220g Reef Tank Update - Bottled Bacteria Is the Worst

Back again (finally) with another reef tank update on the Waterbox 220g tank!

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[aquareefstv]

Absolutely love this tank! Hope you come back to us soon! The reefing community misses you and your content.

[Merknilash]

Your makeup game is on point

I need to get my wife done up and have her as the face of my vids

[oupainting]

Absolutely great to see your reef have a great day looking forward to your next video

[SaiyanSatsuki]

I used two small pieces of live rock from my local lfs, until i noticed Aptasis promptly took em out, no major issues so far, even upgraded to a 20 long. I will say a uv sterilizer is a man's best friend, also the rock you do have in tank currently and the sand for that matter, has all the bacteria you're looking for. It also never hurts though to slamm as much bio media as possible in your stump area as well.

[geoffminton]

I hate that I used live rock and got all the little pest. So be thankful you did it the way you did and try to add small pieces of colonized live rocks that are clean of pest. Don’t go grab some super big piece of live rock that can hide lots of pests.

[barelyreefer]

I 💯 agree about using real live rock when starting a new tank. I have only ordered from two places and I would recommend Gulf Live rock.

[ashleighfrickmaringione]

Where are you getting Cipro now? I need some and can’t get without Rx now!! Help!

[fishstix]

What were the directions for your Cipro treatment (both outside your main tank and then directly in the tank)?

[pieceoftheocean]

Do you sell frags ?!tank looks amazing

[andrewlindell]

Thats weird. I have used bottled bacteria with no known issues from it. Mb7 seens to work fir alot of people. Maybe you had some bad bacteria form and take over. I think its s good thing thing to add a little bit every week to keep up on the population

[shaunburmeister]

How did the Bar Exam go? FL attorney here.

[lionardorodriguez]

Amazing video, your corals are so beautiful

[MACNTOSFAM]

i stopped the reef hobby while i finished studying & while passing my board exam. that was 8 years ago. as soon as i passed, i got into looking for another tank. be careful with cipro as it is an antibiotic and will kill beneficial bacteria. adding some live rock along with dry rock i think is the way to go. but, looks like the tank looks good

[artistic_spaz]

Been wondering where you were! So glad to hear you are back and will be uploading more!! Also glad I'm not the only one on the struggle bus with the haven't figured out all of my issues yet and so I have renamed my tank the "Glass Box of Death" for the moment....uuugghhh. ❤ reefing lol

[ryanmueller]

I did kung fu corals in tank treatment which is a broad-spectrum treatment. It save my tank from a major stn/rtn episode

[TanganyikaBbq]

Stunning tank i'm now again beating aiptasia ... :-)

[jamesedmunds]

I did notice when some of my corals receed like my candy canes its because of higher phosphate levels and when I sort it they puff right back up! So maybe it might be a parameter. Once you know what causes it you can just assess your corals to see what's going on in the tank 🙂

[ReefDork]

Tank looks fantastic! Congrats on surviving the bar exam 🙌

[SKARFCE]

Holy cow she’s alive, nice to finally take a gander at your tank again, don’t worry your doing just fine I’m still battling the dreaded aptasia but your tank still looks awesome 👍🏼

[Edgecrusher]

Bottled bacteria may help nitrification, but it does not help create a healthy biome at all. I know this to be fact because after hundreds of dollars of bottled bacteria from a variety of manufactures I had a Biomics test come back in the bottom 3 percentile; yikes.