32 Biocube LED

sulcatadragon23

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Ok so I took the plunge and bought the biocube 32. I bought the InTank media basket and the InTank refugium basket with refugium light from Acke also from InTank.
Im using the Aqamai KP wave maker from Hydor.
35 Lbs of live sand ( the pink stuff, but it’s not pink ), about 25-30 Lbs of dry rock.
It’s been set up since 02-02-20 and on 02-03-20 I poured a bottle of Bio-Spira in the tank. On 02-04-20 I poured a bottle of Coralline Algae in a Bottle (Purple Helix) from ARC Reef.
So I also put a dead deli shrimp in the tank to help to cycle the tank. I’ve done 2 Separate Water tests now and looking pretty good.
ammonia-1.0
nitrite-5.0
nitrate-20
ph-7.8
dkh-10
It will be a little while before I add any livestock, I want all numbers to get to 0, or as much as possible.
So I guess I’m back in, I’m gonna keep it small this time, maybe in a couple of weeks get an ato/awc system as and maybe a auto dosing system.
 

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This will be my water station. It’s coming along, slower than I expected. I have brut trash barrel for Ro/Di water and I will get another soon for salt mix water.
It’s a 75 gallon per day system, maybe I’ll add a 2nd membrane in the future.
I'm running a booster pump and an auto membrane flush. I’m also adding a drinking water system before the Di, I already plumbed all hoses and connections in.
The construction part was fun, my wife and kids helped build this, I also ran a dedicated gfi electrical circuit for this.
I very happy with how this came out, now all my cable and Ethernet cables are neat and hidden.
I also ran a 1/2 hose through the walls from the living room to the basement for water changes. I’ll need to figure a pump to go from the basement to up stairs, 55ft.
 

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An update. Finally added a brute barrel for Ro/Di water, i mix salt water in a 5 gallon bucket for now. I added an AI Prime 16HD light to the nano tank. The stock hood light wasn’t cutting it, way to bright in all the wrong spectrums. I got a clean up crew in their and I think it looks ok for now.
 

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Very nice. I ran an air prime over mine for a while before switching to an xr15 once it became heavy with SPS. Nice setup.
 
I was board today so I decided to take a few pics. I also added a few things.
 

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