ninjadik Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Ninjacube 14 Mods: Mediabasket Top: Filterfloss over Purigen Middle: Chaeto Bottom: CPE Maxijet 900 Hydor Flo Deflector Koralia Nano Theo 50 watt Coral Mushrooms Kenya Tree Leather Green Star Polyps Ricordia Zoas Livestock Inverts 1 Turbo snail 4 Red dwarf hermits 5 Nassarius snails 1 Emerald crab 1 Blood red fire shrimp This is my first ever saltwater tank so please feel free to offer advice criticism. I don't like how high the filter floss is standing over the purigen causing a lot of water to leak to the sides of the media basket so I am seriously considering throwing away the purigen completely and just using filter floss, chaeto, and cpe. Any thoughts? Can I just tie a weight to the purigen and drop it to the bottom of chamber 1...? Is it even needed? Can't get the temperature down with or without the lights on. My room stays at 72 constantly and whether I leave the lid open or close or the light on or off my temp never goes below 82. I unplugged the heater for now even though its set at 75, hoping maybe the heater is malfunctioning. Anyone else have this problem? Link to comment
Felicia Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 I love the scape. That will look really nice with coral on it As for the temperature problem, my main guess would be the heater because if you're turned the light off the tank should stay at whatever the heater is set for. With that off it should go down to room temperature. It'll probably take a while to cool down though, so give it at least a few hours to see if unplugging the heater helped. Link to comment
Ferrari_Jones Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 I leave my purigen in the first chamber with my heater, and with my media rack I got floss on top, chaeto and then chemipure on the bottom. Has worked well for me. Link to comment
ninjadik Posted October 13, 2011 Author Share Posted October 13, 2011 Heat is still the same so I am hoping it will have cooled off by morning because I don't see how it could possibly be that high with my room being 72 degrees. The koralia nano and the mj900 shouldnt be pushing out that much heat, nor should the underwater 10w LED from mediabaskets.com. Cool, dumping the purigen in chamber 1 now. Thanks for the input, also that rockscape took me 3 hours of playing around before I was finally happy with it. Nice that someone else took notice =D Link to comment
_Mitch_ Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Love the scape! Your salinity is too low though, it should be between 1.024 to 1.026. Link to comment
ninjadik Posted October 13, 2011 Author Share Posted October 13, 2011 I know, the water is straight from the LFS coral display. When I measured the salinity there it was perfect. Then I get home and add it to the dry cube and it dropped that low.. Gonna go back tomorrow and buy some sea salt and fix the salinity. I was going to ask the LFS but I may as well ask here as well. How would I go about raising the salinity? Just dumping salt into the tank or making a mix of higher salinity and doing a partial change? Figured I have time since I am still cycling... Link to comment
ninjadik Posted October 13, 2011 Author Share Posted October 13, 2011 Temperatures finally down to 80.2 with lights on and front lid open. Guess I did get a crappy heater =\ Link to comment
ninjadik Posted October 14, 2011 Author Share Posted October 14, 2011 Temperatures finally down to 80.2 with lights on and front lid open. Guess I did get a crappy heater =\ All my levels are low enough to add a CUC now. What is the most my tank can handle? I plan on adding 5 turbo, 5 ness, and 5 red dwarf hermits since I am getting them free from a friend. What else can I add? I would really like some blue, or electric blue hermits as well as ceriths, couple shrimp, and a emerald and porcelain crab. Oh and a sea star... Is this too much? Edit: I just saw the hermits. They have brownish legs with red tips and red antennae. Are these hermits coral safe? Getting mixed answers on my searches. Link to comment
Felicia Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 All my levels are low enough to add a CUC now. What is the most my tank can handle? I plan on adding 5 turbo, 5 ness, and 5 red dwarf hermits since I am getting them free from a friend. What else can I add? I would really like some blue, or electric blue hermits as well as ceriths, couple shrimp, and a emerald and porcelain crab. Oh and a sea star... Is this too much? I think you can pretty much add as many snails as you want (well except fot the turbos, those can get huge). Reefcleaners.org that a lot of people use on here for their CUC give you a TON of the smaller snails even for a nano tank. As for the hermits, I have 7 in my 10 gallon which seems to be fine. I have scarlets, blue legs, and zebras though, so I don't know about those ones you're talking about. As for the emerald and porcelain carb, I've heard that you should really only have one of the non-hermit crabs per 10 gallons, but that may not be entirely correct. Link to comment
naughty Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 if you're having temp problems now, get used to it, it's not the heater. biocubes are known for heat issues, i have to leave my feeding lid open at all times, and my temp still gets up to 82 by the end of the day on a warmer day. i think that the only way i'll be able to fix it is by putting an led mod in there, but i'd have to be like 500 dollars richer. as for the purigen, yeah it helps, i just stick mine under the chaeto compartment with the chemipure, it all fits in there nicely (i get the small chemipure). Link to comment
ninjadik Posted October 17, 2011 Author Share Posted October 17, 2011 Update with pictures from 10/15/11 Got a bunch of free frags from the LFS who has been helping me setup my Ninjacube... Got some mushroom frags and a leather: Two small zoa colonies: Kenya tree: This next pic is a GSP colony that won't open. After doing a little bit of research, I've noticed people like their GSP on the sand bed because it they take over rocks like weeds. Problem is I can't get it to stay still. I didn't have any extra rocks lying around so I glued it to a empty snail shell to try and anchor it down. How do you guys get the gsp to grow onto the sand bed and not getting blown around? And finally the obligatory full tank shot: Link to comment
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