Smitty's Biocube 14's build thread

2 biocubes, very cool. Just a thought, I may/probably am wrong, but could the clay pots be a worry. I would be worried that they might leech things into the water that you don't want in there. Thinking along the lines of rock from poorly cared for tanks leeching phosphates etc... into the water creating huge algae blooms.

 

Oh man, knee injuries are rough... But building a bed for the kids? What a guy. Haha.

Using clay pots is pretty common for breeding fish. Ive seen it used for freshwater fish like angels and discus, as well as saltwater fish like clownfish. The firing process makes them PH stable and I dont think they leech anything detectable. I may be wrong, but I doubt their use would be so wide spread if they did leech any contaminants.

 

Glad someone else had thoughts on it. Just one of those thought running around in my head lol.

 

Using clay pots is pretty common for breeding fish. Ive seen it used for freshwater fish like angels and discus, as well as saltwater fish like clownfish. The firing process makes them PH stable and I dont think they leech anything detectable. I may be wrong, but I doubt their use would be so wide spread if they did leech any contaminants.[/QUOTE]

you are right on the firing process. I did a lot of research on it before putting them in there. I also did a lot of pottery growing up!

 

Next time you do a water change put the old water from your bigger tank into your smaller tanks

Or perhaps put live rock rubble in the biofilter to help the process of them getting cycled

Or dose the small tanks with purple up and ad copepods

These are just a few suggestions

 

The snow's are here!

 

Here are the much awaited for pics lol:

 

I'm thinking about putting a small CUC in these two tanks. Is this a good idea, at least until I get the feeding amount right?

 

You'll eventually want a couple detritivores, but I would wait until you see the need for them as they will starve without a sufficient amount of food, and a dead snail in such a small tank with no LR can spike ammonia rather quickly.

 

I was thinking some type of snail would be good in there, just didn't know which one lol. I was also thinking about talking to my wife and seeing if will allow me to put some LR and maybe a coral or two in there until they are big enough to breed. ;D