Biocibe owners!

[Kfox93]

Hello everyone,
For all of you Biocube owners 14 or 29 gallon, why modifactions have you made to your tank? Lights, pumps, filters, media baskets, equipment used, etc? Just curious to see what everyone else is doing to their tank.

 

[Joeganja]

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[NanoKaren]

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Thank you!!

 

[NanoKaren]

Hello everyone,
For all of you Biocube owners 14 or 29 gallon, why modifactions have you made to your tank? Lights, pumps, filters, media baskets, equipment used, etc? Just curious to see what everyone else is doing to their tank.

Hi, I have a thread on all equipment and maintenance. Just click on my started threads if you'd like to check it out.

 

[ahiggins]

You can do a lot actually Ive never had one but people modify literally everything lol from a bigger/smaller return and different filtration stuff all the way up to modding new/different lights

 

[Holy_makerel]

Done quite a few mods to my 32 biocube.

Removed hood, got a glass cover cut to fit the display and leave the back open.

Added 16" SB reeflights wifi

AquaMaxx HOB1 protien skimmer intake and return in first chamber.

Fuge light with cheato and rubble in media bags in the center compartment.

Drilled out flow restrictor in the pump to increase gph.

2 mp10s for in tank flow set to reefcrest at 30% power.

Setup a gallon jug above tank to drip kalk (not the prettiest but it helps with stabilization)

Mixed reef up for just about a year.

 

[Smoke Inator]

32 here...MP10, IM desktop reactor running rox and gfo, intank media basket running as fuge with FF and cheato, tunze ato, AL115 skimmer(magnet mod & airline tube mod), seneye (i'm a geek), apex jr arriving shortly, nanobox retro+m lights (i was Dave's first for the 32)
slowly adding corals. 2 clowns, goby, and a wrasse.

 

[cromag27]

Rapid led kit, silent fans and I covered the lower slots that drain to the back chamber.

 

[Kfox93]

Thanks everyone for all of the replys!

 

[Holy_makerel]

Rapid led kit, silent fans and I covered the lower slots that drain to the back chamber.

Yes! i covered about 80% of the bottom drain as well. Otherwise you don't get much surface skim happening

 

[izzyishh]

Removed top added a360we kessil , Finnex heater love love it, and a jebao wp10 for more flow do water changes weekly or biweekly been up for a while. Tank is 85% LPS 14% softs and 1% sticks lol hight nutrient tank. Dont have a full tank shot but heres some of my acans

 

[Kfox93]

Yes! i covered about 80% of the bottom drain as well. Otherwise you don't get much surface skim happening

What's the benefit of covering the bottom drains? Can you explain surface skim?

 

[Kfox93]

Removed top added a360we kessil , Finnex heater love love it, and a jebao wp10 for more flow do water changes weekly or biweekly been up for a while. Tank is 85% LPS 14% softs and 1% sticks lol hight nutrient tank. Dont have a full tank shot but heres some of my acans

What's your lighting schedule? What do you love some much about the Finnex heater?

 

[hyde7278]

Biocube 29- mj1200 return pump, removed top and use a 24" black box light, pp-4 wave pump, use filter floss on top of egg crate in second chamber, loc line split return.

Future mods- diy media basket and fuge basket and blocking off lower intake.

 

[Kfox93]

Biocube 29- mj1200 return pump, removed top and use a 24" black box light, pp-4 wave pump, use filter floss on top of egg crate in second chamber, loc line split return.

Future mods- diy media basket and fuge basket and blocking off lower intake.

What's the purpose of people wanting to block off the bottom intake?

 

[cromag27]

Creates more flow through the top slots, which skim the surface.

 

[Mushroom Boy]

What are you using to cover the bottom drain? Do you have to moderate the return pump to avoid overflows, or can the top drain alone accommodate?

 

[Reeferguy365]

not to a lot of mods I put live rock in the back instead of Bio balls big bag of carbon bigger water pump for more flow and a 155watt led light with 3 watt LEDs way too strong it's running at 10% on white and blue it doesn't actually look purple like that phone won't take a good pic

 

[Kfox93]

not to a lot of mods I put live rock in the back instead of Bio balls big bag of carbon bigger water pump for more flow and a 155watt led light with 3 watt LEDs way too strong it's running at 10% on white and blue it doesn't actually look purple like that phone won't take a good pic

Nice tank man. What coral is that in the back right? The large one.

 

[Reeferguy365]

It's a toadstool leather Coral