Advice Needed. 14 Gallon Biocube.

[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!

[HaZRaTTy]

There is tonnes and tonnes of modding for the lighting system in these units.... When youre done welcome to the LED world

[pinkreef]

your solution to fish jumping over looks good. did you use a piece of heavy plastic?

[hfp75]

I'd use Purigen.... Not both.

Ditch the bio balls / sponges / foam

Crushed coral & live rock is good back there

Filter floss in chamber 1 and change it every 10 days or so. It's not supposed to be brown and yucky.

Simple is good

It's a fun hobby but don't get too cought up with trinkets and gimmicks. Go slow with things... Good things happen slow & bad things happen fast.

[biocube14]

Still haven't completely decided on the light just yet. If I upgrade in a few months time to a larger tank, I rather spend the money on the lighting on that new tank than this current one! I will go LED for sure!

The plastic strip is from a glass top that I have sitting around. Works great!

Ok all live rock rubble and the bag of purigen in chamber 2 then. chamber 1 will be floss that i will change frequently.

I will slow things down from this point onwards!

[hfp75]

T5 HO & CF are Tried n true....

LEDs are expensive and the technology changes fast id wait...