29 bio cube

[Muttley000]

Welcome to R2R! I look forward to seeing what you and your daughter come up with!

 

[JasonK84]

 

[Oscaror]

Hello
Im fairly new to reefing with my first tank being a fail. With a ton of research my daughter Leah and I are giving it round two. We went with the bio cube 29 nano. I know with it being a smaller tank testing and maintenance are key. We are going to sump the tank down the road. Till we sump we went with tunze 9001 skimmer and intank media basket in chamber two. Here’s my question has anyone ever put chato or refugium in chamber number one? I know the copepods would have a hard time getting into to the tank. But I still think it would be a benefit. I just wanted to know if anyone has successfully made it happen and some thoughts. Thank you

Welcome aboard

 

[Raege]

Welcome to R2R. I’m sure you and your daughter will nail er down this go. Plenty of threads and folks to help you on the adventure.

 

[4FordFamily]

Welcome hone, you will love it here!

Keep us posted with your tank with lots of pics!

 

[Katrina71]

@cromag27 can most likely make something custom to make everything fit. He has a Biocube as well. Quality work. You won't be disappointed.

 

[Reefer Deez]

Hello and welcome to R2R
It's a pleasure to have you here with us

 

[Hitman]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[SPR1968]

Welcome to R2R!

Start a build thread when you get the chance as well with lots of pictures!

 

[pshootr]

Welcome to reef2reef!

Your BioCube should be a lot of fun. Looking forward to seeing your tanks progression. Please make sure you create a build thread so we can follow your progress.

 

[reacclimating 2 the hobby]

Welcome to the community!!

 

[bsn_rn_cen]

Welcome to reef2reef.

 

[William roetter]

We’ll here is where I’m at now. Doing more research the intank basket would have needed cut to fit chamber one. So I decided to make my own with Acrylic. I order a jbj light for the back and some chato. So far so good I’ll keep you posted on the chamber on chato and how it grows.

 

[Ranjib]

Welcome to reef2reef. You are off to a good start. I am a proud biocube owner. I run it without any sump/refugium, for past three years. Just a skimmer (aquatic life 115, chemipure blue in media basket and thats all). I use Kessil, but AI prime is good too. All your setup looks very good. Just dont rush, take it slow, and don't make too many changes too fast. The first year is the hardest, I eventually got rid of most of my sandbed due to persistent cyano issues, but eventually everything settled, and now I have a thriving SPS population as well.
Godspeed.

 

[William roetter]

Welcome to reef2reef. You are off to a good start. I am a proud biocube owner. I run it without any sump/refugium, for past three years. Just a skimmer (aquatic life 115, chemipure blue in media basket and thats all). I use Kessil, but AI prime is good too. All your setup looks very good. Just dont rush, take it slow, and don't make too many changes too fast. The first year is the hardest, I eventually got rid of most of my sandbed due to persistent cyano issues, but eventually everything settled, and now I have a thriving SPS population as well.
Godspeed.

Yeah have a little to much sand. That is good to know you are running great with your setup. I think I did a little to much research and to many different Opinions. But after failing on our first tank due to poor equipment I refuse to do it again. Thank you for your input. That makes me feel better knowing you have a great running tank the way my tank is pretty much setup now.

 

[Ranjib]

Yeah have a little to much sand. That is good to know you are running great with your setup. I think I did a little to much research and to many different Opinions. But after failing on our first tank due to poor equipment I refuse to do it again. Thank you for your input. That makes me feel better knowing you have a great running tank the way my tank is pretty much setup now.

Patience, good equipment and keeping it simple will let you sail through the first year. I would say, expect some dino /cyano still, and dont give up, as long as you are not making too many changes (like tinkering with equipment, adding chemical reagents, live stock etc) they will go away, you just have to win them mechanically (water change, manual removeal of cyano, dino , GHA etc.. early on) till your tanks microbial population establishes. You can facilitate that with good husbandry, like good RO/DI water, regular water change, very consistent schedule for changing your chemical filtration media (if you have one) etc. What I found biggest risk is folks will see some thing bad and then go ahead and employ some chemical means to address that, and repeated tries to do that makes it harder for the tank's normal microbial population to establish.
One more thing I learned is sometimes not to fight with the livestock, some of them will thrive and take over, while some will perish, and all of this not due to you or your tank's params, but more to do with how the tank is optimized for certain species (like LPS or softies or SPS), you can influence them to some extent, but you wont be able to address all. Given we are beginners, we have (at least me) less understanding on their placement and their interplays, which becomes big factor as the tank matures. Allow some mistakes,
Here is my current FTS,

 

[William roetter]

Thank you that is very helpful and your tank is amazing. I am definitely taking it very slow this time. But it is just very hard to do. Lol