Freezetyles Biocube 29. Updates March 16!

[freezetyle]

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!


Top shelf of sps

Zoas on the sand


Spiderman zoa's from red coral

montipora from Fishytime

Stag? from lobsterboy (finally growing)



More coming soon!

[burrows14]

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]

nice pe on the stag

[JDigital]

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]

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

[freezetyle]

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]

What are the specs on the BC?

[freezetyle]

Originally Posted by Cameron

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]

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

[fishytime]

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