magik's 29 oceanic Biocube

[magikof7]

about ready to fill it up!
Hubby is going to put the doors on when they are finished, in the mean time I can get it salty.

I am rethinking the Refugium. I should have gone with what Dave suggested and drill the bottom. this way I can hide all the plumbing and it wont interfere with the back cabinet doors....DUH!

Im very happy with how it looks, if I would change anything I would have dropped the refugium height a bit so it isn't taking away from the display but there is lots of room on the tabletop to upgrade to a bigger cube

Now to re-arrange furniture and find a spot for it!

[magikof7]

It's Finally Salty!!!! Woot!

Went to Oceans today and picked up 23 lbs of liverock. and some Aragonite live sand.
I think I need one or 2 more small pieces to get it how I want it.

I had to go ahead without the Refugium, I will be adding that ASAP. The 10 gallon twisted on me and I don't trust it. I think I am going to have one custom made and a little bigger than a 10 gal.
I need to figure out how I am going to set up my Radion.
I am still trying to figure out my reefkeeper. I wish they would spend the money and include the manual on paper! Its not hard but I don't have a laptop.


It may be so cloudy you cant see a thing but it is a beautiful sight to me!!

[Proteus]

Right on. You got Alot more patience than I. Lol
If your looking for a light hanger talk to the grizz he builds hangers and I just got mine and live it. Here's a crappy pic
It's adjustable for height and under 100 bucks

[magikof7]

I am not a patient person lol this has been a real test for me but, now that I have the tank up and running Im ok with going slow and taking my time.

Thanks for the pic! I will have to keep that in mind. I would prefer to keep the hood. but I think I can live without it if I can make a set of covers for the overflow chamber. My Issue is always dog hair and dander. I want to keep as much out as I can.

I am mostly happy with my rock arrangement. I worked on it for 3 days! I would move it around and it would cloud so bad I had to wait until it cleared again.
I pulled out my test kits today and found my nitrite kit expired in 2010! lol I phoned Golds and they said they will exchange it for me.

Ammonia is at 0.1
Nitrate are at 25.
I have not seen much for hitchhikers, a few Asterina starfish, a tiny snail or 2 and a small brittlestar (I saw him once while scaping). Lots of Coraline especially purple, the camera doesn't pick it up well.

I have some ok pics, I used my Daughters camera as mine is missing both the charger and the battery! so I am going to do some research and get a good camera. any suggestions are most welcome!
The cave in the center goes right through to the back of the tank.






The rock on the bottom left I like and don't like. it is rather solid but it has a great surface for placing corals and creates another cave area, I am going to bury it a bit more and hopefully it would make a good watchman/shrimp cave. (if I don't bust it up and/or get a different piece)


If anyone has suggestions thoughts or Opinions. Please speak up.

[Proteus]

I like the scape. Lots of caves. Have u been testing water since filling. Just wondering if no3 is on the rise or going down

[magikof7]

thank you.
no I haven't. I was messing with it so much and it was so cloudy.
The trates are maxed on the test. I will test it again tomorrow and see what it reads. I am going to pick up a new nitrite test tomorrow as well.

[magikof7]

I went to trade in my Trite test kit and ended up having to take an API he was out of the Elos and salifert was expired in 09! lol

Im going to Order an Elos test kit online. for now the API will have to do.

tested at 8 pm tonight. Day 6
Ammonia - 0
Nitrate is falling. It measures between 10 - 25 ppm. It is a lot lighter than yesterday.
Nitrite is between 0 - 0.25 The blue is about the color of a blue freezie lol.

[magikof7]

I found a little muscle or clam. it appeared out of nowhere on the sandbed.
and something else I don't know what it is its hairy so I am guessing it is a filter feeder. I thought it was dead when I saw it but in the last week it has increased in size.

I am seeing Brown algea and maybe the start of green hair algea. Lots of little tube worms and macro algeas.



I can not get a good pic of this thing. the camera just wont take a good close up.

[Coralgurl]

LOVE this tank! Great job on the scaping! Looks like its coming to life, very exciting!

[magikof7]

I found what I believe are aptasia. both hard to spot and even harder to get pics of.
Ammo and Trites are at Zero, Trates are at about 10

Green hair algea is growing fast.

I managed to get this shot of the one at the back under the rock. The one on the opposite corner inside a hole retreated even further when I put a light on it to get a pic. it looks a bit different but has the brown and lighter colored banding on the tentacles. I don't know how Im going to get at either of them.