kingfish8302
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Whats ways can i do a mod on a 8g bio-cube from oceanic. I want to imporve lighting and filteration.
Need mod advice...
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rattler739
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As for lighting you could get a whole new top and change it to MH or you could see if you could get a higher wattage PC. The stock BioCube come with a 10,000k and a actinic (Blue) light, but you could upgrade to a higher wattage actinic and change the other bulb to a high wattage 50/50 bulb and that should let you keep a lot more stuff but am not sure if you would be able to keep clams and SPS but they might do ok if you put them up high
As for the filter this is what i have done to my 14g. I took out the cartridge in the first chamber and put the heater and 2 foam pads to keep out big stuff, then in the 2nd chamber i took out the bioballs and put in a bag of denitrate (only because i had a nitrate problem) but you could put in a bag of amo chips, carbon, ect., some people put lr rubble in that chamber to help with biological filtration. In the third chamber i have a bag of carbon where the other sponge used to be (since i took the cartridge out that had carbon in it). On top of the drip tray i put filter floss, and cut the overflow to the driptray to increase flow. You could also put a larger powerhead in place of the original or just put in an extra one in the tank to increase flow for corals.
Hope that helps
, also look around at other threads and people that have a biocube 8,14, or 29 and see what they have to say
As for the filter this is what i have done to my 14g. I took out the cartridge in the first chamber and put the heater and 2 foam pads to keep out big stuff, then in the 2nd chamber i took out the bioballs and put in a bag of denitrate (only because i had a nitrate problem) but you could put in a bag of amo chips, carbon, ect., some people put lr rubble in that chamber to help with biological filtration. In the third chamber i have a bag of carbon where the other sponge used to be (since i took the cartridge out that had carbon in it). On top of the drip tray i put filter floss, and cut the overflow to the driptray to increase flow. You could also put a larger powerhead in place of the original or just put in an extra one in the tank to increase flow for corals.
Hope that helps
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rattler739
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There are also suposed to be some site that tell you how to mod nanos and also sell stuff to do it.
kingfish8302
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hey thanks. I want to try to get one calm if i can. you have a pic of your tank setup? What i'm really after is a way to mod the lights to VHO.
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rattler739
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sry dont have a camera or a computer (talk on here at work...shhh...)
ask around about the clam i think it would be ok but am not sure. It might to ok for a while and then just die or it could be fine IDK.
PS there is not much in my tank as i have been poor for about a month or two(paid off the engagement ring)
but as soon as i get some $$ i am going to get some gorgonians(the ones on this website dont need light at all and are very colorful), and some rics.
ask around about the clam i think it would be ok but am not sure. It might to ok for a while and then just die or it could be fine IDK.
PS there is not much in my tank as i have been poor for about a month or two(paid off the engagement ring)
but as soon as i get some $$ i am going to get some gorgonians(the ones on this website dont need light at all and are very colorful), and some rics.
kingfish8302
Member
Originally Posted by rattler739
sry dont have a camera or a computer (talk on here at work...shhh...)
ask around about the clam i think it would be ok but am not sure. It might to ok for a while and then just die or it could be fine IDK.
PS there is not much in my tank as i have been poor for about a month or two(paid off the engagement ring)
but as soon as i get some $$ i am going to get some gorgonians(the ones on this website dont need light at all and are very colorful), and some rics.
I'm still paying off the Exengagement ring
!!!!! I'll ask around about the calm. Thanks
sry dont have a camera or a computer (talk on here at work...shhh...)
ask around about the clam i think it would be ok but am not sure. It might to ok for a while and then just die or it could be fine IDK.
PS there is not much in my tank as i have been poor for about a month or two(paid off the engagement ring)
but as soon as i get some $$ i am going to get some gorgonians(the ones on this website dont need light at all and are very colorful), and some rics.
I'm still paying off the Exengagement ring
