29 Biocube

[dennis5546]

I bought a used 29 gallon Bio cube in April 2011 off craigslist for my office. It was 2 years old, so I replaced all the bulbs with new 36 watt compacts. The tank came with a nice stand. I starting of by giving the tank a good cleaning, new sand new filter media. I added 2 stunner strips of led lights for additional lighting. I have a RBTA, Urchin pink

tip frogspawn, Orange tip elegance coral, Zenia, Zoas, and blue mushrooms.

 

[dennis5546]

Here is pics of my lighting and a diagram og my filtration set up.

 

[revhtree]

Looks good!

 

[Sacohen]

Very nice set up.
Elegance may be a bit hard to keep in that setup.
Do you have any additional filtration like a Protein Skimmer?
I see you have a Coral Banded Shrimp.
Those can be trouble.
I had 1 in my 125 that gave me no problems, but I put one in my 55 and he attacked everything.
I saw him grab a cleaner shrimp and just hold onto it until it was dead.
I was having fish disappear at random and when I removed him from the tank that stopped.
I haven't lost a fish since then.

Not saying you will have that problem, but keep an eye on it.

Good luck.

 

[dennis5546]

I have researched Elegance LPS and have discovered some have may issue due to SPS tanks may be too clean for them since they do grow in grass beds. They prefer a tank that’s not so clean so that makes a Biocube perfect. So since it does prefer low light I keep it in the 29 Biocube where it has grown huge over the year. I do have a Protein Skimmer and do water changes Bi-weekly. The Coral Banded shrimp now lives in my 150 tall tank at home. The Elegance coral is very aggressive and needs its room. Thanks

Dennis

 

[revsgirl]

Nice! Thanks for sharing!


Chasing the Dream Giver, not the dream! Tonya

 

[Sacohen]

Your other posts that had the protein skimmer must have popped up as I was typing my response.
The CBS should be much easier to control in the 150. Like I said I never had a problem in my old 125, but when I put 1 on in 55 things started vanishing.