29 gallon biocube

[Kolkri]

Great during the black out my cleaner shrimp died. No idea why. Other then I put some hydra peroxide in the tank before I started the black out.
Going to wait till I do a few water changes to get a new shrimp and crab. May try the boxing crab.

 

[homer1475]

A side effect of peroxide cleaning, its known to kill inverts. Thats why most people do it outside the tank and rinse well before putting it back in the tank. I would watch for your CUC too.

 

[Kolkri]

Grrr ok wont do that again.

 

[Kolkri]

 

[homer1475]

I dont see a whole lot of algae in those pictures. ice looking fish though.

FWIW I had 5 fish in my biocube. Citron clown goby, warpaint goby, neon dottyback, flame angel, and a pair of clowns. I think you would be fine with a couple more small fish.

 

[Kolkri]

I did a black out and there is very little algae left. I can live with it. Besides the CUC needs something to munch on.
I am really enjoying watching the flame hawkfish. He is just so cool. So far he is my most expensive fish. I am up to five fish now.

 

[j_mazzy]

Howdy, I need a little advice. I've never worked with these but I am moving to sps in a tank. I have a rio 8hf that I would like to install to increase the flow size. However the outlet is much larger diameter than the stock pump so I cant use the stock tube (unless maybe I stretch it???). If I go with the correct tube size it wont fit the outlet at the top as it will be too big.

Suggestions?

 

[Kolkri]

I really can't help you. I used the pump that came with the tank and added a power-head on the right side in the tank for more water movement.

 

[j_mazzy]

I have 2 pumps in there as I am going sps HOWEVER, if I can turn more water out through the main pump it should surface skim faster and have much more contact with the chamber media.

 

[Kolkri]

Sounds like you know what your doing. Did not realize SPS needed more filtration. But my stuff is mostly soft with a couple LPS thrown in.

 

[j_mazzy]

I appreciate your willingness to help. I am just assuming that someone here has changed the stock pump and wanted to know what they did for the tubing hook up.

How is your tank running these days?

 

[Kolkri]

Many people do upgrade their stuff. But I am keeping mine as simple as possible. Other then adding the power head I also got superlux for my lights. Oh and I got an ATO seems to make the tank happier with it. No more salt level swings. Good luck with your set up.

 

[homer1475]

I appreciate your willingness to help. I am just assuming that someone here has changed the stock pump and wanted to know what they did for the tubing hook up.

How is your tank running these days?

Sorry for the hijack Kolkri....

The sicce syncra 1.5 is a nice upgrade to the stock pump(just slightly more GPH). Just go to lowes or HD and pickup some 1/2" ID tubing, any will work.

 

[Kolkri]

Not a problem. Glad you had an answer for him.

 

[Kolkri]

My hawkfish died today. Was fine yesterday. But now dead.

 

[Kolkri]

Order some plants. If they take over they take over. But they are suppose to be slow growing except the cheato. Every single day I am pulling out algae and never get it all. Only a couple of corals are growing. The rest never change. So going to add plants.
I got a couple in the back middle space. I got them last week. Cheato and water lettuce. I just have no patience for that ugly algae. So if I am growing plants I want pretty ones.

 

[Kolkri]

I am thinking of moving everything from this tank back to the 14 gallon.

 

[ReefinChicago]

A few questions for you:

A few questions for you:

1. Do you have an updated fts?

2. What are your water parms? The chaeto will help, but you need to give it time. I should've taken a before pic on my Finnex 22. Rocks were covered, floating algae, etc. but my water parms were good, and I wasn't putting a lot of nutrients into the water, so when I pulled the algae and added a CUC it wasn't coming back. My point here is that you have the algae for a reason. Just going back to the 14 without changing husbandry won't help.

3. Have you bumped the water change amount back up? When my old 30 was doing well I was religious about a 10% water change every week. I saw earlier you had to cut back there. If that's an issue, then downsizing would be a good thing.

Good luck with this. Don't give up, keep working on the cause of the algae. Too much food? Stuff dying? If you can work that out you can make this tank work.

 

[Kolkri]

and I did. One to many fish but with five gallons a week water changes it should be alright.

 

[Kolkri]

Resetting this one back up. Well get a couple pictures once it settles. WIsh me luck.