Softie and Macroalgae dominant Waspfish tank

[PokeFish]

Hi all! I am currently setting up a rimless 14g cube. It will be a tank for a wasp fish i am planning on getting live rock from gulfliverock and adding some nice soft corals. It will be quite simple. I have an led light and i will be adding a HOB filter aswell. I am most likely going to go with Aquaclear

 

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Do you guys think this wood cabinet should hold? Seems pretty sturdy i jumped on it a couple of times its a wood board

 

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Sand rinsed and added water still filling

 

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Cabinet will be ok

 

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bruh the top part leaked... i drained it about 50 percent and resealed it. gona wait 24 hours then fill it again

 

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dang petco

 

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Here is the tank in all its glory. Swapped out the randon leds with some gold ol aquaknights. Im still waiting on thr live rock from saltybottom to come in stock

 

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Welp i got impatient. Waited 3 weeks for sb rock to come in stock so decided to get a lil friend while i wait(sand alr cycled)

 

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Crab= removed
Rock = here

 

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I went ahead and purchased 15 lbs of saltybottomlive rock and it just arrived today.

Several dead crabs - hopefully some survivors. Found a decorator crab with eggs. Unfortunately she was dead

 

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Here is my scape

 

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Updated aquascape- added caves for future fish

 

[NoahLikesFish]

Updated aquascape- added caves for future fish

what all are you stocking it with

 

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what all are you stocking it with

black cockatoo wasp fish

 

[sixty_reefer]

Here is my scape

Looking good, that rock on the left looks crazy

 

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Looking good, that rock on the left looks crazy

Yeah haha its all covered in sponge. Im currently dealing with some dinos but im sure they will dissipate soon as my phosphates and nitrates are quite high. I will just keep manually removing. I am also dosing phytofeast

 

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Meet Marcus V

 

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Got the dinos away- will get snails today to deal with this algae…

Marcus has been acting odd lately. He doesn’t really respond to food… only the bits that flow by. He also sits in a little cave the entire day. This normal?

 

[sixty_reefer]

Got the dinos away- will get snails today to deal with this algae…

Marcus has been acting odd lately. He doesn’t really respond to food… only the bits that flow by. He also sits in a little cave the entire day. This normal?

There’s lots of Cyanobacteria present in the tank that it’s not normal for a tank cycling. Have you been feeding the tank a lot? It could of been because some die off on the LR

 

[PokeFish]

There’s lots of Cyanobacteria present in the tank that it’s not normal for a tank cycling. Have you been feeding the tank a lot? It could of been because some die off on the LR

just put the snails in- i was feeding pretty heavily in order to reduce dinos. Plenty of dieoffs from rock for sure. I also reduced the flow so there has been build up