My 60 Cube

Zoonutt

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Well I finally got my tank moved the stand was custom built by my buddy who works in a wood shop,stained and cured by me.So heres the pics hope u like.....

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Tank fresh on the stand.

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Filling her up,I had to use half my old water and half tap,I used prime to remove all the junk out of the tap,I use that new salt,Red sea coarl pro mix,it has 450ppm calcium w/fresh mix so thats cool.

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The subsrate 80 lbs,and aboult 5lbs from my old tank...

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So heres right after I filled her up...

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This is my new filter emperor 400,I plan to get a skimmer soon,powerheds etc..

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Heres my new T5HO, the sundial by current,4 * 24 watt-two 10,000k, 2 460 atintic,Has built in timers and moonlights, Individual reflectors,if u can find one it retails for $200 shipped to your door...

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Heres the tank the next day,still cloudy and it worried me for awhile,using tap water and all....

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There is about 100-150 lbs of live rock in the tank all freestacked w/ no putty,going to be a mixed reef. I am addin two green chromis today to help cycle her,theres alreay crabs and snails in there from before.I wanna put two black perks and a sixline wrasse and whatever other reef safe fish my girl wants,thats all the fish I want in there,Then hopefully alot of zoos,softies,maybe a clam,and a acro or two if T5's will allow for it,dose anyone else keep acros with T5's,Im new to them.....Please all comments are welcome,good, bad, and the ugly.........Enjoy
 
Hello all...Just added some new livestock this weekend....

large moni digi-purple w/blue tips
1 large Monti cap-brown polyps with neon blue rim
1 small Monti cap-neon green
Thanks to bsbarton:)

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3 headed neon greon frogspawn
yellow zoas 12-16 polyps
bright red zoas 25-30 polyps
brown zoas with orange skirt 8-10 polyps
2 green hairy mushrooms
small 1'' gsp frag
Thanks to newbie

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Mini bubbletip thanks to johnos

Eagle eye zoas 10-12polyps, Also added 20 astias snails,5 red leg hermits
Thanks to kees

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Added two fish,a huge gold stripe maroon clown,and a freckeled hawkfish,thanks to 1CARPENTER (jeff)

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(I SUCK AT PICS!) i'll learn tho,none of them do justice trust me!
 
Surfin a reef website from your cell phone,must be addicted,lol,Glad u like the pics,wish I could take better ones cause i have some other sweet things in there I wish i could get a close up of!
 
I'd remove your Bio Wheels, in freshwater systems they harbor bacteria that break down Ammonia and NitrIte into nitrate, however in a SW system your primary means of Biological filtration is in your live rock, The Biowheels if used in a marine environment simply hold Nitrates. What you dont want in a reef tank

Looks good!
 
Thanks Zoonut! I take a look at that site!

As far as the bio-wheels go, I ran some in my penguin for over a year and a half. I had nitrates go way over 60 ppms in January and even with doing 1 20% water change and then daily water changes of 10% for 5 days in a row, I could not get the nitrates to drop below 20 ppms & remain there. They just kept climbing back up. Finally I commited to pulling the bio-wheels and for the first time the nitrates dropped to zero.

IMHO, I would pull the bio-wheel now and save yourself the trouble.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12576239#post12576239 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Zoonutt
i got the sundial at petmountain.com. i thought the bio wheel held benifcial bacteria ......

HOLY COW! Those are great prices on that light and free shipping over $150 to boot! The size I need is out of stock though. What a bummer!
 
That was the drawback for me to,i had to wait about 3 weeks for them to come back in,get set-up with a email notification from the company so u dont miss out.I love the light,and the price makes it even better!!!
 
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