Oceanic 29G Biocube build help

[atcaw94]

It's actually HUD3339's old tank. I retrofitted the LEDs in the hood, it's gonna be pretty sweet.

Just wondering what you guys are using as filter media? I was thinking of putting liverock and cheato in the middle chamber. I read that a lot of guys use Purigen and Chemipur.

 

[jef4y]

without light Chaeto will do you no good in the back. Unless you plan on very little rock in the display or a huge bioload, I wouldn't put anything in the back chambers except maybe a bag of carbon & a bag of GFO/PhosBan (remove the carbon pass-thru filter, it clogs way too quick/easily)

 

[purplegorilla]

I scrapped the black paint off the middle chamber and put live rubbles plus cheato in there. You can get small LED or a small fluorescent light from Walmart.

 

[redstang]

atcaw94;658294 wrote: It's actually HUD3339's old tank. I retrofitted the LEDs in the hood, it's gonna be pretty sweet.

Just wondering what you guys are using as filter media? I was thinking of putting liverock and cheato in the middle chamber. I read that a lot of guys use Purigen and Chemipur.

I have purigen and chemipure with a media basket on the way to hold the folter floss. Mine's only been up two weeks though which is my way of saying I don't know **** :thumbs:. It seems most of the nano's I've read about that are successful long term run purigen, chemipure, or comparable products. I may do a fuge but I question if it's really going to make much of a difference.

Forgot to add good luck and nice to see someone else from Douglasville!

 

[atcaw94]

purpleGORILLA;658302 wrote: I scrapped the black paint off the middle chamber and put live rubbles plus cheato in there. You can get small LED or a small fluorescent light from Walmart.

I saw that thread and thought it was a good idea.

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JeF4y;658298 wrote: without light Chaeto will do you no good in the back. Unless you plan on very little rock in the display or a huge bioload, I wouldn't put anything in the back chambers except maybe a bag of carbon & a bag of GFO/PhosBan (remove the carbon pass-thru filter, it clogs way too quick/easily)

I should have plenty of liverock, I'm transferring some of the stuff from my 40 breeder to the nano. Shouldn't have a huge bioload. To start off I'll just have a midas blenny, firefish, clown and a royal gamma with assorted softie corals.

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JeF4y;658298 wrote: without light Chaeto will do you no good in the back. Unless you plan on very little rock in the display or a huge bioload, I wouldn't put anything in the back chambers except maybe a bag of carbon & a bag of GFO/PhosBan (remove the carbon pass-thru filter, it clogs way too quick/easily)

Is the carbon pass-through filter the basket like thing in the middle chamber?

 

[jef4y]

atcaw94;658329 wrote: Is the carbon pass-through filter the basket like thing in the middle chamber?

Unless they changed the design, it's in the 1st chamber. I forget whether it's between the 1st & 2nd or just the 1st and the overflow from the main display. If you have a filter in there it will be obvious.

 

[looters]

RedStang;658319 wrote: I have purigen and chemipure with a media basket on the way to hold the folter floss. Mine's only been up two weeks though which is my way of saying I don't know **** :thumbs:. It seems most of the nano's I've read about that are successful long term run purigen, chemipure, or comparable products. I may do a fuge but I question if it's really going to make much of a difference.

Forgot to add good luck and nice to see someone else from Douglasville!

I also run purigen and chemipure with rock rubble and my water parameters are perfect and my water is crystal clear.

 

[atcaw94]

looters;658339 wrote: I also run purigen and chemipure with rock rubble and my water parameters are perfect and my water is crystal clear.

Which chambers do you run what? I figure the live rock will go in the middle chamber in that little basket?

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RedStang;658319 wrote: I have purigen and chemipure with a media basket on the way to hold the folter floss. Mine's only been up two weeks though which is my way of saying I don't know **** :thumbs:. It seems most of the nano's I've read about that are successful long term run purigen, chemipure, or comparable products. I may do a fuge but I question if it's really going to make much of a difference.

Forgot to add good luck and nice to see someone else from Douglasville!

I actually live between douglasville and hiram, closer to hiram but I got a douglsville mailing address:confused2:

 

[looters]

Well I didn't choose the shelf system so I moved it around a bit until I got what I thought was a good setup. Mine has shelf on the intake chamber so I set the purigen on that shelf. Placed the rubble in the second chamber to about 2/3 full topped with filter floss and then the chemipure across the top of that. It may not be "right" but it seems to be working now for 4 months for me. Also still clean the floss and 10-15% water change almost every week.

 

[michaelb14]

I ran nothing but Cheato and actually used their little filters. Changed it once a week.

 

[redstang]

MichaelB14;658657 wrote: I ran nothing but Cheato and actually used their little filters. Changed it once a week.

Might have to buy the fuge basket and a light then.......

 

[michaelb14]

I scratched paint off of the middle section and used one of the fuge baskets. I had no issues what so ever.

 

[redstang]

Might be the route I go down as well. Because the tank is in a highly visible are though I need something that looks good(for the wife) so I may just go with a submersible light.

 

[michaelb14]

you only scratch paint off the back... I got a JBJ Nano magnetic led light that hung off the back.

 

[mustangcaleb]

u can buy little submersible lights on ebay for a couple of bucks. i had one in the middle chamber when i had chaeto in there. but i took the chaeto out bc it ended up getting in the display