7 Months of Coral Growth in 30 Seconds
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- 7 Months of Coral Growth in 30 Seconds. This is a Time-Lapse video of my 75 Gallon Reef Tank over 7 months using a camera mounted to the side to capture coral growth.
This video was created around 2018, here are the later versions:
15 Months of Coral Growth from the same 75G tank: • 15 Months of Coral Gro...
1 Year of coral growth in my new 135G, posted 2022: • 1 Year of SPS Coral Gr...
Bro, mahalo nui (thank you) for your time, patience, and continuous efforts in creating these short and sweet videos that unpack a lot of the development it takes in restoring the coral. I’m currently partnering with a friend to do the same here in Hawaii and this video gave me alot of excitement, knowledge, and a refresher of the impact this can bring to all of our oceans. Keep doing what you’re doing. God bless you! Aloha.
Thank you Jerrard! I love the videos and I'm just starting to get enough data to make another one of these videos with the new system.
@@Whiskeys_Reef if you ask me, I think it’s time we grew native trees where there were abandoned towns and cities so that way it would not only be healthy for land, but the water as well
I worked on coral reefs around the world for 12 years as a dive guide and saw some stunning corals,including the ones your growing,but a bit bigger ! But I think what you do is great,informative and I wish I had the knowledge you have ! We may well need people like you with your skills in the future to help recolonise some reefs.
That is a really cool occupation! Maybe one day I'll see you out there. I've been wanting to give diving a shot for many years.
I wish more people did this! I found it very fascinating! I really liked how you broke it down and explained what was wrong, hopefully that saved a bunch of people from making that same mistake lol perhaps in future videos you could go more in-depth about the types of corals that we are looking at:)
Thank you Alysha! I tried to go into a little more depth in the 15 month one that came after this, but not as much as I would have liked since the video was getting a little long. Maybe I'll do a video just on that one day.
Thanks you answered a lot of my questions.
I'm glad! Thank you for the comment!
Great video. I really enjoyed your explanations and the "before" and "after" photos. I would have liked it if you had given full names of the coral when you are showing the comparison photos--as a new reef keeper, I watched the video to try to get an idea of what I'd like in my own tank, so clearly hearing the full names of the coral would be super helpful.
Thank you Kirstin! I'll keep that in mind for the updated version showing 15 months of growth.
Great video pal!! Keep the passion for the ocean and coral!
One of the best. Useful videos on reef keeping! Thank you. For hope.!
Thank you!
I’m learning to make coral from glass. Great video for reference and goals!
That's awesome!! I got to try my hand at lampwork at a friend's house about a week ago. I've never done anything like it and I had a blast! If you think of it I'd love to see what you come up with.
I found it neat seeing the hammer coral grow that way, they grow slow enough you dont tend to notice at all, but in the timelapse you can actually see it grow a decent amount
Oh, I know! Sometimes I have to look back at old photos and remember when hammers or torches used to be frags to even notice that they grew at all.
Watching this with Colin Stetson's music in the background is beyond mesmerizing.
I'm really glad you enjoyed it! :)
Damn that is a wild catch to notice that sunscreen
Thank you for creating this video. We have a small fishtank and my granddaughter loves Octonauts esp the coral reef movie, so I wondered about growing a coral at home. You have a beautiful tank and the sunscreen alert I will be sharing. :)
Thank you Angela!
Pretty cool. Wish more people would show something like this. With explanation of changes, what they experienced and what they did. Nice job. Thanks
Thank you! I love seeing a tank in fast forward and hoped others would too! Watching those montis grow is really cool as well.
I'm thinking of my first tank and your fine film inspires me further! I have to do this! Thank you & VBW x
You absolutely should! It's a fantastic hobby that has been a passion of mine for over 20 years.
Thank you for your kind thoughts and encouragement, I've sat and gazed In 'wunderment' at your film (again) today and know I should do as you now suggest - bless you & VBW! x@@Whiskeys_Reef
Thanks for your informative video.
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing. Your tank looks awesome and has given me some inspo. I love the look of the montes, and will be looking to add them to my vertical spaces once my tank is capable of supporting them. Thanks again !!
Thank you! Monties are a favorite of mine. Just be careful with the Plating Caps not to let them shade everything underneath.
Would love to learn how to achieve that mixed reef look!
Love it.
Thank you! More than anything I think the success comes down to not optimizing the tank for any one coral, but instead finding areas of overlap that they all like. For instance medium light, medium flow, so that you can find spots for stuff that needs more or less, but there are areas where most corals can be happy.
People like you inspire others, well done!
Thank you Shaun!
Great video man! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Can’t imagine the elecritry bills from the special lamps just for the coral growth 😂 but I admire urs 💯
My house has solar so doesn’t cost anything
I use LEDs barely notice a spike two tanks in my 1200 sqft apartment and my bills under 100$
Yeah bro I think running just a 20 gallon reef tank cost 60 dollars annually in electric bill
@@juanledesma2205 I am running a 20 gallon nuvo tank I think it costs me 35$ a month in electricity.
That was amazing!! ❤
Thank you!
Nice video and very nice tank! Thank you for sharing.
Cool video man. Thanks for sharing
Wow that is some great work!
I really appreciate your video and it does a great job of showing what can happen in the tank. Day by day you just don't know this but this does a nice job of showing you the growth. That being said what did you do to the tank to encourage this growth
Thank you James!! To encourage the growth I really did my best to pick parameters and keep them as steady as possible. I got on a regular testing and water change routine, changed T5 bulbs from 9 months to two years, just kept ontop of things mostly and tried not to rock the boat. The times I've had a downturn usually related to me making changes.
Very impressive and useful for complete neophytes like me!
Thank you Guy!
@@Whiskeys_Reef here’s a challenge how about someone grow a sculpture of coral in the shape of king triton in memory of Kenneth Mars and Sebastian in memory of Samuel E Wright, then Ursula, in memory of Pat, Caroll and flotsam and jetsam in memory of Patti Edwards
Thanks for sharing. Great tank.
Thanks for watching!
Nice bro
Awesome video thanks!
Loved this. Gives me hope my corals will grow!!! Good tip about the sun screen too!
Thank you Scott! That's actually what made me setup this time-lapse camera. I thought my corals weren't growing at all. I was shocked when I played back the first couple month clip.
Great video. Thanks
Thank you! Now that it's been 8 months I'm seriously thinking about seeing if I have good enough data to make a 15 month video. The tank has grown allot.
@@Whiskeys_Reef You should. there are lots of videos on youtube but not many that give an idea of how corals grow and expand over time.
Most impressive video!!
Thanks!!
Thank you, Texas Reefer!
Love it.
Thank you!!!
It is January now and I have solidified the stability on my tank so if I get similar growth from my frags I will be a happy reefer lol
Thanks!
awesome！great work!
Thank you Gilbert!
Nice
Cool, what camera did you use ?
Thank you!!!! I used a raspberry pi camera to take the images. I have a writeup here but I later changed the mount to something bolted to my hood because the cell phone mount failed. whiskey.xj42.com/Dead_Silent_mixed_reef/raspberry-pi-timelapse
Great vid
Love it!
Thank you!
When I think about the sunscreen problem, it's so tragic. How much of this has already been released into the ocean?
Allot I'm sure, I know some places have tried, or maybe even have succeeded in making it illegal to sell this type of sunscreen near the beaches because of the effect it's having on natural reefs.
Awesome 😎
Thanks!
Sorry for the dump question, but based in the fact that their are animals, does corals poop?
I'm not sure about all types of coral, but the Large Pylop corals that like to be directly fed do. I've seen my candy canes doing it, open brains like trachyphyllia, even my Bubble Tip Anemone I've seen poop a few days after feeding. They kindof digest the food to remove everything they can then spit it back out of their mouths a couple days later though, there is no other end.
Great job, I’m a new hobbiest and just adding corals, I wanted to know what the growth was like.
For a new hobbiest I wouldn’t expect this kinda growth it will likely take far longer unless you have the money to hire a professional and can fork out a few thousand just on lighting but with some cheap black box lights you can still get some decent growth I recommend if going with black box lighting get a frosted glass lid for the tank to diffuse the light so you don’t get light burns on your corals or hang the lights at least 20”s above the corals
@@TheShmeebitdog You do not need to spend thousands if you do the research and you can get by with an Ai Prime which costs 300$ or even half the price used on offer up. Not saying pro is not as good I rather take the challenge myself that is the fun of the hobby for me.
It will take some time for the tank to settle in, but if you do your research and keep things stable this is easily achievable I would say. You don't need expensive lights, but you do need even adequate coverage. This tank particularly used T5 and you can get a used T5 fixture with individual reflectors cheap these days. More than anything keep it stable and be consistent.
Beautiful reef tank. Curious, is it common for hobbyist reef keepers to put sunscreen on before cleaning their indoor aquariums? Did you unintentionally introduce sunscreen into your tank?
Ha! No. I was playing golf and came home and started working on the tank. That's why it had never been an issue for the tank in the last 20 years, until I picked up golf as a hobby I wasn't regularly in the sun for 6 hours in a day multiple times per week.
Cool bruh
Were did you get the coral from?
I get them from a bunch of places! Some of them I got at the local fish store (LFS), but at least half I've bought frags from other reefers, or traded frags.
Cool.
God bless everyone who sees this I hope you have a great rest of your day and a great day tomorrow. God is king and God loves you bye.❤️🙏🏽🤍🕊🤍
Thank you Mysti! To you as well!
Hey. Are you using saltless water? I have a coral in my aquarium
And i only have regular gold fishes.
Please dont put corals in freshwater, they live in the ocean and putting it in a freshwater will kill them immediately
Or do you mean dead coral skeleton...? If so those corals are dead and wont grow lol
sun screen 😀😀😀😀😀😀looked like a bactearial bloom
With all the corals dying and everything it triggered a number of things to be fair. It took a while to get it back on track.
just how dangerous and common are those dangerous sun screen ingredients? Are they a danger to the oceans?
I remember hearing that a drop in a million gallons of water is toxic. Many costal cities are working on banning this, but it's the majority of sunscreen.
Hi,q what parameters did you keep to have this level of growth?
Oh,.. It's been a while but I always pretty much keep them about the same. DKH around 8-9, CA ~430, Mag ~1300, Phosphate around 0.1 using Hanna, Nitrate I try and have about 5 but have to dose it because of the fuge. I'm doing the same thing in my 300 gallon now, these are all pretty middle of the road numbers so there's space on either side if something goes wrong. The big difference now is that I'm using Kalk and keeping my PH above 8 always, and up to 8.4 during the day. That has improved growth over what you see in this video.
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my comment. @@Whiskeys_Reef
What lights are you using?
Oh boy, that was a long time ago. It was very likely 4 T5's and 2 DIY LED Light bars that put out slightly less than a T5. I bounced around with 6T5's and 4T5 with no LED a bit though depending on the time.
This is the newest system:
ruclips.net/video/wCvVwzU6gA8/видео.html
And you can see the lighting setup I'm currently using in the system tour here:
ruclips.net/video/wCvVwzU6gA8/видео.html
how do i get my stylo to grow
What’s the calcium, magnesium and all uptake per week or month with this coral load?
This video is a few years old now, but as I recall I used a CA reactor, so that's hard to quantify, I can tell you that when the CA reactor broke I would drop 2 DKH in less than 24 hours. I have a newer video with my 135G and once that fully grew in I was going through 2 Liters of BRS 2 Part in less than a week before I went back to a CA reactor.
@@Whiskeys_Reef that’s pretty serious, I would just increase sump size to 3-4 times tank volume, then look at adding reactors and dosers…. Wouldn’t you agree?
@@mikeevans6589 Any time you can increase water volume it will improve stability and in my opinion be better for the tank in general regardless of your reactors or dosing methods, but in the case of the 75 gallon, it had a 29 gallon sump, and that was the largest I could possibly fit under the stand. Most of the time sump size is restricted by space more than anything.
@@Whiskeys_Reef Right!!!! I will go remote with my sump. 😂😂😂
@@mikeevans6589 That's how my new 300 is! And the 135 that it replaced. It's the way to go if you have the room for sure. Plus you don't need to worry about keeping equipment silent anymore.
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Hi, what are the secrets and the key to have coral growth?
Feed them make sure their lightning is made for coral growth and have a perfect water parameters
But ofc feeding and light most important for coral growth
do one of a single coral species growing. too many animals makes it too hard to follow
you shouldn't put an anemone near the zoas, it will kill them
This is true, but with Anemones you don't always get as much choice in the matter as with other coral.
Do corals grow on live rock
Yes
Sunscreen has ruined my home beach. Tourists don't realize the damage they do by not paying attention to their effect on the environment. Waikiki Beach in Hawaii even has a layer of visible sunscreen on its surface on flat days and the smell is disgusting 😑
I've heard, and I've heard that the impact to the reefs is huge as well because it's toxic to them. I for one am not using that type of sunscreen anymore, and hopefully I get to see Hawaii some day!
LOL lesson learned dont stick your hand in a tank filled with corals if you used sunscreen.
Yes,.. Actually I took it a step further, I don't use that type of sunscreen anymore. There is a Zinc based one that's better for the environment and the tank.
hence its all the idiots on vacation snorkeling killing the corals w sunscreen?
There are safe sunscreens, I think the ones that are Zinc based if my memory is serving me. I've seen news articles about the costal communities are trying to ban the unsafe ones, especially popular vacation spots like Hawaii.
Scoly be pulsing to the beat
Ha! It kindof is. The LPS don't show the growth as well on time lapse because they open and close like that, but you can still tell!