Week 02: "10 Saltwater Tanks," The Beginner How To Guide For Saltwater Aquariums & Reef Tanks
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Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:56 What's An Aquarium?
03:18 10 Types Of Saltwater Aquariums
04:04 01 Coldwater Marine
05:39 02 Fish Only
06:45 03 FOWLR
07:48 04 Softies/LPS
09:21 05 SPS
10:35 06 Mixed Reef
12:36 07 Seahorse
13:51 08 Macroalgae
15:33 09 Predator
16:51 10 Nano
18:07 Our 3 Recommendations
20:30 Wrap Up
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Video Description:
While there are a limitless amount of saltwater aquariums out there, you can really break things down into 10 types. Some of these are great for beginners and some are expert only.
But, we want you to get excited, we want you to see what's possible in this hobby. Yes, it's going to take a lot of work, but stick with us through this series and we'll get you ready!
There are three broad categories of aquariums out there: freshwater, brackish water, and saltwater, and these can be cold water or tropical. Most of us know about fresh and salt, but brackish water is a mixing of the two. Brackish water habitats are found where freshwater rivers and streams meet the oceans.
Let's talk about the 10 different types of saltwater aquariums:
- 01 Coldwater Marine- These tanks need to be cold, like 55 degrees Fahrenheit, and require a thick acrylic tank and a chiller. Not beginner friendly, and unless you live near a coldwater coastline, you may not be able to find the right livestock.
- 02 Fish Only- usually 120-250 gallons, these are the tank you find at libraries, nail salons, and doctors offices. Can house a lot of cool fish without having to worry about corals!
- 03 FOWLR- fish only with live rock tanks are perfect beginner tanks. You can combine really fun fish with a robust biological filter that the live rock offers.
- 04 Softy/LPS- Soft corals and large polyp stony corals are my two favorite types. There are a lot of friendly beginner corals in this category that are perfect for a first time reefer!
- 05 SPS- small polyp stony corals are a bit more difficult, but come in some crazy colors and shapes. Not a beginner friendly tank though I'm afraid!
- 06 Mixed Reef- a combination of softies/lps/sps corals, a mixed reef offers a special set of challenges having to do with lighting, flow, and filtration requirements.
- 07 Seahorse- who doesn't want a seahorse tank! These tanks need to be larger, with cooler water, pristine water chemistry, and low flow.
- 08 Macroalgae- a great beginner tank, macroalgaes are inexpensive, gorgeous, and grow quickly.
- 09 Predator- If you want fish that eat other fish, than this is the tank for you! But be careful, and choose your tank mates wisely!
- 10 Nano- These are tanks under 10 gallons. While tempting for a beginner due to the price point, these are not beginner friendly!
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As most of us, life gets in the way. I've spent the time to purchase tanks, but never use them. My 75 gal was used by my father for turtle keeping, my 90 gal just collects dust in the spare room.... but this series is making me was to drag my stuff out and get it started and going!
I'm super glad to hear that! I'm glad you are feeling inspired! So, the million dollar question... what style tank are you going to build?
Interesting your viewpoint on coldwater marine. Honestly thought you would ignore that one. Living by the coast of the UK my first fish tank was a coldwater marine, as a child around 40 years ago. 4ft tank with undergravel filters and I spent most of my summer holidays around rockpools getting a wide variety of sealife. If you live near the coast of a suitable area it's actually not that difficult and chiller may well not be necessary. One thing to remember is rock pools themselves go through fairly large variations in terms of salinity, temperature etc. Different if talking about life from "deeper" water. If I lived near a "coldwater" coastline I would recommend one, especially for those with children and get them involved and recognising the amount of life "on the beach". People would need to check legality of collection and keeping things. Oh.. you can also end up with a coldwater predator tank if you get the wrong things.
This is so cool. I remember those under gravel filters. Definitely had one in my freshwater tropical tank when I was a kid. Thought it was so high tech! Good tips on the coldwater marine tanks. I want to doubly stress that everybody needs to check the legality of this if they decide to do it. Every country, city, country, borough, parish, etc... can have their own rules. Also, don't just go out and collect livestock without learning the ropes first. Talk to somebody who has a coldwater tank and learn some tips. But, I'm glad to hear that this can be a good option for those who live near a coldwater coastline. They are super interesting and I'm definitely planning on having one someday, even though it would be a three hour drive to the coast for me!
I live on the peninsula in the pnw and now really want to do a cold water marine tank.
That's awesome. There are several hobbyists up there who live on the coast and keep coldwater tanks. I'm not sure what the rules are for harvesting, but I'm sure the other PNW peeps can help you out. I'm actually thinking of getting re-scuba certified just to make the trek out to the socal kelp forests and start my own system too!
@@MyFirstFishTank check out facebook.com/groups/coldwaterowners
You covered a lot in this video! Love that you represented macroalgae and coldwater tanks!! 👍
Why thank you kindly! My blogger Max is responsible for the macroalgae tank! He's a big freshwater guy and turned me on to macros on the saltwater side. Looking forward to try it out as I think it might be a great saltwater alternative for beginners who don't want to spend a ton!
Cheers Matthew. Tino here from Northern California and i just recently got into the hobby. Just want to reach out and say a huge Thank you. Your CZcams videos, the site and Instagram were a huge part of my so far "success" in building my reef tank. I mustve watched the demystified series a dozen times. I carefully followed the hi tech 1600 dollar build. Anyway thank you again for the great content and knowledge. My kids, the wife and even the dogs enjoy the tank. 100 gallon is next on the list for 2021
Tino, thank you so much for taking the time to write this comment! Sometimes I wonder if the content I make is actually helping beginners or not, and this made me feel great! I'm so glad the videos and website have been helpful, and I'm glad your family loves it too! Here's to the 100 gallon, and feel free to send a picture or two my way! I'd love to see the tank! Happy Reefing, and thanks again for watching and commenting!
Nicely done video on Breaking down the different types of tanks you can build and the requirements for each one
Thank you kind sir!
Very impressed how to introduced cold water marine systems. In 2012, I debuted cold water aquariums with Cold Water Marine Aquatics at Reefapalooza and it was showcased with ReefBuilders. I am working with CDFG to see if we can get a permit to purchase from sites like MATSU collection to support future reefers. I make the acrylic aquariums to keep make this possible all in small sizes that can be shipped all over the United States, just waiting for more online vendors to support the cold water trade. Yes, you are right cold water has some gorgeous colors but we can use 3/8 inch acrylic as the thinest to save money.
Thanks! I'm definitely going to jump into the coldwater marine at some point to give it a whirl. I live about three hours from the southern california coast, so I'll need to figure out where and how to catch some livestock legally! Super cool about the tank you showcased at Reefapalooza and that it was featured on ReefBuilders. I love to see a link to it. Shoot me an email if you have a second. contact (@) myfirstfishtank (.com)
@@MyFirstFishTank sent you the link to your email, but you can take a look at my aquariums for cold water on my website; www.microreefsaquariums.com. I am a hobbyiest so, all the pictures you see on my site are my corals,fish,inverts with aquariums built be me to support that ecosystem correctly.
I love how you reply to almost every comment this channel is going to blow up. On that note needing new light how about one of your testers asking never hurts 😉
Hey Bradley, thanks for the comment! I do try to respond to everybody! Although usually just there first comment because for some reasons CZcams won't show me or alert me to their replies, so I have to stumble onto those myself! And I didn't understand your question about the light? Maybe shoot me an email? Cheers and Happy Reefing Bradley!
Perfect video! I wish I had this video around when I got into this hobby last march!
Yay, glad you found it helpful! What type of system did you end up building?
@@MyFirstFishTank Well I needed a new hobby during the first quarantine so I went with clownfish! Bought a 20g, Live rock and sand and got a pair of clowns. I was only planning on having the clowns but turns out you need a clean up crew, especially when you are using purified tap water XD. Got hooked on the hobby, and for my birthday a few months later I got my first corals! Now im even more hooked... But for christmas this year my parents got me a gift card to the LFS and said I could get a bigger tank, so i'll probably do 50g-65g tank! Thanks for all the info, cant wait to watch upcoming videos!
That sounds like a perfect quarantine hobby to me! Have you upgraded to RO/DI water yet? ;-) Sounds like your tank is doing great and thriving! That's awesome to hear! So, any idea what tank your going to buy?
@@MyFirstFishTank I have not yet upgraded to RO/DI yet, but once I get a bigger tank I will probably buy one of those "portable" RO/DI units. I would like a 75g (so I can keep a tang), but i havent finished high school yet and still live at home on the 3rd floor, so I am not sure how much weight the floor can support. I know I at least want 50g so I can keep a coral beauty angel and a nicer wrasse, bigger than the 6 line. Maybe a mandarin too.
Cool, that sounds like a plan. yeah, great thinking about the weight of the water. Could you imagine if the floor gave way? That would be so awful!!
Excited to see the seahorse tank this year
Awesome.. me too! I'm thinking it might get started sometime in late March or April. I have a lot of research to do before then, so stay tuned. Thanks for watching!
A Softy/LPS or FOWLR is the direction I am leaning towards 🤞
My favorite type of tank!
Love it!
Double the Max today!
Great Video 🔥🔥🔥🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Thanks Freddy! I hope this series will be great for beginners!
Great information!
Glad it was helpful!
Yay another video
They just keep coming and coming don't they!
@@MyFirstFishTank oh yeah and it's a good
Thanx for mentioning sea horses. I was 8 or 9 when my Mom got me a 2 1/2 gallon tank. I had Dwarf horses & a pipe fish. They were doing good until I ran out of brine shrimp eggs. All I fed them was live
hey Jeff, that's super cool that you had a Seahorse/pipefish tank! Jealous! That's exactly what I'm hoping to do with my new tank build later this year!
@@MyFirstFishTank TY Matthew. I’ll be watching
Im planning on setting up a nano fish only aquarium since FOWLR systems can potentially give me pests I dont know if I want to deal with at first if the rock was pulled out of the sea. FOWLR may be another option but I might have to make sure I clean out the rock free of any crabs or mantis shrimp that could kill my fish. Hermit crabs are okay since theyre pretty and useful as cleanup crew.
Definitely. But what I've learned over the years is try your best not to be afraid of pests. there are ways to deal with them when they arrive, and just take it as an opportunity to learn! You got this!
excited to start a blueprint!!
Yay! Can't wait to hear about it. Any idea what type of tank you are going to try?
@@MyFirstFishTank Fowlr, most likely to start off
yeah, that's a good call, and a great style tank with tons of fish possibilities!
I just subscribe recently. I just want to ask if it is possible to mix up saltwater aquarium type? Like, fowlr + macro algae? And do you have any tips or guide for that? Btw, i am planning to build one maybe in a 20 gallon as a beginner or 30 gallon tank. Thanks so much
You could break down nano even further with pico being a tank 5 gal. Or less
Yeah, definitely!
I was thinking of starting a saltwaer predator reef tank. Are they hard to keep? any things I have to keep in mind when building one?
Not necessarily hard to keep, but you are super limited as to what livestock you can add. And you have to constantly feed your predator, so it can be a bit more expensive and time consuming. But there are some really cool predator tanks out there, like frogfish tanks, or even shark tanks.
@@MyFirstFishTank can you make a video on predator tanks please? also maybe a video on seahorses? i am very desprate. I have been following you for a while on your macro algae tank. I think its great! but I had my kuda pair die just last week.😔😔😔
The tempreture got a little over 74 degrees and they got bacterial infection and passed. They lived with me for a good two monthes. I think they were net pen riased that's why they were sooooo cheap and were not really TRUE captive bred. Any tips on seahorses too?
What shark is in the tank 6:31
Just curios.
I don't know actually! Sorry!
Get yourself a macro algae tank, join the macro gang!
:-)
What about jellyfish?
Good call... Tank #11... Jellyfish! :-)
@@MyFirstFishTank do you think you could put a jelly into your fluval m60
No, they need really specific parameters. HIgh water quality, low flow. They really need their own tank.