60 Gallon Cube Build
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Arkayology
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If you want to speed up the cycle, you should try out a bottle of Dr. Tim's One and Only. I hear it works well and you can add livestock right away.
Great job man. Very nice build. I like how you squeezed everything in there so neat.
I bought the Cadlights Cube too. I also am working on a diy led build. I think the optics will help contain the light a lot better. Hope I can get it to look so clean looking as yours. Can't wait to see how yours turns out.
I bought the Cadlights Cube too. I also am working on a diy led build. I think the optics will help contain the light a lot better. Hope I can get it to look so clean looking as yours. Can't wait to see how yours turns out.
Thanks... Careful planning and instaling the gear in the right order is the key. The only thing that is really not accessable is the holding tank. So if that pump goes bad I need to remove alot.
Yes, I was told by Bill at reeflights.com to not use optics, but I think I am gonna get some. at least for the outer perimeter of LED's
VoiceInTheDeser
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I've not seen such a compact, yet neat setup before. Very cool build.
Thanks... Ideas on RC threads helped...
Mr.Tan
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great build thread and nice looking tank!
How long have the chromis and wrasse been in the tank? I had two green chromis, they hid for the first day or two but then once they were comfortable they were out swimming around, mostly stuck towards the top region of the tank. The wrasse I had was very scared all the time, he was always hiding.
How long have the chromis and wrasse been in the tank? I had two green chromis, they hid for the first day or two but then once they were comfortable they were out swimming around, mostly stuck towards the top region of the tank. The wrasse I had was very scared all the time, he was always hiding.
The chromis were friendly in the QT until they started dropping like flies... The last two were afraid of each other. They have been in the tank for a week now. The one hides up at the top back nose down and all discolored but comes out to feed and his colors correct in a few seconds...
The other one hid hard for a day. He now associates me with food so he hides in the main cave and comes out when he sees me (kind of).
The wrasse i got yesterday and haven't seen him since. I have read several threads in other forums where people said they hid for the first 3 days to a week before they came out.
He was the most social in the tank at the LFS... go figure. In a week I will declare him $22 crab food.
Well put my firts corals in today (frogspawn, GSP and eagle eye). 55 days old and all the parameters thatshould be zero are zero... Calcium and akl are perfect.
Cheato wont grow with zero nitrates but we should all have that complaint. Bought a RSM Pro Nitrate kit just to be sure I was not getting bogus readings...
Tons of pods but I noticed two isopods. Not sure of they are the harmful kind or not. I see them both day and night. I am told the band kind of isopod will only come out at night...
Cheato wont grow with zero nitrates but we should all have that complaint. Bought a RSM Pro Nitrate kit just to be sure I was not getting bogus readings...
Tons of pods but I noticed two isopods. Not sure of they are the harmful kind or not. I see them both day and night. I am told the band kind of isopod will only come out at night...
60 Day FTS
60 Day FTS
Well, its been 60 days. Everything is good as far as parameters go. I did have high alk for a while.
No coraline yet...strange because it is growing on the seed rock. I did a bunch of scraping a month ago...
I need to expand the cleaning crew though. The 4 hermits and 3 turbos are not keeping up... just a few patches of slimy alge hear and there and some on the sand... I am gonna expand the crew today. Probably an emerald crab and a few smaller snails...
I bought a Gama 15w UV Sterilizer on ebay cheap... I may hook it up tucked inside the back of the canopy and put it on the apex to run it on a schedule...
60 Day FTS
Well, its been 60 days. Everything is good as far as parameters go. I did have high alk for a while.
No coraline yet...strange because it is growing on the seed rock. I did a bunch of scraping a month ago...
I need to expand the cleaning crew though. The 4 hermits and 3 turbos are not keeping up... just a few patches of slimy alge hear and there and some on the sand... I am gonna expand the crew today. Probably an emerald crab and a few smaller snails...
I bought a Gama 15w UV Sterilizer on ebay cheap... I may hook it up tucked inside the back of the canopy and put it on the apex to run it on a schedule...
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The Punisher
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Great looking build so far. Can't wait to see this one mature.
Video of Rock Work
Video of Rock Work
Well here is a video of the rock work. Basically 3 pieces of BRS eco rock on a bed of branch rock... Then 3 pices on top with a tennis ball size hole on all 3 sides...I gets pretty good flow all the way through...
http://youtu.be/KEwzQt85pVk
Video of Rock Work
Well here is a video of the rock work. Basically 3 pieces of BRS eco rock on a bed of branch rock... Then 3 pices on top with a tennis ball size hole on all 3 sides...I gets pretty good flow all the way through...
http://youtu.be/KEwzQt85pVk
Well I am questioning my use of no optics. When I go to the LFS their tanks do not looked as washed out as mine does. I think the wide spread of light is lighting up too much of the glass and the black back and kind of washing it all out. Mi actual LED's are only about 4" above the water protected with a plaxi splach screen. Should I go with the 60 degree optics?
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