My 93g cube Reef

[LittleBee]

Hey guys! I just joined this site and figured I would start a thread on my cube. How awesome is it that there is a section here dedicated just to cube tanks?! I love it!

It's a marineland cube with a drilled overflow. Overflow was custom made by my lfs. I just wanted a small simple overflow box. The stand is custom made out of oak. My husband and his dad built it for me it houses a 29g Rubbermaid sump. A glass tank won't fit in the stand so I went with the Rubbermaid and so far so good. It's been running a year with no problems. I run a reef octopus skimmer and have a smaller Rubbermaid bin to grow cheato in. Just drilled holes in the sides of the smaller bin so the water can flow through. For lighting I run one kessil a350w for right now. It does fine with one but I want to add more lighting just bc of how my rock scape is. It creates some shadows. I used all dry pukani rock and epoxy and siliconed it all together so I wouldn't have any worries about a rock slide. I do bi weekly water changes of 10%.

For live stock I have

Lyretail hogfish
New Guinea wrasse
Tamarin lined wrasse
Mccoskers flasher wrasse
Melanurus wrasse
Christmas wrasse
One spot foxface
Engineer goby

You can see I like wrasses lol

I want to get a pair of clowns and a small tang eventually.

For corals I have a variety. A few Montis, two Todd's torches, hammer, green nepthia, a couple zoa frags, meat coral, ricordia yumas, couple small acros. I just added my first rose bubble tip anemone yesterday. And I have a maxi mini anemone also. I think that sums it all up for now. I will post a short video I took today with my phone and later I will post some pictures when there isn't a glare from the sun on my tank.

Not sure if I'm allowed to post Youtube videos. If not I'm sorry.

Thanks for looking!

http://http://youtu.be/mxA1Gn9QTGc

 

[Coral Dreams]

Welcome to R2R!!! :wave:

The Youtube link does not work.

 

[LittleBee]

Oh let me fix it!

 

[LittleBee]

Here's the working link. It won't let me edit my original post from the iPhone app.

http://youtu.be/mxA1Gn9QTGc

 

[Coral Dreams]

I have seen your tank on Youtube love it you do need more lighting, all you need is one more Kessil and your set. Again welcome to R2R

 

[LittleBee]

Thanks yes that video my lighting wasn't turned up all the way but I do agree I want to get some more lighting. But I don't want to spend another $500 on it. Thinking of adding supplemental t5s or par38s

 

[DSP]

Awesome tank! I love cubes

 

[LittleBee]

Thank you!

 

[Reef Fever]

Thanks yes that video my lighting wasn't turned up all the way but I do agree I want to get some more lighting. But I don't want to spend another $500 on it. Thinking of adding supplemental t5s or par38s

I am gonna be selling a pair of kessil a350w's soon if youre interested. I will probably sell the pair for $550 or a single for $300. only been used since october

tank looks great btw

 

[LittleBee]

My hubby takes care of the finances so I will have to check with him and see if we can afford it. $300 isn't too bad for one.

 

[LittleBee]

Here's some pics a friend took for me.

 

[LittleBee]

 

[Reef Fever]

My hubby takes care of the finances so I will have to check with him and see if we can afford it. $300 isn't too bad for one.

I still have the original boxes and they've never been past 50% power either

 

[lps1212]

Supplemental t5 would do you just fine IMO I use to run a 6bulb t5 until I bought a Chinese hybrid t5/led fixture and its doing well for my corals I won't get rid of t5 and it would be beneficial in 2 ways 1more par/light and 2nd better coloration out of your corals plus cheapier than buying another fixture

 

[LittleBee]

Everything is doing good with just the one kessil for now so I'm not in too much of a rush for additional night but I do want to add more eventually just to make it more pleasing to the eye and more coral placement options.

 

[nova65ss]

Nice tank!

 

[LittleBee]

Nice tank!

Thank you

 

[LittleBee]

Some pictures I took tonight while doing some maintenance.

 

[LittleBee]

 

[LittleBee]

And my new snowflake clownfish his name is either Drift(husbands idea) or Zippy(my idea bc he hasn't stopped zipping up and down the glass since I put him in!) either way he is adorable! I hope he hosts my RBTA anemone but I'm not getting my hopes up.

http://youtu.be/nw5iodB9MZ4