Ania’s Super Simple Softie Setup - 1 year update! | Gallery Aquatica TV
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- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2022
- It has been a year in the making but Ania is back with an update on her Red Sea mini reef!
Whats been going on? what has gone IN? lets check it out!
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Yup I’m a new #teamannie member so I’m binge watching .. don’t mind me with my comments years after the videos was posted
Your tank has a lot of diversity Ania. Looks very nice and i like how you’ve stocked it.
Thanks so much for watching Rogue Aquariums, I appreciate the comment.
I’ve really enjoyed this project once we determined we were going full softs. After a few months of the “ ugly phase” I was pretty quick to stock it with a range of Zoa, Rhodactis and LPS, but was getting a bit exasperated by our lack of time to manage it correctly. Now I absolutely adore octocorals and I’m really looking forward to seeing the corals grow into more of a forest and also to see what the CVE+ does for them all.
I talk about this setup often at the store to clients and I feel I’m slowly lifting the pretentious stigma of thinking soft corals are boring. It’s particularly useful when clients are struggling with difficult to keep corals.
Wishing you a happy holiday season,
Ania
@@GalleryAquaticaTV I agree with you about being a Zoa nut as well. Lol. I absolutely love them. That’s good that you can help your clients and show them that a lot of corals aren’t really that hard to keep as long as you have fairly stable parameters. Curious as to how the CVE+ works for you. Have a great New Years and all the best.
Darren
Tank looking fabulous for one year old soft corals are underrated 👍
Thanks Tony Close UK Reef!
I did a big overhaul on it in August, took out all the LPS, zoas and treated for bryopsis with fluconazole and then started to add the softies from there. Best decision ever! I never thought I’d be so entranced by watching Octocorals but I am obsessed!
Ania
This video was awesome Ania. Thanks so much for the detail and beautiful soft coral nano reef as inspiration. Can't wait to visit the store again and pick up some more softies.
This is a perfect example of how sometimes less is more. Great video.
Hi Arrick,
Thank you so much for watching and reaching out to comment. We really appreciate the feedback. I have been really impressed with the progress on this MiniReef 120 since deciding to make it Octocoral dominated.
Hope you had a great Christmas and a happy new year!
Ania
Really looking forward for this update and thanks for sharing 👍🍻🇺🇸
You and me both! We filmed this about a month ago and I’m already seeing some noticeable differences. I’ve since had a good chat with the developers of CVE so I’m also excited to share what the philosophy behind the product is :)
Thanks for watching and Happy New Year!
Ania
Absolutely gorgeous set up Ania. Looking forward to seeing this tank again 😀
Thank you so much for the kind feedback Michelle. I can’t wait to see it all grow in and become a proper forest! So far the CVE really seems to be making a difference with polyp extension and even growth! Woohoo!
Happy Reefing xo
Ania
I might need to try adding some softies to my tank after seeing this. How cool are banana wrasse... love mine. 👍
Hi Chris!
Banana wrasse are awesome! I like to choose fish in colours which compliment the corals. When you look closely there can be some really nicely coloured Octocorals available. I have only a few which are bold but for the most part the colours are quite pastel and subtle which is lovely.
Hope you’re having a wonderful holiday season and Happy New Year!
Ania
Love this tank!! I’m a HUGE fan of soft coral and I really enjoyed this video.
My lagoon is dominated by Sarcophytons and I love it! Great video!
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Happy New Year! 🥰
Yay Ania 😎 now Christmas is complete
Hi there and G’day Microbius Blue!
Hope you’re having a fabulous holiday season so far! Thank you for watching! And Happy New Year!
Ania
Thanks so much for showing this reef. It’s looking great and very inspiring to me as my Majestic angel means I’m going full leather in my XXL750. I’ll definitely add the Reef essentials iodine and CVE+ to my system once I have enough corals :)
Hi Insanity4224,
Oh my word, an XXL750 softie setup would be a dream size to scape out in this style!!
That’s exciting as you will be able to house and feature a number of other awesome reef fish which may pick at LPS. I wonder how many wave makers you’ll end up needing!
Great idea on the CE range. They are such quality products made by a legit reef hobbyist owned Aussie coral farmers backed by Science 👍
Thanks for watching and sharing your news!
Ania
More than beautiful aquarium 🪸 and very wise words for that decision! I'm very interested to see how everything evolves 😊 - Ramon 🇲🇽
G’day Ramon,
Thank you so much for the kind words. I can’t wait to see the corals grow in to create a more forest-y vibe. Hopefully I can find a few more interesting coloured Octocorals to add in to the scape. Am also tempted to add some of my favourite Rhodactis (another huge obsession of mine) but we shall see.
Wishing you a wonderful holiday season!
Happy Reefing!
Ania
@@GalleryAquaticaTV I see. I also love Corallimorpharias. I think there are some Discosomas on the bottom 2:38 . And if you are going to add more corals I'm even more interested to see 🪸 😂 Also have a wonderful holiday season and happy reefing! 🪸 😊
Brilliant video, absolutely love the tank, soft corals don’t get the praise they deserve. Getting some book envy, you have a awesome collection!
Kiss ❤ thanks for your vidéo, thanks Cameron
Hello! Thank you so much for watching! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year!
Ania
I love the diversity of this tank. Love the fish, I almost thought those were black saddleback clowns. I have two in my tank nano and sometimes when I’m doing a water change, they will jump out the water in attempt to bite me. They are so crazy sometimes. Thanks for sharing, happy reef keeping!!
Hi Dave, thank you so much for sharing. Our clowns get very aggressive about twice a month when they lay eggs. But nowhere near as psycho as the Lightning Maroons at work. They even go for the skin between our fingers and make us bleed! Aren’t they just nuts!!
Hope you’re having a lovely festive break.
Ania
Very nice tank. It shows you can do a lot with soft corals.
Thank you for watching and leaving a comment Franklin.
I can’t wait to see these corals grow bigger and I wonder what other colour variants I might be able to snag before the rockwork is completely covered.
Happy New Year to you and Happy Reefing!
Ania
I love soft corals 😍.
Thank you Lorenzo! Me too! I never realised how much until I finally owned some for myself ❤️
Happy Reefing and Merry Christmas!
Ania
Great video Ania!! looking forward to more
Thank you!
Good to see you, Ania!! 💛
G’day Jones Jones! Thank you for the kind words. I’m going to try push away my nerves and practice getting on film a little more often this year ;)
Hope you’re having a happy holiday season!
Ania
@@GalleryAquaticaTV Aww, thanks, Ania! I’ve always enjoyed your frag file videos 😊! Happy New Year’s 🎉 from New York City ☮️
@@JonesJones-np2kq cheers! One day I’d love to visit New York! What a great place to live!
Beautiful tank! Love the scape. There are so many cool varieties of soft coral
Thank you so much! I agree; it’s so underrated around these parts. One colour which I can’t seem to find here are the “pink Nepthea” you see often available overseas. That and a proper “weeping willow” are currently on my Holy Grail list to try hunt down .
Thanks for watching! Happu Holidays! Ania
@@GalleryAquaticaTV yes those are some of my favorites. I have a pink and a purple color nepthea variation and one of @bahamallamacoral weeping willows. Not as crazy as Jake adams but I enjoy the long polyps flowing in the current! Good luck hunting! Hope you can find them!
Beautiful tank.
Great video. It's funny that I haven't heard the term "mini-reef" since back in the late 80s when I first started in the hobby.👍🏾
G’day Gwonk! That is funny. Thanks for pointing that out, asI should have clarified, the tank model I have is a second hand AquaOne MiniReef 120. As with everything in Australia, we shorten it to “Minireef” 🤣😅 but it would have been respectful to the brand had I just added the AquaOne part.
My mum recently sent me a photo of me with my first aquarium, in 1987. Goes to show some things from childhood can really influence who we choose to become 😊
Happy New Year!
Ania
Beautiful aquarium. 😍.
Thank you so much Paul! I really look forward to it growing in and seeing what happens next! Hoping to find a few more interesting pieces to help create the forest look :)
Happy Reefing! Ania
love the tank Ania, thanks. Quick question. How long will a 500ml bottle like that last for?
Awesome video, I love to see the tanks you guys run :D I do keep a softie reef in the living room. It's great because it looks awesome in full spectrum lighting, so the living room is not saturated in blue light at the evenings :D
Hi TatooedDancer91,
That’s awesome to hear you have a similar setup. My one regret so far is just the 120L space restriction! I guess I’ll have to get out my Fragging gear once these pieces all grow out!
Something I wasn’t prepared for was the rate and frequency of their skin shedding. I’m not sure if it’s the fact they are so small that they are growing fast thus shed frequently or the double dosing of Iodine… or maybe that’s just an Octocoral thing. As an example, I would say I have NEVER seen every single leather open together on any one particular day. Which would be such a pleasure. But also, it’s kind of fun because when some are shut, it gives their neighbours time to shine.
Do you find that too?
Ania
@@GalleryAquaticaTV Hi Ania,
It's funny, I do not. Mine rarely, as in VERY rarely, sheds.
They can be closed when the clown pair is moving furniture around because they want to lay eggs in a small 140 liter tank, which is annoying me and the corals. But they open back up.
Shedding I feel happens mostly after sudden shifts. Like moving a coral from one tank tot he other, or when feeding is increased. Stuff like that :D
It's a great tank you have there! The scape turned out great for softies for sure.
My favorite moment from my own is when all 5 strains of sarcophyton were large and open at the same time, and my clown bounced between all of them. Bliss! Now I I cut them all the time to make room :D
Happy New Years!
I have blushing finger leathers if you want one next time I come down from toowoomba just trying to get the pieces to attach to something. when I got it as a grapefruit sized colony it died in the middle so I chopped it up to try and save it.
Hi Ben! Ooh that’s amazing! I’d definitely be keen for a frag, thank you for the offer. We can do a trade, I’m sure we will have something you like here. Hope the frags heal fast! I have had success with rubble in a container, or rubber bands, or the toothpick method . We did a video about techniques for Fragging softies on The Frag Files once.
Happy Reefing! Ania
So great to see Ania and whats happening with the tank. Love the philosophy here and cant wait to see what happens with the CVE.
I randomly dose CVE but need to get my 4 headed doser set up in the next day or 2 and will start on Tropic Marin trace and the CVE.
Hi Sunny! Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts in this comment. So far I’m really seeing some impressive polyp extension! And I have since chatted extensively to the developers of Coral Essentials regarding the ingredients and science behind its dosing. I do wonder if it’s best to use in the photo period like aminos or night like the gro.
I’ll keep trying to calm my nerves and practice getting on film a little more this upcoming year. :)
Hope you had a Merry Christmas !
Ania
@@GalleryAquaticaTV Awww thanks Ania - yeah we had an amazing Chrissy (although the snow melted). You did an amazing job on Reefbum and your FragFiles is simply one of the best series. Cam doing maintenance and you fragging is something we just don't get anywhere else.
On Reefbum you and Claude from Fauna Marin are the best episodes in a LONG time. This convinced me to start doing ICP and doing trace and CVE+ regularly and I can also get the nano CVE droppers which I may get to do baths if I get back into LPS.
Hopefully I will have a great update for you in a few months when your prop room is back up and you can do a frag files ;)
@@sunnygoold9449 agreed both were great episodes 👍
@@insanity4224 thank you for the positive feedback, that is very kind. Happy New Year!
Ania
@@sunnygoold9449 YES! I’m so keen to do a Frag Files again. I was thinking there may be a way to try film one in store while we wait.
The building industry has been hit hard with requests since seemingly half the country experienced floods recently and it has been an absolute nightmare trying to get quotes ect. Sorted.
Thanks for watching the ReefBum livestream. I was really nervous and underslept from the related insomnia haha. I have seen his previous guest line up and didn’t feel I was worthy. But you know what, Jake set it up. And I kept telling myself, if Jake believed in me, so should I. Keith made it so easy for my to feel welcomed. I’m stoked I did it.
Ania
Looks great. What light is on it?
Hi Josh! Thank you! I had meant to talk about the changes to the lighting but forgot to. We have put on a second hand Hydra 52 with ReefBrite side bars :)
Cheers!
Ania
Great tank Ania. If kept low in the tank away from the leather Corals don't see why you couldn't have awesome zoas in there
Hi Dee, thank you. I do already have a few remnant Zoas up the top right on a magnet island but I agree, I think it would be great to add some amongst the scape once I feel there are enough Octocorals. We stock about 200+ varieties so my initial plan of showcasing every single one was scrapped. Maybe one day I will be able to set up a 4 footer with intent to house every Zoa properly :) That scape structure will probably need to be multi dimensional, given the zoas don’t create any shape on their own. I have a vision of making it kind of branchy to try fit as many zoas as possible.
Cheers for the input, I really appreciate it.
Ania
@@GalleryAquaticaTV that sounds great. Aquascape the tank like zoas making up a lawn or carpet or country side
G'day Ania :).
Truth be told I'm a fresh water hobbyist as the salty side gets a bit expensive where I am (Trinidad 🇹🇹) which I'm sure is the same for everywhere else. I do however tend to watch salty videos for inspiration to one day make the jump. If and when I do... I'd love to have a tank similar to this.
Hi Kern, thanks so much for watching! What kind of fresh water setup do you have? I always previously had a lot of freshwater tanks, they can be equally as beautiful and fascinating as a marine tank. At one stage during my university years my housemates had to cap me at 30 setups 🤣🤣 so I’ve had a lot of experience with different biotypes. I encourage you to get started with a simple Softie setup like this one, it’s really been such a joy to have!
Ania
THIRTY TANKS lmao.... I'm capped at 5 at the moment.
I did discus tanks for several years and peaked at a 220gal with almost 30fish, loved them. Seeing that my tanks were mostly barebottom the only plant I could keep was anubias, then I fell in love with Anubias and collecting all the different species. So now I'm fully into planted tanks, hi tech...low tech and everything in between.
I've seen a few macro algae/mangrove displays pop up on you tube a couple times. I imagine that would be the closest thing to a planted tank and easiest to transition to, but the beauty of corals and anenomes makes me feel to dive right in.
Yes! I agree! A macro algae tank would be really interesting. A big challenge to achieve here in Australia because we aren’t allowed to import any internationally Collected or captive bred coral, inverts etc and all the macro algae in Australia is heavily protected so we seldom get to see a diverse range available here. Occasionally macro algae can come in on the base of coral shipments but usually all those bits get cut off and removed for transit so it’s rare. Generally reef tanks have so much clean up crew which loves eating macro algae so even when I find an interesting one I find it hard to hold aside for those who would like to try grow it 🤣
Hope you get your dream marine tank setup soon!
30 tanks was indeed a little crazy. We then lived in a giant run down mansion on the Gold Coast, there were 17 rooms !! So I had LOTS of space to fill 🤣
beautiful tank am setting a 60 gallon and is going to be softies why the iodine and for a 60 gallon what dosing would be good of course after cycling
Hi and thanks for watching :)
Soft corals particularly thrive in presence of available iodide. It helps with tissue health, shedding and growth. Tanks which are keeping mixed softies with LPS and SPS also benefit from regular iodide dosing however you have to be more careful not to overdose when SPS are present. Softies can handle very high levels which is why I’m not concerned about doubling the dose daily in this setup. I only have softs. There are a lot of different brands which offer Iodine dosing, notably Seachem Iodide is the non toxic form of iodine, I love using Coral Essentials as it’s potassium iodide and super concentrated. And potassium is also very important for coral health and colour. Continuum does one too. I think it’s called Sustain.
Start dosing slowly while you stock the tank. Once you have alot of pieces of coral you are best to use the full recommended dose on whichever brand bottle you decide to use. Hope it goes well for you :)
Happy Reefing!
Ania
You have a very shallow sandbed for that coris wrasse ? They don't sleep in the sand ?
Hey Rob,
Thanks for watching and leaving the feedback.
The sandbed may appear shallow on the screen but it’s actually at least two inches thick at the back. My banana wrasse is just a tiny juvenile, about one inch long, (3cm) but he isn’t a coris, it’s Halichoeres chrysus. I believe in USA a different yellow wrasse gets the common name Banana but either way, we can always increase the substrate as it grows and/or swap the fish with others in our store once they get too big for this setup :)
Wishing you a Happy new year,
Ania
Hi
I have a LPS heavily dominated tank
Cade 1200
Have some Montipora variants also
Currently using Red Sea ABC but have just purchased the triton core flex as I’m going to switch over
Could I also run the dose cve+ with it as I have a spare dose head
Thanks ania keep up the great work 👍
Hi Timmy,
Thanks for watching and also for comment. That is a great question. You could certainly use CVE+ alongside the Red Sea foundation dosing and or Triton. But also for nutrition, to compliment the CVE I would suggest dosing their amino products also.
Happy Reefing!
Ania
@@GalleryAquaticaTV thank you
I have 4 channel dosing atm
Was thinking 2 part the flex and then cve
So that leaves me with a 4th any particular amino you recommend
Anyone else watching That lemon peel / yellow dwarf angel just hammering the coral! 😕
Lol can assure you he hasn’t eaten a single mouthful. Every piece I’ve ever put in is still here and thriving. He grazes around for plankton, I add a bottle of live copepods and Rotifers with two bottles of live phyto every week.
What light and what are the 2 yellow fish?
Hi Eddie, thanks for the question. There is a banana wrasse (Halichoeres chloris) and a juvenile Herald’s Angel (Centropyge heraldi). For the lights, it’s a AI Hydra 26HD (the new ones these days are a 32) with Reef Brite side bars .
I’d like to know what’s exactly in the products you mentioned if possible
Hi JAHs Reef!
I can certainly explain it better on the next update. I’ve had a good chat with the CVE developers since filming this and it’s quite an interesting philosophy, very cool concept and quite unique compared to other products currently available on the market.
I can however give you a fun hint ..
Have you ever googled a photo of whale poop?
🤣
Cheers, Ania
@@GalleryAquaticaTV sounds good thanks for the fast reply I know it’s probably early morning there. Happy reefing!
Is ania ur wife?
Yes, but also the store manager. Cam
@@GalleryAquaticaTV all these many years of watching and never knew that.... Non of my business sorry to ask.... But glad to see a couple with the same interests