Biocube 16 tank build

Reefing_addiction · Aug 19, 2020

Happy to see this!

Wait before you freak out that water came from this

which I’m hoping means it won’t be long before my rocks are cycled!

Luckyduck · Aug 19, 2020

dyerrm said:
Honestly not sure other than maybe my new salt water.im going to assume it should start going down with my new additions to my tank. I’m not going to do a water change this weekend if I can get my nitrates down with the skimmer. They were a little high that day because i feed the tank that morning.

Yea it most likely is from the salt. You use Red Sea Coral Pro right? We sell the same at the shop I work at. A lot of our customers tanks we lean use it as well. I'll keep an eye on their Mag too to do a comparison. Again it's not really a huge issue. Yes I'm curious to see how the skimmer does with your Nitrates. Keep me posted! You have a test kit coming this week correct?

Luckyduck · Aug 19, 2020

dyerrm said:
Woke up early to stare at my tank. Everyone seems happy. Some zoas open some starting to open.

Lookin good!! I love those orange zoos! Do you know what kind they are?

Luckyduck · Aug 19, 2020

dyerrm said:
Happy to see this!

Wait before you freak out that water came from this

which I’m hoping means it won’t be long before my rocks are cycled!

I freaked lol

Reefing_addiction · Aug 19, 2020

Luckyduck said:
Lookin good!! I love those orange zoos! Do you know what kind they are?

They were a part of the grand prize i won from @Joe Knows Reefs live sale on Saturday. I asked them and they said they didn’t have a name! I even posted a thread in the Zoa board and no luck! They are so bright and amazing. I’m in love

Reefing_addiction · Aug 19, 2020

Luckyduck said:
I freaked lol

I think most people will!!! But I figured the post would be funny!

Reefing_addiction · Aug 19, 2020

Luckyduck said:
Yea it most likely is from the salt. You use Red Sea Coral Pro right? We sell the same at the shop I work at. A lot of our customers tanks we lean use it as well. I'll keep an eye on their Mag too to do a comparison. Again it's not really a huge issue. Yes I'm curious to see how the skimmer does with your Nitrates. Keep me posted! You have a test kit coming this week correct?

Go my nyos kit last week. And def love it! I’ll test my water again before I feed to see what it says , that will be on Friday

Reefing_addiction · Aug 19, 2020

@Luckyduck when I got that order of zoas and my prizes from the live sale my boyfriend looked at me and said so when are you going to get a bigger tank? i told him as soon as we get a house or maybe Christmas

Reefing_addiction · Aug 19, 2020

Luckyduck · Aug 19, 2020

dyerrm said:
They were a part of the grand prize i won from @Joe Knows Reefs live sale on Saturday. I asked them and they said they didn’t have a name! I even posted a thread in the Zoa board and no luck! They are so bright and amazing. I’m in love

Aww man, surprised you can't find the name especially on a Zoa board. Yea the color is SUPER BRIGHT! I've got a pretty nice Flower garden in my cube. 13 species of Zoa & 7 Paly's.

Luckyduck · Aug 19, 2020

dyerrm said:
@Luckyduck when I got that order of zoas and my prizes from the live sale my boyfriend looked at me and said so when are you going to get a bigger tank? i told him as soon as we get a house or maybe Christmas

I can't wait to upgrade either my wife said the same. Soon as we get a bigger house I can! Lol I just got a job at my LFS and I've seen some amazing customer tanks already. We went to this mansion today to clean this lady's tanks, she had a 60g, a 300g & a 500g. I'll snap a pic of the 500 next week when we go to show you. It's HUGE!! Like 4 feet long 2 feet ish wide but like 6-7 feet tall! It's nuts.

Reefing_addiction · Aug 20, 2020

This makes me happy. Pods everywhere!

Reefing_addiction · Aug 20, 2020

So left is from today right is from yestrday

Luckyduck · Aug 20, 2020

dyerrm said:
So left is from today right is from yestrday

Looks like you're gettin there. I'm cycling some rock I made. Unfortunately your can't tell if it's done with an ammonia test, gotta test PH from the concrete as it's like 11 and it will drop down to 8 once it's cycled (like 3-5 weeks).

Luckyduck · Aug 20, 2020

dyerrm said:
This makes me happy. Pods everywhere!

Sweet! You just totally reminded me I has a bottle of pods sitting in my Fuge I put in there 5 hours ago to acclimate to the tank temp! Totally forgot to dump them in! Lol

Reefing_addiction · Aug 21, 2020

Luckyduck said:
Sweet! You just totally reminded me I has a bottle of pods sitting in my Fuge I put in there 5 hours ago to acclimate to the tank temp! Totally forgot to dump them in! Lol

I bought some pods from a guy on here and they were put in last night plus I bought an 8 oz thing of pods from LFS! My mandarin should have plenty to eat!

Luckyduck · Aug 21, 2020

dyerrm said:
I bought some pods from a guy on here and they were put in last night plus I bought an 8 oz thing of pods from LFS! My mandarin should have plenty to eat!

Ohh yaa nice! You know you need to feed your Pods right? Phytoplankton.