Reeftanker's 29 gallon biocube (SW Planted Tank)

[Reeftanker3295]

I already have a big reef in the living room to throw money into - so I decided I am going to change this biocube into a planted tank, with all of the plants I can collect from my boat, and mini fish with lots of little inverts and maybe a few very hardy softy frags. I am filling it now, I will take pictures later. Should be an interesting project...
Before this, the tank was COVERED in HA and corals wouldn't open at all... Since then I gave it a vinegar bath and scrubbed it all and it looks brand new!

 

[Reeftanker3295]

Pictures

1 of my 2 naked gobies I collected last year

The tank filling up!

 

[cowfish]

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out. If you collect local macros you'll need to keep the temp down - 70s at the most.

 

[Reeftanker3295]

Water temp gets up to around 78 where i'll be collecting everything so i'm not too concerned. The temp will be kept at around 73-75.

 

[JonnyIce]

ill tag along...in hopes ill get to go on a boat some day

 

[Reeftanker3295]

Haha it's fun going island to island collecting different things... This tank will be FULL by the end of summer.

 

[Reeftanker3295]

Tank is now filled with water! I don't have the time right now to put salt in but tomorrow I will put in salt and some LR to add some bacteria so I can put these poor fish in their home!

 

[Reeftanker3295]

Alrighty salt is in along with 10ish pounds of LR from my 90 gallon. The gobies and the crab will go in tomorrow!

 

[motortrendz]

no cycle time?

 

[Reeftanker3295]

Well I was thinking about that and I may leave a couple of days. The reason why its so short is because all these rocks have been cooking with completely cured rocks for months and I am also adding some rock from my 90 gallon so the bacteria should already be set to go, especially for such small fish.