Barry's 29gal Coralife BioCube

[\Clownfish/]

Wow! How bright colored those sun corals are. Barry are sun corals hard to keep?

 

[BarryV]

Wow! How bright colored those sun corals are. Barry are sun corals hard to keep?

ClownFish, Sun Coral are easy to keep, but they require a little extra work.
They should be fed at least 5 time a week. I feed mine after the lights are out and the Sun Corals polyps are open. You also have to feed every polyp.
Barry

 

[soulpatch]

What are you feeding your corals?

 

[BarryV]

What are you feeding your corals?

The sun coral I feed, mysis shrimp and brine shrimp.
The others I feed reef chili.
Barry

 

[soulpatch]

gotcha. I am using coral frenzy, marine snow, and a mix of brine or mysis shrimp lately with decent results.

 

[BarryV]

Five Month Photo

Five Month Photo

Hi All,
My BC is five month old this month.
Barry

 

[Jonathan1992]

What kind of lights are you using?

 

[BarryV]

What kind of lights are you using?

Nanobox LED retro kit
26 Full spectrum LED array with Storm Controller
Barry

 

[BarryV]

Rescaping

Rescaping

Hi All,
Well Friday is water change day for me. So I decided to do a little
rescaping. Here is a before and after. I have not made up my mind yet.
What do you think?
Barry

 

[\Clownfish/]

I like the second rescaping since it gives your fish more room to swim up top and around the corals.

 

[soulpatch]

I am torn. The second gives more swimming room but has no cave and looks to be less room for future corals. I don't think you can go wrong with either choice though and since you just DID the second one leave it like that for a bit.

 

[Menedu]

In my opinion I like the balance of the After photo!

 

[BarryV]

New Coral

New Coral

Hi All,
I just received my order from Unique Corals a couple of hours ago. I picked up four new corals. Here is just sneak peek. The photo is a Pink Damicornis coral.
It took me an hour or so to acclimate and dip them. The others are no where near fully open yet.
Barry

 

[soulpatch]

Very nice

 

[JakeK]

Barry, this is a great inspiration for me. My BC29 is cycling right now and it's my first SW tank so I'm extremely green. I'll be following.

 

[BarryV]

JakeK as I am a noob myself all I can say is TAKE YOUR TIME. I let my tank cycle a full month.
Barry

 

[homer1475]

JakeK as I am a noob myself all I can say is TAKE YOUR TIME. I let my tank cycle a full month.
Barry

As a noob myself, I can second this. Nothing in this hobby happens fast, except tank crashes from going to fast to begin with.

 

[BarryV]

Six Month Photo

Six Month Photo

Hi All,
Here is my six month photo, all seems to be going well.
Barry

 

[CafeReef]

Looks fantastic, I have a almost 2 month old aquatop 21 cube and did the nanobox retro as well, but witha bluefish controller. Love the look of your tank. Looks very healthy

 

[BarryV]

Thanks CafeReef for the nice comment. And yes the nanobox light are GREAT.
Barry