Posts Tagged ‘salt’
This video shows how i have plumbed a water storage system to allow for automated salt water changes to a reef aquarium. It will also allow me to do automatic ro di water changes to the aquarium and make water changes as easy as is possible.
www.bulkreefsupply.com In Today’s episode we are going to discuss aquarium wavemakers including Tunze, Hydor Koralia and EcoTech Marine Vortech pumps. We will install the Voretcs including the battery back up system. These low profile aquarium pumps are really slick and I love the redundancy the battery backup adds to our system.
Just a video of my first salt tank gunna upgrade bigger one day but for now I think its alright.It is a 55 gall. It has id say 65 lbs of live rock, 4 bags of live sand fiji pink,2 cleaner shrimp, 2 coral banded shrimp, sand sifting star, a neon blue goby, yellow wachman goby, 3 firefish gobys, a diadema, misbar and true perculas, yellow tang, 2 barber post gobys, 3 green chromis, red scooter blenny, horse shoe crab, arrow head crab, and a bunch of snails and hermits.For corals I have xena, brain, frogspawn, acans, trumpets, mushrooms, 6 types of polyps, some purple and white sponge, star polys kenyen tree, and more but cant think of the names. The lighting I have now is 65 watt power compacts 4 bulb. Upgrading to leds soon hopefully. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks.
Salt Water Aquarium – Salzwasseraquarium – Tropen-Aquarium Zoo Hagenbeck – Hamburg
www.bulkreefsupply.com In today’s episode we are going to add a sump to our aquarium, upgrade skimmers and auto top off system. We will also change the way we run GFO and carbon. In the beginning of the video we discuss some of the different ways to plumb an aquarium as well as individual plumbing pieces like check valves, gate valves and bulkheads. In a future episode we add a DIY sump.
This video will show you the first steps if you are thinking about starting a saltwater aquarium.
www.bulkreefsupply.com In today’s episode we are going to install an aquarium controller to the system. There are a ton of different brands out there, Neptune apex aquacontroller, Elos Biotopus, GHL profilux and the reef keeper series. We selected the digital aquatics reefkeeper lite plus package for this install. We will set up all of the most popular outlets, a standby and even some alarms.
This video is the first in what will hopefully be a series of videos about setting up a Nano reef aquarium. In this video I describe the equipment I Use as well as show it all installed on the tank. I also fill the tank with RO/DI water and mix the salt. Please let me know what you think, if you have any suggestions or comments I’d love to here them, this is my first venture into the marine aquarium hobby so I’ve got some learning to do but I’ve been doing my research and acquiring as much knowledge as I can in hopes of having a good first experience in the reef world. So Again, let me know what you think, Comment, Rate, subscribe and I’ll do my best to keep up, Thanks for watching.
This is the second video in my 20 Gallon Nano reef aquarium Build. In this video I talk about the sand I will use and i get the sand in the aquarium, i get the protien skimmer up and running, and get active carbon in the power filter. I also add a Versa Top, I lost a good bit of water to evaporation over the first week, so hopfully this top will help. Please let me know what you think, if you have any suggestions or comments I’d love to here them, this is my first venture into the marine aquarium hobby so I’ve got some learning to do but I’ve been doing my research and acquiring as much knowledge as I can in hopes of having a good first experience in the reef world. So Again, let me know what you think, Comment, Rate, subscribe and I’ll do my best to keep up, Thanks for watching.
www.bulkreefsupply.com This is the forth episode of our how to start a saltwater aquarium series. In today’s episode we are going to add some corals and quickly demonstrate acclimation and coral dips. We will also cover calcium and alkalinity briefly as well as the importance of equipment redundancy. We will add a PH controller to back up our kalkwasser based auto top of system .
