Reef tanks, corals and fish on their own for a year. No reef maintenance, no water changes.
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- How hard is it to keep a reef tank? Are corals easy? This reef tank, including saltwater fish, corals and shrimp have been on their own for about a year. Been so busy with family and life. At one point I was going to take it down but I've been reefing for over 25 years. I learned about no water changed about 10 years ago. Made the tank a lot more stable. Rose Bubble Tip Anemone has multiplied. The tangs all hung in there along with the Maroon clown fishes. Once a reef tank gets stabilized, they become very self sufficient, especially with a deep sand bed and lots of live rock. I only use a skimmer for export. I use the China LED lights as well. I've had them for about 5 years.
I couldn’t go a year without looking at that beautiful tank
My thoughts exactly
Would drive me insane
I believe your aquarium was extremely balanced and everything was heathy before the neglect but this is proof that once balanced your aquarium really is a ecosystem in a glass box and should be treated like such not a fish tank or coral tank that requires ro water and a buckload of chemicals and supplements....🤷♂️ Great job beautiful aquarium
You can get this same affect by removing g your snails, cranking up your lights for 3 weeks then return your snails and say , look, it's been a year! Then with poor acting, act surprised as how your tank looks. Anyone with half a brain cell know that corals poop, what dose he have in the tank that's eating the corals waste?
he didn't clean his glass form 2 months, shot a video just saying its been a year on its own when it hasnt, but some people like me that have more that 1 saltwater tank know better than this, he click bated you on the fact of you not having any knowledge of how a saltwater tank operates. trust me, when i say everything he has would die in 6 months, it would. you have to clean the waste up or it turn into ammonia, then changes to no2 then no3 witch is deadly for anything in water at high levels.
@@Incrediblez420 what does having more then 1 tank have anything to do with that?
@@unnew9448 experence????
@@Incrediblez420 yes. Total scam
I find this video PERSONALLY OFFENSIVE because my tank looks like shit in comparison!! Great tank
Hahahaha its more like insult how we think that we know it all and other reefers dont know what they are doing , , well trust me if you stick to soft corals they thrive in dirty water, see how his monti looks, and again see i know it all he don't know what the hell he was doing, damn you man i feel like take a dunk in your tank and swim around your corals , and host one anemone,
@@asultan7838 He said he accidentally let the monty dry out too or something in video. I think if he had all hard corals this experiment might have turned out different. I'd agree soft corals love dirty water and are also easier to keep.
I guess just don't do anything for a year and you can achieve what he has hahaha
@@asultan7838 it's all about the micro organisms and preventing large spikes.
I keep Magnifica anemone (notoriously hard to keep) and can not do water changes In my tank for months with no issue.
But I've built up years of micro organisms and sponges in my tank that consume the nitrates and small particles before they become nitrates.
After a long time tanks will balance and the bacteria will grow to accommodate the bio load if the change is slow enough not to crash a tank.
I certainly don't know everything but I've seen tanks for well with constant water changes and seem them do well without it.
"Snails are... Operational" lol.
That scrape is so SATISFYING!
I agree
Some would call this animal cruelty, I say it’s a mature tank 🍾✌🏿.
Amen to that.
nitrates would like to know your location
if he is like me he wont have any, i used to have to dose it.
🤣🤣🤣
@@sidneybird7323 ive been having to dose nitrates and phosphates for a whole year now lol
Nitrates have colected information and know his location
He probably has little to no nitrates, as all that green consumes it and phosphates
Those starfish were just chilling until a hand just scraped them off 😔💔
@Account Of Milk and Honey fried em up in a pan yum
Those starfish are astrea stars and are a dam plague lol. Once in your tank you can't get rid of them if you tried (aside from adding harlequin shrimp etc)
@@Tmoriarty77 they’re just like snails lol, hard to get rid of and are everywhere
@@glo0msters there's prob some videos on my channel of my tank.....I got those dam things all over lol.
About 4 years ago some ended up in my tank from some corals I bought.....they've made it through 3 tank transfers across multiple states lol....they just don't die.
They are better than huge bristle worms tho.....those suck.
SPS wouldnt stand a chance!
This tank is beautiful. I leave mine alone for a week and my fish have a damn house party and destroy everything
This is the greatest comment ever. Its so accurate.
That’s so cool dude!!! If you have the proper infrastructure to start a self-sufficient reef tank than go for it! Infrastructure meaning enough live rock, live sand, correct corals, correct fishes and correct clean up crew to be a self sufficient ecosystem packed into the tank. I would like to see someone do this with a huge tank like a 10,000 gallon shark tank but obviously not many people have the money to even buy the tank lol! Super impressive good job mate 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.
lmao I love this cause of how honest he is . slowly getting ready for my 1st tank 😤
Good luck. A lot dead fish in coming but GOOD LUCK
Me too slowly building it as I get money....
@@goatedition3252 ive set up 2 saltwater tanks. Put fish in day 1. And havnt lost a dish
Make sure to eradicate any Aiptasia if they pop up!
@@edwardlynch6550 I put mine in 7days after start up and a week later started corals 😂
Proof. You don't need to keep chasing numbers. Life, finds a way.
Haha, movie references.
Yup jurassic Park
It actually doesnt look good at all for a years growth, Colors are super light. Most of those corals would of grown way more with care.
Damn it Leanne. I was going to say jurassic Park.
@@robertwilliamhowardmanion6423 id love to see your tank.
The reef aquarium is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun
This is the first time seeing your reef tank stuff on YT. We are similar when it comes to reef tanks. I started our tanks back in 1994 and did really well until El nino of 96 came and we were with out power for 18 days. This changed the way we thought about the tanks, water changes, equipment , food and supplements. Once we got it back up and running all we had to do is add fresh water and liquid food to our storage tank and it gravity feed the system daily as the water evaporated. I haven't had the 150g tank up in running in a long time but have kept some live rook in my 50g tank alive for the last 6 years. I am going to do a CZcams reveal with a goal of 10K subscribers and do a budget friendly build. I use to travel to Bakersfield to buy my corals back then. There use to be a RC shop and reef tank store I think off of Ming.
They have a couple cool reef shops in Bak
Wow some people can't even get a tank like that when they take care of it 👍👍
and thats exactly why they cant. the most success ive had with any tank fresh or salt is to set a base line and let it take care of itself. i had a 10 gallon fresh tank that had no maintenance for a year and a half. just regular feedings. crystal clear water and zero algae.
@Kenny Argueta Ventura I doing a lot less water changes now and I see way more stability with less changes because I realized stuff is all different levels.
@kennis How did It went??
Can we have another update on this please I enjoyed this
This is the first soft coral dominate tank i like.
I dont know. Ive seen some pretty neat ones.
This is a beautiful talk. Deffinetly your own slice of the ocean.
You really need to check out a GOOD reef. This tank looks like ass. You couldn’t give those corals away. Total waste of this guys time and cash.
chris kolb I really don’t know what you’re on about. Those corals are so pretty, and I always thought reef tanks require nonstop attention, so it was interesting to learn that they could maintain themselves.
chris kolb waste of time? what time? literally no maintenance in a year 😂
I love the wild look of this tbh, i would love to have a tank like this
Cool video. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Love it.
I've seen people who are meticulous with their thanks that don't look half that good. Whatever you're doing (or not doing) it must be working. Your tank looks great. Keep it up.
Those plants are stunning. The lighting is amazing making them glow brilliant colors. I don’t know how you aren’t scraping it clean everyday just to sit and watch.
I'm battling an alae problem right now. Might do another video
I would add a couple more fish . It's amazing how it's doing so good with no maintenance in over a year . It has its own ecosystem, it's own little world . Very cool
when the music started playing when you turned the nob at the end i knew i had to give this a like n comment
Make another update on this thing! Crazy how grown in everything is, beautiful tank!!!
I rarely water change my tank and have found it does better. I used to do regular water changes, filter maintenance etc. Had 2 pH crashes with everything die. I got fed up. Started again and did drastically less maintenance and have had no issues at all. I just keep the glass clean and do filter maintenance maybe every 3 mths. Honestly right now I'm at 4.5 months and the water parameters are perfect.
Same I’ve done zero water changes on my tank hit 7 months last week and corals look better and happier. I have even cleaned my filter in 7 months I think I might just give that a clean.
We just had a deal happen which left the lights off for 6 days. I thought everything would be dead. Everything looks as good as the day they went off.
Wow your tank is amazing even more
Ditom im assuming?
@scrubby Bard I honestly think this dude is just lying his ass off for clout
My mind is blown bro!!! So awesome!! I got a green bubble tip and he kills everything he touches!! How do yours not do the same? Everything about this blows my mind hahaa
Looks beautiful, it shows how much mucking with your tank does more damage.
I think I just chucked all of my corals into the tank with the fish and pretty much do 4 month water changes, bit more than this tank but everything is flourishing.
When you get the right balance everything does well
he didn't clean his glass form 2 months, shot a video just saying its been a year on its own when it hasnt, but some people like me that have more that 1 saltwater tank know better than this, he click bated you on the fact of you not having any knowledge of how a saltwater tank operates. trust me, when i say everything he has would die in 6 months, it would. you have to clean the waste up or it turn into ammonia, then changes to no2 then no3 witch is deadly for anything in water at high levels.
@@Incrediblez420 my father in law has 40+ marine tanks, and he doesnt mess with them, tops up the RO, empties the skimmers and feeds his fish, does water changes every 4 months, he mixes up the water himself and they all look like tanks from a professional aquarium, a year is a bit farfetched however the way we do it works, I didnt even click on this vid lol it just autoplayed while I was sketching
It also comes down to the type of corals you keep and the stocking + algaes as they consume ammonia and phosphates, as said if you get balance right you shouldnt have any problems
Same with all my freshwater tanks, I've got them to a point where they are so densely planted they consume all of the ammonia and toxins in the water
@@Kira-kg4kl and the coral waste is consumed by what in his tank....yea
@@Incrediblez420 someone evide6has not looked into symbiotic relationships between coral and algae
Cool experiment I can't stand a dirty tank or sump would drive me nuts
You do have a ton of live rock. That really helps with stabilizing things. But very cool vid!
One swing away from total crash. Amazing they held on
I’m gonna go ahead and call bullshit on that tank having not been touched in 12 months. First off coralline algae growth would be much much heavier, two he even says in video he moved all the anemones to one side proving he didn’t completely ignore it. Lastly that looks like maybe a months worth of algae growth.
Mine recently spent a year like this. It’s now stable as F and ready for a mix up of coral.
My tank has not had a change now in nearly two years. I have a top off I add water to when it’s low, change out the skimmer once in a while and feed rarely. I do have a dosing unit, and lights on a timer ramping up and down.
We create ecosystems and this is a sign it’s working, hobbyists like to think their aesthetics of a healthy tank is best, and attempts to achieve faster than normal results should be done and used.
The tank looks great, things grow things die and it all takes time. Stability in all your parameters is better than chasing ‘perfect’ numbers
I wish I had the money to blow on an experiment like this. Really interesting, but not something I could ever bring myself to do. I love my animals too much even if I could justify the cost of possibly losing things over a year of no maintenance
I can imagine that it was unintentional - they had to go somewhere, for whatever reasons, and it was very important that they do so - but no one could care for the tank in the meantime, beyond basic feeding and automated top offs.
@Blass your playing yourself if you believe he doesn't look after that tank, it wouldn't be in such good condition if he didn't and he was lazy like come on its obvious he looks after it
@Blass ofcourse he is gonna say that to make it seem like he actually left it, your telling me you actually think that tank survived a year in that good a condition with him doing fuck all to it, he just turned the lights up and removed the starfish and snails for a few days to let some algae grow then bam 1 year old algae coverd tank
You savage 🤣 lol I love it! He said once or twice a year they eat no joke lmao 🤣 dude! Nailed it! Bad ass tank!
Pretty soon the only place we'll be able to see reef/coral is in personal aquariums
Sea life besides fish, is so alienated towards, any living organism. Very facilitating
Nature finds a way, looks like a balanced system, decent little experiment, lesson being you don’t need to mess about chasing perfection on a good set up 🤷🏽♂️
I could sit in front of this tank for hours watching all the oddities. Getting lost in imagination
That algae scraping is sooooooo satisfying.
Those tomatoe clowns are so aggressive, I thought they were dominos. That's crazy how good it looks for having not done anything for that long
“Snails are operational” 😂
Look up SeaLab28. It's a good thing for people that want to do no water changes. You simply throw a block in and when it dissolves over a month, throw another in.
What's the full set up and everything you got on the tank it's a nice set up and I'm wanting to get a bigger tank soon.
What block
@@yakeen4876 go to amazon and search Sea Lab 28 blocks.
That sailfin will grow FAST and will be the boss of that tank. They are cool fish tho, mine will let me rub his forehead.
A lot of soft coral and a lot of live rock with an established water column and things will take care of themselves. I once let my tank go for months and i do h2o changes weekly. But i have a mixed reef. All my sps died off slowly but surely. Soft stuff did well.
It's pretty cool, there's some stuff over there, doing good, y'know, yeah its pretty cool.
Y'know?
This is what aquarium suppliers DON"T want you to see because they want your money!! My tanks go months without water changes! I like algae on the back wall and I test frequently. My parameters are always within spec. You build a self sustaining eco system, just sit back and admire your creation. :-)
Just ran across this video. I'd love to know what lighting your using on this tank, where the water comes from your adding, what temp you're keeping and how the fish are being fed. BTW, some Anemone's like more light and some literally hide from the light. Great looking tanks and congratulations on doing something very few of us can.
If nobody else noticed the music coming on exactly when you twisted the knob, I did lmao on purpose or not haha nice tank though dude
Good thing you have pretty much all softies in that tank, but yeah I hear you about the motivation coming and going. I’ve been reefing for about 15yrs and it comes and goes, I’ll get bit by the bug and really start putting effort into my reef and then months later I’ll leave it alone for months without doing anything (I also have really hardy corals, fish and dosers). I’ve found a happy medium where I can do water changes without turning anything off so it makes it way easier which in this hobby equates to better maintenance the less involved it is.
Tank looks amazing buddy 👌🏻 I thought it was only me that never did water changes. Honestly they are not required. I’m loving the black and yellow clowns. Seem very rare, I’ve never seen them in my local stores.
How do you remove Nitrates and Phosphates from your tanks though?
@@Fazzimus skimmer
Fantastic looking tank. Thanks for sharing
I'm
Glad all the fish survived. It's a shame you don't clean the glass regularly as the aquarium looks beautiful, I would keep the glass clean so you can enjoy it 👍🏻
This can actually help the tank because it can make softies Bloom like crazy because they like slightly dirty water. (DISClAiMER: just don’t do this cause there’s a risk in all ur fish dying)
People think algae on the glass is bad. Ive done the same with my nanos and after like a year and a half i cleaned the glass and saw i had bouncing rhodis ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Other then the nems bleaching (likely from high phosphates) a softie tank thrives in dirty water :-)
Doesn’t clean tank for a year
Beautiful tank
Me: doesn’t clean tank for 1 day
*Shit tank*
What a beautiful tank! 🐠🐟
This is what happens when you basically let nature do what it wants. Lol
not true, if you actually left a tank fo this size with the lovestock with in, it would kill inself within 6 months, i have 3 salttanks...not like i wouldnt know
but all in all good BS video
@@Incrediblez420 so is the video fake? Or..
the proof is literally in the video
@@OfficialZombieStrats yea bc you say so dosent mean shit, a camera on your tank for a whole year with no editing and this is just the end of your video maybe I'd believe, but considering you didn't show anything below the tank just upto the glass, your video is still deemed fake as, and of course if it's on video must be true, ask mr beast, ....yea sure and if it's on facebook it true too? Dont get salty just bc someone with knowledge can easily call bs, hint: I'm not the only one!
@@OfficialZombieStrats proof is in the fake video!
@@Incrediblez420 interesting point of view 🤔 you’re probably right
The tank is nice 👍 but you gotta keep that glass clean that's why we got the tanks to view the reality of things is they don't need much maintenance once we get em going and as long as you feed the fish the Coral's will eat different story if it's an only Coral tank then you have to feed the Coral's more often the main thing with what you did that kept everything alive was the top off each week if not you definitely would've lost everything because of the salinity rise would cause slow Coral death then poisoned water and complete coral die off overall love the tank what size is and love the sailfin tang I had a huge one years ago beautiful fish
Beautiful tank, can you imagine....one day well let me scrap off the crap and ta da perfection appears
That's bad ass colors man amazing job
Wow this looks incredible
Mans having better coral reefs than nature
That's a beautiful tank.
May be show some before and after pictures of the tank
I’ve stuck to freshwater because I’ve always thought reef tanks were constant maintenance.
Im setting up a reef tank rn and I'm gonna try make it as low maintenance as I can
Beautiful tank
Wow amazing
Awesome tank and great job! I am planning on my first biocube 32g early next year and was wondering if it is possible to do away with maintenance for even just at least 30 days if the tank's parameters are all stable? I've been in the reef owners group and they all said that it cannot be done. This is if I go on vacation. Any tips?
You have incredible live rock... Was it actually premium from an ocean or artificial dry? Thanks.
While I wouldn't got a year without water changes it does certainly show you can be ok doing a lot less with a well established tank.
I have a 220g and had been running gfo, carbon and bio pellets. Have since scaled back to just water changes and the tank is basically the same. I think that stuff helped when the tank was newer but now that it is established worrying about pests is much less of a worry.
I can’t help but think our coral reefs are being destroyed so they can be sold and put in a small tank. Imagine the number of fish that could have used this reef as shelter, but hey, this guy has it for his own satisfaction.
1:17 New Zealand accent for 4 seconds??
I'm in the same position I'm to busy with school to bother with it especially when I had a parasite kill all my fish so now I'm letting it sit and be on its own. My biggest question is did you dose calc alk or mag?
I agree with all this...my corals get mad when I change water...tap for top off and its all happy
That texture of the algae is due to the star fish. I can see them in my tank and i don't own a tang.
Asterina starfish.
My blenny does the same thing so im guessing it could be multiple different things
Cool video - I just went through a period of no maintenance and it looked similar to yours except massive hair algae everywhere lol. The fish did fine but algae choked out the corals.
Do you like the tank under this type of maintenance schedule, or prior to this under a normal maintenance schedule?
A few more questions: 1) How did you deal with trace mineral replacement? The stony corals were using up the calcium - maybe the food introduced just enough? 2) Looks like you have a pretty beefy skimmer, is it set to skim more wet or dry? 3) What size tank is this? 4) How long had it been set up prior to not being maintained? 5) How deep is the sand bed?
There is a product called, Vibrant. Cut the hours by 2. Hair algae happens but it usually end up going away.
Some think its cruel but understand that changes like this happen in the wild constantly not just due to human activity. This experiment could actually help ecosystems learn to better survive and evolve into much hardier/efficient forms of life. What I didn't like is how quickly he simulated bringing them back into a more stable environment. That almost never happens that fast in the wild and kinda botches what would otherwise be a good experiment (in my opinion). 1 year of neglect and 1 year to slowly recover would be interesting to see.
Bro this looks 100x better than my 3 tanks which I play with daily
Let your stuff setting in and start growing.
Start leavin it alone feed once a day and get a good filter if its a hob get a fluval the best to me and do your water changes once every week or two it will be crystal clear and make sure your parameters is right and temp is right
Maybe add a sea grass in the background, would add some wavey action to the tank and would eat up that algae
Nice variety. Those asterina starfish area plague. They irritate the underside of coral when they start multiplying
Gorgeous... Absolutely...
Amazing tank!
Wow looks amazing
After i left my wife my small 60liter aquarium stayed with her but she didn't do anything at all with it. The aquarium didn't have light, heater, filtration, food or clean water in over 1 year. But some fish and shrimp stayed alive. No idea how. But i guess less is more
Always take the tank with you. And shut all the power off on the Ex! Reefing 101 bro!
Looks awesome! I havent done a WC on my 3g nano reef in over 3 years now.
You know you put the right stuff on and in your tank for it to last a year.
How did those fish was feeded? Did you do it or was it also self sustained
Good stuff ! Thanks and keep it going !
I bet you wish that you kept the yellow tang with the prices so high now.
Looks good bro 👍👍
My head everytime I see Patrick or a star fish.
"Sorry SpongeBob"
Nature is so cool
Waow awesome video...thanks for this video...you mean non of those high tech stuff....this is so amazing!!!....you sure there is nothing your hiding 👀...so cool😎....wish my tank could look as close to yours👍
he didn't clean his glass form 2 months, shot a video just saying its been a year on its own when it hasnt, but some people like me that have more that 1 saltwater tank know better than this, he click bated you on the fact of you not having any knowledge of how a saltwater tank operates. trust me, when i say everything he has would die in 6 months, it would. you have to clean the waste up or it turn into ammonia, then changes to no2 then no3 witch is deadly for anything in water at high levels.
Very cool
Soft corals are invincible as long as parameters are in a certain range.
So there not invincible then
@@pingu8666 yeah.... if you suck at reef keeping.... if you cannot keep soft corals alive then you must abandon this hobby these aren't just mice in a cage they are sensitive complex organisms that require a sensitive complex hobbyist as a caretaker.
@@JR-un7uj so soft corals require care. Dont say they are invincible then.
@@pingu8666 they are invincible if you know how to keep corals alive which is a very simple process. Like I said if you kill soft corals then take up another hobby
@@JR-un7uj so they are not invincible
Sorry for all the ignorance in other comments. And sorry to those that are still constantly changing water and adding chems😂
Replicate Mother Nature…
Tank looks great imo
water changes can cost you more money in the long run let nature do its job