nbavf6 Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 1/24/11 Here is my 29 biocube. It has been up and going for about 2 years now. This summer in june, electric shock caused the tank to crash. Few things were saved (hammer coral). Here it is with about 6 months in now. Equipment: 29 Oceanic Biocube Rio HF6 return pump MP10 ES Remora skimmer powered by Maxijet 1200 MJ 400 and two little fishies reactor Fuge in middle back chamber, submersible lights provided by StevieT on Nano-reef 150 Watt Sunpod Fish: Black misbar clown Midas Blenny Spotted Mandarin Goby Coral: Sunset Milli Green Digi Purple Acro Purple/Pearl Tabling Acro Tri-color Milli Pearlberry Acro Purple Bala ... Lots of acros not sure names on a couple others... Bam Bam Zoa Blues Zoas Green Palys Hairy Mushrooms Hammer Coral Dragon Soul Favia Alien Eye Chalice Glow worm Chalice Mr. Coral mystery Chalice Purple w/ blue spot mushrooms Purple Monti Cap Red Monti Cap Orange Monti Cap Sunset Monti Reverse Sunset Monti Orange/Red/Green/Blue Maxi Mini Blue Leg hermits Nass Snails Crocea Clam Peppermint Shrimp First Original Post: Well I started this thread with my tank up and running for about a week and a half in. Finally pulled the trigger on a BC29 at my LFS when they ran them on sale. Also with getting the cube there, the guy gave me 10 percent off everything I have bought for it, sand, rock, water, salt. So its all set up and my buddy brought me some more rock from his house. Right now i have about 30# sand 25# rock. So we will see how it goes. Whammin Watermelons Coco Pinks (watermelons) Tubs Blues Bam Bam Oranges UPDATED LIST 5/06/09 1 Emerald Crab 8 Nass Snails 3 Scarlets 3 blue leg 2 other hermits 1 unidentified hitchhiker hermit 1 diamond goby died... 1 scooter blenny died.... 1 gold stripe maroon died... 1 cleaner shrimp 35# sand approx 25 lbs rock ZOOS Whammin Watermelon Zoos Pink Cocos(Watermelon) Zoos Tubs Blues Zoos Bam Bam Oranges Zoos Orange Zoos Yellow Polyp Zoos (long skirts) Pale Lemon/Lime Green Zoos (lime green mouth) PHE Red Ring (Purple Hearted Zoos) Green Radioactive Dragon Eye Zoos John Deere (Green W/ Yellow Mouth) Zoos Eagle Eyes Zoos Steel Blues Zoos Alpha and Omega Zoos Fire and Ice Zoos Firefly Zoos Bird of Prey Zoos Red People Eaters Medussa Zoos Devil's Armor OTHER: Pulsing Xenia Toadstool Hammer (Green with Purple Tips) coral Purple mushroom with blue spots Green Implosion Paly Green clove polyp GSP TANK UPGRADES: HYDOR Koralia nano HF6 installed FILTRATION: Handful of bioballs Chemi-Pure Bag of Carbon LR rubble Filter Floss Biocube protien skimmer Chamber 2 FUGE- SteveT submersible lights and cheato LIGHTING Stock for now *Considering nanocustoms 144watt upgrade. Thanks for looking! Nick Link to comment
Nanobuds Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 needs more liverock but it looks sweet so far. about 30lbs of rock will be good Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 needs more liverock but it looks sweet so far. about 30lbs of rock will be good Thanks, I thought the cave look would be cool. Not to much space to work with but enough to have a cool U shape. But yeah my buddy is bringing me more rock this weekend. Im out of town this weekend but it should be Monday! I'll be sure to update. Link to comment
Nanobuds Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 a cave would be cool. i have one in my nanocube! i love it Link to comment
jds Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Nice start to the tank. I am also building a BC29 and about 3 weeks in. Good luck! -jds Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted March 1, 2009 Author Share Posted March 1, 2009 So question... I am about a week and a half into setup. Would it be ok to add a CUC? I mean they are pretty hardy little guys. I was thinking about adding them in about 3 or 4 days. Feedback? Link to comment
mkregs Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 So question... I am about a week and a half into setup. Would it be ok to add a CUC? I mean they are pretty hardy little guys. I was thinking about adding them in about 3 or 4 days. Feedback? Wait until cycle is complete. Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted March 4, 2009 Author Share Posted March 4, 2009 Well I added about another 10 lbs of rock Monday. My tank before that was in brown mode! Was out of town and my roommate left the lights on over the weekend. So I got an emerald crab 2 blue legs, 3 scarlets and 7 nass snails. Got them from Liveaquaria with free shipping! It was great. So put them in yesterday and everything is going better. Slowly getting clean! Ill post pictures when i get my camera back from where ever i sent it for warrenty maintenance since it stoped working but other than that it is coming along nicely. Link to comment
Nosey Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 More LR & Flow!!!!!!!!!! Your going 2 want to add another power head for more flow, maybe even up grad your stock pump, and replace roommate with timer ASAP. In less your roommate is a roommate with benefits ...ohhhhhh ya!!!!! you know what i mean???? And if that's the case keep said roommate, and buy a timer! Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 and replace roommate with timer ASAP. In less your roommate is a roommate with benefits ...ohhhhhh ya!!!!! Ha ha well my roommate meant to and he is not the roommate with benefits! haha. I like my females lol. He has worked with salt water for like 3 or 4 years now and he just wanted the brown stuff to happen quickly and get stuff going. But yes a timer is going to be a must. Travel to much in the spring for track meets. Makes my emerald fat and happy though. Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 So question to all... Lighting upgrade. Is the 108watt upgrade worth it on Nanotuners or go ahead and get the 144watt? Any personal experiences or forums i can read more about it from people who have upgraded? Please let me know. Very interested in upgrading. This is my first tank but in a year from now who knows, i might want to mess around with some sps. Link to comment
mkregs Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Just stopping by...how are things going with your tank...any news? BTW...I have stock BC29 lighting and my corals are doing well. If I was to consider an upgrade, I would probably look into an all LED setup that would fit within the stock hood. Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted March 15, 2009 Author Share Posted March 15, 2009 Things in the tank are going good. Just waiting to get home from texas to check on things... Right before I lefts i had hundreds probably thousand of little with things on my glass/in tank. They were probably about the size of a ball point pen. If u got right up to them u could see 5 or 6 little legs. My friend who has been in salt for a while tried to figure out what they were. He called them hydroids (jellyfish). IDK. he said they aren not bad. But they are everywhere. Got some algae that my little CUC is loving. added some CHEMI-PURE Wednesday. dropped it on the lower level in the 2nd chamber. so water has to filter through it. Doesn't effect flow at all. monitored 3rd chamber level for a while afterward and everything is good. ALSO HAD NCAA INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. BROUGHT HOME 4th in the HEPTATHLON... Link to comment
GiantBen Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 So question to all... Lighting upgrade. Is the 108watt upgrade worth it on Nanotuners or go ahead and get the 144watt? Any personal experiences or forums i can read more about it from people who have upgraded? Please let me know. Very interested in upgrading. This is my first tank but in a year from now who knows, i might want to mess around with some sps. I was e-mailing with Chris from Nanotuners regarding these two options. My main concern was the noise from the fans, as I think the stock BC29 fans are too loud. The SilneX fans are only available on the 108W, not the 144W, so I was asking about the differences. He said that given the right conditions, the 4.36 can support ALMOST anything. I'd love to hear some real testimonials too, but the 4.36 sounds pretty sweet for the price. I may end up with the 3.36 for noise reasons (I REALLY want silent fans). Anyway, that's what Chris said, and from all accounts he is very reliable. If you get either upgrade, let me know how it goes. I am planning to get one too. Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted March 16, 2009 Author Share Posted March 16, 2009 SO COME HOME FROM NATIONALS TO FIND MY TANK IN HUGE BROWN STAGE. The sides are bron the rocks are brown, some green algae in there too. So did I have another cycle? Whats going on here? Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted March 18, 2009 Author Share Posted March 18, 2009 Got a Scooter! I was just stopping by the store to pick up a couple things, filter floss, see if any new rocks were in that i had to have, etc. I got a bottle of copepods in one hand a snail and hermit in the other and i magically turned around and said i am getting a scooter blenny. so i have a scooter blenny. I feed him brine and my copepods that i released into my tank 20 minutes before him. He is fat and happy and AWESOME. Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 Decided to take out the biocube filter, put filter floss on top of the 2nd chamber drip tray. below that is my chemi-pure and bag of carbon. Seems like a lot more surface "oils" are gone due to this. Seems like the surface flow has increased. Any suggestions on filtering? Link to comment
jds Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Sounds like my BC29. I just added Chemi and purigen. Waiting for the cycle to finish up on the new 14 before adding it there. However I still use the crap BC filters in both my BC 14 and 29. Just rinse and reuse them twice before chucking them. I found a bunch priced at $5.99 for 2 so I bought some supply...I know people here frown on them but oh well I dont see anything wrong with using them other than the price point. Post some new pics... Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 Newest of the new pics 3/20/09 Sorry they are cell phone pics. Still trying to get my digital camera to focus through the glass.... So I'm tryin to get better pics up but here is for now Link to comment
mkregs Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Sounds like my BC29. I just added Chemi and purigen. Waiting for the cycle to finish up on the new 14 before adding it there. However I still use the crap BC filters in both my BC 14 and 29. Just rinse and reuse them twice before chucking them. I found a bunch priced at $5.99 for 2 so I bought some supply...I know people here frown on them but oh well I dont see anything wrong with using them other than the price point. Post some new pics... It's really not so much the price as it is how much your surface skim improves by not using the stock filters. The stock filters are restictive to flow thought the rear chambers. I've found that using floss in chamber 2 is far better than using the stock filters. Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 First ZOO's Nice big polyps. Still crappy cell phone pictures. Sorry. Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted March 28, 2009 Author Share Posted March 28, 2009 At the LFS last night and in their coral tank a green clove polyp fell off and was just laying there on the bottom. Got it for free and it looks like its going to make it. It is coming out and all that. Give it another day and ill get a pic of it up. Also picked up a diamond goby. Link to comment
nbavf6 Posted March 29, 2009 Author Share Posted March 29, 2009 Well Digger the Diamond Goby jumped back in chamber 3 yesterday. Couldnt find him forever because he was under my pump. Sneaky little guy. So i put him back in the tank and he burrowed under a rock that you cant really see in the tank cause its against the back wall. He hides all day long... wish i could see him. So i have a 20 dollar no show fishy! haha. Also still have an algae problem on top of my sand and some rocks. Got 8 or so hermits, 8 snails and an emerald crab. Show i add anything else? Still a lot of brown on the sand. Thanks Link to comment
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