Marc11 50 Gallon Cube Build/Restart

Marc11 · Dec 18, 2016

Painted fixture white with krylon fusion and bolted it to conduit. Had to temporarily throw up the radion for this pic.

The cord will be hidden behind conduit when I put T5's up.
This bring me up to date with my build. Had shoulder surgery last week so it's been a little slow going. I plan on getting T5's and cords hidden today or tomorrow depending how much football I watch today.

As for the tank my ammonia is still high. I have been dosing bacteria I got from a LFS but it's still slow going. Plan on ordering some Microbacter7 today to try and speed things up.

Masedaddy · Dec 18, 2016

Looks great Mark! This tank is going to be a real gem! I can't wait to see it first hand. Keep up the good work!!!

Marc11 · Dec 18, 2016

Thanks Mason. If I can get my corals to look half as nice as yours then I'll be happy.

Aslam Abraham · Dec 19, 2016

Well thought build, tagging.

Daniel@R2R · Dec 20, 2016

Looking very good!

MermaidTail · Dec 22, 2016

Awesome!!!

Marc11 · Dec 23, 2016

I plan on doing more this week. Unfortunately not only am i recuperating from my surgery but I apparently have shingles. Perfect timing for the Holidays!

Marc11 · Dec 23, 2016

Thank you to everyone tagging along. I too am excited about this build.

CHEF · Dec 23, 2016

love the tank

kazikage42 · Dec 29, 2016

That lighting rack looks awesome

Big B · Dec 29, 2016

Verdy Nice!

Useful_Idiot · Jan 7, 2017

Great attention to detail. Nice neat and clean

. Did you look any more into possible CO2 from your well eating up the DI?

Marc11 · Jan 7, 2017

Thanks. I have not looked into CO2 yet. For now I guess ill just go through a lot of resin. Just got PH probe up and running. PH is between 8.17 and 8.22.

Marc11 · Jan 7, 2017

Ammonia is gone but cant seem to get Nitrite down. Do people still ghost feed during Nitrite phase of cycling or no?

truepercs · Jan 8, 2017

I would try to get some type of life going in the tank... Seed live rock, copods,etc...

Marc11 · Jan 8, 2017

I have a piece of liverock. Algae just started to go nuts, so hopefully it is speeding up.

Marc11 · Jan 12, 2017

Nitrites still through the roof, going to give it till the weekend then Pick up another test kit to make sure mine is working fine.

Chrisfish · Jan 12, 2017

Really nice thread, tank , stand and rock scape are awesome. Will be following.

Marc11 · Jan 24, 2017

Apparently my tank does not want to follow the rules of nature and will not cycle. My ammonia is at 0 but my nitrites are high and will not come down. I added some live rock as well as microbater 7, and even tried special blend. Added two chromis to see if that will help. Its been over 3 weeks and it wont come down. I kept and eye on PH and it never dropped below 8.15 so not sure what stalled the cycle.