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Many folks here have the JBJ cubes and are happy with them , and those who were not . While I do not have a cube and I dont have the experience in the cubes my recommendation is to build one from scratch , pick a size tank that you like and then do the lighting , filteration , ect. Tho they are...

Yep Thank you so much I will wait to take off more till the rescape is done and I see where I can put it :mrgreen:

As for the skimmer you may not need one if you keep up on the water changes every week , some may say that you should . As for the water I just mix mine here we pay 5 plus bucks per gallon here in Pa . I cant offer much help on the lights but if you can afford the 250 or higher I say go for it...

I cant add anything to what these two have said but :welcome

first off welcome :welcome I think Skip hit most of it the only thing I would add to test the water to make sure it is staying inline and the perameters arent going through a cycle the other is to have a little extra water incase you need to do extra water changes if anything should get out...

Thanks John I remeber that . Most of the rocks have some type of growth so I will scrub and rescape I bought new sand today and am airating some water till tomorrow mid morning I started this at around 8:30 pm and will add the salt around ten or noonish then airate for over night till...

Yes that is what I was reffering to . Thank you I will be cutting the rest of the dead skeleton away tomorrow I can do it compleatly under water as I did today, while I removed some skeleton . The other question is can I cut some of the height down without worry as well ?

It is all over the back glass the filter , it is choking out some shrooms as well as zoas :oops: so I felt it was best to go this route granit it is extreme but I feel it will be worth it hope fully I wll get it under control by scrubbing the LR it wont hurt to place the live rock in water...

wow :shock: I want some of them zoas the purple sea whip is absolutely gorgeous !!! Aww heck they all are but the zoas and the whip are my fave :mrgreen: these tanks will be AWSOME

Thanks for the input Dickie I am also going to take this opportunity to move the tank away from the area it is in now because of some neighbor issues. I also wanted to rescape and get the rock scrubbed down I know that I will certainly have some diatoms , as for the red slime it is now...

unfortunately no I don't I was gonna try it but failed at doing so I currently have some salt mixing and saturday I will tear the tank down scrub all the live rock and place in fresh mixed water with a power head and a filter to remove any pieces that float off , I will then scrub the tank and...

Thanks Skip I am mixing the water to start this this week end . I have one more question by scrubbing the rock work , can that be rinsed in fresh salt water (new ready for h20 changes after appropriate mixing ) and will this help with the bad slime that I have going on or will I need chemi -...

hey guys I got a hammer coral tonight for really cheap($10 bucks about the size of a base ball once the dead skeleton is removed it is not a branching type ) I have been watching this guy for 6 months it had some tissue die off and is looking generally very healthy . I have seen it for 6 months...

very very nice :mrgreen: I just got a hammer coral for $10 buck to see if I could frag it :mrgreen:

this is chemi pure it is an addtional filter media http://www.boydenterprisesonline.com/pages/2/index.htm I started using mine awhile back and noticed improvments on the h20 quality :mrgreen:

one thing that I did fail to mention is to make sure that the sand (what ever you choose ) is not siclica based as this can contribute to algae blooms later down the line :mrgreen: http://nanotank.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... ght=silica

I dont remember what filter you are running but we use carbon pads (floss with carbon in the middle) and chemi pure in our filter but as skip says you need to clean them at minimum 1x a week we just use old tank water and agitate them , and we also put new ones in 1x a month :mrgreen:

Leaf do you think that it is the spray foam causing the blooms? Reason I as is I was looking into using "greatstuff" spray foam to attempt to make live rock from . Was there any thing to the curing other than allowing it to dry ? Sorry I dont have any help for the problems that you are facing...

I know that some where here I read on how to reestablish a tank but cant find it . I have to reaquascape and get the red slime algae under contrlol I have a small 5 gallon tank that I could use as a holding I would like to drain the tank and remove all inhibitants and reaquascape as well as...

I would think that you could add it as long as you dont add alot at a time just a small ammount at a time. You may still get diatom blooms if you add it . I have added to ours and only added about a 1/2 of a small dixie cup (3 ounce) at a time , 1 or 2 times aweek...maybe some others can give...