60 gallon marineland reef ready cube build

superchargedgp

superchargedgp

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So myself and Laura (noob1) decided that we need a bigger tank ( we currently have overstocked 28 gallon nano cube). So we picked up a new tank from William lutman

On with the pictures. Forgive me for the heater that's not submersible ( that one is still in the nanocube) still have to clean the glass. But I'm hoping to move over all our livestock by the weekend. The sump is William lutman built unit out of acrylic. Return pump is rio 17hf. Kinda noisy so I hope the eheim pump from Walt will solve the problem. The skimmer is eshopps psk 75. Light is kessil a350.
 
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Looks like I'm not the only one who picked up a 60 gallon cube recently lol. I can already tell this is going to come out dope especially since it's a cube.
 
well the cycle is about half way done, thanks to DR tims magical juice. now this is my first sump set up, should i use filter sock or no? if not what would i use, and how woud i keep the bubbles doen in the sump without it? if i would keep it, how often should they be cleaned
 
Nice rockscape. A filter sock will keep your water crystal clear but some don't use them bc they can filter out pods too. They should be cleaned when you start seeing it slow the flow significantly or it overflows. I don't use one and have nothing to substitute for it. Your sump should have a bubble trap to keep your DT free of bubbles.
 
trackfast said:
Nice rockscape. A filter sock will keep your water crystal clear but some don't use them bc they can filter out pods too. They should be cleaned when you start seeing it slow the flow significantly or it overflows. I don't use one and have nothing to substitute for it. Your sump should have a bubble trap to keep your DT free of bubbles.
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it has bubble trap, but i get bubbles from drain pipe, its about 3 inches from the bottom and submerged in water
 
How is your plumbing set up? Does it drain into the middle with the skimmer? I can't tell from the picture what's going on.
 
well update on the cycle maybe somone can help me

I used all new water, 25 pounds of dry pukani rock, 30 pounds of live sand (new) and about 5 pounds of my live rock (from my old runnig tank) in my sump
i put in DR tims juice ( but never took off my filter sock) and this are the results i got. i threw some pallet food in the tank to get amonia going

9/29
amonia .025 ppm
nitrite 0ppm
salt 1.021

9/30
amonia 0.25ppm
nitrite 0ppm
nitrate 10ppm
salt 1.025
Ph 8.2

10/1
amonia 1.0 ppm
nitrite 0ppm
salt 1.025
ph 8.4

10/2
amonia 1.0ppm
nitrite 0ppm
salt 1.025
ph 8.2


what happend? did my cycle stopped? did the filter sock catch all the bacteria?

help :creep:
 
I'll try and tackle both topics.

Cycle: just let it run. Don't use any fish or anything. If you have a piece of raw shrimp or something along those lines in the tank, leave it there and let the bacteria build themselves up naturally. Just keep testing every day or every couple days to monitor it. Once ammonia and nitrite drop to 0, you should see your nitrate begin to climb. Once they climb up to over 20ppm or so, do a partial water change and you're ready to start adding fish in slowly.

For your drain bubbles, it seems like you're running a durso. I have a durso as well and am having the same problem. I'm quite lazy and haven't tried this yet, but from all the reading I've done, reverse durso's seem to work. I'll try and get mine set up and in place by the end of the week. I'll let you know how well it works.

Aside from that, the tank is looking really good so far Mike. I really love the scape. Very creative!
 
if you started with liverock from an existing tank, live sand and a bacteria in a bottle product you likely will not see a cycle.
 
The rock is only few pieces maybe 5 pounds at the most. Live sand was ocean direct brand 30 pounds. And 2 (60 gallon). Dr Tim's one and only
 
yes, with that you probably wont see a cycle, there is plenty of biofilter there already with no bio load and nothing to die off.
 
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