10 gallon leak

[FishMachine]

A week ago my 10 gallon nano was leaking while I was not home. The leak was in the middle of the aquarium so my clownfish is alive but everything else is dead.I took my clownfish and my lfs is taking care of it. I am picking up a 12 gallon nanocube today. Any ideas for the 12 gallon? Any recomendations?

 

[TonyGee29]

my friend has a 12 gallon nano cube
you could ask him his name is HartfordWhalers

 

[FishMachine]

thanks, also does anybody know anything about vibrant reef salt. Im curing my lr with it and i get exactly 1.024 every time with no ajustments. I use a portable refractometer.

 

[HartfordWhalers]

buy new lights for the nano before anything and also get a heater and a new pump

 

[FishMachine]

why do you think i should get new lights? I just got the 12 gallon deluxe.

 

[FishMachine]

i think im going to get the minijet 606

 

[aural]

DX lighting is perfectly fine for soft corals and some LPS.

Instead of the minijet, get yourself a maxijet 900. I had a minijet 606 in my cube and it really wasnt much better than the stock pump. the 900 was perfect.

 

[FishMachine]

thanks

 

[FishMachine]

can i add water to the cube with live sand while my lr is cureing?

 

[FishMachine]

anybody

 

[Agu]

Don't see why you can't run the cube with saltwater and live sand .

It'll give you a chance to check out the flow and get used to how it's supposed to be running.

 

[FishMachine]

i just upgraded to a mj 900

 

[FishMachine]

when i put the mj 900 in, i cant use the surface skimmer because it makes the mj run dry eventually.

 

[Agu]

If you're pulling water out of the tank that fast a surface skimmer shouldn't be necessary.

However, depending on the corals you want to keep, the flow might be too much.

 

[FishMachine]

the flow really isnt that strong

 

[FishMachine]

Should i add my uncured lr to cycle? Many people are telling me to do that.

 

[aural]

i always cycle my uncured rock in the tank it is going to be used in. you can get it in the tank and try a bunch of different aquascape designs and if you need to add a piece or 2 of rock its much better to do it at this point than down the road. I'd say heck yah get some rock in there too

and about the surface skimmer thing - you absolutely CAN use the surface skimmer. the only thing is that the water is then taken out of the sump area. if you dont use the surface skimmer -water evaporates and the display and sump area level. with the surface skimmer water evaporates and it makes up the difference in your display with water from the sump area. You just need to keep an eye every couple days on the sump and fill it up with RO/DI or distilled water. My nanocube can go about 5 days w/o running dry but i try and add top off water daily. (but it is in my office so it has to make it through weekends)

 

[FishMachine]

thanks My lr container has ammonia nitrite and nitrate at 0 bu my ph is low. It is 7.6.

 

[FishMachine]

also, how uncured is it when you put it in, is it fresh from the uncured bin in the store?