ACRORGV's 29 Gallon Biocube

alxjrz · Feb 22, 2016

Well I am back from a couple of months unable to access my account, Thanks David (Revhtree) for the help. Turns out I created another account alexXx which got banned because you can only have one account on R2R or so I was told, reason was to disassociate my username from a local reef club. Not a big deal now I can finally start posting again. Sorry for the inconvenience I might have caused.

alxjrz · Feb 24, 2016

February 6 2016 snail activity, the larger ones are from the previous spawn and the little white specs are newly hatched little brothers.

pelphrey · Feb 24, 2016

Snails going to work! Have any updated front tank shots?

alxjrz · Feb 28, 2016

February 25th 2016

Tank has been running a little over a year and I am really happy the way things are coming along.

PedroDrummer · Feb 28, 2016

Awsome biocubes! is that a metal halide I see you guys retrofitted?

alxjrz · Feb 29, 2016

Thanks! haha I blast this little tank with a 250watt Medal Halide running 12k Reeflux for 4 hours of peak time, 2 x T5's run 6 hours and the Primes run 8 hours in 20k mode @ 90% during peak time with 30 min Ramps.

Flameback Pair · Mar 1, 2016

Wow that's a lot of lighting options.

Ferozkaamil · Mar 2, 2016

Beautiful tank.
What do you feed to your corals ?

alxjrz · Mar 18, 2016

Thank You, I am feeding PolypLab's - Polyp-Booster & Reef-Roids, alternating twice a week. I am also using Aqua Forest's Coral A which is now AF Amino Mix & Coral V which is now AF Vitality both once a week alternating with food.

IdahoNano · Mar 18, 2016

Absolutely awesome Biocube! How does that wavemaker work in such a "small" area?

Flameback Pair · Mar 18, 2016

IdahoNano said:
Absolutely awesome Biocube! How does that wavemaker work in such a "small" area?

Actually I think you can dial down those gyre quite a bit and still get a lot of random wave patterns out.

alxjrz · Apr 21, 2016

Thank you for the kind words IdahoNano. I have always been advocate high flow. Powers2001 is correct, I am 3 notches from max on the Gyre 130 and I have it set in pulse mode on for 5 seconds and off for 5 seconds. The SPS gets blasted by the flow and love it, while the LPS... well let us just say they have had to deal with it and over time adjusted to the strong flow. In fact I see exponential growth from everything in the tank. when I have more time I will try and do some before and after shots as well as a youtube video update.

alxjrz · Apr 21, 2016

Update: 04/14/2016
So I finally ran out of Tropic Marine Pro Salt and I am running 100% Aqua Forest products: Probiotic Salt, NP pro, Pro Bio S, Coral A (Amino's), Coral V (Vitamins), I removed the All In One Biopellets and now using Phosphate Minus(gfo), Aqua Forest Carbon(rox), and dosing Component +1, +2, +3. I added a a few pieces as well as made room a few more frags. I replaced the 250w DE Medal Halide Bulb from a 12k Reeflux to a Pheonix 14k and replaced the T5's from ATI Aqua Blues for ATI True Actinics.

ScottMyers123 · Apr 21, 2016

Wow that is one serious biocube. I can honestly say I have never seen so much equipment on such a small setup. Stunning!!

alxjrz · Nov 16, 2016

2 year mark

djd3mon · Nov 17, 2016

Very sweet!!!! Everything is looking very happy!

When your rocks were greenish color how did you get rid of it? Right now my tank is roughly 6 months old and I am noticing my rocks turning slightly green. Note sure whey....or If im about to have one hellacious hair algae outbreak on every square inch of my rocks.

I have a 29 gallon tank but not a bio cube.

Thanks.

revhtree · Nov 17, 2016

Nice job!

alxjrz · Nov 22, 2016

The greenish color on the rock eventually turned brown and back to white and then a mix of every color under a rainbow once all the nutrients were exhausted within the cube. The contributing factors that has led the current tank to its current state is the water quality I get from the Spectrapure's RODI, the amount of flow in the tank and Aquaforest products.

djd3mon · Nov 22, 2016

After posting this I realized I was having a pretty bad cyano outbreak. I learned cyano is not always red. I'm on day two of chemiclean. Hopefully it starts to beat cyano. Ive read it starts disappearing on day 3.

Thank you