nanocat Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 This one is only 5 weeks old and I haven't really decided what I'm going to put in there. Right now it's home to a royal dottyback and a cleaner shrimp. Link to comment
airangel Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Very pretty. Right now I'm still looking at rock, sand and salt water! What kind of LR did you use in there? I love the piece in the upper rt corner. Link to comment
nanocat Posted February 13, 2004 Author Share Posted February 13, 2004 Mostly figi and some small tonga branch. It's a conglomeration of rubble from Jeff's exotic and some LR I buy when someone is tearing down a tank. We're sort of at an advantage in SoCal since there are so many places to buy LR that we can pick through the tanks. Link to comment
Phinhead54 Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 What have you done to the cube above and beyond what comes out of the box? I see a powerhead back there . . . did you do anything with the lighting? Link to comment
nanocat Posted February 14, 2004 Author Share Posted February 14, 2004 Just stock lighting. I take out all the bio media until the rear is bare. I put the heater in the first compartment next to the pump, and fill the other two compartments with smaller pieces of live rock. After the cubes about 6 weeks old, I add a small bag of Purigen and use black diamond carbon occasionally (after mounting frags). The powehead in this tank is the Zoomed Powersweep. I read from everyone how they had a great idea, but crapped out on a regular basis. Since then I was at a reefers house who was using powersweeps on his tank that were so coraline encrusted, it's a wonder they swept at all. He said he doesn't even bother to clean them more than once every 3 months or so. His were working well. They're cheap, so I went ahead and picked up one for this cube, and one in my 10g. SPS/clam tank. We'll see how they hold up. The other cube has a rio90 which I really like, quiet, cheap, small. Link to comment
ElectroTT Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 how many #'s of LR and LS is that right there? Link to comment
nanocat Posted February 15, 2004 Author Share Posted February 15, 2004 Around 15# of arag-alive and at least 22lbs. of LR. There's another 3 or more lbs. of LR in the rear compartments. Link to comment
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