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Late to the build thread party so hear it is ;Hilarious


June 23rd 2018 after many tanked episodes and lots of YouTube videos me and my girlfriend decided to go to a local pet store and get some info on keeping a saltwater tank after talking with the owner for a while he offered us a display 32 biocube he was willing to part with $500.00 with everything in it sand corals rocks equipment everything : ( as it looked in the store)
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we took it and so it began lots of research and R2R I decided to completely upgrade the stock biocube
UPGRADES:
JBJ true temp heater and control
JBj fuge nano glow light
Innovative marine mighty jet326 return pump
Intank refugium basket with algae barn refugium starter kit w/ cheato algae
Intank media basket FLOSS,PURIGEN,CHEMIPURE BLUE11oz
Chill solutions csx1 chiller
Jebao pp4 wave maker
Micro ato w/ octoaquatics 1 gall reservoir
Stock led lights probably won’t upgrade hopefully will be upgrading to a Reefer425xl summer 2020
August 2019:
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Current stock list:
2 clowns
1 firefish
1banghi cardinal
1yellow watchman goby
1cleaner shrimp
6 mixed hermit
2 emerald crabs
Recently added from reefcleaners.org-
6 nerites snails
6 nassarius snails
20 dwarf ceriths

Corals:
Elegance
Hammer
GSP
Candy cane
Enchinada acan
Mixed Zoas
Mixed mushrooms
Toxic green palys
Finger leather
Trachyphyllia
Pulsing xenia
Kenya tree
Jack o lantern Leptoseris
Neon green leptoseris
Meteor shower cyphastrea
Was using aqua forest salt but now switched to reed crystals for price reasons
Feed new life spectrum pellets soaked in selcon sometimes brightwell aquatics vitamin c Sunday-Friday
Hikari frozen mega marine cube Saturday’s
1/4 tsp reef roids 24 hours before every water change
4 gal water change every 14days
Test nh3/nh4,no3,no2,ph,kh,po4,ca,mg,I2,k,de and salinity every Thursday
Cheato algae trimmed every 28 days
Purigen,chemipure replaces every 3 months
Filter floss replaced every 3 days
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I have a 16 gallon BioCube. Now I want to add a drawer. Thanks for the idea! Did you add the “L” brackets? This has me thinking... I should add a pull out shelf to the bottom too. Hmm...
 
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I have a 16 gallon BioCube. Now I want to add a drawer. Thanks for the idea! Did you add the “L” brackets? This has me thinking... I should add a pull out shelf to the bottom too. Hmm...
No problem! Let me know how it turns out I did add L brackets top and bottom
 

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