Reef tanks, corals and fish on their own for a year. No reef maintenance, no water changes.

this is my reef tank I haven't touched it anybody a year I talked but water off once a week and I throw food in once every three or four days right it's been on its own I have no idea what's behind that algae I'm see some things have split we have seen enemies here that I only feed about once a year and yeah this is what we have I have no idea there's gonna be some good things in there there's probably some bad things so let's get it cleaned up let's do a water change and let's see what's in this reef tank the first thing you can see is a whole bunch of starfish eating on the algae you can also see the texture of the algae right here see like it has this like texture to it right well that's from a bristlenose tang that I have in there and he just spends all day with his lips on it right going at it most of the fish in here well some of them the tangs can eat off the algae the other fish those clownfish and a damsel those actually happy have food outside of algae but yeah there's also a shrimp in here there was hopefully he's still in there so yeah we're gonna get to it all right well just get into it I'm gonna use two these razor blades here you see there's a long extended one you get these I got Home Depot and here's like the standard these hop out sometimes when you kind of get it get in between a lot of rocks there's a lot of rocks in here and like I said I mean I haven't seen a thing in full four months so we'll kind of see what happens here but here we go and I guarantee the tangs are gonna love this [Music] [Music] well here we go this is the final product a couple things here I had a yellow tang in here that I did swap out this is actually probably two and a half weeks maybe three weeks post I just want to let everything kind of settle in you know rather than having like you know the green algae floating everywhere a couple small things though so I did trade in a yellow tang for a striped you can see here this guy's really cool sailfin tang but I've kind of wanted one and that the yellow tang I just know he's like a real bossy man I didn't realize he's kind of gotten bigger and I didn't really notice it and he was just like Bossin everybody around so I got this he's love as smaller a sailfin and he doesn't any probably this tang so I decided to keep that now we'll kind of go through everything and most everything is here dude I'm surprised a couple things have changed so we'll just kind of go through got a potential problem here if I gonna have to address that these all look like they're fairly decent right I mean we haven't know this guy he moved all the way from over here with these guys which was originally one this thing split overtime he moved all the way across this tank over to here yeah and that looks pretty decent this thing's huge this thing is probably gotten too big as have these they have overgrown a lot of stuff and they have pretty much put a damper on a lot of this because well so of these guys these these bubble tips move from over here across tenneco highly malt kind of over here which was cool but now they've kind of moved over here and I don't think they like it as much and plus these are blocking the light now onto here which is not so great but man some of these are doing fantastic mushrooms hey you know what those are up there really cool all the mushrooms look fantastic so yeah all that stuff there's something back there looks like it's growing pretty decent back there that's all good snails are operational they look like they're hanging in there like I said these are split a couple times this thing looks really good over here - I don't even feed these men like a lot people say oh you gotta feed them all the time do I maybe I mean these guys maybe date once or twice a year that's no joke and real quick look down here around this guy's sitting down there I don't know how long he's been there but they're gonna very much light in there let me see fine I wonder like how much light they really need because it's guys sit in the shadows you know how there's stuff everywhere we just gotta look around you never know what you're gonna find those back there it's pretty cool it's kind of neat to kind of see the stuff you know if you looked at it for a while no it's all taken off up someone didn't make it good see if I got ya you probably can't see it but it's too dirty but I see whiskers back there so the shrimp still got a quarter pound of shrimp store doing good this thing didn't do good and it's my fault because I had it but above the outlet line and I lost power and it dried up the top like it's at them for a few hours that's my fault I lowered it down now but it's gonna take some time to kind of regrow but it looks like it's already growing a lot I mean that was like nothing right there and look how much already grown over the last few months so I'd expect that to kind of come back to life but anyway there you go man smells still doing good you can see my tank now I kind of get like that dude I get like we're you know I don't do much and you know I know I was gonna do a water change I didn't even do the water change that's a lazy I am and I'm doing a water change on this thing and dude a year and a half two years man all I do is come in here and I have a blue line on the bottom and when it gets halfway down it is go back up to the top change out that every once in a while and yeah other than that don't do much it's got a little AC on there and I've got like I said I got a couple heaters I can control the amount of volume that comes through the tank but yeah that's it man that is the reef tank cleaned up taking care of its self for a long time on its own and wrap all right man thanks for watching this is deli at PETA [Music]

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Keywords: reef tank, water changes, Do I need to do water changes with reef tank, coral care, salt water fish, tangs, clownfish, Bubble tip, RBTA, sail fin tang, how to start a reef tank, easiest reef tank, yellow tang, algae, how to clean a reef tank, protein skimmer reef tank, keeping corals

Id: l3wK03e41ds

Length: 7min 2sec (422 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 17 2020