Noob back after 10 years away...

[smoothette]

On mothersday my husband surprised me with a 32 biocube, he said after 10 years its time for me to get back into what i love, especially now that we have a solid perm place to have a tank... we set up the aquarium on 5/16 we also set up a 13.5 gallon fluvol sea evo for quarantine/frag type tank at the same time... we added a shrimp to start the amonia cycle and we're off!....

stock 32 led biocube, biocube skimmer, wavemaker, natures ocean live sand/water, dry rock, 100w heater (only set to 75 because its so hot now...) ordered zoomed fan to help cool the aquarium because its at 83 degrees most of the time...

stocl fluvol sea evo 13.5 upgraded pump to sicce 1.0 pump because i hated the flow on the fluvol stock... same water/sand and using barnacle and frag stand instead of rock so when i use it as a quarantine tank i can catch the fishes easier....

need help with tips to keep an enclosed system cooler... as i said i ordered zoomed fan but ANY hints would be greatly appreciated

need help when to add ground crew.../clean crew and what type is now recommended.... any tips on if i should start with fish first to get tanks more stable before adding corals? again any tips in a nano tank would be great... never done a nano...

look forward to meeting people and learning alot...

tank pics were taken yesturday when i removed the cycle shrimp and they kinda fell apart so their a bit cloudy.

 

[Reeferstin]

On mothersday my husband surprised me with a 32 biocube, he said after 10 years its time for me to get back into what i love, especially now that we have a solid perm place to have a tank... we set up the aquarium on 5/16 we also set up a 13.5 gallon fluvol sea evo for quarantine/frag type tank at the same time... we added a shrimp to start the amonia cycle and we're off!....

stock 32 led biocube, biocube skimmer, wavemaker, natures ocean live sand/water, dry rock, 100w heater (only set to 75 because its so hot now...) ordered zoomed fan to help cool the aquarium because its at 83 degrees most of the time...

stocl fluvol sea evo 13.5 upgraded pump to sicce 1.0 pump because i hated the flow on the fluvol stock... same water/sand and using barnacle and frag stand instead of rock so when i use it as a quarantine tank i can catch the fishes easier....

need help with tips to keep an enclosed system cooler... as i said i ordered zoomed fan but ANY hints would be greatly appreciated

need help when to add ground crew.../clean crew and what type is now recommended.... any tips on if i should start with fish first to get tanks more stable before adding corals? again any tips in a nano tank would be great... never done a nano...

look forward to meeting people and learning alot...

tank pics were taken yesturday when i removed the cycle shrimp and they kinda fell apart so their a bit cloudy.

Welcome back! Tank looks great i would try to up the aqua scaping build a cave or ledge,, i use a device called inkbird to moniter my heater it shuts it off and it turns on my fan vice versa tank stays at 77 degrees all day and night

 

[Bo.]

Welcome back!

Look forward to more pics as you go.

 

[smoothette]

Welcome back! Tank looks great i would try to up the aqua scaping build a cave or ledge,, i use a device called inkbird to moniter my heater it shuts it off and it turns on my fan vice versa tank stays at 77 degrees all day and night

wow thanks for the advice on the monitor! ill look into that, there is actually a gap down the middle of the rocks you just cannot see it there way i took the pic, i will update that next time... also i wanted to leave some room incase i found some good live rock pieces once i started going to our local shops.. we are finally allowed to do that now! yay i didnt know if i may find some nice branch rock out there still either, i love that stuff... its funny i missed the smell ...