Week 11: 40 Beginner Mistakes To Avoid, Beginner How To Guide For Saltwater Aquariums & Reef Tanks
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Video Description:
00:00 Intro
02:21 1. Don’t believe every tom, dick, and harry on the internet.
02:37 2. Reactive, not proactive
02:59 3. Rushing
03:28 4. Constant Tinkering
03:51 5. Solving Problems That Don't Exist
04:30 6. Underestimating the Cost
05:21 7. Thinking More Expensive Means Better Quality
05:59 8. Buying A Smaller Tank Just To Save Money
06:27 9. Impulse Fish Purchase
07:05 10. Adding The Wrong Clean Up Crew & Adding It Too Early
08:08 11. Overfeeding Your Fish & Relying Too Much On Pellet Food
08:4912. Buying Finicky Fish
09:38 13. Putting Fish Together That Don't Belong Together
10:07 14. Adding Too Much Too Soon
10:39 15. Not Building Your Tank Around Your Long Term Goals
11:20 16. Adding Fish Before The Cycle Is Complete
11:58 17. Overfeeding Corals
12:47 18. Overusing Chemical Media
13:47 19. Not Buying An RO/DO Filter
14:3420. Over-Complicating Your Filtration
15:27 21. Using Tap Water
15:56 22. Going With A Bare Bottom Tank
16:57 23. Using Too Much Green & Red In Your Light
17:44 24. Not Knowing Your PAR & Running Too Much PAR
18:33 25. Running Your Lights For Too Long Each Day
19:20 26. Not Using A Quarantine Tank
20:16 27. Over-Vacuuming Your Sandbed
20:55 28. Skipping Water Changes
21:40 29. Topping Off With Saltwater, Not RODI Water
22:11 30. Walking Away During Water Changes
22:47 31. Not Properly Washing Your Hands
23:50 32. Using Household Cleaning Products Near Your Tank
24:13 33. Chasing pH
25:21 34. Not Testing Frequently
26:17 35. Using Metal
26:37 36. RO/DI Flooding
27:06 37. Scratching Your Glass Using A Magnetic Algae Scraper
27:38 38. Not Using A Lid
28:10 39. Waiting Too Long To Buy An RODI Filter
28:40 40. Not Doing Wire Management
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As a person who has just started the cycling process I must say these videos have been amazing!
Glad we are catching people who are in the process right now! what do you plan on putting in it?
Woot woot, I'm glad the timing is working out for you!!! Can't wait to hear about your tank!!!
I appreciate all your help and watching a lot of your videos I’m getting ready to cycle my 28 gallon tank been getting everything I need for last couple months. Trying to go out it slow and easy thanks
That is awesome! Thanks for commenting and feel free to send us some pictures! Always love seeing new builds!
I agree with all the items, I think they are good basics except the cost of small tank. I remember I started the hobby in my apartment which I shared with 2 other guys and so really just my bedroom. Got a 75 gallon with a 20 gallon sump. That is the biggest mistake, imagine trying to make RO water(there was no such thing as DI at that time) enough to change and mixing salt. Yes if you have a house with a utility sink preferably in the garage or basement, then go for it. The cost was also really sky high getting T5s then Halides later to fit the 75 gallon. If you have a small space or really a newbie, get a 20-25 gallon from petco and it will require just one pendant light(recommend AI 16 HD) and minimal water and salt and live rock. I don't think stability is a problem too much anymore because the ATOs are great to a point mine put in like 1/5 of a cup every time. Over feeding is a problem with small and large tanks and you shouldn't need to dose unless you are overcrowding your tank. What I do recommend is getting a light and an ATO and a powerhead that you can use if you want to move higher. I did such and now I have 2 AI 16 HD and 2 wavemakers and the same ATO and the same return pump all I added was a larger tank and stand(cheapest thing in the hobby as most can attest to) and some more media. Forgot but my filtration is just an HOB which I use now for my QT tank.
Thanks for taking the time to write all of this. You are making some great points for all beginners to hear. A larger tank, definitely means more money all around! And yeah, you can definitely do a petco tank with an HOB filter that is so much less expensive and works just fine! Thanks again for sharing!
Hands down the best aquarium channel I found you this morning been watch all day. I just brought a 220 gonna setup this weekend
Thanks, that is super kind of you, but that's a lot of content to watch!
@@MyFirstFishTank this is my second tank I screwed my first one up rushing I find your content to be digestible thank you
Thank you for the videos.
I’m not a beginner but coming back to the reef hobby after a 9 Year gap.
Useful catchup on new things and to see settling to seenot much has changed.
Looking forward to more of your videos 😊
One of the best hints I ever seen!!! Congratz for a amazing job!! Greetings from Brazil!!
Wow, thanks!
Great advice as always Matt!!
Glad you think so Chris!
Very good video Matt! I agree with everything that u said! 😀👍👍
Glad to hear it!
sheeeesh went all out this week with a whole 40!
Dang right! :-)
Shout out to Coral Vault. Amazing zoas answered my questions, I luv my Acan
Thanks for the shout out! Great company for sure!
One of the longer ones we've done!
Getting that information out there to people is great so they won’t make the same mistakes as others have done in the hobby when they started out
hecks yeah it is!
You have no idea how much ive learned from you
Great info
Hi sir
Thanks for your generosity and helpful video for our tanks,
I agree with you and i have a question about fiji light color and time
Hi Mohammad! Thanks for watching. Send me an email with your question. contact (at) myfirstfishtank(.com)
I'd love to do a quarantine tank. However I'm stuck in between a rock and a hard spot. I live in a 16×20 dry cabin in Alaska. I have no room for additional equipment no matter how important it is, even a rodi I have no running water so nothing to attach it to, but im looking into a pump and garbage can system if I can to make a rodi system
Love the vid reefer 🙌🏻
Thanks!
I started with fresh water fish tank and will switch to salt water fish tank soon. Question: can I use the gravel/pebbles at the bottom and cover it with sand?
I'm horrible with wire management. I have vowed to improve with the IM40 I'm starting. It really just makes everything that much easier.
So much easier right? It's such a pain though!
Nothing seems wrong to me in the whole 40 (39) mistakes. Thank you for your nice and very lively vlogs.
So nice of you!
Use a top! Good advice. I have a top on mine, but had a couple of gaps near the lights. I had plans to seal the gaps with plastic sheeting, but one of my clowns jump through the gap before I sealed it. Very sad.
Urgg.. I've done the same thing before! Bet those gaps are sealed now though right?
@@MyFirstFishTank oh yes. The next day, the plastic sheeting I ordered from Amazon came in and it was sealed.
great stuff! would watch all of it if under 5 mins with maybe 10 mistakes ;)
Want to know what my biggest problem has been trying to set up my tank ? Finding a dam solid stand for it ! Its nearly impossible! I am getting frustrated
Music rocks. I'll be humming that all day. Lol
I love, love, love this song! My wife thought it was hilarious! I've been humming it too!
I am hooked how can I continue to see the videos for this series? Week 12 is private :(
Not to worry, that's because it's coming out today at 900 am pst! I've got a lot of videos left to make, so stay tuned each Friday! Thanks for watching Rebecca!
I agree with all of them
When buying a hang on back overflow box for a 75 gallon undrilled tank what GPH rating is best?
I would should for something that turns over the total water volume 5-10x/hour. So that would be 375-750 gph.
@@MyFirstFishTank Perfect i already ordered an 800 GPH hang on over flow. I really want rock that has the purple color already but with out unwanted pest what rock brand would be best?
So are you gonna name your seahorse tank Matthew’s Corall?
Jeff, you are a clever one! :-) I dig that name... big time!
@@MyFirstFishTank I’m an old cow hand 🎼 from the 🎵 Rio Grande 🎹...
I think a bare bottom tank is actually a good thing for a beginner as they usually overfeed and it's easier to see with a bare bottom. Also, I don't think using soap to wash your hands is a good idea. I just use water but vinegar would be fine too.
Unless they have a sump with a ton of biological media, even an intermediate hobbyist will struggle with a bare bottom. Sure its easier to see debris, but you just can't beat the stability and room for micro fauna that sand provides.
Yeah, I get your point for sure. I think the stability factor of a shallow sandbed is slightly better than the detritus build up, but I get what you are saying for sure. And yeah, water can definitely work, but I live here in SoCal and am putting on sunscreen all the time, which is terrible for corals, so its super important that I get it all off.
@@MyFirstFishTank great video though.
No such thing as a budget build if u start from ground zero nothing less than at least several hundred bucks, im in about 700 with a 10 nano. And still don't have a light yet lol I also bought the nice Hannah checkers which are 50 plus each. Etc.
You shoved that Marine Depot icon like you’re upset they don’t pay you enough. Lol
Ha, I guess I did! But then at the end I shoved both icons away, so what does that mean? :-)
ATO and RODI is my must
Agreed. They were my first two purchases after the five books that I read before I jumped into the hobby in 2007.
Yup, make your life so much easier!
Do you have a video for getting rid of green hair algae
Oooh, I think so... Let me check. Try this one. czcams.com/video/U2tvWSU4O6A/video.html. Basically, I use razor for a couple weeks to loosen the algae, and during that time I keep manually removing it daily, then I make sure my no3 and po4 are low, and just repeat
@@MyFirstFishTank thanks mate…
Could have put "Research" in there a couple of more times IMHO.
Yeah, you can't do too much research!
Even first saltwater ever should I set up a quarantine tank ??? Or wait until tank is up and running with a fish in it then quarantine...... I know the need to quarantine I breed ball pythons and quarantine
Hi Michael. It's definitely best practice to setup a quarantine tank right from the get go. But, you could treat your display tank as the qt, but only for the first fish you add. And if they get sick in the display tank, you will have to let it lie fallow for around 70 days to make sure the ich/velvet is gone. So I will often add the first three fish, all at the same time mind you, to the display tank and cross my fingers. One time I introduced ich, so then I had to wait over two months before adding the next fish, which was frustrating. And if you qt, then if a fish has ich, you only have to wait another three weeks, so much quicker overall.
Everything is clear
Thanks!
So I have questions on topic 21 using tap water ......I have found zero success only issues when I first started the hobby and had crazy algae blooms becuase of using the tap water .but I ask my fellow reefers around me and I know SO MANY people who use tap water in ther reef tanks and have amazing success no algae no issues what so ever . And since I can’t find the solution maybe you can touch a little more on that
You know, it's really going to depend on a lot of factors. There are a lot of water sources in the USA that would likely be just fine. I mean, some areas have low to no TDS with few phosphates, while others are off the charts. Some homes have decent filtration, and others none. Really, the things you want to watch out for are chlorines, chloramines, heavy metals, and phosphates. The PO4 is going to cause the algae issues, and the chlorines/chloramines aren't great for fish and inverts. And of course, metals are the enemy of inverts. I know people who also have success with tap water. I think you are more likely to have success with a fish only system, and the more filtered the water the better. You can minimize algae issues by feeding frozen food and not pellet. But in the end, some people do have success using tap water.
@@MyFirstFishTank oh no no no I only have reef tanks but I have learned I guess my home can’t do it so ever since I’ve only used rodi water for my tanks but makes me mad when I see other reefers use tap and have auccess
10. add cleanup crew, before you see algae. and not when it appears
hmm, not sure I 100% agree with you. Maybe add a very small number of snails, but in my experience adding too much too early can lead to starvation. I always wait, but if it works for you, go with it!
So watching this video with my wife and with every new topic she says 'oh, that doesn't sound familiar at all....' lol.
:-)!!! Sarcasm noted!!
It was pretty funny. She also sent the video to a few friends who are interested in saltwater saying ' here is a video explaining all the mistakes my husband made so you can avoid them' lol
Easy solution! Don't get involved in the hobby No problems 🤣
Ha, that's avoidance! But point well taken!
The Saltwater hobby is only for the well monied folks. My freshwater tanks keep me busy