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freezetyle 01-06-2010 10:47 PM

Freezetyles Biocube 29. Updates March 16!
 
little history. I started with this tank in march last year as my first saltwater tank, and eventually move up to a 45 gallon cube, which had to go when i moved. I had this tank as the "girlfriends" with all of the little things she liked in it so it has been mainly been a FOWLR tank. When i shut down the other one and sold of the majority of the corals i thought to my self "there is no way im getting rid of everything. This tank is basically the reminats of that tank plus a lot more zoa's.

The first hurdle was a move from Calgary to kelowna which went suprisingly smooth except for me and my brilliant trait of being forgetful. When moving the tank i had disassembled all of the hard ware and place the majority of it in a box and straight into the trunk of my car. The other more important and delicate things i decided to put in another box to load with the tank come moving day.

Moving day comes drained the tank and placed the live rock and live stock into a bucket. placed that in the car followed shortly by the tank. Took the box with all of the "delicate stuff" out and placed it on the lawn while i put everything else in... shut door drive away. mean while the box was left on the lawn. Awesome... i know!

While it wasn't a big loss my tunze 9002 was in their and being a student i cannot afford another one yet. To my surprise everything is growing nicely and water chemistry is staying pretty consistent. i guess that is a benefit of having a somewhen mature tank.

i will keep posting updates in here along with other fun pictures of livestock and changes.

Full tank shot!
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...e/DSCN0146.jpg

Top shelf of sps
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...e/DSCN0149.jpg
Zoas on the sand
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...e/DSCN0150.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...e/DSCN0151.jpg
Spiderman zoa's from red coral
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...e/DSCN0138.jpg
montipora from Fishytime
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...e/DSCN0133.jpg
Stag? from lobsterboy (finally growing)
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...e/DSCN0125.jpg


More coming soon!

burrows14 01-06-2010 11:06 PM

Nice cube man! I used to have one and ended up selling it and I regret it to this day! That sucks about your tunze!

lobsterboy 01-06-2010 11:12 PM

nice pe on the stag

JDigital 01-06-2010 11:25 PM

Nice tank Jon!

Hope school goes well for you in Kelowna.. I'll have to look you up next time I come visit my parents.

Skimmerking 01-06-2010 11:32 PM

looks great love the way the rocks are nice color too,.

freezetyle 01-07-2010 12:32 AM

thanks for the compliments.

I had my doubts at the start about keeping sps. you defiantly need patience, which is one thing i have learned from reef keeping. initially you just try and try to pack as much stuff into yor tank at the begining before everything settles out which causes a lot of problems.

the idea of letting your tank mature before adding certain is becoming more and more prominent in my reef keeping values/ideals.

Since i only have a pair of perc. clownfish and a firefish I've been throwing around the idea of adding some sort of goby. maybe 2-3 clown gobys perhaps a orange spot or something. i was fairly docile fish because eventually i would like to get back into the seahorse game with this tank but am unsure about how the corals would cope with the reduced flow. any opinions?

Josh- anytime your down hit me up. still a little bit of a loner out here. haha

Cameron 01-07-2010 01:31 AM

What are the specs on the BC?

freezetyle 01-07-2010 01:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cameron (Post 478983)
What are the specs on the BC?

for hardware i have a 20" sunpod with a geisemann 14k bulb.
koralia 1 and nano
stock return pump.
in tank media basket running carbon and cemi-pure and filter floss.
tunze osmolator (worth the price!)

water change about 5 gallons every 2-3 weeks
add two part as needed.


debating on whether or not to do the vodka rocks. really want to do zeo but i know i wouldn't keep with the strict dosing procedures.

possitive k 01-07-2010 03:10 AM

looks great! im currently doing a bio cube 29 as well. hope mine looks as good as yours. keep us updated.

fishytime 01-07-2010 03:36 AM

Tank looks amazing for just being moved....that monti looks better in your tank bud...


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