How To Reef Aquarium Maintenance Part 4 - Monthly To Yearly Tasks

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In this educational video series, I discuss in detail what daily, weekly, monthly and yearly maintenance you should expect when owning a Reef Tank. By newyorksteelo. www.newyorksteelo.com

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  • love your videos why do pepple put bags of carbon in the sump

  • @steogorman Carbon is a form of chemical filtration that continuously polishes the water removing odors, heavy metals, discoloration etc etc.

  • Are you still useing miracle mud?? It looks like you have sand back in the refugium.If you are useing the mud how is it going?

  • @jaguars4263 Still using the mud and love it.

  • Thanks so much for the info on all the 4 videos, im new to the hobby and interested in having corals and sttuff. i have already a bubble anemone, a polyp and a red mushroom coral and a clowfish.the filter that i use is a hang on the back, lots of live rock and a protein skimmer. my tank is 20 gallon

  • @pziikopato Sounds good, but if you get yourself a protein skimmer, your system will fair much better :)

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  • @ldam I do rely on dosing the system since no water changes are performed, but my dosing mostly consists of a 2 part calcium and alkalinity supplement as mentioned in this video series. Nitrite levels are non existent in the tank since the initial cycle, and if what you meant is nitrates, nitrates are also non existent due to the deep sand bed and refugium below. The bacteria and life in the tank take care of everything for me. That's whats great about reefs. They are capable of this and more.

  • i do carbon and gfo change monthly, but what do you do for mg ca and alk, water change replenish these. do you dose since you haven't change you're water, what about nitrite level, beneficial bacteria can only do so much

  • @Khloe04Men Not if you rinse it well. Must be rinsed thoroughly before reintroducing the equipment back into the tank.

  • Enjoyed your video. Silly question does any of the vinegar residue from cleaning the equipment harm the aquarium once reintroduced?

    Thx

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