BioCube 29 HQi Nano Reef at 6 Months

Setup:
Tank - Oceanic Biocube 29 HQi
Intake (Chamber 1) - Visitherm 100W heater and stock oceanic protein skimmer
Lighting - Coralife 150W HQI Metal Halide
Refugium (Chamber 2) - chunk of live rock, chaeto, 2 half bags of denitrate (one either end), filter floss.
Refugium Lighting - Exterior 225 LED blue/white grow light panel
Return (chamber 3) - Stock return pump and activated carbon
Powerheads: 1x Koralia 725 and 2x Koralia Nano

Aquascape:
Live Sand - 20Lbs Caribsea Bahamas Oolite
Live Rock - 20Lbs Fiji

Fish:
1x Perc
1x Hoeven's Wrasse
5x Green Chromis

Inverts and snails:
multiple blue legged hermits
multiple cerith snails
multiple tonga nassarius snails
multiple margarita snails

Corals:
various zoanthids
various mushrooms and ricordea
green star polyps
4x acan
3x favia
2x blasto
2x Torch (several heads)
1x duncan (several heads)
1x red montipora
1x common green chalice
1x turbinaria
1x moon coral

Others:
Deltec H2Ocean Salt
Kent Iodine
Kent Strontium and molybdenum
Kent Liquid Calcium
Kent CoralVite
Kent Lugols
Kent trace elements
Mysis shrimp
Cyclopeeze
New Life Spectrum Thera A Regular

Stores:
http://fragalot.ca/ (coral frags)
http://www.jlaquatics.com/ (corals, supplies, livestock)
http://oceanaquatics.com/ (corals, livestock)

For info on home reefs visit:
http://www.reefcollege.com

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• phoenix
• 14000k
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• bulb
• Biocube
• 29
• Hqi
• nano
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• coral
• marine
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• project
• oceanic
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• clown
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• green
• hoeven's
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• yellow
• spot
• anemone
• salt
• water
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• sea
• max
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• koralia
• acan
• acanthastrea
• polyps
• zoanthids
• goldfish
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• tank
• live
• rock
• ricordea
• clownfish
• dory
• tunze
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• zoanthid
• duncan
• acropora
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• montipora
• chalice
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• fowlr

[2b3the1]

Oh blargh, just read the stock list and you do have a Turbinara. Try to find a blue morph that is flat, not scrolling and place it under the shelf where the orange Monti is.

[TheReefProject]

@2b3the1 I will try and find one with nice colour. it's really hard to find anything with really nice colour where i live. i changed/added some stuff around in my tank recently so Ill post another video soon. you can check out the other video i posted to see the tank under new lighting, it makes everything bluer haha. clove polyps with the lime green accents look nice too and add some movement to the tank... but i'm finding them hard to keep (long story).

[2b3the1]

@TheReefProject Also, the cloves might be doing bad because they prefer low flow. I can't really tell what they are from this video but if they are Clavularidae, giant palm polyps, they won't open up in high flow. I had to move mine around half a dozen times before I found a spot where they opened fully.

[TheReefProject]

@2b3the1 mine are opening but the base/mat is withering away. the cloves looked great and thriving but i think it was because of a tank meltdown after my starfish kicked the bucket a few months back. everything is almost back to normal now.

[2b3the1]

If there's room in the back put a bunch of chaeto in it. Pretty much starves all algae of nutrients.

[TheReefProject]

Thanks, chaeto is already in the back. i wanted to do this tank "right" from the start, but as we all know, doing it "right" from the start is still a challenge haha. but i agree, it's good advice for anyone.

[tonyroma1161]

very nice tank

[2b3the1]

@TheReefProject I impulse bought the first one I saw before I even knew what it was called ;p

[2b3the1]

Turbinara*

[2b3the1]

Also...Get a Tubinara. Got one today, a 4" colony for 30 dollars. Absolutely my favorite coral, tied with Fungiids. Not sure of the exact species, I believe Turbinara Peltata. I have mine placed at a 60 degree angle facing a power head and some random flows and it is absolutely beautiful. It's under CPF and 50 watts of 50/50 12k/420nm strips and it is the deepest blue I have seen in anything other than a chalice.