11/9/2022 ; Hi everyone. Starting off a new adventure with a new technique. Im building a cubic 16 inch tank starting from dry rock and sand. I will try my best to not use any MECHANICAL filtration (ie filter sponges etc) as much as possible (inspired by Dannys Aquarium from YouTube). The most I might do will be adding a carbon bag and/or a skimmer temporarily if things get out of hand.
I will be using:
-Microbacter7 for the cycling process
-Dry Rock
-Dry Sand
-Jebao/Jecod SW4 wavemaker
-RO/DI water
-Instant Ocean Salt (which will be at 1.025 salinity)
-Aqua Spectra Lights
-Bubble Magus QQ protein skimmer if needed
Stocking plans:
-Pair of clowns (designer or normals)
-Inverts (snails, crabs and maybe a sand star/urchin
-at most if I cannot control myself, I would really want to add a goby pistol shrimp pair
The cube tank will be filled with mixed corals SPS and LPS. Wish me luck in this journey!
I am also updating my progress in short YouTube videos soon.
Update pictures below!
The tank will be mounted on an Ikea Kallax by the window (I know it might be unwise to put a tank by a window but we'll see how it progresses near natural sunlight)
I did the rockscape with small dry rocks and superglued+epoxy-ied it together.
Another angle of the rockscape
In goes the sand!
Filled with water now.
Lights on! (for aesthetic purposes only. Will turn it off for the cycling process).
Now just need to wait for the water to clear up.
Then I'll does Microbacter7 and maybe throw in a dead shrimp to kickstart the cycling process!
Im thinking of naming this build something, any ideas would be nice!!
Thanks for reading. Hopefully you'll follow me through this journey.
I will be using:
-Microbacter7 for the cycling process
-Dry Rock
-Dry Sand
-Jebao/Jecod SW4 wavemaker
-RO/DI water
-Instant Ocean Salt (which will be at 1.025 salinity)
-Aqua Spectra Lights
-Bubble Magus QQ protein skimmer if needed
Stocking plans:
-Pair of clowns (designer or normals)
-Inverts (snails, crabs and maybe a sand star/urchin
-at most if I cannot control myself, I would really want to add a goby pistol shrimp pair
The cube tank will be filled with mixed corals SPS and LPS. Wish me luck in this journey!
I am also updating my progress in short YouTube videos soon.
Update pictures below!
The tank will be mounted on an Ikea Kallax by the window (I know it might be unwise to put a tank by a window but we'll see how it progresses near natural sunlight)
I did the rockscape with small dry rocks and superglued+epoxy-ied it together.
Another angle of the rockscape
In goes the sand!
Filled with water now.
Lights on! (for aesthetic purposes only. Will turn it off for the cycling process).
Now just need to wait for the water to clear up.
Then I'll does Microbacter7 and maybe throw in a dead shrimp to kickstart the cycling process!
Im thinking of naming this build something, any ideas would be nice!!
Thanks for reading. Hopefully you'll follow me through this journey.