I have been reading threds and it appears that these are hard to come by at the moment. How this fish store I went to had these, and not ony had them but were on sale I have no clue. I bought the 14 gallon and I have already taken a look at the instruction manual. I would say it is put very well together. In the front chamber is the tank and behind it is I believe a removable chamber that contains the overflow, bio balls, filter pad and the return pump. It did not come with a protein skimmer so I am buying a nano skimmer this weekend. The lighting it has two compact Flourescent bulbs: 10,000K Daylight,Actinic 03. This unit also has a Lunar Blue-Moon LED lights. I am not too familiar with what corals would work with this set up but I was planning on getting live rock, fish and maybe some inverts. The three bulbs each have their own power cord and ballast. I am not ready to handle coral yet unless it is not too hard to take care of them. I should have everything I need to start this up sometime next week. I will be glad to take some pics. I am also starting up a website and will post my pics there but in the meantime I will post some pics here until I get the site up and running. I hope this gives all of you a more detailed look at this tank.
Review of Oceanic Bio Cube
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By the way, you can say yourself some money by skipping the skimmer and doing water changes with a 14 gallon tank. I have three 24 gallon nano's going fr over a year. No skimmers, weekly water changes and I use NSW. Don't use any of the bioballs or filter media that came with the tank. Read these forums carefully to see what great mods can be made to improve the tank. Big problem will be keeping tank cool and temps stable. I am of the opinion that I could not succeed without some type of chiller.
Thanks for the info. What does NSW stand for? Also I ordered my RO parts and they should be here tomorrow. This Saturday I am going to a local store that only deals with Marine tanks. I am going to price live rock. I might need help with one other thing. In what order should I set up this tank? I am using a crushed coral substrate, RO water and Live rock.
Natural sea water which is made available to us from a local university situated on the ocean. While there is lots of help on this forum, I encourage you to invest in a fewreef/saltawter books. Michael Paletta has a great beginners book which will provide you with a good quick summary and step by step approach to correct setup, correct order.
On substrate, I have crushed coral in one tank but another has a finer sand, Carib Sea agralite, fiji pink. Its sold as "live sand" which I don't buy into but its a nice sand and if you get one of my favorite fish, one of the funny gobies, then it will be easier for him or her to sift the sand thru their gills. You will want at least 14 lbs of live rock and don't rush it. No fish or easy soft corals for at least a couple of weeks. I start my cycling with one cocktail schrimp left to rot in the tank for a couple of days then start monitering to the point that your ammonia, then nitrite then nitrates are within appropriate parameters. For salinity, get a refractomter, only accurate way to measure and watch evap as you will be surpried how much fresh water you will add when things get moving. Again, no nano skimmer, it stinks and good luck and go slowly, get the book.
On substrate, I have crushed coral in one tank but another has a finer sand, Carib Sea agralite, fiji pink. Its sold as "live sand" which I don't buy into but its a nice sand and if you get one of my favorite fish, one of the funny gobies, then it will be easier for him or her to sift the sand thru their gills. You will want at least 14 lbs of live rock and don't rush it. No fish or easy soft corals for at least a couple of weeks. I start my cycling with one cocktail schrimp left to rot in the tank for a couple of days then start monitering to the point that your ammonia, then nitrite then nitrates are within appropriate parameters. For salinity, get a refractomter, only accurate way to measure and watch evap as you will be surpried how much fresh water you will add when things get moving. Again, no nano skimmer, it stinks and good luck and go slowly, get the book.
TriniReefer
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Do not get the nano fission skimmer.Yes its only 30 dollars but that is why its a P.O.S you should get the Remora or Tunze.I learned that from the people from on here there great help for begginers never be afraid of asking you should read the forums there very helpful.
gfk
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id recommend an aqua C remora or a coral life super skimmer 65
i wouldnt listen to the guy saying not to get a skimmer. on my 20 gallon, i didnt have one... sure everything survived but my water was never crystal clear like it is now with a skimmer.
its not THAT much money, coral life is like 75 bucks shipped from bigaslonline.com
i wouldnt listen to the guy saying not to get a skimmer. on my 20 gallon, i didnt have one... sure everything survived but my water was never crystal clear like it is now with a skimmer.
its not THAT much money, coral life is like 75 bucks shipped from bigaslonline.com
