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I used 2!

Thanks!

Nah. There is a .001 margin of error. So if it is 1.025 it could read 1.024 or 1.026. I find it acceptable.

@shallowreefing my reads 1.021

@@romanzabaznov oh that’s not good. Did you make sure to cover it with your hand, gently clean the sensor, and recalibrate it?

@shallowreefing recalibrated couple times. Still same result

Sometimes I think I am a Fauna Marin fan boy too. Haha. Do you put the PHOS 0.04 in a reactor or bag?

​@@shallowreefing Just in a a bag works for my setup, amount per the directions :)

@@PnCBio that sounds like a future video!

Exactly. It’s that easy!

I love him! I’ve been watching his channel for 4 years. He has some great videos! It seems like everyone is doing DIY battery back ups or talking battery back ups. It’s finally time we have a little insurance for our reef tanks.

@@shallowreefing I recently purchased a battery backup for my tank as well so that’s a funny coincidence. Mine is a bit older and probably no where near as strong but it should atleast run my wavemakers for a few hours. I’ve been following for awhile now, keep up the videos man they’re entertaining.

@@citykidoutdoors8716 haha I appreciate it! I try to make it entertaining. The kids seem to be a hit!

Thanks man!

It’s the 61 inch version of the aquatic life t5 hybrid. I believe it’s the first generation. Idk if they even make it anymore lol 😆

@shallowreefing I currently have a brand new aquatic life coral cover 48 inch I plan to use on the new tank. I also have the im 200 ext.

I am going to supplement it with either 2 kessils or 2 xr15s. It's going to be a mixed reef and the rockwork won't extend all the way to the ends so I hope it's enough light

@@fishybizzness1592 Check out my review on my Par. You can see my Par Breakdowns with the T5 and the Radions. It will give you a good idea on what your par will be.

It really is!

@@ou812reefingA more appropriate replacement for that IceCap battery would be a LiFePO4 of the same size as the sad little lead acid.

For the price I found the ecoflow, I really couldn’t pass it up. Ecoflow is just doing it way better.

Good! You won’t regret it. At that price it’s a steal!

If the drain cover gets clogged with algae I’ve noticed it will fill up the tank but not overflow. I check it monthly and clean it. The drain isn’t noticeably loud to me at all

Consistency is the key. Gotta do those 10% weekly water changes. But if you see in later ICP testing videos I never get any lanthanum in my system. Check out my most recent video on phosphate removal. I think it is better than the single Brightwell phosphate e video.

I’m not gonna change out 160 gallons. lol I only have 60ish gallons of saltwater mixed up on hand. And another 70 of freshwater.

Eh not this coral. This and another brain coral were not doing well. The brain coral died a few months ago and this one wasn’t growing anymore. Only time will tell what happens. But a coral that I’ve had for almost a decade deserves me to try and save it. The smaller frag of it is doing well though! So let’s hope I can turn it around

Yep! It’s all plumbed together

200 gallon innovative marine

Wow. That is kinda shocking. I will admit that fauna Marin is not big in America. I think that’s their biggest problem. I’ve used bacon energy. It’s pretty expensive for the size of idk how it compares to other carbon dosing methods. It seems to have a minor improvement on my tank. But again it’s part of an entire system so it’s hard to tease out how much BE does compared to others.

@@shallowreefing my tank would literally need one drop a day, so 100 ml might last me forever😂.I adore FM products, I have had nothing but success if I just follow the instructions. I got into saltwater in 2006 and have done plenty of mix and match of what I think is going to be the best combination of stuff, as a result of wasted a lot of money as this European style reefing is not only better but less expensive overall. Their foods, Balling Light, bacteria, salt, it’s all extremely high quality. I imagine Tropic Marin is similar, it’s a remarkably better methodology than our North American style 😔

@@PnCBio I just bought a ton of trace and part c for tropic marin along with 35lbs of soda ash haha. I wish I woulda done sodium bicarbonate since that is what fauna Marin recommends. I watched their latest video and it makes sense that there could be too much precipitation with soda ash. I’m doing some things with my tank now in hopes to fine tune it. But I may do a video about their bolus method vs what I am doing. And see what feedback I get.

I want a roller mat soo bad. I just don’t want to redo my plumbing and sump to put one in haha 🤣. That sounds like the perfect set up. Thanks for the compliment!

Good luck! I hope this helps you out a bit and you get some ideas.

Thank you! Ive noticed not a lot of people use their products. But I really like them!

Glad I could help! It definitely is much safer to do it that way since it will go into the socks and then be skimmed out.

Bacteria is also important as they consume phosphates and feeds the corals.

@@jbreefer148 💯 Fauna Marin has played right into peoples struggles with phosphates, nitrates, supplemental bacterias, dinoflagellates, etc etc. I think when u put in dry rock you are destined to get Dino’s , some to a higher extent, others less. The best thing is to get over the 9 month mark, and add coral! The coral eat the nutrients. Also u get different diversity by adding different frags.

So far so good. He has been a model citizen since 2016! But that doesn’t mean that one day he won’t go crazy

Phosphates are a pain in my butt! Hope you get yours where you want.

Thanks for the tip! I manually siphon out as much cyano as I can during water changes and blow it off the rocks to get into the overflow. I put phosphate e in the overflow so it goes through the filter sucks and skimmer and never in the tank. Before this video my phosphates were at 0.3 which is way too high for me. I wanna be below 0.1 I can already see a difference in my corals now that my phosphate is at a better range.

@@shallowreefing i learned the cyano siphon technique from the guys at mack’s dino group. it worked quite well. that way you maintain similar water parameters while removing the bacteria straight into mechanical filtration. it’s gone within a day or 2

Haha you gotta get them all or they will come back. That happened to me too 😅

I didn’t want to get rid of my Micromussa on the rock. I have tried to take that off the rock in the past but it’s calcified onto it. The other rock with the digis on it is HUGE and have sunkists on them too. I wish I would have put smaller rocks there so I could take a small section of rock out. That woulda been a good idea. Thanks for the advice! I got a buddy coming to grab a few mushrooms

I like to live life on the edge 🤣. Jk. Yeah it was intense. I tested the next day and everything was fine. I forgot to mention to siphon out any dead or dying mushrooms from the kalkwasser paste when you do the water change. I still have dozens of more shrooms to 💀

It’s always good to have back ups and to expect the worst case scenario

Thanks man! I totally forgot to show me siphoning some out. I couldn’t get all of em. But yes I should have shown that part too.

Oh man mine are vicious and killing tons of my other SPS and LPS corals

It was the airport Marriott hotel

Yep! That’s why I didn’t do the entire tank. Luckily 200 gallons gives me a lot of leeway. Plus the carbon and water change helped a lot too. If it were to spike too much I could always put a little citric acid in the tank. But that would be a worse case scenario

I didn’t get the blasto. And I’m afraid to get gonis since my gonis are declining. I wanted to do a little more SPS

I’m gonna do the eco flow river 2 for my tank

I have. I just can’t do all the daily dosing. I am doing the bulk 2 part with tropic Marin A and K. But it’s not getting me the levels I want. So I have do a weekly dose of strontium and manganese and daily dose of a potassium nitrate solution. Then once my ICP test come back I do a correction dose of nickel, cobalt, barium, fluoride, iron, and chromium. It’s kinda a lot of corrections honestly. My tank just consumes soo many trace elements at 3 1/2 years.

Yeah the cords are bothering me. But the price of ecotech keeps going up and up

I would say they are quieter. But keep in mind the biggest one is the same size as the smaller jebao gyre. So keep that in mind.

It feels like I just keep taking the hits and keep on rolling

I am doing an update on this as we speak. My entire view on phosphates have changed. But a safe number to shoot for is 0.1 ppm phosphate. I use the Hannah checker to measure it. I believe in a more wholistic approach now where there isn’t just one product that will reduce it to where you want. But it’s more of a multi pronged approach. Reduce feeding, increase filtration, use phosphate E, find the source of your food that has the most phosphates in it and then find a substitute for it. My upcoming video will be done in about 2 weeks. I hope it helps!

@@shallowreefing Thank you so much! Hoping to see it!🙏

And they had some pretty reasonable prices

I wasn’t gonna say anything 🤣