The Transfer - 3 Nano Reef Tanks into 1! | Blue Reef Tank
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- The Transfer - 3 Nano Reef Tanks into 1! | Blue Reef Tank
The anticipated video is here! I am finally sharing how I set up the Waterbox Frag 104.5 and managed to transfer all the livestock and corals from my three nano tanks. The transfer process was tedious, but the results are so worth it!
Seeding the new tank with the existing biodiversity from my old tanks has been very helpful in getting things going smoothly.
I am now able to fully enjoy my fish and corals again~ If you have any suggestions about some new corals/fish that you'd like to see in this tank, please let me know in the comment section.
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Thanks for everything you do for the community. I love your videos!
Thank you so much for the donation, Lil Fish Reef ! It means a lot to me and I really appreciate it! I love this community so much! Very supportive :D
i can only imagine the amount of times you had to dry you hands off to turn on and off the camera. great work as always haha
Thanks man! My partner is now the photographer so I don't have to keep wiping my hands :P
@@BlueReefTank showing this to my wife 😂😂😂
Simply my favourite YT reefing channel. Your new tank is coming together nicely. Can't wait to see how combining 3 tanks will get along. 🙂👍
Thanks Jay! :D
I’m telling BeardedReef! 🤣🤣 jk I love both channels
@@ManiacalMangoes haha 🤣😂🤣....busted here!
Great tank! Do you plan to add aby zoa's?
So awesome the lil baby can hang out with mum and dad! Looking forward to seeing how the new tank progresses :)
My favorite part of sundays has returned!!
The most relaxing fish keeping video ever
Your videos are the most enjoyable and relaxing for me to watch. Inspires me to keep my reef tanks looking pristine.
😁Thanks Jacob! Glad to hear that
Awesome!!! 😍 from now this is my dream aquarium setup.
You are back!!! So happy. I have learned so much from your videos!!!
Thanks Jorge! I am glad to hear that!
so happy to see your back, that clonfish family melted my heart. but wow the new tank looks lovely good to know all the fish can touch fins after they have been looking at eachother through diferent tanks lol. Lots of respect for you and your channel
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Another perfect video. Looks like you have been very busy. That new set up is stunning already. Great job with the baby clown.
Thanks Setts! Yes. Life gets in the way sometimes haha
Wow. Truly amazing. Thanks for sharing this with us! 🙏🙏👍👍💪💪
Very beautiful tank amazing aquaescaping cool 😎 fishes and corals. Awesome video and setup
Thanks! I didn't really do any aquascape here haha just combining them all
Your welcome anytime
Relieved and satified.
Thx for the video 🙏🏻
You're most welcome Ju!
Congratulations for the new tank 😉.
Another Amazing video!!
Thanks Ashton!
Love the little Nemo
I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Keep up the great work!
Such A STUNNING SET UP 😁
Thank you TeacherReef! :D
OWEMJI! THE CLOWNFISH FAMILY IS CUTENESS OVERLOAD!!
hi bud! ive been watching you for quite a while now man and ive loved every single video you have released! you are the reason i got a saltwater tank and its going amazing! ive loved every minute of watching you! i really hope this tank works oout amazing for you!
Thanks Nathan! Good luck with your tank!
@@BlueReefTank thank you!
Great video I’m always excited to watch what’s next 🔥
Thanks mate!
Your videos are so amazing. Makes me want to get back into the hobby!
You should!
I found a peaceful in this vid.. 😊 well done 👍
Glad to hear that!
Simply beautiful!
Thank you!
I absolutely enjoyed your video, kudos!
Thanks Renuchi! :D
I’m still gonna miss the nano reef tanks tho 😔
Cool update. Are you planning to seek more integration between the rocks that you gathered from your previous tanks. Also, what are you going to do with these tanks? Planning to breed some fish or..? :) As I said earlier, curious to your next steps. Looking forward for more. Regards, Richard.
I am selling the tanks and I will keep one as a quarantine tank :D
That was beautiful. I can’t believe you had all of those things in that little tank. I loved your video, the music although I would have loved it if you would have narrated it. I really don’t enjoy reading the text. Other than that it was excellent
I don't like hearing my own voice 😅but thank you for the suggestion. Might change the style in the future?
Did you dose copepods in the new tank for the mandarins?
Magnifique vidéo comme toujours !
Very nice. It will be much easier to manage 1 tank rather than 3. I think some nice goniopora would look nice and match the level of lighting of the tank.
Absolutely. Having 3 tank is a lot of work. Great suggestion! I saw some nice goni over the weekend. Might have to add them in my tank :D
Great to see it all coming together. We’re you always wanting to combine like this? I don’t know you but it seems like you’d have enjoyed scraping this one individually.
This is definitely not the plan and I might change the scape in the future. Just have to do it slowly :D
👍🏼🙂 congratulations
Thank you!
Well done🥰
Thanks Nancy!
I miss this channel!
Amazing! Fish will like a lot. They're back to sea. Congrats 👏 Update us soon haha
Will do!
Love your videos
Thank you!
Looks absolutely gorgeous! You should be proud :). By the way, id be careful with that tube anemone, I’ve heard many horror stories
Thanks Oliver! Hence why I am using a cup to pick it up haha
I believe you are the only reefer that just upgraded and put in all his other tanks into one. That is kind of awesome and actually saves a ton of money also. Are you going to be using a skimmer? I believe you never had any in your other tanks. Love seeing nemo with his parents, hopefully they accept him. I tried keeping 3 clowns(unrelated though), but they abused the smallest one which ended up jumping. Are the mandarin and scooters fight for territory?
yeah, I have never seen other reefer doing this as well :D It's definitely saving me a ton of money as rock is so expensive here in Australia. I also hate looking at empty tank haha yes, I will be adding a skimmer in this tank for sure. So far they seem to accept him. Let's hope it stays that way. Fingers crossed! Sorry for your loss Garry. Nah, the mandarin and scooters get along really well. You just can't have two different mandarins together (Spotted and Green). One will chase the other to death
Beautiful video. Subscribed your channel :)
Love it!!!!! ❤
Ngl I don’t Comment a lot but the variety
In fish and corals is amazing the fish looked great and realy did add a new look each time I seen one. The corals were amazing too what was the anenome like coral that was black I’d love one but have never seen them if anyone might know thank you
Tank looks great! What kind of dog do you have? Very cute!
Where did you buy the mangrove in australia?
From the thumbnail it looks like the dog is being transferred to the tank.
Wonderful video, & great content as always! As I am new reefer, your Kessils grow your coral and not a lot big names use them. I like going against the grain. How do they compare against other lights?
I love my Kessil lights. I had the AI prime 16HD before and it can't compare with Kessil. My corals grow really well using Kessil.
Some Gorgonias in your tank they would be perfect 😉.
Good idea!
I have a question for the OP, Do you think you will have trouble with SPS considering the new tank doesn’t have bacteria growing on it
Magnifique :)
where do you get mangrove plants in australia???
Some stores sell them but they are very expensive
Purple monster jawbreaker coral
What happened to culture setup sir ?
Not to risky with that tube anemone? They look amazing, but I saw them hurting or killing some fish. Love your videos 🤙
I reckon as long as the fish is healthy, the sting won't hurt them too much. Most of the time it's the sick fish that got stung and eaten by the tube anemone. I have had the tube anemone for a long time and the fish know to stay away from that long tentacles haha
Wicked video man! Your dog seems super chill. What happened to your Helfrichi?
He's only chill in front of camera :P I sold the helfrichi :(
@@BlueReefTank The prices of them in my area have gone way up. I hope you can get another one for a good price if you wish to get one again
What is your light schedule???
Tell me one fish that you think I would like to buy?
Give me some hint!
I remember you had a helfrichi firefish and janss pipefish. What happened to them?
I rehomed them unfortunately :( The helfrichi was bullied by the RG and I know it won't get along with my other firefish when I combine them all into one tank. The Janss pipefish didn't get along with my blue stripe pipefish and I had to rehome him as well
@@BlueReefTank Oh no :(. Curious what you feed your bluestripe pipefish though? I wanna add one to my nano. Does it eat frozen food?
@@durantan2343 At first I feed him lots of copepods and baby brine shrimp. Once I get him eating, I started introducing some frozen foods (lobster eggs and brine shrimp). It will take time but once he had a taste of the frozen food, it will be so easy to care for. Just keep trying. At first, It's important to keep the food suspended in the water and just "floating" and that he doesn't need to "chase" the food.
can you hear any noises from Nero 5?
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What did you do with all your smaller tanks?
I am selling it 😁
Where is the Helfrichi firefish
I rehomed him :( He was bullied by the RG
@@BlueReefTank I’m afraid then u should probably remove the firefish or the royal gramma sometime soon since they will go after those fish when live in or even near the rockwork .
@@iwontsmile7396 They are going along really well so far and I am surprised. The RG has mellowed down so much. I will keep monitoring them and I hope they will never fight.
What is name of artist in beginning of video
Awesome video! I currently have a 40 gallon bowfront tank that’s 7 months old. I’ve been battling Cyano for over a month and it’s on the sand and rocks. I’ve been doing 25% water changes weekly, and stir up the same weekly and it just seems to be growing. My nitrates are below 10ppm, salinity is 1.023, PH is 7.9, and zero Ammonia. Now I have 2 powerheads in the tank one at each side pointing at each other. There about 10” down, and 8” from the front of the tank. There 528gph for water movement. The fish store today told me to reposition my power-heads to create better water flow. But I’m not sure where to put them. I noticed you had one down near the bottom towards the back of the tank. Putting the powerhead that low won’t cause the sand to fly around? Could you suggest where to place my powerheads on each side of the tank please?
bring salinity up to 1.026 thts quite low & try keep it as stable as possible. I doubt your problem is the powerheads do a really clean 50% (its not gonna hurt) & try to get as much out as possible. & watch your phosphates as if too low or high unfavourables can grow easier.
My uglies started about 11 month after the tank was setup. I think i did really well to get that far without any major blooms but that took about 8 weeks to completely go if i remember correctly so stay consistent and focus on stability & eventually you should be fine.
I like 1.026 because natural sea is usually 1.027 & the average accepted reefing value is 1.025 so even with small swings either way it can stay close to accurate
@@joshwhiteoak9338 thank you very much for your input Josh, it means a lot. I don’t think I’ve tested for phosphates as it’s not in my saltwater test kit. My kit has PH, Nitrite, Nitrate, Ammonia in my saltwater testing kit
@@Scott-cy6zv no problem ! have a look for salifert/Red Sea/aquaforest/hanna kits. They are accurate & they do a whole range of parameter testing. I haven’t tested ammonia & nitrites since cycling. The main tests you want to do (in order):
Salinity, alkalinity, calcium, magnesium, nitrates, phosphates.
Salinity and kh I test every day or two and the rest atleast once a week.
U should add a rainford goby
Good idea! I'm afraid they might compete with my mandarin and dragonet for the copepods?
@@BlueReefTank is there a way to train them with frozen food as well ?
@@shinucafe I heard they can be trained but it's not easy
May I know the height set for the kessil and setting for the light?
it's currently sitting at around 10inch above the water level. I am currently running it at around 56% intensity
@@BlueReefTank thanks mate for letting sharing the info …😊
You only need to acclimate fish and not corals. And citric acid removes coralline and doesn't damage equipment like vinegar does. Some of your info is wrong ... Please correct
Thanks but I disagree. Fish will also need to be acclimated and vinegar doesn't damage equipment unless you're leaving it soaking for a long time? I have been cleaning a lot of my equipment with vinegar for years and haven't had any damaged equipment. If you've had this experience, would you mind sharing what equipment was damaged and how long you've had soaking in vinegar? Did you dilute the vinegar with RODI water?
@@BlueReefTank thanks for the response. I said corals don't need to acclimated.... I agree that fish must be acclimated.... As in my initial post. Citric acid is much gentler on equipment... Especially with high calcification on plastics. Some plastics can't handle the vinegar in contrast to the ciitric acid. I'm not saying the vinegar can't be used... But long term effect on the plastics and making it brittle can be an issue over years.
@@douglasachaiba7885 Sorry, I mean corals. A lot of corals especially SPS won't be happy with parameters swing. I have heard stories where some reefers don't acclimate their SPS and as soon as they dropped it in the tank, it started having RTN within 24 hours. Thanks for the info on citric acid. I will give it a try myself and if it works, I will share it with others. For now I will still stick to my vinegar advice as I never have any issue with it :)
After watching the new brs series I will never seed my tank with old sand again!
Which one mate? Would you mind sharing? :)
@@BlueReefTank “biome cycle” it’s very interesting. In the end the best way they found to introduce diversity without issues was what you did also. Adding media that was established but not exposed to light! Very jealous of your tank and RUclips success! Keep it up!
The tank looks not the same whitout peanuts to sad greetings from mexico
I know... :( But there's another female mandarin in there. I will make a story about her in the future :D
Don’t think I’d add sand from an older tank to seed a new one
hello i would love to know if you would be willing to sell your waterbox peninsula mini 25 to me i'm also in melbourne in tarneit and would really like to be able to setup another tank
Hi Graeme, yes the PM25 is still available. Send me a message on facebook and we can go from there :)
@@BlueReefTank the blue reef tank page?
@@graememcleod1751 yup and I got your message!
There’s an extremely high likelihood That baby clownfish will be dead within 3 months… and I mean no offense. Just speaking from experience…
The others will kill it once a bit bigger unfortunately /:
Should've rinsed your sand first...
Plz add some anemone for clown fish as their nest
I will :)
Why dont you pour all the sand at once in the start
I’ll be interested to see how combining all 3 works out from a cycling/ugly phase perspective. Have you been watching the new BRS series? I’ll be curious to see how much bad and good is brought in from your old tanks. I’m also super jealous of your bigger tank! I’m craving an upgrade myself!
Hopefully it won't get too much bad stuff :) It's definitely worth the upgrade! Love this tank especially the sump, making maintenance so much easier!
Are you not worried about the pod population for the mandarins? Will the rock from the old tank essentially just seed the new one?
What will you do with all those empty nano tanks now? More tank setups in the future perhaps?
I am selling the tanks but I will be keeping one for unexpected event or as a quarantine tank :D
Yay it blue reef time! 🥰🐶👌
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All the tanks combined into one is awesome😍 P/S the waterbox setup was my favourite😅 i want to ask something about the hammer coral, have you ever placed it near a zoa and got stinged?
Thanks John! Yes, the hammer definitely will sting the zoa.
Fantastic video as all ways! I bet the tank feels massive even with all three tanks combined! Looking forward to the next steps! :)
Yeah! There's definitely a lot of room for the fishes. Which means I can get more fish and corals yay!
@@BlueReefTank sounds good to me dude! Looking forward to seeing it packed with corals and potentially a tang or two ? ;)
@@discovermarine9213 Why not 3? haha
@@BlueReefTank perfect!!!!!
What brand of salt do you use?
Currently using the AF Reef Salt :)
Love this pink/lila Soft Coral 😁 greetings from Germany
Hey, I had a question. I will be setting up a 600 litre (160 US gallons) tank it will be 60x26x25 inch (LxWxH). So, instead of using bottled bacteria to cycle my tank, if I buy buy two bags of Maxpect bio balls and put them in my cousin’s reef tank’s sump and leave it there for a month of two and then put it in my tank after setting it up, will that cycle my tank? As the bio media would be seeded with bacteria by then. Also the copepods and all that might come in the bio media, will they survive the cycle? The bacteria will eventually find its way up to the display tank right? Also do you think the pests like aptasia, bristle worms and other pests he has will cause a big problem? As far as I know he had an ich or velvet outbreak about 1.5 years ago as well which has been solved and all the fish are healthy now, so will that be a problem as well? Because we all get pests in the end anyways and in will be a sterile tank so they shouldn’t survive right? I will feed phytoplankton for the pods. Is there any way I can get all the bacteria and pods but not the pests into my tank? Please let me know. Thank you in advance!
Nice video. Did you cycle the new tank before moving? I am planing the same but told to cycle the new tank for at least 1 month. Thx
One thing I would personally do is try to do something about all those vermited worms that were seen on bio balls
Wow it turned out BEAUTIFUL! 😍I am learning a lot with your videos for my future upgrade to a new tank.
Maybe you could add a hairy mushroom. They are beautiful when their long polyps sway with the current.
Thanks and great suggestion!
I see you as a mentor. You even made me want to switch my plans to go from a planned reef 100.3 to a frag 104. But space is my concern so I’m sticking with my original plan. But great stuff. Keep it up!
Thank you so much! I am still learning myself everyday but I am glad that my content helps some people :)
Love your videos man! Great job and a great tank upgrade as well. Looking at this exact tank to upgrade as well…Can’t wait for more video’s. How about some nice SPS ain’t the new tank?
Thank you Kenneth! This tank is awesome. Not too big, not too small. If I can go one size up I would go one size up. Just so I can keep some bigger tang :D But for now I will stick to what I have. I will definitely add some SPS once this tank stabilised :D
careful with the nero being exposed to vinegar for too long it can cause it to rust
My favourite is the reunion of the clownfish❤️. Did you ever thought about getting them an anemone? There is enough space to have it on a separate rock I believe. Mine don‘t set foot/fin outside their nem
That's my favourite part as well! and yes, I am planning to get an anemone for them. Just need to find the right one :D
I like to see your Scolymia coral, we called it in Indonesia as Donut Coral and also a "Sultan" coral since its expensive, I like it because its round shaoe and beautiful color
Agree. Scoly is one of my favourite coral. They have a really bright color and not too hard to care for compared to the SPS coral
This was a really dope video! Nice tank man!
Always nervous times when doing a transfer but the tank looks great. Just keep testing and dosing until you’re happy everything is stable. You need a torch and hammer coral garden. My favourite LPS by a mile.
Very nice and tasteful video. Thank you. But ONE single Mandarine Fish only? Sad! :-(
There's actually 2! I will show them next week :D
I see some fish missing… how are they now ? The baggai ?
It’s the best channel ever
Your videos are awesome man , are so relaxing thanks very much 😉.
Thanks mate :D
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Nice bro