My biocube 29g upgrades.

I have my tank up and running. It has cycled and Sat I added a yellow tail damsel, blue leg hermit, and a nassarius snail. They are doing great. The damsel was hiding since Sat. But came out as soon as i dropped some food in today and has stayed out now. Ammonia and nitrites still 0. I have made my own media rack and fuge rack. I have included pics of these. I also swapped the return pump for a maxi-jet 1200. I discarded the elbow and used just tubing to give it more flow. WOW what a difference! Even just discarding the elbow boosted flow a ton. I also plan on using a loc-line y and two outlets on the return. I still use the stock filter location for now with a gutted filter so I can put poly-filter pad in it. I am slowly removing my bio balls to be able to use my media baskets. My heater is currently in the main display in the corner, but I will move it to either chamber 1 or 3 when I put the media baskets in. I have a new biocube protein skimmer I'm thinking of modding and putting in chamber 1. I heard people have good results with them when modded. Or I might get an Aquatic Life 115. Anyone know where I can get a submersible light for my fuge, I don't really wanna put one on the outside. Or an above the water one or better yet a DIY plan for one. Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thanks for looking.

Mike Hayes
Edited by mhayes462 - 1/9/12 at 7:03pm

The newer ones do, but not mine.


Mike Hayes

I found a submersible led light and bubble wand by Marineland. The bubble wand is just a little tube and comes out. It has 6 LEDs on it. It doesn't say what watts or anything that they are. Does anyone know if it will be strong enough? I have included a picture


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A lot has happened since I started this thread. I have added the Aquaticlife 115 skimmer in chamber 1. Media rack w/floss, purigen, and chemi-pure elite. Fuge rack with chaeto. DIY fuge light on back. I added a 21x1watt led fixture to the stock lights. I am also vodka dosing. I have added a black and white clown, brittle star, emerald crab, 2 peppermint shrimp, firefish, bangaii cardinal, engineer goby, fromia star, lettuce nudibranch, featherduster and various snails. I had a false perc clown but it disappeared. For coral I have gsp, colt leather, toadstool leather, ricordia mushrooms, other mushrooms, a lobo, acropora, pulsing Xenia, and frogspawn. I have some acan, favia, and candy cane frags. Everything is going very nicely. I got my own ro/di unit and use instant ocean reef crystals. I dose kent nano parts a and b. I target feed all my hard corals about 3 times a week. I plan on doing a total led fixture using 3watt LEDs in the near future. Here are some updated pictures.





Mike Hayes