Biocube 29 nano refugium

[kegogut]

Once your ammonia and nitTRITE have been 0 for a few days you should be ready.

As for the goby I do have one. Theyre the best sand cleaner Ive owned. Better than other gobies as they tend to stay close to the sand so they dont dump sand all over your tank. Some will grab a mouth full and swim up to the top,dumping sand on whatever is below them along the way.

I'd like to get another for my nano but I already have a watchman and pistol combo in there and the watchman is kind of aggressive so I dont think it will work out.

 

[MTF7]

Alright if I may ask do you happen to keep like a phytoplankton culture or a pod culture? Or do you just use a refugium?

 

[kegogut]

For my 120 its just a fuge. There seems to be a nice population in there,everytime I take a gander there all over the place in there.

 

[TRENT_G]

I say drill it. Easy and you won't regret that you didn't.

Here is my 29gallon Biocube. Easy and the best thing I could have done.

sump compartment

 

[MTF7]

Nice setup. Does anyone on here have experience with rapidled's dimmable LED's? Or just dimmable LED's in general? I'm looking to upgrade my lights to the BC29 retro dimmable LED but I'm not sure what I exactly need to be able to dim the lights it said something about a reef controller

 

[kegogut]

Some LEDs you need a controller to run and some come with their own. depends on the LEDs and your budget.

 

[MTF7]

Ok as many of you might have read I have just stuck with the 2nd chamber refugium, my tank is about 4 weeks now and is going strong! Just upgraded to LEDs they look awesome! I'm getting just a little bit of diatomes just like on one rock but I'm about to add the clean up crew in a couple days. As for my parameters they are all 0! as for my filtration I only have 1/2 a unit of chemi pure elite and some filter floss the rest is all biological I plan to add purigen and I'm also thinking about buying some media and some bags and putting a mix of ammonia and nitrate and nitrite absorber in there but not sure. I read that the in-tank (not the website) filtration is not that usefull but I am still going to keep my 5g water changes every week or two but I wanted to see about mabe adding a HOB power filter just a thought.

 

[MTF7]

Anyone try a fuge in the 1st chamber with success? There is room (I think) for one of those iRack fuge baskets in there.

One obvious issue would be the back in chamber 1 is solid plastic so you'd have to install the light underwater of above chamber 1...


My 2nd chamber is filled up as well with a media basket and skimmer.

Actually I m thinking about doing this now! I'm thinking about putting a bunch of LRR or even some type of ceramic maybe even chaeto as it takes out nitrates but I also have purigen and it's pretty hard to grow chaeto in a back chamber of a biocube but I might try it! I'll let you guys know how it goes!

 

[GWillings]

The newer Biocubes comes with a basket with room on the bottom to have a refugium. No bioballs with mine what so ever. I plan on running mine like this: Chamber 1 - Coralife skimmer; Chamber 2 - filter floss where the small carbon pack went, then a media bag with carbon, then purigen, then the refugium with cheato and LR rubble; Chamber 3 - heater and return pump. later down the road I plan on adding a small reactor to run GFO and carbon mixed (1/3 GFO to 2/3 Carbon) and having the entire 2nd chamber as a refugium. This is my first attempt at a saltwater tank. The lighting I am going to leave it with the stock LED's for now, but down the road I plan on removing the hood all together and running an AI PRIME HD. As for the ATO, still researching what I want to do for that, but I plan on using a 5 gallon bucket as my ATO reservoir. Corals, I know I will have zoa's in there, was thinking maybe a brain and some other softies. I do need to adjust my lighting times on the hood as the moon light comes on at about 11 pm, and should be coming on a few hours earlier than that. But the ATO I am leaning towards the Osmolater (cant remember how to spell it, but I am sure you get what I am saying, lol).