My 14 gallon biocube.

[RICKMAXX17]

I am a beginner in saltwater. I have a 14 gallon biocube reef setup. I have the stock lights and added a 12k LED strip for more shimmer and light for corals. My tank is about 5 months old now.

 

-17 lbs of live rock

-1 bag of live sand

 

LIVESTOCK

-2 ocellaris clown fish ( I plan on taking out soon)

-1 Randall's goby

-1 tiger pistol shrimp

-3 blue legged crabs

-3 red legged crabs

-3 snails

-assortment of zoanthids

- 2 head hammer coral

- 1 blastomussa

-1 lavender mushroom

-assortment of Florida ricordea

 

FILTRATION

-chamber 1- 50w heater

-chamber 2- intank media basket filter floss,purigen,and chemoure elite

-chamber 3- upgraded maxijet 900

 

I do a weekly water change of 2 gallons. I use reef crystals salt mix

 

Does anyone know a trick to loading pictures? It keeps saying file too big to upload

 

Biocube

 

Lavender mushroom

 

Zoanthids

 

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[RICKMAXX17]

Ricordea

[Sunar357]

Some nice corals in there. Looking good, bud.

[RICKMAXX17]

Hammer coral

[RICKMAXX17]

I picked up 3 new zoanthid frags, and a red chalice frag.

[ward827]

Nice tank. Can you post a front FTS? W-

[RICKMAXX17]

FTS 12/26/13

[RICKMAXX17]

 

 

Nice tank. Can you post a front FTS? W-

Nice tank. Can you post a front FTS? W-

[ward827]

Looks really good!

[RICKMAXX17]

My blue tubs started turning brown and closed up. I did a coral rx dip, let rest for a day. Then I did a furan 2 dip for 20 minutes. Here's the zoanthids before the dips

 

Here's the zoanthids after the dips.

[RICKMAXX17]

Picking up some kedds red zoanthids Thursday. I'm basically done adding zoanthids. I did a water change today and everything looks happy. I won then in an a auction

[RICKMAXX17]

Ricordeas

[Nano sapiens]

Looks good! Don't forget to feed those Rics every week or so if you want them to 'multiply and be fruitful'

[RICKMAXX17]

Looks good! Don't forget to feed those Rics every week or so if you want them to 'multiply and be fruitful'

 

What do you feed yours?

[Nano sapiens]

Mysis, brine, flakes, pellets, salmon, oyster, caviar (just kidding about the last one)

 

They'll take any of the regular aquarium fare. If you feed small stuff, they can create a mucus net to capture and the reel it all into the mouth (not many people seem to have seen this, but you can try grinding up some flakes into near powder and give them a blast and watch what happens). For larger chunks, they just point the mouth in the direction and slowly work it over.

 

Best not to over feed. One small pellet or mysis shrimp a week is fine for a standard sized Ric.

[Dramad1]

Looking really good.

[RICKMAXX17]

Mysis, brine, flakes, pellets, salmon, oyster, caviar (just kidding about the last one)

 

They'll take any of the regular aquarium fare. If you feed small stuff, they can create a mucus net to capture and the reel it all into the mouth (not many people seem to have seen this, but you can try grinding up some flakes into near powder and give them a blast and watch what happens). For larger chunks, they just point the mouth in the direction and slowly work it over.

 

Best not to over feed. One small pellet or mysis shrimp a week is fine for a standard sized Ric.

I'm gonna try this. I feed my fish cyclopeze and I'm pretty sure the ricordeas eat it too.

[RICKMAXX17]

Blasto looking good.

[RICKMAXX17]

Just another picture. My goby ands some rics