LA Fishguys, Rose Anemone Aquarium, Episode 91 pt 6, Rose Garden Anemone Tank

Over 100 Rose Anemones in the ninety first episode of LA Fishguys as Jim Stime of Aquarium Design in Thousand Oaks CALIF., helps Cande on a 500 gallon tank. Cande talks about making saltwater and his acclimation style water change in this seven part episode.

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Pets & Animals

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• LA Fishguys
• Rose
• Anemone
• Tank

[5taticip]

+1 on properly thawing frozen food, i kept having red slime algae growing on my sand a week after i started thawing my food in a fish net under the sink and the algae was gone!

[lafishguy]

hey 5, i've heard this before, but sure sounds like washing away some of the good stuff too.

[Kamadashi]

and chemically treated by the board of water supply as where ocean water even though I get it from the marine science facility where it’s taken from a deep depth and filtered which is way cleaner then surface ocean water it still contains parasites, bacteria, and algae. Also when I switched from using faucet water to the ocean water because it was cheaper there was a clear increase in the amount of algae growth not only cause it does introduce algae but also is nutrient rich.

[lafishguy]

hey K, were you getting the water from NELHA ?

[Kamadashi]

Aquarium maintenance people here tell me they prefer to make salt water especially for reef tanks which is kind of weird because everyone says not to, but they say it’s easier to control the water quality and algae growth as where using ocean water has all kinds of stuff in it.

[lafishguy]

hey K, i just goes to show that there are many ways to make SW, and many ways it can be better or worse.

[lafishguy]

hey T, i was thru the SPS phase back in '99-'02 (see Jim's 250 on the Aquarium Design web site ) so dont get too full of yourself, and wait until the next episode with Cande... its a 300 SPS tank... and gets its water the same way :)

[nigelnathan]

hey lafishguy did you really think that you would be sucking on a toilet stained pipe? hahaha

[betafishtips98]

wow this is a pretty nice tank I got here from thebettamaster

[bencae]

@lafishguy Many vitamins and other nutrients are water soluble and would be washed away. What makes more sense would be to thaw the cubes in a very small amount of tank water (in a coffee cup) together with some "fish vitamins" such as Selcon or Zoe. After sitting for 5-10 mins, use a small, fine mesh net to put the food in and give a little squeeze in order to remove much of the liquid....voila

[KILLAKALIE009]

doesn't Cande look like the dude on pineapple express? " THAT IS CORRECT"...

[ikelleners]

@lafishguy If you have high levels of no2 no3 and ammonia, you must change more water, less fish, better filtering, (Not nessesarly more filtering....)

More korals, more plants..... All purify your water also...

[townera1]

Hey Jim,

I was thinking maybe your high nitrate and high phosphate issues could be due to a few factors. I know you're real big on real sea water, and living in Nebraska I'm obviously not super familiar with the use of it, but it seems as though there could be something in it causing this problem. Also, when you mix salt water are you using a high end low phosphate salt are a less expensive one? other factors could be not rinsing the gel binders out of frozen foods the clients are feeding.

[adnank21]

@lafishguy

cant wait to see that.

[helicrashpro]

pH is a measurement of both alkalinity and acidity. pH is basically a balance difference between anions and cations. 7 being neutral and above 7 is alkaline and below 7 is acidic. Generally the scale is 1-14.

[MrEnon216]

THAT IS CORRECT!!!