Title: HD - Underwater Garden - BioCube 14 Coral Reef and Fish Aquarium Tour - Lumix LX5 (Panasonic)
Added: Jun 23, 2011
Author: tinytoday
Duration: 4:34
Description:
This a video tour of our 14 Gallon BioCube that has been up and running for 14 months. It has 15 lbs of live sand and has 17 pounds of rock, 5 which were purchased "live" and 12 which were introduced dry and ultimately became live.
Fish include an Ocellaris Clownfish (Crash McDiver) and a Royal Gramma (Lollypop McSugar). Invertebrates include scarlet hermits, halloween hermits, blue leg hermits, left-handed hermits and other smaller hermits. Snails include cerith, drawf cerith, turbo, astrea and margarita.
Corals include multiple Zoanthid specias, multiple Acan Lord species, Frogspawn, Hammer, Duncan, Chalice, Flower Pot and an unidentified hard coral.
This Biocube is running with stock lighting, which is 1 18w 10,000k daylight power compact bulb and 1 18w Blue Actinic power compact bulb. There are also two small blue LED moonlights on but they are not noticeable with the other lights on. There is a 50w stealth heater in chamber one which is set to 78 degrees, but the tank runs at about 80 during the day due to heat from the lighting. Chamber two has filter floss for mechanical filtration and also has a half bag of Chemipure Elite and and half bag of PhosGuard. I removed the sponge in chamber 3 for increase flow and have removed the tab between chamber 1 and 2 for additional flow as well.
Fish are fed using flake food every other day. Maintenance includes 10% water change weekly and a magfloat against the glass every day. I change the filter floss every 4 days and do additional coraline algae scraping off of the glass with a razor every month. This seems very time consuming (and it was) but weekly maintenance only takes about 45 minutes. Lights need to be replaced every 6 months and additional hermits and snails need to be added as needed.
Previous now deceased inhabitants (RIP - gone but not forgotten):
Sergeant Pepper McSalt (6-Line Wrasse)
Kosh McGosh (Skunk Cleaner Shrimp)
SuperFreak! (Sea Hare)
Hokey Poker (a Cerith snail whose shell has now become Big Red (the Scarlet Hermit)'s dinner. (He ate him)
and many other smaller hermits and snails.
If you have any question just ask or if you can identify and unknown coral please do so. Visit nano-reef.com for more information on setting up a saltwater fish tank and for instructions on the modifications I used.
Thanks!
The video was shot with a Panasonic Lumix LX5 camera on its highest settings and on "dynamic" mode.
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Youtube Comments: 21
tinytoday Says:
Jul 22, 2011 - Thank you!! She is very pretty and an interesting fish to watch. Royal Grammas look very similar to Bicolor Dottybacks but are much less aggressive and thus a good suggestion for a smaller tank.
ChampNike Says:
Jul 22, 2011 - Nice tank! I plan on getting a Royal gramma.
tinytoday Says:
Jul 23, 2011 - Thanks so much! They are great fish - good luck!
malisthebest Says:
Aug 31, 2011 - okay, how much did all that cost you ?
nnugier1 Says:
Sep 4, 2011 - How is the chalice and acans doing?
nnugier1 Says:
Sep 4, 2011 - How are the chalice and acans doing?
tinytoday Says:
Sep 8, 2011 - Had a total tank failure that killed all of my corals except for the frogspawn, mushrooms and zoas. BUT, before all of that, the chalice barely ever grew (I don't think the stock lighting was strong enough) and the acans grew very fast probably growing a new head every 1-2 months.
PlayerXevic Says:
Nov 26, 2011 - Did you add more or different lights to your biocube?
tinytoday Says:
Nov 27, 2011 - No. I was going to add another compact light because so many people only said that you need to, but everything looks awesome and has grown great under the stock lighting. You just need to replace the bulbs every 6 months or you will get algae.
Tony Goose Says:
Dec 18, 2011 - thats some crystal clear water .... nice
doghunter717 Says:
Jan 1, 2012 - Love the aquascape !
tinytoday Says:
Jan 4, 2012 - Thanks!
tinytoday Says:
Jan 4, 2012 - Thanks I just did a 50% water change right before filming this.
PlayerXevic Says:
Feb 22, 2012 - How is this tank fairing?
tinytoday Says:
Mar 29, 2012 - Unfortunately there was a big crash and I lost almost everything!!!
PlayerXevic Says:
Apr 1, 2012 - Thats too bad, it was so beautiful, i hope you are still trying to keep it going!
k2477456 Says:
Nov 18, 2012 - how often could a novice sw aquarist expect a crash like that in a tank like this?
irosh2000 Says:
Dec 23, 2012 - cool 
Kyle Butler Says:
Jul 21, 2011 - That's Really Pretty! I like the Royal Gramma.