I never found coral appealing, but ive always thought about a sort of kelp forest in a saltwater aquarium being a cool idea and the fish contrast far better on the plants in my opinion. But id need to learn how to care properly for saltwater first.
I am in love with all the various types you have collected from the store you worked at! Very lucky to have come across that many just by chance! Thank you for including my tank shot in there :) Really like that you showed off other tanks too! I was nodding my head with everything you said. How dare people call macro tanks refugiums!! Someday they'll catch on 😜
I'm enjoying your videos about the mangrove and macro algae tank. Keep the video's coming. I have a larger reef tank downstairs at home and my old tank has been sat in my office where I work from home for ages now. I have made my mind up to make a tank along the lines of what you've done here. Some sort of biotope tank, like on a shoreline with mangroves growing out the top. Like you mention, I can't find too much info about these types of tanks and how to set them up etc online. For me, these types of tanks take me back to why I got into fish keeping. Watching the interesting stuff going on in a little ecosystem.
I grew up in California and I time to time see the massive kelp forests from the beach or on documentaries, and I've always wanted to keep that kind of ecosystem in my home and with macroalgae I get to do that. :)
I really enjoyed watching your RUclips shows about macroalgae I often walk along the beach wondering if I could put seaweed in the tank because I prefer that look it’s more natural
Love it. With a soft sand bed and maybe a bit more care to remove algae/cyanobacteria off the front glass etc this tank would be exquisite. Milllion times more pretty and natural looking than most 'day glo' reef tanks these days with god awful intense purple blue lighting, over fluorescing the corals.
Great collection of macroalgae. Question: how does your Butterflies behave? Was thinking about macroalgae tank at some point with various Butterflyfishes and Angels. Doable?
@@EverydayAquarist I will definitely try one day. Right now macros in my upcoming reef tank, but it not my final tank, so when I move everything to the bigger reef at some point in the future that will be empty and ready for "macroalgae reef"
I enjoy your macroalgae tanks, very much. It's the reason I subscribed to your channel. The fish look so happy in it. And you have the only content and well-fed mandarin goby I have seen on RUclips, or anywhere for that matter. No doubt because of the macroalgae and the microorganisms it hosts. If I ever do salt water again, I did reefs for years and grew bored with it, I would do a macroalgae aquarium, and living where I do, it should be easy to stock and experiment with.
Hi, New sub. Great channel you have here! I've been keeping macros for the past 30 years now. Only working with Caulerpa prolifera at the moment. The pandemic has me living in two separate houses which means that most of my salt water systems are on auto pilot for up to two weeks at a time. I might experiment with low light at my second home where I spend most of my time. We have access to a number of macros here in the States. I've also been thinking about culturing salt water green water in order to raise up some Artemia. Cheers, Chris
I like the cliff on the left side, is it hard to keep detritus from building up in it? We have a few salt LFS in HK but only one of them sells colourful macro algae and they are as expensive as corals
I have to say I started keeping marine aquatic plants seriously 33 years ago. In the United States we have the availability of a large variety of marine plants. The fact is, on a lot of coral reefs among the corals and close by are many varieties of aquatic plants. If you have the skill and knowledge a planted reef aquarium can be just as colorful and beautiful as an all coral display and can be just as bio diverse or even more so than all coral aquarium. And I must say you don’t have to just keep either a plant tank or a coral only tank, you can combine the two to get a great beautiful dramatic effect. You can very much keep a planted marine aquarium with stony corals very successfully if you are willing to put in the maintenance and practice good aquarium husbandry skills keeping your corals and plants balanced and not letting things get overgrown, it is possible to have the best of both worlds and your fish and reef inhabitants will all be better off for it. The amount of microscopic biodiversity in live rock especially with marine algae growing on it is tremendous and fish seem to breed better in such ecosystems. But you must not over stock your aquariums with fish, and you must give your ecosystem enough time to build up an abundant supply of living organisms which can be self sustaining if you balance and ratio the amount of fish in your system, everything depends on everything else and you have a more complete cycle of life in your system, I know this and have been keeping saltwater fish since 1965 when I received my first pair of marine fish which were dwarf seahorses which were pregnant and a few marine aquatic plants came with my order. I developed enough living microorganism in their little aquarium to not only feed the dwarf seahorses but also the babies. So I’ve had 58 years of experience with aquatic marine systems, and as close as you can get to a total natural biological marine system in a box. One final thing, a planted marine aquarium adds so much more in my opinion than just coral alone. if done right the animals not only do well, but thrive. Keep up the good work. The only thing I don’t like about the business of marine fish keeping today is the obscenely unjustified, overinflated greed. The price of the marine hobby today is disgracefully artificially overinflated and obscene, denying more and more aquarists the ability, or should I say inability to enjoy marine fish hobby.
@@jamiebaker6516 If I may suggest. A tank full of C. prolifera, sea grass, and maybe some fern/grape Caulerpa would make for an interesting tank. I’ve seen ulva growing in the grass marshes in SC, specific gravity around 1.018-1.024. Set it up like a dirted freshwater tank, try some refugite too! Oyster toadfish, puffers, or whatever would love it. Keep it under tons of t5s at 65k and 10k color and it’ll definitely grow.
Any advice on growing mangroves? Just got mine 2 days ago , the 4 to 6 inches long , with leaves . What lighting parameters parameters do they need pls . Any advice would be much appreciated 😊
Tide pools are typically dominated by kelps and whatnot, you rarely see big beds of living corals and anemones close to the bank.. at least from what I can remember of living on Guam as a child and going to the coast here in Northern California and watching videos of people fishing and foraging around San Francisco. Sure there's some that live there but mostly it's sea grapes and small seaweeds and elk kelp and whatnot.
I live in a sub tropical place and I have a license to collect 10 kg of sea plants per day if I like I never do though . Your tank is looking great I have 5 tanks 2 is macro only and 1 is soft coral and macro combined then the last is fish only , What people with coral tanks only don't realize is that if you use enough macro in your tank you can just throw away your skimmer witch people spend a lot of effort on . Good channel mate keep it going I have been reefing since the 1980 s .
Where do you get your macros? I have 2 display fuges that are macro tanks. Looking to expand types, especially the reds. I have dragons tounge, pompom. Feathee flame, An unidentified red (think i see it in your tank, tiny flat balls and no stems grows in a clump). Also have a couple caulerpa, grows too fast, annoying. I saw you have lots of reds, like the red maiden hair, and am curious where you find these harder to find macros. I also want blue hypnea, but everyone seems sold out constantly.
As I mentioned I used to work in a shop so what I have done over the years is when we imported new corals or live rock I would remove the algae if it was attached to the fresh imports. Some I have found from pure luck
Love your videos. I'm trying to do an algae tank but hair algae keeps growing all over the ones I'm trying to keep. How can I stop this from happening?
Oh mu gosh I'm glad I found d you. Coz I want a marine tank and I want micro already and not corals. And it just happened that I live in the Philippines I can even buy it at the market😊
Great tanks mate 👍🏻, My son wants a small reef tank in his room so thinking of setting him a nano macro algea display tank, but where would be the best place to buy the algeas from in the uk, I've only found two "algae" online shops in the uk and they both say all algaes are out of stock
Was just looking for the best place to get it got to get him the tank first, its his bithday in a couple of weeks, think he'll be getting the tank then. so will have another look on the site when he's ready see if you have some in 👍🏻
@@KARLOB84 the lights are OK to start as it's the aquasky led but I'd probably plan an upgrade down the line. Get the tank mature before adding macroalgae
I love this video! This is the reason I just subscribed to your RUclips channel. I just bought a used Red Sea Reefer 350, and want to have a micro algae refugium. However everyone seems to use cheato. But I like being different and would like to use something else. What would you recommend. Sorry about any typos, I am very new to this hobby I don’t know the correct spelling of certain things yet. Lol.
@@EverydayAquarist thank you for sharing your beautiful tanks. I hope more ppl get interested in planted reef tanks - they are beautiful. I just love watching grasses move. Lots of amazing weed washes up during storms. I wish I could get some to you.
In some countries, all kinds of corals are banned and macro algae could add some variety compared to a fish-only tank. A fish-only tank looks incomplete imo.
A large macro display is on the list of things this year for 2021!
Awesome! Can't wait to check it out in the future
I never found coral appealing, but ive always thought about a sort of kelp forest in a saltwater aquarium being a cool idea and the fish contrast far better on the plants in my opinion. But id need to learn how to care properly for saltwater first.
I love how you hit it on the head it’s an ecosystem aka a complex but diversified variety of life
This is great! I always wanted to have a big and tall cylindrical tanks with long kelp algae recreating a kelp forest.
I am in love with all the various types you have collected from the store you worked at! Very lucky to have come across that many just by chance! Thank you for including my tank shot in there :) Really like that you showed off other tanks too! I was nodding my head with everything you said. How dare people call macro tanks refugiums!! Someday they'll catch on 😜
Thanks for watching I'm glad you enjoyed it
Awesome video! Let the people know the future! Macro is the future!!
As a freshwater planted aquarium hobbyist I really appreciate your videos.
Someday I’d really like to set up a tank like this!
Beautiful !
Make it happen
I'm enjoying your videos about the mangrove and macro algae tank. Keep the video's coming.
I have a larger reef tank downstairs at home and my old tank has been sat in my office where I work from home for ages now.
I have made my mind up to make a tank along the lines of what you've done here. Some sort of biotope tank, like on a shoreline with mangroves growing out the top. Like you mention, I can't find too much info about these types of tanks and how to set them up etc online.
For me, these types of tanks take me back to why I got into fish keeping. Watching the interesting stuff going on in a little ecosystem.
One of the most Beautiful and lively Marine tank I've seen! I'm obsessed with Macro Algae tanks !!!! :)
Thanks me too!
I absolutely love your tanks and they have inspired me on my softy/algae/ nem. tank.
Great to hear!
Thank you so much for your thoughts on macro algae.
I agree with you completely.
Also your tank is absolutely beautiful.
Keep up the good work!
just watched a few of your videos cant wait to start getting my macro algaes ... will be watching more of your videos to make sure i am doing it right
Glad you found them useful
Very cool, it reminds me a lot of what you can see in colder waters like here in Sweden for example.
Exept the the colourful fish of course.
Cold water marine tanks are awesome. One day I will try one
Yeah, I would like to do that to.
Love the video and I've started a macroalgae tank so your advice is very helpful!
Brilliant
Thanks that was a great presentation. Hopefully, it will get more people to think about macroalgae.
I hope so, thank you
This is so interesting to me! I think your tanks are soo natural looking, ecosystem aquariums are way underrated
Thank you
I grew up in California and I time to time see the massive kelp forests from the beach or on documentaries, and I've always wanted to keep that kind of ecosystem in my home and with macroalgae I get to do that. :)
Nice one
I really enjoyed watching your RUclips shows about macroalgae I often walk along the beach wondering if I could put seaweed in the tank because I prefer that look it’s more natural
respect the grind 🙌
Love what you are doing looking amazing
Love it. With a soft sand bed and maybe a bit more care to remove algae/cyanobacteria off the front glass etc this tank would be exquisite. Milllion times more pretty and natural looking than most 'day glo' reef tanks these days with god awful intense purple blue lighting, over fluorescing the corals.
Thank you, that's very intersting. I keep a nano reef with algea and it works really well.
Awesome
Big Fan! Thanks for sharing
Glad to
Great collection of macroalgae.
Question: how does your Butterflies behave? Was thinking about macroalgae tank at some point with various Butterflyfishes and Angels. Doable?
Hello my butterfly is totally fine with them. I had a kleins which ate caulerpa though. I think most dwarf angels will be ok
@@EverydayAquarist I will definitely try one day. Right now macros in my upcoming reef tank, but it not my final tank, so when I move everything to the bigger reef at some point in the future that will be empty and ready for "macroalgae reef"
I enjoy your macroalgae tanks, very much. It's the reason I subscribed to your channel. The fish look so happy in it. And you have the only content and well-fed mandarin goby I have seen on RUclips, or anywhere for that matter. No doubt because of the macroalgae and the microorganisms it hosts. If I ever do salt water again, I did reefs for years and grew bored with it, I would do a macroalgae aquarium, and living where I do, it should be easy to stock and experiment with.
Yeah he's a fat boy!
Hi, New sub. Great channel you have here! I've been keeping macros for the past 30 years now. Only working with Caulerpa prolifera at the moment. The pandemic has me living in two separate houses which means that most of my salt water systems are on auto pilot for up to two weeks at a time. I might experiment with low light at my second home where I spend most of my time. We have access to a number of macros here in the States. I've also been thinking about culturing salt water green water in order to raise up some Artemia.
Cheers,
Chris
Thanks for watching!
I like the cliff on the left side, is it hard to keep detritus from building up in it?
We have a few salt LFS in HK but only one of them sells colourful macro algae and they are as expensive as corals
I have to say I started keeping marine aquatic plants seriously 33 years ago. In the United States we have the availability of a large variety of marine plants. The fact is, on a lot of coral reefs among the corals and close by are many varieties of aquatic plants. If you have the skill and knowledge a planted reef aquarium can be just as colorful and beautiful as an all coral display and can be just as bio diverse or even more so than all coral aquarium. And I must say you don’t have to just keep either a plant tank or a coral only tank, you can combine the two to get a great beautiful dramatic effect. You can very much keep a planted marine aquarium with stony corals very successfully if you are willing to put in the maintenance and practice good aquarium husbandry skills keeping your corals and plants balanced and not letting things get overgrown, it is possible to have the best of both worlds and your fish and reef inhabitants will all be better off for it. The amount of microscopic biodiversity in live rock especially with marine algae growing on it is tremendous and fish seem to breed better in such ecosystems. But you must not over stock your aquariums with fish, and you must give your ecosystem enough time to build up an abundant supply of living organisms which can be self sustaining if you balance and ratio the amount of fish in your system, everything depends on everything else and you have a more complete cycle of life in your system, I know this and have been keeping saltwater fish since 1965 when I received my first pair of marine fish which were dwarf seahorses which were pregnant and a few marine aquatic plants came with my order. I developed enough living microorganism in their little aquarium to not only feed the dwarf seahorses but also the babies. So I’ve had 58 years of experience with aquatic marine systems, and as close as you can get to a total natural biological marine system in a box. One final thing, a planted marine aquarium adds so much more in my opinion than just coral alone. if done right the animals not only do well, but thrive. Keep up the good work.
The only thing I don’t like about the business of marine fish keeping today is the obscenely unjustified, overinflated greed.
The price of the marine hobby today is disgracefully artificially overinflated and obscene, denying more and more aquarists the ability, or should I say inability to enjoy marine fish hobby.
Thanks for your comment. Great insight 👍
Love this video! Can I do a brackish macro tank?
Yes, Caulerpa prolifera will handle as low as 1.014 SG I believe. Others will tolerate high end brackish as well!
Nice I didn't know this
@@ross2398 thanks so much. I'm going to do a local waters brackish tank (meadowlands new Jersey) but some macro algae might be nice.
@@jamiebaker6516 If I may suggest. A tank full of C. prolifera, sea grass, and maybe some fern/grape Caulerpa would make for an interesting tank. I’ve seen ulva growing in the grass marshes in SC, specific gravity around 1.018-1.024. Set it up like a dirted freshwater tank, try some refugite too! Oyster toadfish, puffers, or whatever would love it. Keep it under tons of t5s at 65k and 10k color and it’ll definitely grow.
Nice video , I love the macro algae
Thanks
Any advice on growing mangroves? Just got mine 2 days ago , the 4 to 6 inches long , with leaves . What lighting parameters parameters do they need pls . Any advice would be much appreciated 😊
Tide pools are typically dominated by kelps and whatnot, you rarely see big beds of living corals and anemones close to the bank.. at least from what I can remember of living on Guam as a child and going to the coast here in Northern California and watching videos of people fishing and foraging around San Francisco. Sure there's some that live there but mostly it's sea grapes and small seaweeds and elk kelp and whatnot.
I live in a sub tropical place and I have a license to collect 10 kg of sea plants per day if I like I never do though . Your tank is looking great I have 5 tanks 2 is macro only and 1 is soft coral and macro combined then the last is fish only , What people with coral tanks only don't realize is that if you use enough macro in your tank you can just throw away your skimmer witch people spend a lot of effort on . Good channel mate keep it going I have been reefing since the 1980 s .
Thanks, I don't use skimmers
Where do you get your macros?
I have 2 display fuges that are macro tanks. Looking to expand types, especially the reds.
I have dragons tounge, pompom. Feathee flame, An unidentified red (think i see it in your tank, tiny flat balls and no stems grows in a clump). Also have a couple caulerpa, grows too fast, annoying.
I saw you have lots of reds, like the red maiden hair, and am curious where you find these harder to find macros.
I also want blue hypnea, but everyone seems sold out constantly.
As I mentioned I used to work in a shop so what I have done over the years is when we imported new corals or live rock I would remove the algae if it was attached to the fresh imports. Some I have found from pure luck
Love your videos. I'm trying to do an algae tank but hair algae keeps growing all over the ones I'm trying to keep. How can I stop this from happening?
Wait for the tank to mature more. I find after 9-12 months the hair algae goes away
Thank you so much I've been going crazy trying to get rid of it
Any thoughts on C. mexicana? How would you compare it to C. prolifera?
Very similar
Can you take macro from rock pools in the UK carefully up the temp and put it in your tank
Oh mu gosh I'm glad I found d you. Coz I want a marine tank and I want micro already and not corals. And it just happened that I live in the Philippines
I can even buy it at the market😊
1:21 can i ask what that brown fish is?
Great tanks mate 👍🏻, My son wants a small reef tank in his room so thinking of setting him a nano macro algea display tank, but where would be the best place to buy the algeas from in the uk, I've only found two "algae" online shops in the uk and they both say all algaes are out of stock
Hi one of those is me "PlantedReef" I'm a little low on stock at the moment as I switched to a new setup but I have a few available
@@EverydayAquarist yes planted reef mate, didn't know it was your site, haha
Was just looking for the best place to get it got to get him the tank first, its his bithday in a couple of weeks, think he'll be getting the tank then. so will have another look on the site when he's ready see if you have some in 👍🏻
Was thinking a fluval flex of some sort are the lights good enouh on those for algaes?
@@KARLOB84 the lights are OK to start as it's the aquasky led but I'd probably plan an upgrade down the line. Get the tank mature before adding macroalgae
Hi there am starting a macro tank my new tank just finished it's cycle when do you think I should start adding macro to it. Thanks
I don't see why not
Great video! I have a macroalgae tank as well .. but i keep having cyano.. :(
I love this video! This is the reason I just subscribed to your RUclips channel.
I just bought a used Red Sea Reefer 350, and want to have a micro algae refugium. However everyone seems to use cheato. But I like being different and would like to use something else.
What would you recommend.
Sorry about any typos, I am very new to this hobby I don’t know the correct spelling of certain things yet. Lol.
Caulerpa of some kind
@@EverydayAquarist thanks I really appreciate that you responded so quickly.
Do you shop to the U.S.?
I'm growing macroalgae and I'm having a tough time. Why are your caulerpa prolifera so tall and wide?
Slow flow and good nutrition
Will macro algae work in a brackish tank?
Great vid..
Thanks
Will macro algae grow in brackish?
How is this new? I've had mine for over 20 years now
Good info
So so agree 👍👍👍👍💪💪💪💪
it is pretty cool 🌱
east coast australia, let me know if you want some seaweed.
Yes pls... :)
Man you're so lucky
@@EverydayAquarist thank you for sharing your beautiful tanks. I hope more ppl get interested in planted reef tanks - they are beautiful. I just love watching grasses move. Lots of amazing weed washes up during storms. I wish I could get some to you.
Whoa that's an offer I wish I could get in on 😍 You Australians have the ultimate collection out there!!
Y’all got Halophila ovalis out there?
I want to see a refrigerated Antarctic reef tank
Who's going to collect your livestock for it!?
👍
You can pump the water from that tank to a reef tank and the reef tank water to that tank and it would be so good
Do a video explaining how to do a macro algae aquarium, I have a little problem with the English so please put subtitles
I am watching this video
I am done watching this video
Thanks for your time
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In some countries, all kinds of corals are banned and macro algae could add some variety compared to a fish-only tank. A fish-only tank looks incomplete imo.
i like your voice ☘️
Thanks
welcome
macroalgae is underrated
u r funny GG
It’s easier to grow corals macros are challenging.
Possibly more importantly … they aren’t plants!