Leeroy32080
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Hi all this is my first thread on this site. Have posted reply's in the past but first thread I have started . Here is my little bio cube 14
I started my first reef in a fluval spec V here is an early pic of it:
Anyway I ran that tank for a year before a friend of mine told me he was going to give me his bio cube. He had a red slime bloom that got out of control and wiped out his corals. It broke his heart and couldn't start from scratch. With his cube I got a falco hawkfish which is a current inhabitant in my cube.
To the spec:
In back,
I replaced the back filter pump which was an aqua euro sp-160 with an hydor centrifugal pump 300gph which fits nicely in the pump area.
For machanical filtration I am running a small square of filter floss prior to a foam block.
Chem filtration, I am using fluval clearmax, followed by activated carbon, and finally purigen
I have a 100w preset heater that is connected to an inkbird temp regulator
In front I have a pair of hydor koralia nano 240's connected to a koralia smart wave controller.
My lighting is an AI Prime on a 12" flex neck mount.
I used fluval sea epoxy putty to seal off the bypass vents on the left there and made a nice little ledge for some coral once I find something to my liking to put there. The only live thing I kept from my friends tank was the falco hawkfish as I don't want any of the issues that wiped his tank to repeat.
I transferred over all my love rock and added a couple pieces of dry rock that I still had lying around worked great for a build up. I also transferred about 90% of the water from my 5g to and used a filter bag with some of my substrate in the filter compartment to help with bacteria colonization.
I started my first reef in a fluval spec V here is an early pic of it:
Anyway I ran that tank for a year before a friend of mine told me he was going to give me his bio cube. He had a red slime bloom that got out of control and wiped out his corals. It broke his heart and couldn't start from scratch. With his cube I got a falco hawkfish which is a current inhabitant in my cube.
To the spec:
In back,
I replaced the back filter pump which was an aqua euro sp-160 with an hydor centrifugal pump 300gph which fits nicely in the pump area.
For machanical filtration I am running a small square of filter floss prior to a foam block.
Chem filtration, I am using fluval clearmax, followed by activated carbon, and finally purigen
I have a 100w preset heater that is connected to an inkbird temp regulator
In front I have a pair of hydor koralia nano 240's connected to a koralia smart wave controller.
My lighting is an AI Prime on a 12" flex neck mount.
I used fluval sea epoxy putty to seal off the bypass vents on the left there and made a nice little ledge for some coral once I find something to my liking to put there. The only live thing I kept from my friends tank was the falco hawkfish as I don't want any of the issues that wiped his tank to repeat.
I transferred over all my love rock and added a couple pieces of dry rock that I still had lying around worked great for a build up. I also transferred about 90% of the water from my 5g to and used a filter bag with some of my substrate in the filter compartment to help with bacteria colonization.
