My First Nano . . .

[Anonymous]

. . . and first tank in five years or so. It's a little weird since I've always upgraded to bigger tanks. Anyway, I got a call that a freind had a (almost) new BioCube 14g for pretty much no money so i jumped at it. I've been itching to start a tank again anyway.

Details on the build coming soon.

 

[Anonymous]

Cool. Not sure if you have seen these yet, but they seem like they would be a good top off option for all in one system. I just ordered mine today from reefgeek.com.

http://www.coralvue.com/smart-ato-autom ... system-783

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Wazz, I'll check it out.

I had a stand delivered the other day but it was in bad shape. I have a replacement coming today. Hoping it's Ok but I have a feeling it's going to be junk too.

Anyway I am going to go pickup live rock tomorrow and start the process of cycling the tank. Right now the BioCube is stock except I threw out the bioballs and instead will use LR in its place. Once it's cycles I'll introduce some soft corals and build from there. The goal is to have two or three small fish when this thing is humming along.

Today my Reefkeeper Lite will be delivered so I'm looking forward to setting that up. Does anybody know if there is an iPhone app for the Lite?

I'm already planning a larger tank. The sickness never goes away.

 

[Anonymous]

For the stand could you use any kind of table?

I know what you mean about the sickness. My tank is going to be SPS/Acan only. Kids really want clowns and anemone so I got that kicking around in the back of my head for possibily down the road.

 

[Anonymous]

I probably will find another table if the stand that comes in today is in bad shape. I have a nice looking nightstand that is perfect for the tank but it's a bit flimsy. I can beef it up I guess. I need to get water in it today.

 

[Anonymous]

This weekend I got 20lbs of LR and LR rubble for the filter plus 20lbs of "live" sand. I have the tank sitting on a biocube stand. It's not exactly what I wanted but it works and it is pretty sturdy. I got the Reeffkeeper Lite hooked up. Right now there is a PH probe and a temp probe. I still need to program the unit for a schedule and alarms. Next purchase is the net module so I can keep tabs on the tank from anywhere. Awesome unit so far. I also used a refractometer for the first time. Why did I wait so long to buy one?

 

[Anonymous]

Final rock work.

Ammonia is starting to creep up. It's on!

 

[Anonymous]

It looks like your green hair algae farm is off to a good start. It should be completely covered in GHA and cyno in a couple of months.

 

[Anonymous]

It looks like your green hair algae farm is off to a good start. It should be completely covered in GHA and cyno in a couple of months.

HAHAHAHAHA......

 

[Anonymous]

Robo Tank will suffer no such thing. Good thing about a small tank is I can throw the whole damn thing out in about 20 minutes. :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

I like your rock pile. Looks nice.

 

[Anonymous]

Tank cycled. Brown algae galore right now. Time for a cleaner crew.

 

[Anonymous]

So far...

 

[Anonymous]

Looks good.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks. It seems to be coasting pretty well at moment.

 

[Anonymous]

Knock on wood. :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

Yes but this is why I bought a tank that will fit in an average size garbage bag.

 

[brandon4291]

Ace its amazing

color pop is like this

superclean little tank building

scroll

gets a little more color/substrate looks clean not a spot of anything, currently cycling

then

bam~coral pop it looks great and much bigger than it is in reality

hey that blue coral on top, is it efflato

 

[Anonymous]

So right now we are dealing with a bit of a bubble algae problem along with some hair algae. Corals are doing great and I now have a wave maker powerhead and added a small skimmer. There is a mystery going on. I've lost two cardinals in this tank and I can't find them anywhere. No weird spikes so I don't think they're in the tank plus it's a small tank and we've moved stuff around for cleaning. A couple of hungy corals? Not a coral guy so I am stumped.

 

[brandon4291]

I see I'm two mos off again


Space if you get a chance I wanted to offer something for your algae, regarding the cardinals I can't be sure. But for the algae, I am lol

Four years of hard work

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showt ... ?t=2082359
I'm linking because that happens to be where the repository of peroxide work is located. Wish it was here ~
Read just the last 15 pages its enough w pics