ArowanaLover
Sprinting down the street
- Joined
- 2/9/15
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I got one for christmas and didnt waste any time getting it set up, however, i did need to buy some more filtration so that i could be satisfied with the tank, for those of you who don't know, the coralife biocubes' filtration model is basically a huge amount of bioballs and nothing else, so i needed something else. I took out all the bioballs and have since added:
1. Coralife biocube UV sterilizer
2. Coralife biocube Protien skimmer
3. Eshopps reef sponge
4. seachem matrix carbon
5. seachem purigen
6. seachem high capicty biofiltration
All in all, i would say the filter is now a massive amount better. I've also boughten the necessary powerhead (hydor nano) and heater (i cant remember the name, sorry).
Everything tested out fine and i had used live sand, live rock, and 3/5 water from my other reef tank. This means that the biofilter in the tank is awesome and the sand has tons of little organisms. So far, i've only added 1 peppermint shrimp and one hermit crab (both of which will be removed), they were just final tests in case i had missed something (though i checked pH, nitrate, calcium, and phosphate and they were all appropriate.) Tomorrow i am hopefully picking up a filtration bag (i forgot to order one and cant put my matrix carbon in yet), and a small clean up crew (already there is some algae, which just goes to show how great those lights are {and that i may have fed the tank a bit too much while it cycled}). my ideas on clean up crew are:
- 4x nassarrius snails
- 3x cerith snails
- 1 skunk cleaner shrimp (comes later)
- 1 emerald crab (comes later)
- 5x hermit crabs
Stocking (fish only, i havent picked out corals yet)
- Possibilty of picasso clown
- 2 mandarin dragonets
I hope this tank goes great and if anyone has any suggestions for fish/inverts be sure to let me know, though im pretty sure im going with at least 1 dragonet
1. Coralife biocube UV sterilizer
2. Coralife biocube Protien skimmer
3. Eshopps reef sponge
4. seachem matrix carbon
5. seachem purigen
6. seachem high capicty biofiltration
All in all, i would say the filter is now a massive amount better. I've also boughten the necessary powerhead (hydor nano) and heater (i cant remember the name, sorry).
Everything tested out fine and i had used live sand, live rock, and 3/5 water from my other reef tank. This means that the biofilter in the tank is awesome and the sand has tons of little organisms. So far, i've only added 1 peppermint shrimp and one hermit crab (both of which will be removed), they were just final tests in case i had missed something (though i checked pH, nitrate, calcium, and phosphate and they were all appropriate.) Tomorrow i am hopefully picking up a filtration bag (i forgot to order one and cant put my matrix carbon in yet), and a small clean up crew (already there is some algae, which just goes to show how great those lights are {and that i may have fed the tank a bit too much while it cycled}). my ideas on clean up crew are:
- 4x nassarrius snails
- 3x cerith snails
- 1 skunk cleaner shrimp (comes later)
- 1 emerald crab (comes later)
- 5x hermit crabs
Stocking (fish only, i havent picked out corals yet)
- Possibilty of picasso clown
- 2 mandarin dragonets
I hope this tank goes great and if anyone has any suggestions for fish/inverts be sure to let me know, though im pretty sure im going with at least 1 dragonet