Bett
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I've had my biocube for a few weeks short of a year now, and I just thought I'd post some pics of how much it has changed within the time I've had it.
Here's how my tank looked when I first brought it home. It was a jungle of caulerpa and happy aiptasia along with some green mushrooms, BTAs and a tomato clownfish. They all came home with me on a 10 hour drive back from Michigan in the back seat of the car. I didn't expect to bring a tank home on this trip, so I hadn't made any plans for it. I was going on vacation the next week so I had to leave my tank in the care of someone else until I got back.

About 6 weeks later I get back and the anemones were bleached and the tank was completely filled with caulerpa. I did some serious pruning and got my DIY LEDs put together after a couple of months and set up my 5 gallon jar refugium. The anemones never recovered though and I ended up losing them in a dino bloom about 6 months ago.

I finally got myself a skimmer around January which took care of the dino issue. I felt my tank was clean enough by then and ready for some corals, so I got a few frags at the FFM. My only loss was a freebie green slimer branch that RTNed after I moved it around too much since I couldn't get it to stay in place.

Added a new poci frag from PC some weeks after the FFM. It took the place of the green slimer that was at the top left outcropping.

Finally, here is my tank as it sits today. I've added various corals here and there, my rhodactis recently split into two, and everything has been growing nicely. It's the time of year where I'm going to have to leave the tank for another 6 weeks again, so hopefully when I get back the caulerpa won't look like it did a year ago.

Here's how my tank looked when I first brought it home. It was a jungle of caulerpa and happy aiptasia along with some green mushrooms, BTAs and a tomato clownfish. They all came home with me on a 10 hour drive back from Michigan in the back seat of the car. I didn't expect to bring a tank home on this trip, so I hadn't made any plans for it. I was going on vacation the next week so I had to leave my tank in the care of someone else until I got back.

About 6 weeks later I get back and the anemones were bleached and the tank was completely filled with caulerpa. I did some serious pruning and got my DIY LEDs put together after a couple of months and set up my 5 gallon jar refugium. The anemones never recovered though and I ended up losing them in a dino bloom about 6 months ago.

I finally got myself a skimmer around January which took care of the dino issue. I felt my tank was clean enough by then and ready for some corals, so I got a few frags at the FFM. My only loss was a freebie green slimer branch that RTNed after I moved it around too much since I couldn't get it to stay in place.

Added a new poci frag from PC some weeks after the FFM. It took the place of the green slimer that was at the top left outcropping.

Finally, here is my tank as it sits today. I've added various corals here and there, my rhodactis recently split into two, and everything has been growing nicely. It's the time of year where I'm going to have to leave the tank for another 6 weeks again, so hopefully when I get back the caulerpa won't look like it did a year ago.
