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Starting Bio-Cube 29G! Advice?

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I recently bought a 29G Oceanic Bio-Cube 29G Aquarium, and I plan to start it up tuesday which is my next day off. I have expressed my interest in starting a Marine aquarium on this forum before, and everyone ones quite helpful.. Basically I'm listing what I've "decided" on and maybe some people can share experiences and things of that nature.

I'm having a LFS make me a custom stand out of oak wood. I'd like to have a refugium of some sort with just to have some livesand, live rock rubble, and chaeto algae. If I let that build up pods for about 8 months then would adding a mandarin be acceptable? I've seen people have success with them in nano reefs, but the safety of the fish comes first.

For sand I'm curious, My brother has a 29 biocube also and hes using natures ocean bio-activ live aragonite sand and hasnt had any complaints but I like the look of natures ocean marine white sand. Its not live sand so would the live rock I add get the bacteria to the sand to make it live?

I'm planning on using Pukani Rock that a local fish store stocks, but I'm having mixed thoughts. Should I buy it from the LFS already cured or Should I order Dry Rock from BRS?

Also I bought some products that my brother recommended I put in when I start the tank.( Kent Strontium & Molybdenum, Kent Essential Elements, Kent Coral-vite, Seachem Reef Complete, Instant Ocean Bio-Spira) Well the 1st 4 I mentioned were left in the trunk of my car for like a week, does it matter?

Just looking for guidance so I do this right the first time :roll:
 
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I have the cash but like I said I don't wanna wait. The my apparently came off a similar nano setup, but a Phoenix brand?? He said it's a few years old but pretty much everything works. It has individual switches for my, actinic, and led moons. I think for now it's a good buy and eventually Ill debate upgrading. I don't plan on having it for years anyway so it's not a Long term buy, ill have my 90g sometime next year.
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I have the cash but like I said I don't wanna wait. The my apparently came off a similar nano setup, but a Phoenix brand?? He said it's a few years old but pretty much everything works. It has individual switches for my, actinic, and led moons. I think for now it's a good buy and eventually Ill debate upgrading. I don't plan on having it for years anyway so it's not a Long term buy, ill have my 90g sometime next year.
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:thumbsup: Score one up then.
 
#111 ·
I might be going home from work a day early, it's cold and rainy so I'm feeling a little under the weather. I'll have to check it out Monday. My wife said my torchs tentacles shrunk down and the anemone is looking ok. I am having a lfs do a good water change in the morning.
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#113 ·
Update: Everything is doing pretty well except my anemone ended up being given away. He was not doing well in my aquarium.. I now have the Torch Coral which i just found out is an aussie gold torch coral, red sea pulsing xenia, multicolored hammer coral, blue bubble coral, frogspawn, 2 mushrooms, and zoas. Fish are Flame Angel, B/W Occ, O/W Occ, Strawberry Pseudo, Green Mandarin, Fire Shrimp. Ill be posting a video to Youtube soon so I'll share that link when its loaded
 
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