Cali Kid Corals

14 gallon bio cube frag tank

well i bought a running 14 gallon bio cube today for my frags i wanna grow out of my tank.... i will also house 2 clown fish and a lil red algae and chaeto....

i will be designing an led retrofit for the hood so i can have all led lights on both tanks... what i need to know is what are you guys using for filter systems for the bio cubes???
 
simple mods I did on my BC14

1) replaced the pump with a MJ900 (more efficient and more flow)
2) hydor (helps to prevent stagnant sections)
3) enlarged the overflow from chamber1 to chamber 2 (seemed to help with flow)

a bit more elaborate but
4) convert center chamber into fuge by scraping off the paint on the back and installing a light, then full back with chaeto.

I used C1 for chemicals like carbon, and for the heater

After that, i was just WC. I did a 5g jug a week on it.
 
Gomer said:
simple mods I did on my BC14

1) replaced the pump with a MJ900 (more efficient and more flow)
2) hydor (helps to prevent stagnant sections)
3) enlarged the overflow from chamber1 to chamber 2 (seemed to help with flow)

a bit more elaborate but
4) convert center chamber into fuge by scraping off the paint on the back and installing a light, then full back with chaeto.

I used C1 for chemicals like carbon, and for the heater

After that, i was just WC. I did a 5g jug a week on it.

All great suggestions. I added an InTank media basket and underwater lights to make a fuge. Forget about using the stock filter cartridges. Run filter floss on top of the media basket (2nd chamber) and carbon and chaeto in the media basket.

InTankStuff2-5-10.jpg


Also cut out the notch to increase flow to the 2nd chamber:
OverflowMod3-8-09Rev.jpg


Check out Nano-Reef for some great BioCube suggestions.

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=180788
 
I don't like the heater in the 3rd chamber because its water level drops and isn't (at least in my setup) "full". When water drops to expose a heater, bad things can happen.
 
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