biocube 32 chamber options and skimmer

[BFVJ3]

- yes still up and running although I have been wanting to upgrade to a 40breeder only reason to have a sump skimmer and a little more easy maintenance

-yup with intank media basket not stock trays

-floss/purigen/chemipure

-bag of matrix now resides in bottom of fuge chamber

- not really cheato grows quite well I remove about 30% of growth every 3 months I have a jbj magnetic refugium light that runs a opposite schedule display lights you do have to occasionally scrape coraline algae off the back glass in that chamber other then that I don’t touch it really

- yea I replaced it with a innovative marine mighty jet 326 pump runs full power

- sure! I do 4-5 gallons instant ocean every Monday night mixed for atleast 24 hours

1.I scrape and clean all glass
2.Take a turkey baster and blast all the rock
work to get all the detritus back into the water column
3.shut off return pump and wave maker
4.syphon water from tank into a bucket I made a pvc thing to drain exactly 4ish gallons automatically every time (Ile post pictures tomorrow
5.use old biocube pump I’ve rigged up with a toggle switch to turn it off and on
with a hose to pump new salt water from 5gal bucket into tank
6.replace floss (gets replaced Thursday night also)
7.turn on return and wave maker
Done

I can usually do it in about 10-15 mins

sometimes I replace step 2 with carfuly vaccuming sand
And every 3 months I vaccum out and clean all rear chambers and baskets swap out new chemipure and purigen swap out wave maker and returns with backups take apart and clean the previously used ones

Did you ever post the PVC thing you mentioned in thisbthread?

 

[unclejed]

So I recently got a biocube 32 and im looking for options to put in my 3 chambers, im chamber 1 which is the intake chamber i was thinking a protein skimmer. The only one that seems to work for biocube 32 without mods to the hood is the coralife biocube 32 skimmer, which i heard is a horrible skimmer. Are there anyother options for a skimmer to fit in chamber 1 without any mods? For chamber 2 im putting a intake media basket with the intake fuge basket beside that, and for chamber 3 I was to just put my heater with the pump for the filter. Im open to all opinions and anyother ideas on a better setup, thank you!! Saltwater newbie here lol

Actually, My Coralife skimmer that came with the cube works fantastic, it seems the water level is the key. The water should come just up the top of the tube but not quite, then looking down in the tube (without the collection top) adjust the bubbles to almost the top of tube, Watch it and make sure the bubbles are not overflowing, they should remain just to the top of tube. Replace the collection cup and you are good to go.