my biocube 14

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  1. Hugh Mungo

    Hugh Mungo Plankton

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    New here and I'm using 14 gallon biocube as quarantine tank but had a few basic questions because I couldn't find a good answer.

    I'd like a viable skimmer in the future for 14 gallon biocube. Does Tunze Nano Skimmer fit? Is so I'd put that to rest.

    My opinion if water change volume does not limit reef keeping for nano's why get so hung up about it. Might need a heater for make up container but other with dillution is the solution to pollution. If you had 25 ppm Nitrate Two water changes and your under 5ppm again with adequate calcium and alkalinty.

    Also what is the favorite heater for these units? I thought to get a THEO50.
     
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  3. jakeh24

    jakeh24 Pajama Cardinal

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    well I have not posted on this in a long time so large update time!
    I recieved some cool corals from arcain like a month or so ago
    a cabbage leather some zoas some purple xenia and some GSP
    I had a scooter blenny for about a month but he stopped eating for some reson and died two days after he stopped eating.
    which brings me to my clown fish he is an O. clown
    which brings me to now
    at the moment my tank is covered in red slime algae but help is on the way (red slime remover)
    so i have a few old pics
    and today i got a strawberry pseudochromis from petco
    i know i know they had three and i looked at each one how they swam, activity levels, if they had any spots or anything, if they had any diseases and one was clean and i took it home
    cant find the camera so i will have to get back with a picture of it later
    but for now some pics of the coral and tank before the algae and new fish.
     
  4. psiclone

    psiclone Purple Spiny Lobster

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    corals are looking good :)
     
  5. jakeh24

    jakeh24 Pajama Cardinal

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    welp here are the pics I promised
    one of the strawberry pseudochromis
    and the other of my horrible red slime algae
    which will be a goner once my red slime remover arrives anytime now ;D
     

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  6. jakeh24

    jakeh24 Pajama Cardinal

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    thanks man
     
  7. jakeh24

    jakeh24 Pajama Cardinal

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    lol a lot of stuff has happened today
    but my red slime remover and aptasia x have came in ;D
    heres a few pics
    the stuff
    before i put in the red slime remover (the airstone is recomended)
    and while it is in (it turns the water a tad green)
     

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  9. psiclone

    psiclone Purple Spiny Lobster

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    quit picking your nose and washing off your finger in the tank
     
  10. jakeh24

    jakeh24 Pajama Cardinal

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    woops forgot to scrape the algae off of the glass ;)
     
  11. DendroGuru

    DendroGuru Astrea Snail

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    two damsels in a 14g tank? does that work? don't they bully each other around?
     
  12. jakeh24

    jakeh24 Pajama Cardinal

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    so the treatment worked great on my tank
    one thing I recomend is do a water change after the treatment
    otherwise more algae will start to grow from all the realeased nutrients...
    anyways it worked great basicly turned it into mush and it disolved
    nice to see my rockwork again
    sory water is a bit cloudy cause I cleaned the glass right before i took the photo


    in other news I decided today to change the back section where the bio balls are (second chamber)
    into a fuge.
    I started today by scraping a square of paint off the back of the tank
    im going to put a light up to it
    I took out a handful of bioballs and placed in 3 pieces of lr rubble
    I am going to slowly change it out the bioballs want to keep away from a cycle
    eventually I want to put some cheato in there alright thats it for now
    (In the pic the scraped off square looks awfully dirty because of all the floating things in the water settle back there)
     

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