Ideas!

[Joel Jordan]

hi guys

So last week i won this mini cube, its 12x12x12, Im wondering what to really do with it, lol any ideas or suggestions?

 

[Joel Jordan]

Not sure why i cant upload images

 

[Joel Jordan]

Lol nvm

 

[nagreen]

Is it an All-in-one? Could turn it into a pretty sweet nano reef I'd say!

 

[nagreen]

Whoops! just saw the pictures..

I guess the first question would be to figure out what you want to do for filtration.. either a HOB, which isn't very aesthetically pleasing, or just find a good quality piece of liverock and make sure the tank has enough flow to have your liverock as your filtration

 

[Joel Jordan]

Whoops! just saw the pictures..

I guess the first question would be to figure out what you want to do for filtration.. either a HOB, which isn't very aesthetically pleasing, or just find a good quality piece of liverock and make sure the tank has enough flow to have your liverock as your filtration

Hahaha yea its very basic, i thought about an aquaclear, i dont mind an HOB, but not sure what else to do

 

[nagreen]

Well obviously the first step is to buy a brand new Radion XR30 Gen4... hah..

I guess it depends on the amount of $ you want to invest into it! If I got a free tank it'd just motivate me to make the entire build as cheap as possible haha..
Not at all what you have to do, but I'll let ya know what I would do!

For filtration, I would go with a $27 koralia powerhead and 1 medium sized nice looking piece of porous live-rock. I'd find the most aesthetically pleasing 50w heater and hide it in the back beside the powerhead.. I'd find a decent light, depending on $$ and what coral you want to put into it. I'd probably just want zoas/palys/leathers so maybe I could find a light for $50-$75 on Amazon or a local facebook group..
I'd get it set up and make sure it's cycled then add the prize piece -- a cute little yellow clown goby!
Later maybe a small cleaner shrimp and a couple snails for some added company before I add my zoas, palys, and a nice leather sticking up in the back.. BOOM-sweet nano reef for around $150 give or take

 

[nagreen]

or save the money on the heater, while also having less cords on your back wall, and just crank your house up to 78 degrees!! perfect! ;Dead

 

[Joel Jordan]

Well obviously the first step is to buy a brand new Radion XR30 Gen4... hah..

I guess it depends on the amount of $ you want to invest into it! If I got a free tank it'd just motivate me to make the entire build as cheap as possible haha..
Not at all what you have to do, but I'll let ya know what I would do!

For filtration, I would go with a $27 koralia powerhead and 1 medium sized nice looking piece of porous live-rock. I'd find the most aesthetically pleasing 50w heater and hide it in the back beside the powerhead.. I'd find a decent light, depending on $$ and what coral you want to put into it. I'd probably just want zoas/palys/leathers so maybe I could find a light for $50-$75 on Amazon or a local facebook group..
I'd get it set up and make sure it's cycled then add the prize piece -- a cute little yellow clown goby!
Later maybe a small cleaner shrimp and a couple snails for some added company before I add my zoas, palys, and a nice leather sticking up in the back.. BOOM-sweet nano reef for around $150 give or take

Now thats what im talking about!, hahaha radion ftw!!, not but sounds really good, ill deff look into all of that, but about the heater i dont think i might need one since I live in Panama, it gets pretty hot here so im not really worried about temp, i got some left over sand from my other tank, the rock ill probably leave the one that is in there, just need light and filter

 

[Brew12]

Now thats what im talking about!, hahaha radion ftw!!, not but sounds really good, ill deff look into all of that, but about the heater i dont think i might need one since I live in Panama, it gets pretty hot here so im not really worried about temp, i got some left over sand from my other tank, the rock ill probably leave the one that is in there, just need light and filter

I wouldn't bother with a filter. Just a small powerhead and regular water changes.

 

[Joel Jordan]

I wouldn't bother with a filter. Just a small powerhead and regular water changes.

U think so?, i would need a really really really small powerhead though, and regular water changes like how often? Every other day? Or weekly? I was thinking about just having one small fish and thats it, not sure how necessary would be to have a filter

 

[nagreen]

Well unless you're wanting to run carbon in the filter, the HOB filter is mainly just giving you a place to house biological filtration and run water through it, the same thing that you're doing with the powerhead and live rock.. if you're only getting 1 fish, I would probably just do weekly 1 gallon(at most) water changes.
With the space that the rock takes up you'll probably only have around 5gal of water volume.. a 1gal water change should suffice but after cycling and adding your fish, i'd just do tests for a few days and make sure that there is still 0 ammonia.. meaning that the live-rock filtration is doing it's job.

 

[Brew12]

Well unless you're wanting to run carbon in the filter, the HOB filter is mainly just giving you a place to house biological filtration and run water through it, the same thing that you're doing with the powerhead and live rock.. if you're only getting 1 fish, I would probably just do weekly 1 gallon(at most) water changes.
With the space that the rock takes up you'll probably only have around 5gal of water volume.. a 1gal water change should suffice but after cycling and adding your fish, i'd just do tests for a few days and make sure that there is still 0 ammonia.. meaning that the live-rock filtration is doing it's job.

Agree with all of this.

 

[Joel Jordan]

Well unless you're wanting to run carbon in the filter, the HOB filter is mainly just giving you a place to house biological filtration and run water through it, the same thing that you're doing with the powerhead and live rock.. if you're only getting 1 fish, I would probably just do weekly 1 gallon(at most) water changes.
With the space that the rock takes up you'll probably only have around 5gal of water volume.. a 1gal water change should suffice but after cycling and adding your fish, i'd just do tests for a few days and make sure that there is still 0 ammonia.. meaning that the live-rock filtration is doing it's job.

im deff doing this then, ill try to keep you guys posted on this little proyect

 

[Nicholas Dushynsky]

I would get a hob filter than can house the heater in it which keeps leads out the tank and adds flow back to the tank. plus the extra water in the filter will offset the displacement the rock takes up (a little anyway).