ReefKeep66
New member
Hello all,
I don't really know where to begin so here we go. I have a 29g oceanic biocube that has been cycling for about 2 weeks. 20lbs of live sand and around 20lbs of live rock. Standard biocube filtration besides a Sr3 CPR protein skimmer i installed today. We'll get back to that in a moment. I have 2 green chroims and a clean up crew. A little early in the game to have livestock but I have a bigger (massive) issue facing me tomorrow morning. Literally. A buddy of mine owns a 75g tank that he's had cycling for around 2 months. He placed an online shipment for corals around a week ago expecting to get them tommorow. He was gone on a trip for 3 days and returned to see that his "sturdy" homemade stand had failed and left his 75g tank on the floor broken. If this wasn't bad enough he has $200 worth of coral coming in tomorrow. He asked me if I could house the coral for him until he got a new set up and running. He had already asked several LFS owners and they said they couldn't do it. So now all the pressures on me. I am worried. Like I mentioned earlier my tank has been cycling for 2 weeks and only today was I able to add my protein skimmer because I had to.order a new pump for it. As of now it is producing a ton of microbubbles in the tank, although I had used the skimmer a year or two before on a previous tank? is this normal? also the bubbles near the collection cup look like fizz from a can of Sprite. I was thinking maybe too much water but I can't get it to go down and only have the collection cup and valve adjustment and neither of.those are seeming to work. So as far as the corals go here is what I am (unfortunately under the circumstances) having to house as of tomorrow, Candy cane frag, frogspawn frag, brain coral frag, pink polyp copernicous, fine grape coral frag, Marshall Island Yellow fuzzy, Torch coral, montipora copernicous. As far as my parameters go temp 78, pH 8.3, Salinity 1.026, and nitrates and nitrites 50 or less. I've been doingdoing water changes and no adding nano reef supplements. I also forgot to mention before I am running a Jbj viper 150w metal halide and changing the bulb to a phenoix hexarc 150w Thursday along with setting up a HOB refugium. I am having trouble keeping water temp stable. Tank heats up almost to 80 when the lights are on and around 77 when their off. That's with a 100w heater on 70. Only heater I have atm. So I guess I'm basically seeking advice on how I should go about this. I know these are some of the.most un-ideal circumstances. I sincerely appreciate any advice or answers you guys can give me. I'm including pictures of the tank and skimmer. Thanks!
I don't really know where to begin so here we go. I have a 29g oceanic biocube that has been cycling for about 2 weeks. 20lbs of live sand and around 20lbs of live rock. Standard biocube filtration besides a Sr3 CPR protein skimmer i installed today. We'll get back to that in a moment. I have 2 green chroims and a clean up crew. A little early in the game to have livestock but I have a bigger (massive) issue facing me tomorrow morning. Literally. A buddy of mine owns a 75g tank that he's had cycling for around 2 months. He placed an online shipment for corals around a week ago expecting to get them tommorow. He was gone on a trip for 3 days and returned to see that his "sturdy" homemade stand had failed and left his 75g tank on the floor broken. If this wasn't bad enough he has $200 worth of coral coming in tomorrow. He asked me if I could house the coral for him until he got a new set up and running. He had already asked several LFS owners and they said they couldn't do it. So now all the pressures on me. I am worried. Like I mentioned earlier my tank has been cycling for 2 weeks and only today was I able to add my protein skimmer because I had to.order a new pump for it. As of now it is producing a ton of microbubbles in the tank, although I had used the skimmer a year or two before on a previous tank? is this normal? also the bubbles near the collection cup look like fizz from a can of Sprite. I was thinking maybe too much water but I can't get it to go down and only have the collection cup and valve adjustment and neither of.those are seeming to work. So as far as the corals go here is what I am (unfortunately under the circumstances) having to house as of tomorrow, Candy cane frag, frogspawn frag, brain coral frag, pink polyp copernicous, fine grape coral frag, Marshall Island Yellow fuzzy, Torch coral, montipora copernicous. As far as my parameters go temp 78, pH 8.3, Salinity 1.026, and nitrates and nitrites 50 or less. I've been doingdoing water changes and no adding nano reef supplements. I also forgot to mention before I am running a Jbj viper 150w metal halide and changing the bulb to a phenoix hexarc 150w Thursday along with setting up a HOB refugium. I am having trouble keeping water temp stable. Tank heats up almost to 80 when the lights are on and around 77 when their off. That's with a 100w heater on 70. Only heater I have atm. So I guess I'm basically seeking advice on how I should go about this. I know these are some of the.most un-ideal circumstances. I sincerely appreciate any advice or answers you guys can give me. I'm including pictures of the tank and skimmer. Thanks!
