We teamed up with Tanner Serpa at Serpa Design to build out his first saltwater tank ever! We head to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and meet up with Tanner, Drive over to Akron, Ohio to go see Than with Tidal Gardens to pick out some coral, and end at Shark Bait LLC to pick up some storm clowns! Let us know if you like the video and what you would like to see next!
Special thanks to Planet Aquariums, Sicce, Carib Sea, and Tidal Gardens for making this video possible!
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0:00 Intro
0:40 Tour Of Tanners Animal Room
1:57 The Tank Is Cracked?!
2:35 Saltwater Tank Breakdown
5:14 Setting Up The Saltwater Tank
7:40 Visiting Tidal Gardens
14:43 Going To Shark Bait LLC
15:00 Acclimating The Coral & Fish
16:50 Picking Up The Package At Southwest Cargo
16:56 The Final Setup Of Tanners Saltwater Aquarium
18:47 Outro
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29 Comments
Serpa squad🔥
I’m in the denton area, I’d briefly heard you mention “dfw aquarium” I’ve not been out to dfw for any of my aquatic needs but if I were to do so, what would be the best places to look?? Any info would be greatly appreciated sir:)
Edit: I’m pretty heavily into freshwater setups, so that’d probably be what I’d be looking for
I’ve been to & snorkled the Great Barrier Reef here in Aus, & I didn’t see corals like this. These are so beautiful. Can you tell me why I wouldn’t have seen anything like this in the wild? I’m a freshwater girl so don’t know much about salt water fish keeping. You are awesome for sponsoring Tanner on this project, well done! Now get your products into stores in Australia please ❤️🇦🇺
Looks great
Hopefully he can make a real go of it, would be really keen to see how he goes about this journey. I find that whenever these fresh water youtubers jump into the world of saltwater they normally dont last. They realise the amount of time and effort thay goes into caring for a saltwater tank is prob equivalent to the same time and effort 10 fresh water tanks need.
Great video and Pittsburgh is in my backyard lol
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Why are you wearing those ridiculous sun glasses inside? CLOWN
I want to know what local places tanner goes to for his fish and wood/rocks
Serpas looking there like man, I need to keep diving into this reef keeping knowledge. There’s so much to corals🤯
Came here from SerpaDesign and I absolutely love your energy!!! I will definitely be checking out more of your videos! 💕
Great Aquascape, Tank, Beautiful Clowns, interview, edit, etc. Always good to see Than’s place. Excellent video and I hope that tank does very well for you. 🙂
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You guys are awesome for supporting Serpa on this! Serpa Spuad here to support. Just dropped you a follow and a like!
Came from Tanner's channel. Thank you so much for being so awesome to Tanner. He's an amazing guy and an extremely amazing artist who deserves this 100%. This was fun watching him dip his toes into the saltwater world!!! Thanks again Fritz Aquatics!!!!
Another Serpa Squad checking in.
Love the video!
LMAO the highway construction on 76 sucks so bad 😅 didn't realize this corner of Ohio had so many fish keeping resources! I don't keep saltwater but shout out to my fav local fish shop Agnoquatics in Parma, awesome shop awesome people
Kevin Smith working at SW Cargo, lol.
How was I not subscribed to Fritz aquatics before this? Subscribed!
Welcome to the Salt Water hobby Mr. Serpa.
Enjoy the journey and the learning process. Coral have a bit of a leaning curve, and the speed at which a marine reef matures is often much slower than freshwater systems. But it can be extremely rewarding to have a slice of the ocean in your home.
And don't sweat the Skimmer. You really don't need one for several weeks, until after the tank starts running. It will go through the typical ecological succession, and having a skimmer off while you're establishing those initial biofilms can be beneficial.
Though they are certainly an invaluable tool, once you have an active fish population being fed daily.
Take of your glasses man
The Tidal Gardens segment was so interesting to me as someone that only knows a little about coral. He's so knowledgable!
Sherpa squad checking in
I love Tanner! Cool collaboration!
Had no clue Fritz has a YT Channel. Great episode. Following along.
Why do some people cycle tanks for weeks and not months yet this got fish and coral right away ? There was no pre existing bacteria …
I’d love to see Tanner’s creative approach to scaping macroalgae tanks. I think that’s right up his alley, moreso than the corals but respect for going all in!
Serpa squad ❤