We have a 20g tank, no skimmer internal sump. 30% water changes are done every week. Sps coral on top, softies on bottom. Reef Crystals salt, only thing dosed is calcium, PH, strontium and liquid bacteria. Colors are bright and we can usually get more color out of corals then when we first got them, easy setup. Just works!
Volume and production is great. Much better to look at and easier to listen than many of your other videos. I love the quiet voice and dark background. Keep up the good work!
From reef supply videos to Discovery/BBC channel type presentation...you guys have improved a lot and have raised the bar higher...keep up the good work 👍👍👍
Very good series Ryan. I totally agree with you about water changes. It's the stuff that we are not testing for that is building up in the water column and suddenly comes back to bite us.
Thank you for another reef master series. Very valuable to someone who has been in the hobby for a long time and had issues following advice without science to back it up. Here is the science in an easy to digest form.
Great series! My take is that water changes are not primarily for direct nutrient export but rather a way to remove detritus and by doing this removing pollutants. I feel this is often overlooked when talking auto water changes.
Been in the hobby north of 20 years, and this is the primary reason why I've done water changes. Remove detritus and not only do you remove pollutants, you remove a source of future pollutants.
@@Mike__B Totally agree but also it gives you the opportunity to do other little cleaning jobs i.e. brushing rocks, and looking at your corals close up.
Spot on! I absolutely hate regular water changes. I feel like it's a waste of time and money, and I always spill everywhere. BUT...I still do at least one 50-75% water changes once a year. Even with dosing the big 3, and dosing trace elements, I notice that grow tapers off after a few months since a watwe change. And by that I mean, visually noticeable, and by tracking weekly alkalinity consumption. I could send out a sample for ICP test, or, spend a little over half of that and do a 50% water change.
I might not be understanding. Second time I heard you guys say it. 10% only taking out 10%. Wouldn't be the goal be to target the water you pull out to be the more dirty water, like vacuuming. Then cleaning filters at the same time. Where the nutrients actually live. So 10% should allow you to take out more. You must be thinking auto changes where your not cleaning at the same time. Goal would be less water during the water change over time then dosing.
Reefing with Wayne's World 😂 Water changes will be needed at the start while those aerobic and anaerobic bacteria cultivate and spread. I've noticed tanks after a few years will put on the "cruise control" and can maintain a certain "nutrient range" if husbandry is kept on a strict schedule. Mother nature has been doing this alot longer then use, no need to fear leaning on her lol
Fantastic series. I love the "5 minutes guide" which really helped me through the "dark" period of waiting on the cycle to finish... but this series really just is the next step. Thank You Ryan and the whole BRS team :-)
100% agree - I have both the 5 minute guides - as the quick overview guides - and these in depth "deep dives" bookmarked for future reference. I also love the different "look and feel" of the videos - these in depth ones shot in a darker / more serious tone absolutely matches the content. Awesome work by the BRS Team.
Yep, calculations do not really correspond to reality. During the water change, large amount of silk/residual/food/etc from the sump are taken out. Clearly, all depends on the method. But, most of reefers clean sump and sand in main display during water changes. Water changes with natural sea water not only replace old water but bacterials/organisms are added. Hard topic. I found that sponges are growing like crazy with natural sea water changes - possibly some biological aspect - not just chemistry is important. Cheers Piotr (Perth)
I hardly ever do water changes in my 55 softies. I use additives religiously though. ESV B Ionic and lately Sechem Reef Fusion which is better IMO. The calcium component is much stronger than the ESV calcium additive. My sump evaporates so quickly that you can almost watch it, so I have run my RO line directly into the sock in my sump and top it off to the fill line nearly daily. My softies and leathers grow like crazy. There is a bit of cyano in my sump but the display is clear. In my experience with LPS and SPS however, water changes will be inescapable.
I am a HUGE fan of your work and find it some of the most valuable reefing media available. With that said, I have to raise a voice of opposition to all the praise for the new format. I'm just one person but I much prefer the previous format. I am all for class and sophistication but it seems forced and Ryan's cadence is hard to follow. After HOURS of watching BRSTV content over the years, I for the first time find myself TRYING to listen and repeatedly saying "huh?"....rewind....repeat. It doesn't feel welcoming and friendly, but I am certainly not trying to stand in the way of progress.
Nice series. I'm still kinda confused by some of this but I hVent got the tank up yet. I've got near everything to start it. Just need to finish. I need to get my hands dirty n feet wet then it will click
I understand the importance of regular and frequent water changes. However, it occurs to me that the need for them is an admission that our filtration is clearly inadequate. Either the filtration is failing to remove various toxins, or those toxins are not removable through our filtration schemes. What's in that water we are removing that our filters do not remove? And why?
Don't just change water out from the middle of the clean water colomn. At least blow or stir up all the detritus that get stuck in areas of no flow, let the filters pick up most of it. Turn off the filters. Vacuum the sand and use that 10% to 15% water change to suck out the detritus from the sand. Clean the filter and fill back up.. You will take out so much detritus that will cause you phosphate and nitrate spikes in the future. There's no filter or mechanical instrument in this hobby that cleans the sand bed. Don't trust sand shifters or gobbies to do all the cleaning of your sand. Vacuum cleaning is the only way and it's very important. Some hobbyist are scared to stir up the sand bed. Maybe those back in the days that had 8 inches or more of sand bed. But if you have 2"-3" dont worry about it. Since I clean my sand bed weekly there's no harmfull eliments in the sand bed. Sometimes I blow my rock with a turkey baser and i use the same turkey baser to blow the sand bed slightly. Once or twice during the middle of the week to feed my corals and for the filters to pick up extra detritus.
Hey community, I’m scratching my head trying to figure out my aquarium water quality. I just did a 90% water change with Rodi water and Red Sea salt. It’s a 38 gallon mixed reef with 5 fish and some corals. I don’t have a skimmer. I use floss and socks. 20 mins later the glass on my tank was full of brown algae. I’ve done lights out for a couple days, many many many water changes, used GFo and carbon and for whatever reason I can’t beat this brown algae. I’m doing a 30 day acclimation with my lights starting at 50% of the maximum intensity of 70%. My lights have all blue’s at 100% , cyan red and green at 15% and whites at 50%. Lights run for 8 hours with a 4 hour max intensity. Any thoughts? Ps I feed 2 times a day with a pinch of flake food and I’m not dosing anything and I have multiple hermit crabs, snails, conch, shrimp and urchin.
Plenty of stunning reef tanks that run beautifully without water changes. Look up the Dutch Synthetic Reefing method and reef moonshiners method for solid no water change methods. RUclips Glenn Fong and Matt Dudley for some examples. Personally I'm on 5 years without water changes and my reef is thriving. Its all about a proper nutrient export program, testing, and dosing as needed. Conteoling water chemistry is the key to successful no water change reefing.
Yeah I tried that also and it worked for years and then suddenly in the Span of two days the whole tank crashed. I agree with Ryan. There are hundreds of things in the water that we do not test for. They can build up over years and then reach a level that suddenly becomes intolerable.
Hey Ryan, I strongly recommend watching the Spiffing Brit's video on break RUclips's engagement algorithm. It's both informative, and frankly, hilarious.
A nano auto water change system would be nice to have for those of us with smaller tanks where a five gallon bucket could last us a month. It shouldn’t be that hard to develop and I could see myself setting aside some money for one.
Love the info. Just not so serious. You guys aren’t serious. Be yourself no smoke and mirrors with the voice change and camera action. This isn’T a murder mystery with Craig Melvin
Not sure what BRS education backgrounds are,but I have watched 1\2 of these newer segments and they are of no real value.Just a rambling pointless regurgitation of unproven hearsay.I see a trend in an almost witch doctor attitude in reef keeping.In other words try everything and eventually some plan or result will be attained (as if by magic). Just my two cents,Stay well out there in the either . Doc BD
Some of this is just admission or acceptance that there are many unknowns in reefing. It's unlikely there will be peer reviewed studies on reef tanks or answers provided that would satisfy a scientific community. Are we a scientific community or successful pet owners who care for animals in a very artificial environment? What little conclusive evidence there is often applies to the ocean and not artificial environments where water changes , additives, skimmers and refugiums are common differentiators. In the absence of "proof" we have to rely on sharing experiences and thought. I believe this is where progress will be found.
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We have a 20g tank, no skimmer internal sump. 30% water changes are done every week. Sps coral on top, softies on bottom. Reef Crystals salt, only thing dosed is calcium, PH, strontium and liquid bacteria. Colors are bright and we can usually get more color out of corals then when we first got them, easy setup. Just works!
Please share a video, I'm so curious in seeing your results. I reef exactly the same way you do except I use red sea coral pro salt. 10 gallon 😊
Volume and production is great. Much better to look at and easier to listen than many of your other videos. I love the quiet voice and dark background. Keep up the good work!
From reef supply videos to Discovery/BBC channel type presentation...you guys have improved a lot and have raised the bar higher...keep up the good work 👍👍👍
Best series you've made so far! Great and thorough regarding information yet short and precise. Well done.
Very good series Ryan.
I totally agree with you about water changes. It's the stuff that we are not testing for that is building up in the water column and suddenly comes back to bite us.
Thank you for another reef master series. Very valuable to someone who has been in the hobby for a long time and had issues following advice without science to back it up. Here is the science in an easy to digest form.
Great series! My take is that water changes are not primarily for direct nutrient export but rather a way to remove detritus and by doing this removing pollutants. I feel this is often overlooked when talking auto water changes.
Been in the hobby north of 20 years, and this is the primary reason why I've done water changes. Remove detritus and not only do you remove pollutants, you remove a source of future pollutants.
@@Mike__B Totally agree but also it gives you the opportunity to do other little cleaning jobs i.e. brushing rocks, and looking at your corals close up.
Spot on! I absolutely hate regular water changes. I feel like it's a waste of time and money, and I always spill everywhere. BUT...I still do at least one 50-75% water changes once a year. Even with dosing the big 3, and dosing trace elements, I notice that grow tapers off after a few months since a watwe change. And by that I mean, visually noticeable, and by tracking weekly alkalinity consumption. I could send out a sample for ICP test, or, spend a little over half of that and do a 50% water change.
I might not be understanding. Second time I heard you guys say it. 10% only taking out 10%. Wouldn't be the goal be to target the water you pull out to be the more dirty water, like vacuuming. Then cleaning filters at the same time. Where the nutrients actually live. So 10% should allow you to take out more. You must be thinking auto changes where your not cleaning at the same time. Goal would be less water during the water change over time then dosing.
Reefing with Wayne's World 😂
Water changes will be needed at the start while those aerobic and anaerobic bacteria cultivate and spread. I've noticed tanks after a few years will put on the "cruise control" and can maintain a certain "nutrient range" if husbandry is kept on a strict schedule. Mother nature has been doing this alot longer then use, no need to fear leaning on her lol
Ryan this series is by far the best you've ever done. So much more suffocation and class. Not like just another RUclips video with all the answers.
Fantastic series. I love the "5 minutes guide" which really helped me through the "dark" period of waiting on the cycle to finish... but this series really just is the next step.
Thank You Ryan and the whole BRS team :-)
100% agree - I have both the 5 minute guides - as the quick overview guides - and these in depth "deep dives" bookmarked for future reference. I also love the different "look and feel" of the videos - these in depth ones shot in a darker / more serious tone absolutely matches the content. Awesome work by the BRS Team.
I do 13g on 150g every week just to replenish and freshen up. I have to dose nitrate and phosphate. My tank loves life.
This deserves a lot more views. The series approaches reefkeeping masterclass.
Awesome series, really appreciate the info. Please keep them coming.
Yep, calculations do not really correspond to reality. During the water change, large amount of silk/residual/food/etc from the sump are taken out. Clearly, all depends on the method. But, most of reefers clean sump and sand in main display during water changes. Water changes with natural sea water not only replace old water but bacterials/organisms are added. Hard topic. I found that sponges are growing like crazy with natural sea water changes - possibly some biological aspect - not just chemistry is important. Cheers Piotr (Perth)
I hardly ever do water changes in my 55 softies. I use additives religiously though. ESV B Ionic and lately Sechem Reef Fusion which is better IMO. The calcium component is much stronger than the ESV calcium additive. My sump evaporates so quickly that you can almost watch it, so I have run my RO line directly into the sock in my sump and top it off to the fill line nearly daily. My softies and leathers grow like crazy. There is a bit of cyano in my sump but the display is clear. In my experience with LPS and SPS however, water changes will be inescapable.
Videos are short and sweet! 👌🏽
Great new series. I really enjoyed them. There was a lot of things I can implement in my tank going forward. I can't wait to see more like these.
Best videos to date, bravo to BRS
He kinda gives the feel of a nutrient guru.
I suffer from low nutrients but still do water changes simply because i feel the corals react better to it.
Same here in my nano. Low nutrients (undetectable), but still do small daily/bi-daily water changes.
loving this series!
Great video and series, thanks
I love how Knowledgeable t
He is! Seems like a cool guy irl
I am a HUGE fan of your work and find it some of the most valuable reefing media available. With that said, I have to raise a voice of opposition to all the praise for the new format. I'm just one person but I much prefer the previous format. I am all for class and sophistication but it seems forced and Ryan's cadence is hard to follow. After HOURS of watching BRSTV content over the years, I for the first time find myself TRYING to listen and repeatedly saying "huh?"....rewind....repeat. It doesn't feel welcoming and friendly, but I am certainly not trying to stand in the way of progress.
Nice series. I'm still kinda confused by some of this but I hVent got the tank up yet. I've got near everything to start it. Just need to finish. I need to get my hands dirty n feet wet then it will click
Great series. I have been enjoying it
I understand the importance of regular and frequent water changes. However, it occurs to me that the need for them is an admission that our filtration is clearly inadequate. Either the filtration is failing to remove various toxins, or those toxins are not removable through our filtration schemes. What's in that water we are removing that our filters do not remove? And why?
also just an insurance against the unknown or inevitable trajectory a series of small missteps end in.
AWC for the win....
Don't just change water out from the middle of the clean water colomn. At least blow or stir up all the detritus that get stuck in areas of no flow, let the filters pick up most of it. Turn off the filters. Vacuum the sand and use that 10% to 15% water change to suck out the detritus from the sand. Clean the filter and fill back up.. You will take out so much detritus that will cause you phosphate and nitrate spikes in the future. There's no filter or mechanical instrument in this hobby that cleans the sand bed. Don't trust sand shifters or gobbies to do all the cleaning of your sand. Vacuum cleaning is the only way and it's very important. Some hobbyist are scared to stir up the sand bed. Maybe those back in the days that had 8 inches or more of sand bed. But if you have 2"-3" dont worry about it. Since I clean my sand bed weekly there's no harmfull eliments in the sand bed. Sometimes I blow my rock with a turkey baser and i use the same turkey baser to blow the sand bed slightly. Once or twice during the middle of the week to feed my corals and for the filters to pick up extra detritus.
Hell yeah the real reefers
Damn, hoping I didn’t have to do any more water changes😜
Hey community, I’m scratching my head trying to figure out my aquarium water quality. I just did a 90% water change with Rodi water and Red Sea salt. It’s a 38 gallon mixed reef with 5 fish and some corals. I don’t have a skimmer. I use floss and socks. 20 mins later the glass on my tank was full of brown algae. I’ve done lights out for a couple days, many many many water changes, used GFo and carbon and for whatever reason I can’t beat this brown algae. I’m doing a 30 day acclimation with my lights starting at 50% of the maximum intensity of 70%. My lights have all blue’s at 100% , cyan red and green at 15% and whites at 50%. Lights run for 8 hours with a 4 hour max intensity. Any thoughts? Ps I feed 2 times a day with a pinch of flake food and I’m not dosing anything and I have multiple hermit crabs, snails, conch, shrimp and urchin.
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How old is your tank? I had the same issue. I did use a uv sterilizer, and it did fix itself as the tank matured.
@@annebartells777 it’s about a year old.
Plenty of stunning reef tanks that run beautifully without water changes. Look up the Dutch Synthetic Reefing method and reef moonshiners method for solid no water change methods. RUclips Glenn Fong and Matt Dudley for some examples. Personally I'm on 5 years without water changes and my reef is thriving. Its all about a proper nutrient export program, testing, and dosing as needed. Conteoling water chemistry is the key to successful no water change reefing.
Mate, do you dose trace elements?
Yeah I tried that also and it worked for years and then suddenly in the Span of two days the whole tank crashed. I agree with Ryan. There are hundreds of things in the water that we do not test for. They can build up over years and then reach a level that suddenly becomes intolerable.
@@anannyosamayel1350 i dose esv b-ionic 2 part yhat contains trace elements.
Hey Ryan, I strongly recommend watching the Spiffing Brit's video on break RUclips's engagement algorithm. It's both informative, and frankly, hilarious.
A nano auto water change system would be nice to have for those of us with smaller tanks where a five gallon bucket could last us a month. It shouldn’t be that hard to develop and I could see myself setting aside some money for one.
Nice opportunity to suck out the detritus and uneaten foods from the nooks and crannies.
👍:)
Love the info. Just not so serious. You guys aren’t serious. Be yourself no smoke and mirrors with the voice change and camera action. This isn’T a murder mystery with Craig Melvin
Not sure what BRS education backgrounds are,but I have watched 1\2 of these newer segments and they are of no real value.Just a rambling pointless regurgitation of unproven hearsay.I see a trend in an almost witch doctor attitude in reef keeping.In other words try everything and eventually some plan or result will be attained (as if by magic). Just my two cents,Stay well out there in the either . Doc BD
Some of this is just admission or acceptance that there are many unknowns in reefing. It's unlikely there will be peer reviewed studies on reef tanks or answers provided that would satisfy a scientific community. Are we a scientific community or successful pet owners who care for animals in a very artificial environment? What little conclusive evidence there is often applies to the ocean and not artificial environments where water changes , additives, skimmers and refugiums are common differentiators. In the absence of "proof" we have to rely on sharing experiences and thought. I believe this is where progress will be found.