NC28 HQI Build Thread

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BarryRey

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Joined the club like quite a few others and got a NC28 HQI for Christmas. Thought I would get back into the hobby after taking a break for about three years or so. The NC28 club thread has been great, takes awhile to get through it all.

Equipment:
- JBJ NanoCube 28G HQI
- Maxi-Jet 1200's (replaced stock return pumps)
- Hydor Flo's on returns
- Koralia Evolution 750 in display
- Jager 100w heater
- InTank Media Basket (top filter floss, middle Chaeto (after cycle), bottom Chemipure Elite)
- JBJ Nano Glo Fuge Light
- 30 lbs of Marco Key Largo Nano rocks, seeded with 5 lbs of live rock
- 20 lbs of Nature's Ocean live sand
- JBJ ATO, Tom's Aqualifter

Few pictures of the rock scaping.

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Really not sure. Possibly start off with some ricordeas on the lower rock, I've always liked a nice patch of GSP. Eventually once the tank matures I would like to try a crocea clam.
 
Updates with Pics

Updates with Pics

Starting to add a few things.
- few turbos
- Yellow Headed Sleeper Goby
- Purple/Blue Mushrooms
- Yellow Colony Polyps
- Hairy Mushroom
- Green Candy Cane

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The rockwork is great, Im waiting to receive my 28g hqi from fostersmith.com and look forward to seeing it evolve!
 
Not running a skimmer at this time, mine didn't come with the stock one. Will see how it goes with just weekly water changes.
 
BarryRey said:
Not running a skimmer at this time, mine didn't come with the stock one. Will see how it goes with just weekly water changes.
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nice, I'm planning on running a remora on mine when I get it. You never answered me about the InTank basket
 
Sorry about that PRM. The stock media basket doesn't even compare to the one from InTank. Their customer service is also awesome. I am running a piece of Pura Filtration pad in the top chamber, cheato in the middle (JBJ Nano Glo LED), and Chemi-pure Elite in the bottom. Don't have any overflow form the middle chamber to the two adjacent ones. I am tempted to try running both pumps at the same time, would have to add more water. Right now just running one at a time with the wavemaker. Saw one thread where someone said you do get a back siphon on the pump that's not running which means you have water not always making the pass down your media chamber. I tried both pumps when doing my leak test but it seem to get some overflows plus it raises the level in the display.

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Tank look very nice.

How are you temps? Does the HQI kick it up, if so how are you managing the heat?
 
I added the dual Azoo fans, have them over the back chambers. It now goes no higher than 79.9. Of course our house is only around 72. Before the fans it was getting close to 83.
 
Jman13, here was my reply from the post with the pictures of the media basket:

"I am tempted to try running both pumps at the same time, would have to add more water. Right now just running one at a time with the wavemaker. Saw one thread where someone said you do get a back siphon on the pump that's not running which means you have water not always making the pass down your media chamber. I tried both pumps when doing my leak test but it seem to get some overflows plus it raises the level in the display."

I will probably try that this weekend and let you know my results. I did upgrade the pumps to the MJ1200's.
 
i was running both mj1200's and it raised the water level in the tank above the rim, just keep an eye on it.
 
BarryRey said:
Sorry about that PRM. The stock media basket doesn't even compare to the one from InTank. Their customer service is also awesome. I am running a piece of Pura Filtration pad in the top chamber, cheato in the middle (JBJ Nano Glo LED), and Chemi-pure Elite in the bottom. Don't have any overflow form the middle chamber to the two adjacent ones. I am tempted to try running both pumps at the same time, would have to add more water. Right now just running one at a time with the wavemaker. Saw one thread where someone said you do get a back siphon on the pump that's not running which means you have water not always making the pass down your media chamber. I tried both pumps when doing my leak test but it seem to get some overflows plus it raises the level in the display.
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hmm, Ive heard nothing but good things about it! If you figure out any tricks to get both pumps running simultaneously let me know :thumbsup:
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I am not real sure. There are only four LEDs in it. It does look like it bleaches the cheato right at the spot of the light, nothing major. The nice thing is that it doesn't throw very much light into the room being it is right up next to the glass. The magnet is in the chamber where the stock skimmer would normally be (you can kind of see it in the picture). When I get home I can measure the thickness of the light along with feeling the back of it to see how warm it gets. It will be a few hours before the light kicks in.
 
Thanks I appreciate it. It will be running it either 16 or 24 hours a day so I would hate for it to melt a hole in the skimmer body. :lmao:
 
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