Noob BioCube 32 LED...

[rockhead51]

Hey all,
Looking for feedback/thoughts (maybe validation? LOL) on my first tank... Pics below.

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[deagan14]

looks very nice, everything looks very healthy and happy. Be careful with the xenia and yellow star polyps they may take over everything else. Are your running everything stock on the tank?

 

[rockhead51]

I'm pretty sure those are clove polyps, not xenia (they don't pulse) but yeah they are growing pretty rapidly.
By yellow star, do you mean all the palys or just that little colony in the sand? (The palys seem to be growing pretty fast and dropping off individual polyps...)
I am pretty much stock, except I run floss instead of the cartridge, then a bag of matrix pebbles, and then some live rock in compartment 2 (heater in 1, and return pump in 3- but I'm hoping to do an ATO in 3 as well.).

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[Ryan Darilek]

Looks great man. I'm on day 4 with the same setup. How are things going now? Any updates?

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[rockhead51]

Ryan, just posted to your thread! Yes, lots of updates. Need to get a current pic, but here goes:
My back chambers are now:
1. Heater and skimmer (the BioCube skimmer isn't the greatest, but it is cheap, fits well, and does pull some nastiness).
2. In the stock rack: floss, then Purigen, then carbon matrix, then PhosGuard, then 2 bags of ceramic matrix.
3. Stock return pump, Smart ATO (both sensor and fill tube).
I'm also running a Sicce Voyager 2000 powerhead for more flow in the display.
I have 2 clowns, a cherub angel, and a goby/tiger pistol pair. Plus CUC and assorted corals. Will get some pics posted.

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[Ritten]

Very nice!

 

[Ryan Darilek]

Awesome! Looking forward to the pics!!

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[evokid511]

looks great man! keep up the good work

 

[rockhead51]

Here's some pics under the moon lights; got home too late tonight for the white lights....

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[Ryan Darilek]

Hell yeah man, looks awesome!!

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[rockhead51]

Thanks! It's pretty crazy how much we start to care about these little creatures...and damn near impossible to explain to anyone who doesn't play this game!

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[rockhead51]

Some more pics from today. (Added a Tiger Conch- "Tommy" short for Tomotoa. My wife thought his eye stalks looked like the crab from Moana.)

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[Seattle_Reef]

Looking great!

 

[rockhead51]

Thanks!

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[Jenyphur]

Your tank is looking so good! I like that pink feather duster...I don't know anything about them, are they hard to keep?

Also, love your watchman goby ...soooo cute. I am waiting to find a bonded pair, hopefully this weekend someone will have one. I really want another Yasha goby (my first one didn't make it)....tank was too young and went through a pretty bad bacteria bloom and I think she suffocated.

Anyways, you are doing great..keep with the updates and pics. Love them.

 

[rockhead51]

Jenyphur, I'm not exactly sure which one you mean. The one on the left side (kinda pinkish) started getting attacked by my hermits. I assume he was sick or injured somehow, because they were picking at his tube. I moved him but he just kind of disappeared. The brown and white one in the middle dropped his crown shortly thereafter, and I thought he was gone. But I left him alone and about a week later, the crown started to grow back. He's back but a bit smaller. (And I learned that they do that from time to time!) On the right (red and white double crown) is a Coco worm. They are like feather dusters, but their tube is solid. I've heard that both kinds are hard to keep, but mine are doing well (except that first guy).
They filter feed, so I always squirt a bit of Fuel and Reef Snow in their direction when I target feed my corals.

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[rockhead51]

The watchman is paired with a Tiger Pistol Shrimp. He's actually my second one (first one found his way into my sump and I returned him to the LFS when I discovered him there!) To be paired with that shrimp.
I actually chose him because he was the boldest one they had in the LFS at the time, and he still ventures out once in a while and explores the whole tank.

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