10"x10" cube! and mini-m - 10760 Manchester

[sandiegoryu]

I'd say it's a little too high but you'd be fine with low tech plants. You might now want to venture off into high light-medium light plants. Medium low would be fine.

[Haeun]

Or maybe you can have the cube lifted a little. Put a block of wood under it or something.

[bsmith]

Originally Posted by Haeun

Or maybe you can have the cube lifted a little. Put a block of wood under it or something.

i like that idea! it would give me a little project on my day off. how far should the light be from the tank anyway?

im growing algea on the walls nicely, hopefully that will help convert all the bad stuff to good stuff,

[Cannonbolt]

Sweet! I like the moss wall idea. What plants and animals do you intend to put in this cube?

PS - Boo EVO. Yay STi!

[bsmith]

Originally Posted by Cannonbolt

Sweet! I like the moss wall idea. What plants and animals do you intend to put in this cube?

PS - Boo EVO. Yay STi!

im going to put m.marselia in the forground and maybe a few petite nana in the rear, as far as the fauna, some rcs and a black ct betta.

PS. try to find a subaru dealer with a nano cube in his office good eye though!

[bsmith]

i just put my m.minuta in this morning. the reason i have the algea on the wall is because i think it will help the cycle go through faster (more green stuff=less bad stuff).

left side


right side


full view. i cant get my diffuser to bubble like i want so im going to up the size of the soup bottle.


im wanting to dose excel for the time being bit im not really sure here, if i say there is 2g of water n here because about .5g id taken up bu sub snd rocks and im wrong thats a ~20% error!!!

[FelixAvery]

dont worry excel dosing is not too strict

[bsmith]

when i put my shrimp in there i dont want to excell them to death

[bsmith]

here we go after a little spring cleaning

full shot


a little bubbly?


right side with the java "mountain mist"


any comments/suggestions are welcome and appreciated!

[bsmith]

it's been well over a month and a half just checked my water to see what was doin' and my NITRITES ARE STILL AT 2PPM!!!

could someone help me out with this deal it doesnt make any sense. i have never had a tank take so long to cycle.

my ammonia is at 0 so i know there is bacteria in there but come on..

any ideas, im getting tired of looking at a faunaless tank!

[Yoshi]

What's your water change routine like? Since I have a similar style of tank, the only suggestion I could give you is to do more water changes. I would suggest something like 0.5G daily for 1-2 weeks. Whenever I get algae problems or nitrite/nitrate spikes, I do frequent water changes and treat with excel and everything turns out alright later.

[bsmith]

i do a once weekly 50% wc. as of right now im not having a algea issue just your normal gsa on the walls.

i will try .5g wc for a week and see what happens.

thanks yoshi!

[mott]

Originally Posted by bsmith782

it's been well over a month and a half just checked my water to see what was doin' and my NITRITES ARE STILL AT 2PPM!!!

could someone help me out with this deal it doesnt make any sense. i have never had a tank take so long to cycle.

my ammonia is at 0 so i know there is bacteria in there but come on..

any ideas, im getting tired of looking at a faunaless tank!

Have any other tanks you could steal some bio media from?

[bsmith]

Originally Posted by mott

Have any other tanks you could steal some bio media from?

i thought about that but my filter is a small red sea deco filter that has a very small holding capacity for filter media. perhaps i could put some filter floss in there to help colonize more bacterea or maybe some bio-balls.

if the issue is my filter not being able to colonize good bacteria, its kind of a scary scenario, i dont even have any fish or shrimp in there yet. i wonder what would happen if i god put my fish in there.

[FacePlanted]

maybe check your nitrite test kit against some RO water. see if the reading is off.