Ibuyen 14 gal biocube

**ibuyen** · 09-30-2012, 10:10 PM

Well I decided to jump into the saltwater world. I been reading about it for about two years.

Tank
14g Coralife biocube

Equipment
Stock lighting plus extra blue led bar
Stock pump
Biocube protein skimmer
100w heater
Biocube UV sterilizer
In tank meadia basket
10w underwater light

About 19 lbs of live rock
20 pounds live sand
Some Zoas
leather finger
long leather poly
Chaeto

3 Astraea snails

Current test results
Ph- 8.2
Ammonia- 0 ppm
Nitrate - 10 ppm
Nitrite- 0 ppm
Calcium- 400 mg/l ppm
KH Carbon Hardness- 8 dkh 143.2 ppmkh
Phosphate- 0.0 ppm
Specific gravity- 1.022

Using API master and reef set

Will add pictures as soon as I can

**Northerly** · 09-30-2012, 10:26 PM

Sounds cool! Any plans for some tiny fish or crustaceans? Would love to see pics.

**Cliff** · 09-30-2012, 10:28 PM

I'm looking forward to seeing pics

Just a word of warning tho, your corasl likely won't do to well (as well as the could) and it will be more difficult to keep your parameters stable with a salinity that low. Natural sea water is 1.027, so at 1.022, you are very low. I would suggest keeping it between 1.025 and 1.026. That will help a lot and give you a little flexability if you get some evaporation.

**ibuyen** · 09-30-2012, 10:57 PM

have about 16 pictures from time to start been about three weeks

**ibuyen** · 09-30-2012, 11:08 PM

some more pictures

**ibuyen** · 09-30-2012, 11:13 PM

and some more

**Northerly** · 09-30-2012, 11:16 PM

Good job! Looks great.

**ibuyen** · 09-30-2012, 11:16 PM

and more pics

**ibuyen** · 09-30-2012, 11:17 PM

Current full tank shot

**ibuyen** · 10-01-2012, 01:38 AM

Originally Posted by Cliff

I'm looking forward to seeing pics

Just a word of warning tho, your corasl likely won't do to well (as well as the could) and it will be more difficult to keep your parameters stable with a salinity that low. Natural sea water is 1.027, so at 1.022, you are very low. I would suggest keeping it between 1.025 and 1.026. That will help a lot and give you a little flexability if you get some evaporation.

will try to increase my my salinity. I tried off by used the petco natural saltwater, when i was just that it readin about 1.023. since then i added about gal of distilled water which i can see how i got down to 1.022. Is it okay if i use distilled water right from my grocery store? not sure if i want to get a ro/di setup yet. been looking at 160 dollar one by coralife that is 4 stages.