Name: NEW NANO Saltwater Aquarium | Setting Up My Reef Tank
Uploaded: 2018-06-07T04:45:26.000Z
Duration: 21 min
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Aquariums take a lot of dedication, and fish should not be thought of as disposable pets.

Please don't rely solely on my information or replicating my methods or setup.

If you're considering starting an aquarium, please consult a professional at an aquatic store,

and consider joining online aquatics forums

where you can ask questions and receive help from experienced hobbyists.

I have decided to start a saltwater aquarium.

Now, I might sound a little bit more enthusiastic if I wasn't absolutely terrified!

I hope you enjoy this Part 1 to my aquarium setup video.

Stay until the end where I'll be talking to an aquatic specialist

from London's premier aquatic shop, The Aquatic Design Centre.

Be sure to hit that subscribe button and that notification bell

so you don't miss next week's video, which will be a tank update

featuring a very special guest, who you might already know.

Em: Do you know when people do close-up videos of squeezing the pores around their nostrils?

I can never look at them the same way again.

Em: Enjoy the video and be sure to get involved by leaving your top tips or recommendations for my setup in the comment section below.

Opinions and debates are most welcome, but any foul language will be deleted.

Runaway develop these really immersive apps, and they're all nature based. I've been playing Splash.

Splash is a stunning ocean adventure game

where your mission is to care for an underwater sanctuary and repopulate the reef.

The app features real species of fish, and by raising fish and feeding them the correct foods,

you can establish various species and unlock new, rarer, marine creatures to learn facts about,

Collect and position coral to help you collect coins and food

and unlock new parts of the reef to increase how many fish you can raise at once.

If you're also playing, take a snap of your reef and send it to me on Twitter.

You can also show off your reef by tagging the official Splash Twitter, @PlaySplashGame.

If you want to join in, you can download Splash for free.

Search for Splash in your app store to unlock a free underwater paradise.

Check out my description box below for more details.

I might sound a little bit more enthusiastic if I wasn't absolutely terrified.

Literally terrified because I am by no means an aquatic specialist.

Just for my own interest, I want to have a go at keeping saltwater.

There are no species that I'm interested in enough to want to keep at home

in a 150 to 200, 250-gallon, so I decided to go completely the opposite way. I decided to go nano!

Now, I know that sounds really cute like, "Oh! A nano aquarium! That must be really easy to look after!"

No, no. No, with nano aquariums, yes you save on space,

but they take a lot of upkeep. And by a lot of upkeep, I mean a lot of upkeep.

There are definitely pros and cons to keeping nano aquariums.

Some of the pros are the setup costs. So large aquariums,

such as 250-gallon aquariums, can start at around $700 for just the tank.

Not including the water testing kits, the live rock, the coral, the anemones, the reverse osmosis,

water salts, filtration pumps, and not to mention, the fish themselves.

Nanos will cost you less in space and the initial setup,

and they'll also be likely to take less time to do water changes for.

But there's also the cons, and it's really important to consider the cons.

Changes in a nano tank will always be very fast. So if your water quality isn't right,

you'll see the negative effects of this very, very quickly.

Ultimately, the decision is yours as to whether to go for a nano or a large aquarium,

but take into consideration more than just the setup and running costs.

So I'm trying to take things slow. I haven't got my aquarium yet,

but tomorrow I'm going to be going to a place in New Jersey called Absolutely Fish.

And they usually have display tanks, which are set up and actually for sale.

So my plan—my cunning plan—which may or may not work out in my favor,

is actually to go and buy an established aquarium.

The thought of moving a saltwater aquarium from one place to another

just makes me cringe down to my bones 'cuz there's so much that can go wrong.

You know, the coral can get cold, the fish can get cold, eurgh!

So I will see you tomorrow, when I go and pick up a tank. Aah!

If only I could actually keep coral that beautiful with those eggs.

Oh let me go see, that I can go and find it in the store.

Okay, so I just arrived at Absolutely Fish over there, and Danny's out here pacing

because he thought that I was gonna get straight out the car.

Danny: Um, I don't know. He's really feathery and cool.

Em: Wow, so hypnotic! Oh my goodness! Wow...

I'm really sorry, but I don't have any footage of me actually driving home from the fish store

because I was holding onto everything in the back of the car

just trying to make sure that everything and everyone was happy.

So, here we go. This is when we got home, and we started to set up the aquarium.

Em: Alright, so we literally just got home.

What we're doing right now is they're going to put together some of this living rock.

Living or live rock is not actually alive itself,

but it's made from the skeletons of dead coral.

Many microscopic organisms can be found living on the rock, giving it its name.

Live rock has many benefits in a reef aquarium,

not only as a platform from which to build your reef on,

but also because it can have a stabilizing effect on the water's pH.

This water is from the same system that the aquarium that we had here at home

was being supported by in the store, so this water has already been pre-tested.

It's got perfect salinity, perfect pH levels, everything was tested.

We're just gonna slowly add it and bring it up to temperature.

Here, I am slowly adding the water into the tank.

I'm angling the current to the back of the tank so as not to kick up all the sand and cloud the water too much,