hallzy21
New Member
Hi, I set up a 14 gallon biocube about a month ago. All of my water and rock was from my uncle's very established 140 reef tank, the only thing I had to buy starting out was a 20 lb bag of live sand, of which I only used 10 lbs. One of the rocks even had a couple nice pieces of pulsing xenias (very cool) and they have probably close to doubled in size in a short period of time. After the diatome bloom from the new sand, I went out and bought a small cleanup crew of some hermets, snails, 2 peppermint shrimp, and a brittle star. Yesterday I picked up a rock with a few blue/purple mushrooms on it, and I plan on adding more mushrooms and more colorful SPS.
Other than that I'm not sure which way I want to go with this tank. I know since it's only 14 gallons I can only do so much, so I need to figure out what direction I want to take before I end up just getting something from the LFS just because it's there. Lol My original plan was just to fill it up with as much coral as i can, and let the pod population grow for awhile before getting a mandarin and maybe a fire fish goby or 2. Getting all already established rock helps too because it already has a lot of pods climbing around on it, I just don't know how quickly they populate or how long I should wait before adding a mandarin?
I'm not completely set on that route tho, if anyone has any ideas for what to do with this 14 gallon, I am all ears!![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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Other than that I'm not sure which way I want to go with this tank. I know since it's only 14 gallons I can only do so much, so I need to figure out what direction I want to take before I end up just getting something from the LFS just because it's there. Lol My original plan was just to fill it up with as much coral as i can, and let the pod population grow for awhile before getting a mandarin and maybe a fire fish goby or 2. Getting all already established rock helps too because it already has a lot of pods climbing around on it, I just don't know how quickly they populate or how long I should wait before adding a mandarin?
I'm not completely set on that route tho, if anyone has any ideas for what to do with this 14 gallon, I am all ears!
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