homer1475's Biocube 29 Build Thread

Hey homer, just read your entire thread! Great stuff!!!
Also just wanted to say with the sun coral, you may not have to take it out every night to feed it, I know a lot of people use a turkey baster, I use a syringe with IV tubing attached to it which gives me a lot of flexibility to squirt food right on to my dendro's mouth and I can make sure each head eats without wasting a bunch of food or water. I usually filly up my syringe with tank water squirt it in a ramekin with frozen food swirl it around and then suck it back up and feed. I feed the bigger pieces with hemostats or tweezers. I usually squirt a little drop around each head and then when it opens just give each head more. I'm sure it's much more time consuming the way I do it but so far it's worked great. I'm really new but maybe this will help you in some way :)
 
Went to Petco last night for some supplies(prime, fish food, etc), and they had an electric indigo dottyback that was absolutely gorgeous!! I fought hard with the wife to wait until the flame angel is out of TTM, but its now in its own bucket going through TTM. You know how it goes, happy wife, happy life!!

Besides if she keeps buying fish, it will force the upgrade much quicker then she wants. :D there is a method to my madness when it comes to the wife.
 
ugh petco fish. Good luck but I would probably go with a longer QT just to be safe...


You need an amazon prime account if you dont have one. Things like prime and such are cheaper then going to petco with their markups...
 
Yes I'll QT longer then normal, already planned to when it came from petco, but so did my flame angel. The one I do go to has an aquatic dept manager that knows their isht, so to speak. Most of the stuff at that particular store is pretty decent.
 
While I don't disagree with you on the linked sumps, for an LFS it's sometimes the easiest and cheapest way to maintain several different tanks, but by no means a good idea or works well in practice.

Now on for some more bad news........

I've noticed the last couple days my one very large zoa colony(well over 100 polyps that grew from 5!!), and all my other smaller colonies have been mostly closed up. Didn't think to much about it, because frankly I've never seen every polyp open at the same time.

While looking around and enjoying my tank, I noticed what looked like a skirt from a zoa moving across the zoa's mat. Upon further investigation I noticed several slug looking things that had a "hairy" back that looked just like the skirts of my zoas. Well you guessed it...Zoa eating nudibranch!!!!!!

After picking about 8 of them off the main colony and a couple here and there on other smaller colonies, they are all open and extended, so at least this is good news.

Since I dip all my corals, I'm not sure where they came in on or from, but I will be diligent in finding them and plucking them from the tank when I do see them. Seems this is the only way to get rid of them.
 
Unfortunately, nothings new. Tank is fully stocked, and running well(apex is the best money I've spent in this hobby) with the exception of a space for a yellow sun coral I have yet to find locally.

Haven't seen any new nudibranch, and my zoas are all open. I do have a flame angel and electric indigo dottyback in QT waiting on their second round of prazipro. 30th of september they can go in the DT.

NoPox is working it's magic(nitrates are down to 12 from well over 100). Phosphates are down to a very comfortable .02ppm.
 
Keep up the good work homer on the nitrates and PO4! I can't wait to see the new fishes added. I went fish shopping this weekend, was about to grab one but it jumped the net and went into the dealer's other tank that was full of LR, so no way of getting it out.

Hopefully the angel is a model citizen after all of this trouble you're going through/have been through.

What is your general impression now of TTM? Easy? too stressful on fishes to be worthwhile? I know I should do it, but I've never been a big practitioner of QT, so shame on me.
 
Way to easy not to do it. I TTM in 5 gallon buckets(only have done small fish), it's so super simple, I'll never buy another fish without doing it. If I had bigger fish and needed like 2 20 or 2 10 gallon tanks to maintain, I could very easily see where its a huge PITA, but I would still do it. Even possibly purchasing a fish that has ich wouldn't bother me.

It's definitely worth the piece of mind knowing I'll never have to worry about ich in my DT ever again. There are way to many other fish diseases to worry about. As far as being stressful, I haven't had any problems and the fish actually seem to be less stressed. If anything I think the fish that I have now and have gone through TTM and QT, seemed to acclimate to the DT better, and much quicker then if I had just dumped them in directly from the LFS. Could just be they were happy to get into a larger tank too. :lolspin:
 
Forgot to mention, my cocoa worm shed one of its crowns last night. No idea why or when, but I looked and it was floating around. Pretty sure the CUC got it, because it's no where to be found today. The worm is still in its tube and extends its other crown, and has grown it's tube probably 1/4 inch, so I have no idea why it shed its one crown.

I have read that they can and will often do it to grow another, but it could also me he's possibly dying. I have cut way back on feeding the tank(trying to get my nitrates in check), so it's a possibility that it's starving and shedding the one crown will help it conserve energy. At a loss on this one, but I will keep and eye on him.
 
homer1475 said:
Way to easy not to do it. I TTM in 5 gallon buckets(only have done small fish), it's so super simple, I'll never buy another fish without doing it. If I had bigger fish and needed like 2 20 or 2 10 gallon tanks to maintain, I could very easily see where its a huge PITA, but I would still do it. Even possibly purchasing a fish that has ich wouldn't bother me.

It's definitely worth the piece of mind knowing I'll never have to worry about ich in my DT ever again. There are way to many other fish diseases to worry about. As far as being stressful, I haven't had any problems and the fish actually seem to be less stressed. If anything I think the fish that I have now and have gone through TTM and QT, seemed to acclimate to the DT better, and much quicker then if I had just dumped them in directly from the LFS. Could just be they were happy to get into a larger tank too. :lolspin:
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Thanks for the reassurance. While I've been preaching it to others :hmm4:, I wasn't planning on getting any more fishes and having to do it... But hearing this, I feel better, and I definitely have the buckets to do it in. The guy I'm buying them from also says he does a copper bath for a few days before they go into his systems (he's a very small vendor and I saw the tanks, so I don't doubt it), but it's just good to know, and I think I'll do TTM just in case.

Thanks!
 
ReefWreak said:
Thanks for the reassurance. While I've been preaching it to others :hmm4:, I wasn't planning on getting any more fishes and having to do it... But hearing this, I feel better, and I definitely have the buckets to do it in. The guy I'm buying them from also says he does a copper bath for a few days before they go into his systems (he's a very small vendor and I saw the tanks, so I don't doubt it), but it's just good to know, and I think I'll do TTM just in case.



Thanks!
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Still trying to learn stuff"¦ what's TTM?
 
If you go tio the new forum there are stickies for new people that are interesting to read and I often go there to review myself
 
soulpatch said:
If you go tio the new forum there are stickies for new people that are interesting to read and I often go there to review myself
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+1000 I reread the stickies from time to time to keep myself in check. Plus reading through the threads in the new to the hobby section you tend to learn quite a bit, and have a lot of your own questions answered without having to start your own thread on every little question you might have.
 
My cocoa worm shed his other crown this morning.

I think I might have stressed him a bit when I was playing with my dosing pump the other day. I'm guessing since I had the pump line in the DT(right over the worm), some of the NoPox got directly dripped on top of him. He is still coming up to the top of the tube(can see his pink flesh in the tube), which from my reading is a good thing, and he will probably just grow another crown. Or it could mean he's dying. Guess I'll find out in the coming weeks whether he shed them from stress, or he's actually dying.
 
I would drip the nopox in chamber 3 with your return pump. tons of agitation and it will disperse throughout your tank.
 
soulpatch said:
I would drip the nopox in chamber 3 with your return pump. tons of agitation and it will disperse throughout your tank.
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That's how its normally setup(actually dripped into second chamber), but since I was playing around with the clamp for the ATO(the NoPox line is zip tied to that also), the NoPox line was directly in the tank. Only a small amount from the end of the tube made it into the tank and onto my cocoa worm, not an entire dose.
 
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