My Biocube 32 LED journey

[Bigmar75]

Thank you

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[reefried bean]

I had a little run in with the law of gravity on my motorcycle a couple weeks ago si I have been away from this forum but I wanted to update on my BC29 progress. I have been able to get most of the levels where I need them between water changes and the 2 part dosing and my fuge is growing cheato so that seems to be going ok. I have been able to get my phosphates down under .1 but I am still getting hair, bubble and slime algae growth at a manageable but still frustrating level. So I have decided to add a Phosban reactor to the system. I should have it up and running in the next day or so and will keep you posted on how that does. I have to modify the cover to install it and it's not as attractive as I wish since it will be mounted on the side (my tank is too close to the wall to mount it behind and I am not going to attempt to move it. My nitrates still register slightly and may have actually increased slightly when I made the transition from CP Elite & Purigen to just CP Blue (needed space in compartment 2 for the fuge). I will wait and see what happens with the reactor before I make any other changes though.

 

[Smoke Inator]

Crap, sorry to hear...I went from motorcycles to corvettes when i had kids.

 

[Joshnieder216]

Yup that sucks about the bike. I also gave mine up when I got married and bought my first house, was shopping around again when we found out the baby was on the way. Settled for a 4 door wrangler with a car seat in the back. Glad your ok though, those things are dangerous! 23 yr old me would kick my *** for saying that.


"Yea, well, that's like, your opinion man" -The Dude

 

[TOOMANYFISH]

Very nice tank and I know that law of gravity all too well lol
Speedy recovery

 

[reefried bean]

I have been staying off of this forum because I am in the midst of a full and frustrating algae bloom of both hair and red slime. Struggling with phosphates and nitrates. I installed a phosban reactor last week but it had no immediate effect and I resorted to blacking out the tank for 72 hours before the algae overran my corals. Last night I did a 30% water change and I turned the lights on for the first time today. Also reducing the full spectrum lights from 8 hours to 6 hours. After the water change my parameters are:

Phosphates = .05
Nitrates = .10
Specific Gravity = 1.025
PH = 8.3
Magnesium = 1280
Calcium = 430
Alkalinity = 10.2

The slime algae all but disappeared in the blackout but the hair algae only diminished some. I scraped off what I could from the live rock but there is still a fair amount remaining. Hoping to starve it of phosphates soon. I am running both phosban reactor and now I have added Phosgen to the filter media for a couple days to see if that gets the phosphates down. The good news is the corals all seemed to survive during the blackout. Frustrated but gonna win this game.

 

[Cailybsdad]

I was wondering how adding the 1 truelumen light helped your corals. I just set up my tank a week ago. (Not my first reef tank) I am looking for cheaper options then Steve's led but still keeping my canopy stock looking. Was thinking of adding 2 I'd I could fit them actually.

 

[reef cuber]

I have the same tank and I'm having some issues with cyano. I am sure there is something I'm doing wrong, but I'm also looking into what others are doing with their bio systems. Do you guys have any photos of your filtration set ups, or even a rough drawing so I can get an idea? I may have to rethink mine.

 

[Kirkkp]

How are the TrueLumen LEDs working? Do you have pictures yet?