Jeff's Biocube

[jgarcia08]

I have my tank up and running for about 1 month and slowly acclimating corals, i'am downgrading from a 46 bowfront and decided to make a threat for this tank to see the progress in the way.

For the equipment i have:
29 gal Biocube
Light: 2 T5 actinics and a metal halide bulb
Protein Skimmer:Tunze nano protein skimmer (might change it for a hang on back octopus skimmer)
Return pump: Maxijet for the return and a rotary deflector
Circulation: koralia powerhead
Next to come:
I want to put a hand on back refugium and a auto-top off system and thinking of upgrading my powerhead to a mp10.
Will be adding a reefkeeper controler as well.


Livestock:
35-40lbs of live sand.
25-30lbs of live rock.
1 Mangrove plant.
13 different zoanthids colonies.
Green tip forgspawn.
Grenn tip Hammer coral.
Pink tip Hammer with green tentacles.
Dunkens.
Torch coral pink tip bright green base.
2 acan colonies.
Elegance coral. (Its started to look different with small tentacles around 3 weeks ago i have around 2 months with this coral)
1 platinum clownfish.
1 picasso clownfish. They are my baby's i got them when they were 3 months old and now they have grown they are around 9 months i this moment.
2 electric blue hermits.
1 blue hermit.
Next to come:
I want to expand more of my zoanthid garden.

Will be adding more things here and there if everything runs good i might decide to keep my rose if i can detach it from the rock as well as my red shrimp from the other tank if i can catch him, or if i cant get the rose i might put a maxi mini anemone. Hope you guys enjoy this threat, open to any suggestions from you guys thanks for watching and happy reefing.

 

[BarbH]

Looking foward to following along and when you get a chance would love to see some pictures

 

[uall8up]

Welcome to R2R!!! Can't wait to see pics. Sounds like a wonderful list!!

 

[AsphaltPays]

Welcome to R2R sounds like you got a pretty cool cube looking forward to some pics


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[revhtree]

Can't wait to see some pics!

 

[wysiwyg]

welcome to r2r would love to see some pics

 

[jgarcia08]

Pictures

Here is my stand it use to be kind of red oak but i didn't likes the color so i painted the stand black.

This is when the tank was almost done with the cycle.

These pictures are when i added some corals in the tank.

This is my photosynthetic pink gorgonian.

Hammer

Frogspawn

Elegance( it looks kind of weird but when the actinics are on it has longer tentacles)

Torch coral & Clowns-Favorite part of the tank

My baby orange plate

These pictures are just a couple of them that i had in my phone, i will be uploading more pictures hopefully with a better camera.(Enjoy)

 

[wysiwyg]

wow looks very nice ty for sharing

 

[MarineDepot]

Nice nano build. The hardware you have seems like a good setup. Keep the pictures coming!

Chris R.

 

[jgarcia08]

Nice nano build. The hardware you have seems like a good setup. Keep the pictures coming!

Chris R.

Will do thanks for your comments.

 

[josh4107]

looks like your off to a great start! love those clowns and that baby plate coral. I have a smaller orange plate as well and its one of my favorite corals. love to watch it eat!

 

[jgarcia08]

UPDATE
Equipment added:
reefkeeper elite.
HOB octopus protein skimmer.
Livestock added:
Orange plate
Green plate as well.
Also a couple of shrooms added i beleave its a green stripe a superman shroom and a green/blue shroom.(Pictures coming soon when i can catch all of my light on in my tank lol. thanks for watching.

 

[jgarcia08]

looks like your off to a great start! love those clowns and that baby plate coral. I have a smaller orange plate as well and its one of my favorite corals. love to watch it eat!

Yea they are awesome i stare at my tank for hours lol. thanks for the feed back

 

[revsgirl]

Looks great!!

 

[jgarcia08]

Update

Livestock added:
I added some raptor raimbow polys.
mummy eye chalice (around 2 eyes)
Couple other zoas that i dont know the names.
I will be uploading some pictures of the new corals as well as the whole setup.

These are my Dendros, its kind of weared because i thought that these corals were going to die on me because they didnt open for about 2 months. Now they are way open and i feed them almost daily.

These are my Dunkens, they are only three heads at the moment, i feed these guys weekly or when ever they catch any food when i feed my dendros.

This is one of the picture that shows the whole tank.

Thanks for watching

 

[cdrewferd]

Tank looks really good. Those clowns seem to be happy as the only fish in the tank.

 

[Tank2379]

Man I miss my 10G nano... Get build and great selection of corals...

 

[JasonM38401]

Tank looks great

 

[jgarcia08]

Update

Here i bring you guys another update of my biocube.
Livestock-
1 Flasher wrasse (Awesome fish)
2 Banggai cardinal (These guys were not paired up but they seem to get along fairly well they swim right next to each other so its all good for now)
1 royal gamma (all purple)

Love to see all of the fish get along really well no aggression what so ever so iam happy with the decision of fish i made. I'am thinking of getting 1 or 2 additional fish to the list and it will be nice if i hear from you guys, iam open to any suggestions.
-Coral pictures

 

[jgarcia08]

Fish Update

Thanks for looking