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I also got the Coralife Biocube 29 about a year ago and upgraded everything under the sun. (return pump, in-tank media basket and refugium basket, protien skimmer, hydor 600 power head and 3 panorama pro LED modules). The best upgrade by far was the LED upgrade. I gutted the hood and put in 3...

Yes, I did the upgrade on my Biocube 29. I first gutted my hood and added 2, but trust em, it wasn't enough. I ordered a 3rd and soo glad I did. The 2 just wasn't enough for full coral growth. Once I did the upgrade, my corals blew up. Trust me, get 3! Removing the stock hodd was no big deal but...

Hello folks... Everyone has been very helpful in the past and today I am in need again. Today, I have arriving 3 Ecoxotic Panorama Pro LED Modules. I have a Coralife Biocube 29 that they will be going in. My plan is to obviously gut the hood and leave the fans and have the 3 modules in there. I...

Cool, thanks. After reading about these I'm starting to think I should trade it at the LFS for something else. Do LFS's even want these because they may be hard to sell?

Hmmm .. very well could be. Thanks!

My friend gave this to me because he said he couldn't get it to grow and thought it may be dead. An hour after putting it in my tank it opened up as you can see. I have no idea what it is or the care it requires. Any thought would be great, thanks!

Todd, I think I'm with you on that .. What would you recommend I get that would be good for cleaning the sand? I have heard different ideas on this.. Thanks

Mr. X, that's what I was thinking .. The more and more I read, these guys need at least 3-4 inches of sand bed and I only have about 1 inch... The guy at the LFS gave it for free with the cleaner shrimp but didn't read about it until at home... I guess I will keep my eye on him ...

So a little update to the biocube ... My levels have all gone done and the diatom bloom has started to go away (thank to the CUC I added) and now some green algae. I added 3 green chromis, sand sifter star fish and a cleaner shrimp. All have been in the tank for about 5 days and seem to be...

So, I did the water change and now the Nitrates dropped to 40 and I would assume they will drop some more after another water change in a couple days. I guess not I need to start thinking about the CUC. Any thoughts on how many and what I should get? (again, 29 gallon biocube).. Thanks.

Thanks for the help everyone! So here is a little update and please give me your thoughts. It has been almost 2 weeks since my ammonia and nitrite have been at "0". My Nitrates have hovered around 80 this entire time but have slowly started to go down over the last day or two thanks to a couple...

Cool .. that's what I was thinking... So, for the past 4 days, my ammonia is 0, my Nitrite is 0 and my Nitrate is at 80. Being a 29 gallon tank, should I do a 10 gallon water change do help bring the nitrates down?

Thank guys for your help on this.. Yes Bectan, I did have a spike in ammo and around this time the algea started and still remains with the addition of algae on the sand bed now. The Ammo and Nitrite have now been at zero for about 4 days but the Nitrate has now gone up to around 80 and wont go...

So as I mentioned it appears there are some copepods swimming around and a ton of them at that ... My question is about the water readings.. My Ammonia and nitrite have been at 0 for about 3 days now but the nitrate seems to have gone up to 80 out of the blue. I did a small water change...

Being that they appeared in the first week of the cycle, is this good or bad that they have appeared to fast and is this any indication of what stage the cycle is in? Some people say have said its the start of the cycle and others say its at the end ...