look what i have in the goody bag today
and i'm going to put them up in here
before we get into it i wanted to thank
you guys for the comments
it was fun at reef-a-palooza i wanted to
thank the guys who recognized me raymond
and hector as i was leaving yeah tommy
tommy i watch you so it's just a great
time all right so let's get back into
the video
lots of stuff is happening in here
some good
and only a little bit bad if you want to
call it bad some algae issue that's
we're going to talk about today along
with some of the new growth on some of
my corals that were almost dead and gone
and we'll get into each one that i think
is important
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all right so they're hermit crabs i got
200 of them today
i have such a serious
hair algae issue on a few places i just
wanted to make every effort to get rid
of it i have some here i have some here
here
here in the back
and i think there's some in here see it
down in here
so i can't manually remove this i've
been trying to do that every day either
in there with these
or this
these tongs long tweezers or these
forceps pulling hair algae out that's
why i got the hermit crabs
and i load it up if you want to get rid
of hair algae you can't put one
per two gallons or one per gallon you
need to flood your tank with hermit
crabs so i had 200 i put a few in the 10
and i put a few in the 20 and a few more
in the five but i probably have 150
to
175
in the 75. this is kind of a cool little
thing i wanted to show you this just
happened i just figured this out today
these alligator clips and my lighting
rack is just the right height
to be able to float the bags
in the water
and keep them from drifting all over the
tank because my wave makers will blow
the bags all over the place so this is
what i got going here here
here
and here in my experience you have to
have a lot of hermits to get rid of hair
algae and you have to pull off the real
long strands so this is about two hours
later
and they dispersed right
so i know most of them made it
yeah these guys are moving
this guy's checking everything out i
like to see that right there
because that means they're going right
for it
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you know if you can't have fun in life
what's the purpose i'm going to try it
from the top down today i have the water
pumps off everything's off so this gives
you a bird's eye view of the top
there's my green star polyp they are
looking great
and i'm glad i kept them on this rock
because they're not spreading out onto
anything else they're staying right
there this is closed up now it goes
through those periods i wish it was open
for the video but it's not
this leather coral is getting huge
my yellow colostria have really grown
they're not growing in a
brain pattern you know i'd like them to
fill in but they're growing a lot of
branches so i'm happy with that my
paleos are looking great
they really colored up nicely once under
this like this is
bright light in here guys my bottom of
my tank is probably 250 pars these are
under about 300 par right now all this
stuff and they're doing really well but
i went really slow here's my yellow
leather
so my dunkins look great they really
have grown and exploded in growth since
i put them in the 75.
i'm really pleased with the growth and
the color of the duncans from the time i
put them in the 75
they've grown exponentially and the
color has gotten really really nice
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i feed them about once a week
they get a lot of food from my normal
feeding the fish
and i'm just really pleased with the way
they look now
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i'm really pleased with the way the tank
is looking in here it's really clean
clear the water is really great
parameters are good so the recordia look
awesome
and you can see it's ready to split you
see the second mouth we're at about the
six month period now
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my australian leather is still dropping
branchlets
so that's kind of cool
and the polyps are closed up a little
because that happens when they start
dropping branch you'll see ones down
there
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if i had to give you any advice again
i've said it before
in this hobby you need patience i'm
talking about months of patience maybe
like six months of patience with certain
things
this gorgonian back here has really
grown it's branching off there's more
branches coming off it and it's growing
taller
and it just looks really really nice
remember this guy here
this is a green monty digitata
it was large it died
and now it's coming back
and here's the
fire digita montipora back there and
that's starting to come up
these came out at the 10 gallon and
they're growing
that's another digitata fire digitata
this is a style of four here
this acro is really growing well and
coloring up since i brought it in from
the 10. i believe it's called rainbow
granulosa
and it's starting to get the green tips
with purple in there and a little of the
blues and then down low we have some
tans and green
yellow leather is looking really nice
too it's not growing larger but it's
nice and healthy and i think it's maxed
out on its growth or it's just slowing
down this is a nice shot
that's a money shot right there look at
that i just got that before i was gonna
shut off look at that huh
right there tang's munching out on the
nori
soaked with cell con maybe he'll go
after some of the hair algae he eats a
little bit of it but not a lot
he is not a hair algae eater
clownfish is getting big
ej is doing great
citron gobi is actually citron because
he is orange in color look at these guys
see they're already at work on this
my school of chromis is doing awesome
uh there's some infighting but not
enough for any of them to have died off
i told you i had one but that was some
time ago what i've been doing lately
guys is just filter sponge in here just
to collect the big stuff
and here's the pump to the refusium that
goes up i put a
gate valve on it so i can control the
flow in it we'll do an update on that i
got a mini refugium growing inside my
overflow box which is fine let the algae
grow in this little section here
usually when i take my skimmer out i
have to scrape algae off it's getting
too much light but it's fine because i
clean it once a week once every two
weeks
and it's serving its purpose it's doing
what it's supposed to do it doesn't
matter what it's growing on the outside
i also wanted to mention that i'm
running the skimmer on reverse photo
period so i'm only running the skimmer
in the evening hours and the reason for
that is because of the
nitrate and phosphate still being quite
low
my mp10 runs on a tidal surge
every 3 to six hours it cranks up
and then it comes down
so this is the title surge right now
and you can see
that it's creating a decent amount of
flow it's actually flowing this way
and that's because it's bouncing off
this side
from over here so the mp10 is a pretty
powerful
wave maker
and it's perfect for this tank so you
can see with my return
i also have the little
higer mini wave to kind of keep the back
flow going
and in here
so you can see it creates a really nice
surface agitation and flow in the tank
all right if you're new to the channel
this is my lighting setup i have three
kessel a80s
116 hd
and two ai soles and i found that this
way i can spread the light over my tank
far better than if i had one of the
hydras where the two lights are
clustered quite close together and i
also had several of these lights before
i decided to make the 75 gallon what is
that
oh
you