Unofficial biocube 8, 14, and 29 club

I've seen alot of these threads up so I thought I'd start one for us biocubers just reply with a FTS, specs, stocking, hardware, and a brief history of the tank. Mines not up yet but I'll jut give an example...

Biocube 29

Hardware: koralia nano
Koralia 750
40 lbs of Marco key largo dry rock
15 lbs of 1-2mm aragonite sand
15 lbs of sugar grain sand
Media basket with purigen, chemi pure and filter floss
Stock light

Stocking plans...

Coral:
Torch
Shrooms
Zoas
Misc polyps
Duncan's
Whiskers
Candy canes
Blasto

Fish/inverts:
5 small hermit crabs
5 nasarious(spelling) snails
2 skunk cleaner shrimp
1 fire shrimp
1 occelaris clown
1 bangaii cardinal
1 YWG
1 purple fire fish

Fantasy stock list:
1 hump back whale
5 regal tangs
1 dolphin
3 William shatners in fish form

 

Heres my 29g


Hardware

2 Koralia powerheads
Biocube UV
heater
25lbs LR
20lbs crushed coral SB
150w HQI MH with 4 T5HO actinic

Fish

Red Corris Wrasse
Yellow tang
Bangaii Cardinal
Randalli goby
Pared Oc. Clown

Coral

Kenya Tree
Green star polyp
Tons of Pom pom xenia
large wellso brain
Toadstool leather
acan lords
zoas/palys

Inverts

Sand sifter star
Tiger pistol shrimp
Blue leg herms
Astreas and turbo snails


And its about a 1 year old tank. Its been moved a few times. But its never had a crash or algae problems.

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subscribed! I'll join later this week when I have a day off to do it right!

 

Biocube 14, pics will come later, when the daylights are on.

Stuff:
Koralia nano 245 gph
maxijet 900
20lbs of LR, 5 of which are in the 2nd chamber, in place of bioballs
18lbs LS
Some Cheap-o heater thats lasted this far
Par38 LED

Fish:
A lonely Royal Gramma

Inverts:
Red leg and electric blue hermits
Astrea, cerith snails and some hitch-hiking snails
Lots of mini serpent and asterina stars
Strawberry Nem
MAXIMA CLAM (favorite thing in the tank)

Coral:
2 headed frogspawn
Cali Tort
Miyagi Tort
BOP Birdsnest
Orange monti cap
Green Milli
Plain Palys
Hydonophora
Cactus Coral

Addition for the future:
More SPS, just made a purchase from WT
Koralia nano 420 gph
I also want to find a way to mod the passage from 2nd chamber to 3rd chamber

Tank is 1 year and 3 or 4 months old. But it didnt start taking off until after 6 months. Never had a crash, but it was partially nuked from a nem getting shredded by a powerhead.

 

Biocube 29g (many modifications have been made to the filtration chambers)

Start Date: March 15, 2011

Equiptment

1 Koralia 1050 powerhead (rated around 750gph)
Hydror return pump (325gph)
Hydror Slim Skim Protien Skimmer
Marineland 50w Heater
Desk Lamp with 5500k bulb behind tank aimed through clear plastic on chamber two

Inverts

4 Astrea snails
8 Cerith snails
1 Fighting Conch
1 Tronchus snail
1 Skunk Cleaner shrimp
1 Emerald Crab
1 Red Striped Pistol Shrimp
4 Nassi snails
1 large Vermitid snail
6 Stomatella snails
20+ Collinista snails

Fish

1 Occy Clown (very lonely btw lol)
1 Hi Fin Red Striped Shrimp Goby

Corals

6-headed Hammer Coral and one 2 headed fragged Hammer Coral
1 Hollywood Stunner Chalice and 3 frags placed throughout tank
1 Devils Hand
1 Kenya Tree
1 Torch Coral
1 Green Mushroom
Green Star Polyp Patch
Yellow zoa colony
Orange/Purple/Green zoa colony
1 Pulsing Xenia

Macros
Caulpra patch in DT
Chaeto in chamber 2
Lots and lots of ball sponges, feather dusters, tube worms, copepods, amphipods

Misc

40lb of fine grain live sand
35lb of very very purple Live rock
2lb of one nice very pourous live rock in chamber 2(removed bioballs*junk*)



Note- I am doing a water change tomorrow, will clean glass and take new picture. It looks a little different and the xenia is not in this photo. I haven't scrubbed my glass in over a month.

 

Nice tank Zoa! I really like how all of your corals are large and it looks orderly and happy.

If your ever in Asheville lemme know! We can look at frags and talk tanks together!

Also if you have a PS3 my PSN is FreshHeadiez

 

Very cool idea! I will post my stats for my 2 biocube 14's later along with pics.

 

It's not my idea but thanks anyways lol can't wait to see them, there your breeding tanks right?


Great tanks everyone!!!!

 

I see my "unofficial club" is starting to catch on lol