After my biocube 14 sprang a slow leak I decided to upgrade and purchased a biocube 29. I slowly added dry rock on top of the existing rock that was in the biocube 14. Once everything was nice and how I wanted it I realized I was behind the time and needed to upgrade my lighting. I bought a cheap light that did nothing for my corals and made it flush with the hood by drilling a square to match the lights footprint. Once I realized this light was stupid I bit the bullet and bought a new AI prime 16 hd which dramatically changed my tank and I actually noticed after month of coral die off and no growth my Kenya tree frag was growing and opening more than it had before. Furthermore, I had to remove hood to make room for the light which actually made my tank look better. For the filtration upgrade I bought a bashsea mano sump that fit under my stand at Reef a Palooza NY. I hard plumed it to a eshops nano HOB overflow that fit in the third chamber. I forget what return pump I use but it was a tight fit due to the return chamber have a small foot print, I used tubing as plumping for the return. For a while I did have a fuge but the cheato died off an caused me algae issues, I believe this was due to low nutrients for the cheato to feed since I few fish and little waste. I added cheato grow but that increased the algae issue. Everything seems to run fine with little issues on water change I have yet to add a new coral/fish/invert due to the acclimation process and I haven’t had time to make water to replace what I take off. I have recently added tigger pods which seem to either hid in the marine pure block that I have through my sump or got eaten by amphipods that hitchhiked in on a coral. I believe they ate some but not all. I will be adding apex pods as well as feeding phytofeast. I also added a pod hotel I received as a gift, I haven’t noticed any change in pod population although I only added the pods yesterday. As per live stock I have
- clown fish
- yellow watchman goby
- three snails
- blue tuxedo urchin ( my favorite )
- Kenya tree ( as well as frags that were taken from the mother colony)
- zoa frag
- leather finger coral
- nuclear green pallys
- feather duster
- green star polyp frag
- pulsing xienia
-toadstool
- a mushroom frag
- and a torch coral
I also added a mp10wqd ecotech pump
The flow and light upgrade really seem to have changed the way I reef, my corals seem to have really grown to a significant size from what I bought them at. I’ll attach photos of my tank from oldest to newest. I’ll also add photos of some tank inhabitants
- clown fish
- yellow watchman goby
- three snails
- blue tuxedo urchin ( my favorite )
- Kenya tree ( as well as frags that were taken from the mother colony)
- zoa frag
- leather finger coral
- nuclear green pallys
- feather duster
- green star polyp frag
- pulsing xienia
-toadstool
- a mushroom frag
- and a torch coral
I also added a mp10wqd ecotech pump
The flow and light upgrade really seem to have changed the way I reef, my corals seem to have really grown to a significant size from what I bought them at. I’ll attach photos of my tank from oldest to newest. I’ll also add photos of some tank inhabitants