magik's 29 oceanic Biocube

[Proteus]

Looks good

[magikof7]

This is going so frustratingly slow! If I had known how slow I think I would have bought a premade stand. It is coming along however. I have all of the equipment for the tank now. except some extra toys that I dont really Have to have.

By Monday I should be able to Pick up a radion from Dave at concept, He did my 10 gal refugium for me, I am now trying to figure out plumbing

my Kitchen is driving me crazy! everything is piled around my sewing area and turtle. it makes it hard to get to.

Behind the tank is another garbage bin filled with Ro water.


Here is the second coat of red Oak stain on the stand. it takes a whole day for each coat to dry. My kitty left his paw prints in the first coat, Hubby insisted we do 2 coats of the prep stain as well. I'm going to nag the skin off his bones today to get the trim cut so I can prep and stain it.

Top tier




Bottom main cabinet. The first pic doesn't show the red as well.



Trim and there is also corner trim as well.

[NightShadeFairy]

I am really enjoying following this thread, thanks for sharing! I have the same tank in storage at my shop (hair studio) that I am considering doing seahorses in.. Just focussing on my 120 at home for now

[magikof7]

I picked up a Red and a Yellow Gorg today. Thought I'd post a FTS as well. things are coming along very nicely.
I had Red slime but treated the tank for it and it hasn't come back but I now have brown diatoms. It'a a little annoying.

I have a Flame Hawk Fish in QT I like him a lot but I'm a little concerned he might eat my inverts so I haven't added him to the DT yet.




I think it is almost time to prune that cheato too!

[reefwars]

Nice gorgs Lynn keep em well fed ps- you know I want a frag someday of those. Hehe)

[magikof7]

Thank you Denny.
I went out yesterday looking for something for my clowns to host in, the little beggars are trying to host my Squamosa clam!
Of course I came home with something I had no intention of picking up and nothing for the clowns lol.

You have first dibs on frags. The Yellow one could give up a nice size branch anytime.

[magikof7]

I added my Flame Hawk Fish the other day, after fighting with my shrimp for my Feather Duster! they almost won. So I decided if he eats my shrimp I wont be overly upset.

Denny was kind enough to test my water for me this morning trying to figure out what my problem is. (thank you for the Sun coral frag!)
Calc is a bit low and the nitrates are too high. I have been fighting with them forever so he made some recommendations hopefully I can get it fixed.

I am seriously thinking about telling my Hubby I want a bigger tank for my B-day, he does keep asking what I want, (he should know better )

I still have not seen the Red Gorg extend its polyps. I am hoping it will soon. I don't know what to do with it other than target feed it which doesn't seem to be helping.

some new pics. I love my Clowns, the one just keeps getting darker.





the glass is dirty I know but when a photo Op comes up ya gotta take it.

[magikof7]

Last Pics before the tear down in a couple of weeks.

[Tweeds]

Wow, I'm on the hunt for a bio cube, and I hope that when I set up, it can look half as amazing as this. Beautiful. Well done.

[magikof7]

Thank you very much Tweeds.

Welcome to the insanity lol.
I wish you the best of luck! I will be looking for your build thread and expect lots of Pics