setting up 29 gallon biocube reef

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
I'd add the LR and let the system run for at least a week before testing. This will give the water alittle time to stabalize the PH. Theres gonna be alot of leaching intially from the LR, Sand, and Agronite. Like Hoops said Go Slow and let the test kit tell you when it's safe to add fish. You might be suprised how much die back actually occurs on LR via transport. I'd wait til' nitrates read 20 ppm before adding each fish, invert or corals. Alot of ppl add their clean up crews 1st or w/ their 1st fish - much easier to swallow loosing $1 hermits and snails then $50 Fish.

With a 29 gal tank bio-balls are pretty much a waste of space. They are good for converting large amounts of fish urine in larger overstocked tanks. 3 lil' fish won't produce that much.

Target 1.025 salinity daily - this will allow for evaporation to enssure salinity doesn't exceed 1.026.
 
I have a 14 gallon Biocube reef. I switched out the bioballs on mine for rock rubble. I also removed the drip plate from the top of the middle filter section. This allows for keeping some macro algae on top of the rock rubble to help with nitrates (the back light bulb shines back there pretty well). I also ignored the "max fill line" and filled the whole back up (there is a little line in the plastic I fill it to so it's easy to track evaporation) to add water volume since with live rock I only have like 9 gallons of water in there.
 
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