My lil big cube

[brazilian_guy]

The tank i currently own is a 14g Oceanic Biocube. The reason i picked this lil guy was the fact that its a AIO tank. And ive always been a fan of Oceanic products. I have done several mods to the tank in the past few months but its still remains a AIO.

EQUIPMENT:
MaxiJet900 Return pump
Hydor Water Deflector
Intank media basket
Intank submergeable fuge light
Intank water director
Ecotech MP10ES
Rapid LED cree plug/play retro kit
Rapid LED dimmer running on 30min sunrise/8hrs daylight/30min sunset
JBJ auto top off with Toms AQUALIFTER
Twolittlefish alge scraper (kinda over it, might get a magna float)
Marineland digital temp
twolittlefish stealth heater
Reef masters test kit
Hydrometer (want to buy a refractometer)
Homedepot short interupter (must have incase your power has a tendency to go out)

FOOD/ADDITIVES
SPIRULINA FLAKES
OMEGA ONE PELLETS
FROZEN MYSIS
KENT MARINE MICROVERT
AQUAVITRO FUEL

LIVE STOCK:
sexy shrimp
tank bred clownfish
coral banded shrimp
cuc (mix of snails only)
Green tip torch
acan colony
croecea clam
dragonsoul favia
tyree sunset montipora
tyree true undata
tyree war coral
tyree setosa
yuma
20+ diff color ricordias (yellows, blues,hypergreens)
kenya tree
gsp
green hairy mushroom
red macro algea
small colony of watermellon zoa

FTS 2/8/12

sorry for the poor quality pic. i still havent had the liquid cash to invest in a good camera w/ a macro lense.

torch hosted by clown with a sexy shrimp gaurd

acan colony 10+heads

clam,setosa,sunset montipora

closeup: torch, watermellon zoa, war coral

ric display rock

dragonsoul favia

sunset
undata

 

[brazilian_guy]

croecea (got this lil guy from a LFS, didnt have any color on him)

mp10es (loving it. i orginaly had a hydor koralia evo 245 in the tank for about 1month then got this bad boy)

doing these upgrades has deff been an undertanking. especially in my bank account. lol

had to get new fans for the tank, because the ones i had died on me. I did get the tank second hand so who knows how long those old fans were used for

 

[brazilian_guy]

any feed back is greatly appreciated.

 

[bige]

Looks great! Well done!

 

[Eggs]

Looks nice.
How is the rock on the back wall held, looks like silicone.

 

[underwaterfirefighter]

Wow! That is a great looking cube! Very nice collection you have. Thanks for sharing!

 

[brazilian_guy]

Looks nice.
How is the rock on the back wall held, looks like silicone.

I used JB waterweld. you can find it at home depot. its tank safe. but takes a really long time to cure. i had to leave the water lv on the tank kinda low while applying the product then prop it with something fill tank back up so i could turn on my pumps and leave it alone for about 30min. then take the prop off. got the idea from a fellow reefer on R.A. and i wanted to apply it to my Biocube. Im really happy with the turn out. just cant wait till its covered up in Coraline. because right now like you said it looks white. But improvements with water flow have improved drastically. the hold on it is really good too. when i moved the tank to my new place the rocks stayed on no problem. both those rocks that are in the back are actually floating above the front structure.

 

[brazilian_guy]

Wow! That is a great looking cube! Very nice collection you have. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks. with the help of local reefers and family i got it just like i wanted it. deff worth having to survive on maruchan ramen and tap water for the next few months hahaha jk

 

[brazilian_guy]

Looks great! Well done!

thx bige

 

[kevantheman35]

nice rics!

 

[Steven R]

tank looks amazing.

 

[brazilian_guy]

tank looks amazing.

thanx everyone im trying really hard to make this tank an awesome lil cube. bad news though. got a outbreak of GHA (green hair algea)

not sure what the source of the prob is. i only feed my fish every other day sometimes a lil longer and i only feed the corals one a week right before my water change. but i think i might switch that feeding to every two weeks. I did notice a slight more growth when i got rid of my red macro algae, so i can assume that i was deff. absorbing some of that excess nutrients. I opened up my hold and did notice that in the back chambers there was some nasty detrius buildup so im siphoning all that out today with my water change. give my return pump a good scrub... As far as my media i changed my chemi pure and puragen last week. so im good for a couple more weeks on that. and i change my filter floss on a weekly basis as well. its never really dirty on the sponge. some im wondering if my new intank water director is not getting all that water into the media basket. humm.... ill keep you guys updated

 

[brazilian_guy]

sorry i havent done a update in a while guys. but i will do one this week. I currently switched to ESV b-ionic salt. i will be doing my 1st water change with it. heard nothing buy + things about it. and changed up the location of my corals and got a few new pieces