UofTOrange
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I had a 12 gallon that I got for free years ago and never put into action. It was not up to par so I bought this.
No real improvements yet, but I'm going to try and go skimmer-less for now. At most 2 more fish and maybe a shrimp are going in to go with some coral.
Fish/Inhabitants
2 ocellaris clowns
1 sally light foot crab
CUC
20lbs of live sand and about 15lbs of live rock from the 12 gallon, regular fiji rock and then some new style eco friendly seeded live rock that has a cool purplish color to it. It's more porous but has some cool shapes to it. I tried to build some areas inside the rock they can swim in and out of.
Old tank, after I took everything out
Full tank shot
Left side
Right Side
I read the entire nano cube thread and mostly it seems people have had heat issues with the HQI version. I haven't really seen anyone post about the CF Quad with heat issues. My water was at 84.6 degrees the other day. I live in Texas, AC is always on at 75 degrees and there is no direct sunlight to the tank, though there is light in the kitchen from windows. Nothing added outside of stock right now. The lights were on for a long cycle 6am-8PM, but that's what I ran in my smaller tank before.
No money for a chiller right now. Should I be having this issue with this tank? I bought an extra fan and am going to put it in the canopy, and I can buy the azoo (or is there a better solution since I'm a year back still) if I need to, but would rather not have to have that conversation after spending the amount I already have to get this started.
I shortened my light cycle the last few days and flipped the fans the other way and that's done a bit better it seems. But dang are these fans loud. One of the pumps is significantly louder than the other as well.
No real improvements yet, but I'm going to try and go skimmer-less for now. At most 2 more fish and maybe a shrimp are going in to go with some coral.
Fish/Inhabitants
2 ocellaris clowns
1 sally light foot crab
CUC
20lbs of live sand and about 15lbs of live rock from the 12 gallon, regular fiji rock and then some new style eco friendly seeded live rock that has a cool purplish color to it. It's more porous but has some cool shapes to it. I tried to build some areas inside the rock they can swim in and out of.
Old tank, after I took everything out
Full tank shot
Left side
Right Side
I read the entire nano cube thread and mostly it seems people have had heat issues with the HQI version. I haven't really seen anyone post about the CF Quad with heat issues. My water was at 84.6 degrees the other day. I live in Texas, AC is always on at 75 degrees and there is no direct sunlight to the tank, though there is light in the kitchen from windows. Nothing added outside of stock right now. The lights were on for a long cycle 6am-8PM, but that's what I ran in my smaller tank before.
No money for a chiller right now. Should I be having this issue with this tank? I bought an extra fan and am going to put it in the canopy, and I can buy the azoo (or is there a better solution since I'm a year back still) if I need to, but would rather not have to have that conversation after spending the amount I already have to get this started.
I shortened my light cycle the last few days and flipped the fans the other way and that's done a bit better it seems. But dang are these fans loud. One of the pumps is significantly louder than the other as well.
