New to me biocube

[Shelby Weaver]

Been lurking around for a while but I'm brave enough now to post.

Hey there! I've had a salt tank up and running for about a year, unfortunately alot of life got in the way I never really got anywhere with it. I got some mushrooms on a rock for the lfs, as well as a hammer, some macro algae, and some assorted relatively easy fish.

I've managed to completely screw up the tank and have decided it would be easier to completly start over. I have grape algae all up in my rocks, bristle worms, an awful case of dino, I found a nudibranch a couple days ago and some soft mussle looking things under a rock. I have loads of vermitid snails and something else that looks like small feather dusters as far as the tube but I never see anything sticking out. They are about the size of a pencil lead and dont get any bigger, they have taken over every available surface.
Current stock:
1 frost bit clown
2 blue green chromis
1 purple dude (orchid something?)
1 watchman goby
A 4 headed hammer that looks very sad

I plan to get some dry rock and some live sand and start cycling a 29 biocube that I picked up last fall in the next week or 2. I would like to move the current stock to this tank so I can break down the 75 and start over. Once I have it all done the way I like the 29 would become a seahorse tank bit I dont see that happening until next year. I'm due with a boy in September so I'm going at this very slow.

The hood has been all sorts of cut up and is missing most of the equipment from what I can tell. I'm looking into retrofitting options vs just replacing what's gone so I'm open to suggestions there. Hoping to keep it cheap though so the husband doesnt flip out!

Also I have been cleaning up the tank and water testing. I noticed the seal between the tank and the back sump/filter? compartment is no good, however the tank does not leak water to the outside. Should I reseal?

Any advice on how to arrange the back is also very much appreciated!!!

 

[Shelby Weaver]

Been lurking around for a while but I'm brave enough now to post.

Hey there! I've had a salt tank up and running for about a year, unfortunately alot of life got in the way I never really got anywhere with it. I got some mushrooms on a rock for the lfs, as well as a hammer, some macro algae, and some assorted relatively easy fish.

I've managed to completely screw up the tank and have decided it would be easier to completly start over. I have grape algae all up in my rocks, bristle worms, an awful case of dino, I found a nudibranch a couple days ago and some soft mussle looking things under a rock. I have loads of vermitid snails and something else that looks like small feather dusters as far as the tube but I never see anything sticking out. They are about the size of a pencil lead and dont get any bigger, they have taken over every available surface.
Current stock:
1 frost bit clown
2 blue green chromis
1 purple dude (orchid something?)
1 watchman goby
A 4 headed hammer that looks very sad

I plan to get some dry rock and some live sand and start cycling a 29 biocube that I picked up last fall in the next week or 2. I would like to move the current stock to this tank so I can break down the 75 and start over. Once I have it all done the way I like the 29 would become a seahorse tank bit I dont see that happening until next year. I'm due with a boy in September so I'm going at this very slow.

The hood has been all sorts of cut up and is missing most of the equipment from what I can tell. I'm looking into retrofitting options vs just replacing what's gone so I'm open to suggestions there. Hoping to keep it cheap though so the husband doesnt flip out!

Also I have been cleaning up the tank and water testing. I noticed the seal between the tank and the back sump/filter? compartment is no good, however the tank does not leak water to the outside. Should I reseal?

Any advice on how to arrange the back is also very much appreciated!!!

 

[hdsoftail1065]

Hello @Shelby Weaver. That tank has allot of potential, the is the same tank my wife and I started with. The hood looks pretty gutted which is fine you still have options depending on what your long term goals are. You can go hoodless and mount a light and install a screen or go with an after market light that will fit in the hood. Looking at the front of the tank we ran the heater in the right chamber, a media rack in the middle. If I remember correctly (it's been a few years) it had black vinyl on the back in the middle chamber and we cut that away for a light to grow cheato. The third chamber is the return pump area.