24 gallon nanocube

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blau

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Hello,

I don't post much on here so I will give a little background of myself. I have a 12 gallon nanocube that I started this past summer and it is doing well. I have in it the following:

engineering goby
chocolate chip starfish
bubble tip anemone
zebra lionfish
various snails and hermit crabs
15 pounds of live rock
20 pounds of live sand

I just finished setting up my 24 gallon nanocube today using about 17 pounds of cured live rock and 40 pounds of live sand. I am going to move my zebra lionfish into this tank. How long should I wait until I put anything into this tank? I was told to wait at least 2 weeks. The long term goal would be to start dabbling in corals and maybe more fish if possible. I would like any input you guys could give me.
 
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skipm

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Staff member
Ideally you should have a set of basic test kits so you can follow the progress of your new tanks cycle so you know when it has completely cycled and is safe for you to start adding livestock. Without test kits I would wait 30 days and then add things very slowly.
 
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blau

New Member
I just discovered a leak at the bottom of my tank. Do I put silicone on the inside or outside to seal the leak?
 
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blau

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Yep the entire backside has separated from the tank...Time to take it back to the store! This sucks big time as I live about 100 miles away from the store!
 
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blau

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The seam at the bottom of the tank wasn't sealed all the way so I thought I'd silcone it after draining the tank. As I was draining it, it started to fall apart pretty quickly. The outside seams gave away as well, so you could basically just take the outer ring off of the bottom of the tank (the part the has the Nanocube logo). I drove over 200 miles last night to get my new tank and I am happy now. I don't have any pictures of the disaster. I refilled my tank and should have it all finished later this afternoon before I turn on the pump. I will post pics of what it should look like when I finish. It's really cloudy right now even after letting it sit undisturbed overnight.
 
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dancefish

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ANY NEW WORD ON YOUR TANK :shock: hope all is doing well with it
did your lfs give you a replacement w/ any perks throughn in being as you had to drive all that distance ? seems to me they should & would if they wanted to keep you as a customer
:idea: :roll:
 
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blau

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I have the tank setup and it has been running for over a week now with the cured live rock. I see that the rocks came with several baby star fishes and some snails. I put in a hermit crab from my other tank the yesterday to see how he would do and he seems okay. I think the tank is ready. I did a water test and all the parameters came up good. No ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates.

I do have a question for you guys though, on my 12 gallon tank, I have green algae growing all over the live rock. I don't want that happening to my 24 gallon tank. How do I prevent that from happening? Less lighting? I have the lights on the 12 gallon tank on for about 8 hours a day. I did cut back to about 4 hours the last two days. I do a water change once every two weeks, should I do once a week instead? I only feed the inhabitants about twice a week in there with silver sides and very little.

I didn't get any perks except a deep apology from them. I didn't expect anything from them but they were really nice about the whole thing. They traded out tanks and sent the old one back to the distributor. That was good enough for me.

Here is the picture of my tank so far:

http://home.earthlink.net/~wlau/images/24gallon.JPG
 
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Trogdor

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Doesn't sound like your new tank went through a cycle. I would be extremely careful adding too much livestock at once. You may end up with a full cycle then you would have to move everything to your other tank until your cycle is over.
 
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blau

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Okay its been two weeks now and still all of my readings are at zero. Is it safe to assume that the cycle has been completed?
 
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