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Will u plz do a review on the coral life led love your show keep reefing

how would you choose the lights, in order to make sure that these corals do well at a certain depth? Let‘s say 70-100 cm, I like tall aquariums.

Why is no one mensioning that red sea’s light is very purple not blue ? Or is just me ?

Alex we know you farted and it’s not the first time 🤣Ryan didn’t know where to look

I want a couple harlequin and couple cleaners

I’m enjoying the build so far

FFS, I'm a Leeds fan that was at Wembley, I put this on to take my mind off the football and find out that Alex is a Soton fan.

My concern for Aquah was it is mostly marine focused, the only stall that seems to have anything of interest for freshwater is RSPB unless wanting to spend a bit more on some nice lighting or wavemakers. There does seem to be an aquascaper supplier but honestly no idea who they are and I couldn't spend a day looking at one stall. So, it'll still loose any freshwater enthusiasts unless they have an interest in marines. Most the people I know have no interest in going, within marines it seems popular though. The marketing has been really poor on the freshwater side so not entirely sure if it is wanting to be marine focused or working on the misconception that every fishkeeper wants to keep marine. I think it'd need to be like the Aquatics Live but I doubt we'll have anything like that again, they even had societies do stalls.

My cleaner shrimp keep messing with all my corals on my next water change he’s coming out

We have unseasonably good weather in Sweden and have more people shutting down their tanks than normal

I quite like the TMC ICP approach. I always pay for the advanced reef zlements version mainly to get a flouride test, but I'm not interested in the rest really. If I could just see if it's okay or not, that'd be great. Plus then I could pay for the full data if it was bad and I wanted to know the value. I kinda wish RZ would do this now!

My local shop is wharf aquatics so I'm very lucky, however, if I do order fish I always go to Abyss aquatics they're great!

Alex, use the water in your reefloat after a water change to rinse your sand... Works great!

Damn you are going fast, My Peninsula S700 is still empty. For lighting I use 4x XR30 G5 pros, 3 XR30 G6 Blues with G5 lenses and 2x AI Blade grows on my existing tank and everything will go over to the Peninsula S700 in about 6-8 months. For your flow check out Ocean Motions.

Sadly, the hanging kits on the lights always look AWFUL because of the power cables.

I've just came across these. Do you have one normal plug from the DJ switch panel into a normal 3 pin socket? And its still ok power wise etc? I thought i was doing well wih my 2 6 plug extension cables stuck with velcro inside the cabinet 😂 I have a d-d skimmer guard, so cant wire it up to the dj switch. Im wondering whether theres a solution.

did you make the spreadsheet for the reef dork FB page? I couldn't find it

if you empty a normal jerry can sideways it becomes anti glug ;-)

Where did you purchase those trays that your Hanna checkers are in

1:07 what is this critter? I saw one in my tank, but it was tiny

Looks nice. Have you considered using small self adhesive cable trunking (the type that the cover clips onto the base) instead of the cable tie fasteners and cable ties to hold the power head cables. It’s hard to find in black but I used it on my RS 250. Gives it a cleaner look.

Will you be measuring the power usage of this aquarium? I'd be interested to see how it performs and how much power it draws

I love the coral when they are in moon mode

I say 5 month before he switches lights

I would of mounted the wires from joists. The fixings you have are good but thats a fair bit of weight. Tanks looking great

Would recommend a Hellawrap Applicator tool for the cable covers from the lights. Really makes it neat. Really do enjoy your videos as a new reefer!

Love it bro, setup my innovative marine ext 100 this week as well. “I sent you a donation on a recent livestream to tell you”. I went with 2 reef brites and 3 ai primes and built my own custom brackets! I’m excited to see your full setup right along mine!

Alex, you may have all this sorted, but for what it's worth, I moved up from a 250l to a 1400l tank, and the best thing I did was proper auto water change and auto top-off. For auto-top off, I put a 100l tank in my garage, slightly higher than the sump, and it gravity feeds through a standard float valve. The 100l tank is fed from RO/DI, but crucially (a) it has a Auto Aqua Smart ATO triggering to start and stop filling and (b) a Reeffactory meter to warn if TDS goes above zero. It is therefore entirely hands off for ever. 100l is a big enough batch to mean the poorer quality water at the start is not an issue. For autowater change, I have two Reeffactory Large Dosing pumps, and I just pump in 3l and and out 6l every day. They are strong enough to deal with the tanks being on different floors if needs be (just don't put 1t of seawater in the attic without checking structures!). I mix a batch of salt water (800l tank in the garage) at 1.05 salinity (i.e 2x normal) and it keeps me going for 8 months or so. For backup, the power to the auto-water change pump is protected with a DD Skimmer Guardian, which cuts the power to the incoming Reeffactory pump if normal levels are exceeded, cheap flood insurance for £60. I have a auto-shut off valve/sensor on the RO-DI inlet. Finally I have a Reeffactory salinity monitor as a third level of backup, as if you are going to this level of automation, and dosing Kalk, you need to know quickly if something has gone wrong. And limiting the RO/DI tank to 100l through a very slow running float valve means nothing bad can happen too fast. Overkill, maybe, but each of the safety backups has been called on already at least once!

What would you think about a tubed pump, with a pipe or hose going from one end of the aquarium to the other? This in order to avoid diminished flow after the corals are growing or if the hardscape is changed. Have seen videos of various streaming pumps showing that the flow propagates best when it goes along the aquarium glass, and of course without obstacles. So guiding the pumped water to it‘s destination would make sense to me, if the goal is circulating it from one extreme to the other of the tank, to make sure that it gets flushed through. I have done this, coupled the exit of a „Power Filter PF 1000“ to a tube that I passed through the substrate to the other end of the tank. Hiding the tube was easy because I had a Jaubert system with over 10cm of substrate. I see guidig vs. not guiding the flow in an analogous way to free space radio or optical communications vs. coax cable, waveguides, and fibre optics. Free space communication works too, but you need more power, and it might get blocked by a bird. Another solution cold of course be using a canister filter, like in freshwater setups. I found on a forum that coupling more of these in series on the same tube is possible, resulting in higher flow.

That pendant is really neat, Maybe some sort of stainless steel brackets could be good instead of the aluminium. Easy job just laser cut and shaped

Nice! Regarding the power bricks for the lights; is there a way to install/hide them in the hanging kit (provided the roof/cables can handle the weight)?

The Philodendron is absolutely stunning

Just get the 3d printed flow directors. They exist nowadays.

Tank looks awesome, however those power cables send by OCD into overdrive. Not sure if there is a way to hide those cables in a better way? OCD is my problem not yours and I salute you as a fellow reef geek (sorry dork)

Looking forward to seeing how you shield the glare from the Blades. That's pretty high for those fixtures.

I’m at the same stages now with my 525 well I filled mine with tap to leak test as I don’t own an RODI machine, NSW are going to come around & fill it up next week then start the cycle 🤞🏼🙏🏼 I’ve got two mp40’s & a reefwave 45 going on & hoping that’ll be enough , what mode do you run your mp’s on please ? I’ve got an MP10 I may run on the back wall if needs be or can always grab another mp40 later down the line, also been debating an LPS only too…. Look forward to seeing the next video 👍🏻

there is a cat in your sump! :-) @1:58 (also your voice is only in my left ear for some reason)

I think you need 2 gyres for flow

unsure why, but for some reason the sound on this one is coming out of my left headphone only? only noticed on surround sound. do you have the same?

Ive been running an XR30 gen 3 from 2015 at 25% 12 inches from the water surface 😂😂😂 still going strong 9 years or so later 💪🏽 wish they would send me a new one free ❤

Get some sand in there

Coming together nicely Alex

RIP Wall paper

I think your tank looks great. I wish I had the room for a bigger tank. For me, I would have designed an aquascape and then select corals for it. Currently, I have various rocks dotted around the tank with corals on. It looks nice but it would be better to have a structure that resembles a reef system rather than a rock here a rock there etc 😊

I love saltwater I have a lot of saltwater fish and sharks❤❤

I actually aquascaped one of Jaime Craggs tanks at The Horniman where his lab is based. I told him to come on the Reefdork podcast - he said he does get quite a few of these types of requests but doesn't have a lot of time. He gave me an urchin from the lab that I still have!

I’ve never checked Mg levels nor what my PAR is lol. And my salinity is at about 1.026 specific gravity. So far things have been going well, but now I’ve got enough in that tank that I **REALLY** don’t want to mess something up. Here’s a tank status overview, please critic anything that can be improved! Tank age: 6months Tank size: 40gal cube, internal filtration sections AIO. Salinity: 1.026 Ammonia: near 0, test kits always the same color & accuracy is questionable. Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 0-5ppm Calcium: 380 Phosphate: near 0. Mg: unknown All other elements or chemistry: unknown. Light PAR: unknown, AquaIllumination(AI) Hydra 32 light. Filtration: sponge cube, followed by media baskets of carbon, then filter material, then 2 sections of porous rock. Occupant corals: 1 Pulsing Xena, 2 Kenya Trees, 1 Zoa, 1 Green Star polup, 1 unknown, 1 long legged anemone. Fish&other: 2 clownfish, 1 diamond back gobie, 1 skunk shrimp, 1 emerald crab, 4 red legged hermit carbs, 1 tiger conch., 1 tuxedo urchin (I think).

my biggest failure was trusting in Reef Factory equipment, their server went down twice and flooded my office as well as killing off a load of livestock with a salinity drop biggest success was moving from an aquaone minireef 120 to a reefer 250