Advice Needed. 14 Gallon Biocube.

[biocube14]

Awesome thanks for the input. I'll take out the bioballs and add in some small pieces of crush coral in compartment 2 along with some purigen or chemipure

[pinkreef]

Go for the chemipure elite unless you have a skimmer, i have heavily planted
mine and to a 5 gal water change weekly. i seem to have a good balance with that. ps you have a jumper i notice, it will jump from the display to compartment two thru an opening even when the lid is closed. put something at the back of your display to prevent this (i am doing that after work today because my blenny jumped over yesterday) good luck, barb

[biocube14]

I have since taken out the bioballs and added live rock rubble/new sponge and purigen in compartment 2.

Also went to the LFS to "look around" and ended up buying a piece of live rock for the back wall of the tank for more coral placements.

Also since your post, I've put this plastic strip to prevent my fire fish from jumping into the back chambers!

[biocube14]

I was only able to find purigen yesterday. Mixing purigen and chemipure is ok? Maybe I can add that in chamber 2 as well

[biocube14]

This is what the tank looks like as of today. I'm thinking I need a little more live rock for the back wall.

[HaZRaTTy]

You need some color!!!!!!! I would of highly suggested getting rid of the bio balls as well good choice.

Rockwork is all to your liking and you will find yourself mixing and re stacking and adding and removing for quite some time.

I'm not sure what type of light you have but it looks like you have a Kenya tree or maybe colt. Do some research on your light on the tank.

Also take a look at some of the hardy easier corals. Frogspawn, Hammer, Trumpet(Candy Cane) They will add some color and are easy to keep happy!




Sorry I see that you have recently just set up your tank, have you seen any type of cycle or did you cycle before adding livestock? how are your water param's

[biocube14]

I have the stock compact flo bulbs in there.

Tank was already setup for some time when i took over. Just drained the water, saved it and refilled at my place. Most of the livestock already came with the tank. Just playing with the filtration and upgrading a few things on the tank. Next will be the lighting.

I'm planning to add in more corals. The frags that i have now were given to me. I agree I need some colour!