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So I picked up a 29gal biocube off a member on here that had it on cl for super cheap, I consider it a gift at the price asked. It came with a couple frags, tons of gsp, a rbta, few assorted snails, and a clown fish. Person that had it was tired of maintenance, hadn't done a water change in 7 months I believe is what he said. Tons of GHA throughout the rocks and along the glass. I brought everything home in buckets including the water. I get everything back in the tank, put the rocks with gha face down to avoid giving it more light to grow and did a 5gal water change after a few days of it running.
It has a diy cree led fixture, very bright! It came a reactor full of nitrate remover and something else, not sure, I went ahead and got that running, planning on getting gho in there though. I added a cpr bak pak skimmer, which kinda sucks, on the look out for a good air pump to do the limewood mod. I also threw some chaeto into the fuge and 3 turbo snails and a blue leg hermit. Tank has quite a bit live rock, barely any live sand and back wall has good algae growth too.
I manually started removing some of the gha on the glass, which hasn't grown back. I removed some off rocks but it still grows back and is showing up in new spots as well. I have it on a 5 hour light period, I leave the light in the fuge for longer though. The skimmer I shut off at night because its too loud to sleep in the same room with it as well as the reactor.
I'm got busy the past week or so, I'm planing on doing regular water changes, maybe 2 per week until I start to see a change. With the limewood mod, I'll be able to leave the skimmer on 24/7, and I do plan on pulling some rocks out and manually scrubbing them as well.
The other option, the tank currently is sitting on the floor because I was in a rush to setup, and didn't have anything strong enough to support it and the PO's stand was too bulky to fit in my car. I'm going to have to take everything out, empty the tank to get it on top of a stand very soon. Should I just do a heavy 50+% water change at that time and put the live rock through a light out phase to kill the gha? I don't mind letting the tank cycle again, I have another small tank I can put the clown fish in. I'm just worried about the corals since they have gha on the plugs and I have a big rock covered in gsp and tid bits of gha. I don't want my other tank to get gha.
Any tips or suggestions, and anyone have a stand/air pump they wouldn't mind selling?
It has a diy cree led fixture, very bright! It came a reactor full of nitrate remover and something else, not sure, I went ahead and got that running, planning on getting gho in there though. I added a cpr bak pak skimmer, which kinda sucks, on the look out for a good air pump to do the limewood mod. I also threw some chaeto into the fuge and 3 turbo snails and a blue leg hermit. Tank has quite a bit live rock, barely any live sand and back wall has good algae growth too.
I manually started removing some of the gha on the glass, which hasn't grown back. I removed some off rocks but it still grows back and is showing up in new spots as well. I have it on a 5 hour light period, I leave the light in the fuge for longer though. The skimmer I shut off at night because its too loud to sleep in the same room with it as well as the reactor.
I'm got busy the past week or so, I'm planing on doing regular water changes, maybe 2 per week until I start to see a change. With the limewood mod, I'll be able to leave the skimmer on 24/7, and I do plan on pulling some rocks out and manually scrubbing them as well.
The other option, the tank currently is sitting on the floor because I was in a rush to setup, and didn't have anything strong enough to support it and the PO's stand was too bulky to fit in my car. I'm going to have to take everything out, empty the tank to get it on top of a stand very soon. Should I just do a heavy 50+% water change at that time and put the live rock through a light out phase to kill the gha? I don't mind letting the tank cycle again, I have another small tank I can put the clown fish in. I'm just worried about the corals since they have gha on the plugs and I have a big rock covered in gsp and tid bits of gha. I don't want my other tank to get gha.
Any tips or suggestions, and anyone have a stand/air pump they wouldn't mind selling?
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