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Biocube 14 boujee on a budget build


Ummwhy

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Chamber 1

(false floor removed)

100w glass heater

Stock Biocube Protein Skimmer

 

Chamber 2

PhosGuard

Chemipure Elite

Filter Floss

Custom 3d Printed filter ABS

 

Chamber 3

Cobalt MJ1200 (inline with chaeto reactor)

Zacro LCD Digital Aquarium

 

 

Main tank

Hydor Flo

Nature’s Oceans #0 Live sand 20lbs

Live rock 10lb

1 Astrea Snail

2 Blue Leg Hermits (small)

2 Turbo Snails

2 Torches Snails

4 Scarlet reef hermits

15 nassarius snails small

Tigriopus & Tisbe Copepods (also in the chaeto reactor)

1 Clownfish

 

 

Chaeto Reactor

Amphipods

Chaeto

AquaTop Media Reactor

 

Hood

Gutted and replaced with 30w led lights

 

 

 

 

I have a mixing station for weekly water changes.

 

Tub 1 (mixing tub)

RODI Water

Heater

Corner Filter

IO Reef Crystals

96gph pump (mixing the salt around)

2 barb spigots

 

Tub 2 (ummwhy version of live saltwater lol)

10lbs of live rock

5 pounds of live sand

Mangrove seedling

Free floating chaeto

Copepods

Powerhead with air bubbles

1 Red Leg Cortez Hermit

 

 

1 Gallon Changes

Tub 1 —> Tub 2 —> Main Tank

 

 

Things I've found to be helpful... 

 

Harbor Freight Battery Operated Liquid Transfer Pump $10 dollars

Medical IV drip kits are cheap

 

 

 

Future Projects

 

  • Temp, ATO, and Lighting Automation (reefpi, z-wave, esp8266, etc)
  • Digital readouts Temp, salinity, on a LCD display

 

 

 

Hello everyone!

 

So I got this biocube for Christmas, took a month to realize anything under 30 gallons is a masochist’s wet dream no pun intended lol. I’ve been taking pictures, and keeping notes of mods just in case someone would like to do the same.

 

I did have some questions…

 

Lighting cycle, Whats the optimal time window, and length under 450nm. Does lighting affect ph? if so whats the best time to do water test?

 

I would like to get a green and purple frogspawn, can’t seem to get it local! I’m in central PA!. Hopefully I can get that clown to host it. Any coral recommendations for this size tank?

 

 

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Christopher Marks

Welcome to the community @Ummwhy! 👋

 

You're off to a great start with your BioCube nano reef, lots of cool mods already it sounds like. Great aquascape, you'll have lots of nice places for mounting coral.

2 hours ago, Ummwhy said:

Things I've found to be helpful... 

 

Harbor Freight Battery Operated Liquid Transfer Pump $10 dollars

This sounds interesting, I'll have to look that one up. What do you use it for most?

 

Looking forward to seeing your future projects!

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