got these for my reading
see i see the camera perfect i see you
guys
perfectly clear with these on but i
think these reflect
more and i got these these are guests
these are nice these are the ones my
wife likes
these are the ones sylvia likes she
likes me to wear these when we go out
she says i look younger with glasses on
let's see if you agree
tom reefer
with without no
all right so anyway
all right guys i think that should do it
for this one
kind of losing my mind behind this
camera sometimes guys
if you could see what i don't put on i
used to put bloopers on
or outtakes
and then i stopped i don't know my
videos were getting long i noticed they
were dropping off at that point like
people were tuning out so i don't know
anyway
i'm glad you guys watching
i'm glad you guys are watching
everything is going real well with the
channel
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and uh that's it
that's all i have to say all right guys
what do you think
i know i know it's enough i agree
all right if i've forgotten anything
leave it in the comments below i'll get
to it on wednesday hopefully
always hopefully on wednesday i'm
getting pressure
i don't want to feel any pressure i'll
try to get to them on wednesday
you