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Alright well I started my 29g Bio Cube 11-3-08

I have about 34 - 35lbs of live rock from a local guy. got it for about $1.60 per lb

Mods

-1st chamber
Took out false floor and put a 100 watt stealth heater in.

-2nd chamber
Took out the false floor and bioballs and made my refugium with a custom made media rack. Media rack from top to bottom. floss, black diamond carbon, floss.

-3rd chamber
Blue filter sponge and upgraded pump to rio 6HF (350 GPH)

-Lighting
upgraded to 250 Watt MH
Reflector- 250 Watt Lumen Max Elite
Bulb- 250 Watt 20K Radium SE
Ballast 250 Watt Galaxy


-Inverts
15 red leg hermit crabs
20 cerith snails
4 turbo snails
25 Nasaius snails
1 RBTA


-Fish

2 Ocellaris Clownfish (doing good)
1 Yashi Goby
1Yellow watchman goby


-Corals

Softcoral
Bahama Mama zoas
pink palys
fire and ice zoas
purple deaths zoos
rotten banana zoos
Armor of God sooz
Eagle eyes zoos
blue tubs zoos
3 Florida ricordia
Blue mushroom
Yuma
rainbow clove polyps
**Need To update**

LPS
Trumpet
Australian Acan 2x
Brain coral
Sun coral
Plate coral
**Need to update**


SPS
Green birdsnest
red monti cap
blue mili
Acropora green Slimmer
Acropora limeade
Acro Greg Hillar Aqua Delight
purple marshall island frag
poker star monti
acro red table
**Need to update**




SPS




LPS


Zoas



Mushrooms



I do 5 gallon weekly water changes
Top off from evaporation daily with fresh distilled water
Dose with B-Ionic Calcium and alkalinity daily
Use mag-float daily to keep crap off the glass
Feed fish once a day
Spot feed LPS coral once to twice a week with zooplankton

For macro shots of some of my corals click this link.
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looks nice to me...where'd you pick up the hydor light?

i picked it up at marine dreams.. some people have said it wont work for a light in my fuge? lol

What is the "K" rating of your light, and what colour is it?

In your pick of the light at the bottom of the box, it says " For illumination & Decoration" but nothing about plant growth!

IMO maybe you shouldn't have put the peppermint shrimp in on the third day, but i don't know much about them.

it does not have a kelvin (K) rating on it lol i figured i would see if this light worked. Im not to sure if it's going to. here there website for it http://www.hydor.it/en/products/show/5

i got the blue one

I'm no expert, but i would guess it's not going to work. Again from what i know ( correct me if im wrong anyone) you should have a light with a kelvin rating, and it should be a full spec white light for growth, not blue, but again i'm no expert!

lookin' good

nice set up with the rock, the little thing on it is probably a feather duster. Those are good to have.

As far as the peppermint shrimp, you should have waited till the cycling process was over. It probably won't last very long. Better to wait till all your levels have settled and then combat the aptasia.

new rock set up




some hitchhikers.. these guys grow quick!




tank is coming along good!

you guys like?

I'm taking back the Hydor light.. i dont think it will work. So I'm going to try to find something else.

Good stuff, I like all the colour in your rocks. How much rock do you have in there ??

i think about 35lbs of LR and 20lbs of live sand.

Nice!

ya i got it pretty cheap... about $1.60 lb.. got it from a guy locally! Def a good deal..

how do i find a link to your 29g bc? what do u have in it for your filtration?

go to the search window on the top right of this page and either type in my name or "New 29G BIOCUBE (My first tank ever)"

Alright well i finished my fuge light. here it is... Im going to make a type of rack for the fuge. more to come on that.







the tank is starting to get the brown algae in it. what do you guys think about the light?
i think the light should work its 19watts and has 5500k.Do u think it will make my tank a little warmer?

Maybe a little low on the "K" rating, but better than you last light..lol...I see that you chipped the paint off the back in a square shape, but have a round light fixture, why not have the same shape cover? Does light seep out the back? Also you might want to remove the rock out of the back of your Fuge, the LR in your display should do the trick!

good idea on the rock in my fuge...

as for the paint... I wansn't really thinking i took it off a few days ago and didn't plan very well. I got the bulb and everything today from home depot and got the cake pan in my kitchen haha! not much light seeps out the back.

I hope it will do the trick. I don't know what I was thinking on the last light i had.. hahaha

lol...It should do the trick, if there isn't much light seeping out the back, then who cares what shape it is.

I could always put something over it right? maybe spray it with black paint..

I will wait and see. if it doesnt grow I will try putting paint on the back of the glass. but i think it will work.

Do you have your Fuge light on a alternate time cycle from your main tank? If you do you shouldn’t see a heat issue.

no i dont have a timer. yet.

So your saying when i don't have my main light on have the fuge light off.. and when the main light is off have the fuge light on?

whats a good time for all my light.. I have 2pc 1 actinic and the other is the reg one?

Ya so my lights are on a 12hour run time, but that might have to change depending on how much algy growth you get. I get very little growth in my tank, even on a 12 hour cycle. I get some growth on my glass, which I can keep up with my Mag-Float. My lights on my main or display tank turn on around 8:00am, and at the same time my Fuge light turns off, then the same happens in the evening. My main lights turn off at 8:00pm, and my fuge light turns on. I have a sunpod light, so I don’t have actinic’s, but if you wanted to simulate sunset, and sunrise, then just subtract one hour from your main light cycle. I have kind of done the same with my set up, but it’s not as good as yours. I have blue, and white LED lights to go with my MH, and when my main MH light turns off, and my Fuge light turns on at night, I keep the white & Blue LED lights on, then after an hour my white LEDs turn off. It’s my may of having a sunset, and sunrise, not as good, but what can you do!

You should really get some timers, especially if your going to have coral in your tank.

thanks for the info.

Some time this week I'm going to get some timers. Seems like it will help tons!

ando,
did you swap the bulbs in the hood? put your attinc bulb on the switch that kicks the fans on...so that way it will help with the temp before the brighter bulb kicks on...(as long as you run two timers)

I used a halogen under the counter light I found at homedepot for my tank it has worked well as far as I can tell. The one reason I can think of for putting LR in your fuge would be to keep hte chaeto from making it's way into the 3rd chamber and clogging your return. I really don't think it would become a detrius trap as long as you have critters in there eating the detrius.

no I didn't do any mods to the light right now. I dont have the actinics on very long for it to get to hot.. It's on for 1 hour.



ya i was thinking the same thing. should i get some snails and put them in the 2nd chamber?

I am new to the forum I also have a biocube 29 a good fuge light would be the Rio Mini sun just google it.

It hard to see if it would work I cant find any specs or anything on it. Does it have a K (kelvin) rating?

Do you guy think i should have the algae somewhere else in the fuge... It looks like it's trying to get sucked threw to the 3rd chamber?

If you still have that chunk of LR in your fuge, then maybe place it in front of the hole to your 3rd chamber were your chaeto is in the pic, It should do the trick. If you don't have it anymore, you can maybe try a media bag of phose gard or something. In my 3rd chamber where the spung used to be, I placed a media bag there, and haven't had any problems yet.

did u take your sponge out that goes into the 3rd chamber?

yes i did, I don't know if every one does it. I would guess you can keep it in there, but you would have to make sure you clean it every week!

Look in the DIY threads for an fuge light project to go on the back of the tank. No one sees the back anyway. I think that is your best bet for proper K rating and it'll be easy on your wallet too. I made my fuge light set-up for under $20 and my chaeto is growing like wildfire. Just my $.02.

In my BC29 I only have chaeto (no rock rubble) in the 2nd chamber, so I kept the false floor and just angled it so one side touches the bottom (next to the 1st chamber wall) and the other rests on the notch it was originally on (next to the 3rd chamber wall) and attached it with some aquarium safe adhesive. So if you are looking at it from the back of the tank it looks like this: /
That way the chaeto won't get into the 3rd chamber and the fuge has enough room to house the chaeto growth.

Does that mean your actinics are on only for an hour? or that you have them on for an hour before the other lamp and the fan turn on?



The pods that inhabit the chaeto should be good enough to keep it clean of detrius.

I have the actinics on for hour until the daylight kick on.. but they both stay on.

alright Question?

I made a media rack for my 2nd chamber where my fuge is... Do you think it would be find to put in the tank now. I made this last night.. about 15 hours ago.. I used acetone and silicone to seal it. should i just wash it with some water and dry it off so it's safe to put in my tank. I dont want any chemicals getting into my fish tank lol

here's a pic

Looks like you are off to a good start. I cant wait to see what it becomes. What are you hoping to add?

Your rack lookes good( that sounds sick ). I don't know about the chemicals, but I would side with CAUTION!

I think... The top ill use floss, middle one i will put some carbon, then the bottom one i was thinking stick some algae in it? or small piece of Live rock?

here's a few more pics.

nice job ando...you try that gimmic out yet or what?

nope not yet i have to make a few modifications on it... prob sunday or monday i will get it in the tank .

well i have had my tank alomst 2 weeks now and it's looking very furry full of green and brown algae!lol
I need to add some water to it.. The water is getting low in the middle chamber and is very loud.

here some pictures

time for a clean-up crew...kd's store has a nice bundle for 25 bucks...hows the media rack doing?

Tomorrow I'm going to get a CUC.. What would you recommend?

As for the media rack... haa.. I had my measurements wrong. It was a hair to big.. so possibly tomorrow or Wednesday I will make a new one.. And a better one. I was bummed because it took a while to make.

oo well.. This next one will look better.

i think i got 10 snails, 10 blue leg hermits, 3 scarlet hermits, and 3 emerald crabs...though one of them isn't green...and he nipped at some zoas that are very healthy...i wanted all scarlet hermits cause they look really nice...but they had cuc pre-bagged that day...so i just went with it...

i cut the pcs for my media rack...but loaned out my acrylic glues...so sometime this week i will try mine out...

thanks!

let me know how your media rack goes.!

You should add a lawnmower as part of your CUC

Do you have chaeto in there right now???