Nano Reefers 14g Bio Cube Tank Diary

nano reefer

nano reefer

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Well, i have posted these pics before but now i am going to put them in a new tank diary thread. I have a 14g oceanic Bio Cube. I have 10 lbs of live rock and about 10 lbs of live sand. The rock cam loaded with coralline and sponge. For filtration, in the first chamber i took out the carbon and padding from the cartridge, then i cut a poly filter pad to fit inside it. In chamber 2 i have the bio-balls taken out. I took out the trickle tray as well. I have the bio ball strainer in the bottom of the chamber and on top of it i have activated carbon, purigen, and phosguard. In chamber 3 i have a 50 watt heater and a 136 gph pump. The current inhabitants are 1 perc (my other one wasn't eating and i returned him, new one coming this week
), 1 skunk cleaner shrimp, 3 peppermint shrimp, 20 or so nass snails, 1 mexican turbo, and three blue leg hermits. For corals i currently have 1 orange ricordea, one blue ricordea, and a light green zoo rock that has yet to open
. I also plan on doing a big fragging project from my 55 reef tank. If you have any comments or questions, then post them and i would be more than happy to answer.
 
nano reefer

nano reefer

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I am considering getting one of those "Hydor Flo" nozzles. Will they fir on the 1/2 inch loc-line? Is it okay to have one in a 14 gal? I see some people have their it on a powerhead you can see and keep the original loc-line, do i have to get an extra power head?
 
nano reefer

nano reefer

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Havent posted on this thread in a while... Loads of stuff happened. First off sad to say both clowns passed away and my lfs has no idea why but all parameters were and are ok. Second i now i have 4 ricordeas in my cube (stole 2 from my 55). And my orange ricordea now has a second mouth! I am going to try and feed them once a week, and i will try and put pics up tomorrow.
 
nick76

nick76

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Originally Posted by Cherish life.
i dont think thats a peppermint shrimp....search camel shrimp.....i think hes making a dinner of ur zoos

Deffinatly Peps
Btw nice pics.
 
nano reefer

nano reefer

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Oh wow! so fun! I just fragged so much from my 55 reef and threw some in my nano!!! Heres a list: colt coral, purple zoos, orange zoos, green zoos, super orange/green zoos, yellow polyps, hammer coral, and lord hawenis acans!!! I wish i had my camera but my buddy is taking pics with it on his vacation and i will take pics as soon as he gets back. It was so fun!!! I cant wait for everything to open up!!!
 
nano reefer

nano reefer

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Wow... its been a long time since i posted on this thread. My tank has come along great. I finally got 2 clowns that are living fine, my coral frags are phenomenal, and 2 of 3 peppermints are pregnant! I added a little bit more sand to the tank and re designed the aquascaping, though it is still very similar. Camera is out of whack and i will probably manage to get pics up next week.
I was thinking of getting a 3rd fish. Possibly a clown goby, neon goby, or engineer goby. I wanted to know your opinions.
And for those of you that have read about my isopod problem i should be all set. I pulled it off the clown with tweezers (tiny little thing, about the length of a line on a ruler) and i am getting a skunk shrimp this weekend (my other one died a while ago when i was on vacation...
). If you have any thoughts of what i should do to my tank please let me know.
 
nano reefer

nano reefer

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oh, and by the way, i am probably going to be putting in a frogspawn and toadstool leather in the near future. If you have any other coral recommendations please let me know.
 
grabbitt

grabbitt

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Neon Gobies are known to do best in cold water tanks and engineer gobies will make a mess of the water as well as the aquascape as they burrow.
Clown Goby, however =
 
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