chichimom79's 60 gallon cube

[istrahd]

You have a beautiful tank! I LOVE the Corals! I enjoyed the entire thread with the photos, videos and seeing how supportive & helpful a community there is here on the site! Kudos to all of you! I will be checking out the other Tank Build threads over the next few days.

I hope my 125 I am trying to setup will one day be full of corals! I would love to have an anemone & a clown after the tank is established AND I know enough about the hobby not to kill the anemone... or anything else, for that matter!

I am going to go get my Live Sand, Dry Rock & Live Rock once I figure out which RO filter to buy...and send my brother under the house to check the floor joists and see if I need to put some blocks under the floor. LOL, a minor thing I forgot :frustrat: to take into account was how heavy this tank will be when filled. I have wood floors and my house sits up off the ground...

At least I realized I need to check the joists & floor supports before adding 1,400 pounds of water, rock, sand, the tank itself & stand, etc. It would kill me to see my tank go crashing through the floor! Especially if I had any critters in there!

Looking forward to having my own reef soon.

 

[chichimom79]

Thanks! I look forward to helping you out too! :)

 

[reefnoob]

How do you feed your mandarin? Do you just put the food in the water column and let t feed like the other fish? Or do you spot feed it?

 

[chichimom79]

It appears that he eats whatever food falls to the bottom of the tank that my shrimp doesn't get first. I don't worry too much about him because I have so much rock in my system and sump that I have a ton of pods for him to munch on as well. I just made sure to watch it eat at the LFS before I brought him home and I got one that was small. I felt like it might adjust better than one that grew large before being caught.

 

[reefnoob]

Follow up question: how do you feed it while on vacation?

 

[chichimom79]

Hahahahahaha! What's a vacation??

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

Hahahahahaha! What's a vacation??

It's a myth people spread around. Don't believe a word of it! :p

 

[ZyberGoby]

Vacations are a lie our bosses tempt us with so we keep working foe peanuts.....

 

[chichimom79]

A few new pics. No making fun of my flame wallpaper border. I still haven't gotten around to painting this room. :roll:

I'm going to rename Mandy to The Blur LOL So camera shy!

Weezey says Hello!


Sasha <3

 

[kylemack87]

Your cube is looking great. :) The DB 60 RR rimless is my next build.

 

[ErinCahir]

Aw. I love Sasha!

 

[ZyberGoby]

Bad ass Angie that wall paper is wicked cool and nice update photos as well

 

[noy]

really nice setup! Weezey!

 

[lilmatty5dimes]

Looks great. Looks like your in need of a lil upgrade. Lol

 

[Sakura2282]

Your tank is so beautiful. I wish mine look like yours some day. Great job!

 

[RockStacker]

Flame wallpaper with fish tank... you Feng Shui rebel you! :)

That Kessil is really paying for itself!

 

[chichimom79]

Moved my rock around and am putting most of my SPS in the ten gallon. Can't get my nitrates down enough to please them and I haven't even checked phosphates. They may be high too.

The nem is becoming a monster. It stretches the gap between the two powerheads on the back. I'm afraid of it getting sucked into one, but so far so good.


Acans having babies like crazy :D

 

[ZyberGoby]

F'n awesome love the tank Angie

 

[Sakura2282]

Looks really good, you have done a very good job with it. Congrats!

 

[d2mini]

Your coral looks awesome and i love the blenny in that giant barnacle. :)