My Aquamedic Chromis Cube

[Kev]

In Oct 05, after months of pondering, I stripped down my old system, and with a little help from a good mate, Eric, I set up my small Aquamedic cube. Some 30+ gallons, I was initially worried about stability because of the size, but these worries have proved unfounded.

With live rock and mature water from the old system, all live stock went went straight in, and from day 1 flourished.

I am not great chemist, and being lazy I now rarely test the water parameters, but I do know when I see a very healthy soft coral.

The livestock comprises over a dozen softies and 3 lps. The usual clean up crew - snails, red legs and a cleaner shrimp. 1 Deresa Clam.

Fish wise, I have 4 very healthy inhabitants - 1 small(ish) yellow tang, 1 bicolour angel and a pair of maroon clowns.

All of the livestock has been with me for over 2 years, having been in my last aquarium.

I use no additives, and just do a five gallon water change every 2 weeks (sometimes I forget).

The tank is bare bottom, and with the addition of a Tunze Stream 6060 the bottom is spotless. I attribute the sucess of this system largeley to water movement, which is kep fresh by the contstant contact with the liverock.

The corals have grown rapidly, with hardly any live rock left visible. The rock work is built in a central pillar, and fish can swim all the way round.

Kev

[stegoodall]

looks good and healthy, any more pics?

[TerraC]

nice pic, love those chromis tanks.

[Tangman]

Hi Kev. Tank looks good m8, you will soon be able to do some frag swops soon at the rate they are growing. Regards Eric

[Kev]

Cheers for the comments. Will hopefully get some more pics up this weekend. Eric, you may well be right about the frags.

Kev

[Blue]

Welcome. Looks very healthy and clean, nice1 :)
Regards

[tonyponty]

yes looks very nice well done

[Kev]

Thanks folks.

I am quite proud of this little tank.

Kev

[celtic fish]

nice one theres a man like my self no chemist

[Kev]

Absolutley. I find doing water tests the most boring task ever to befall a man!!!!!

Kev

[Kev]

Hi all

More pics as promised:

Kev

[stegoodall]

very nice!!

[Kev]

Ste

Thanks, comment appreciated.

Kev

[TerraC]

excellent. love the colours of those softies. have you changed the bulb to another kelvin type or is it the one that comes as standard with the chromis?

[Kev]

TerraC

Cheers. Its just the standard bulb. Which reminds me, its about a year old and could do with renewing.

Kev

[liquidlogic]

tank looks smashing mate. just 1 thing i realy advise u to remove the tang. they need 75 gal minimum.. and a small cube is very small. i worry about having one in my 90 gal

[Kev]

Hi liquidlogic

The Tang is fine. This is quite a small specimin, and Yellows are slow growing. The Yellow is one of the Tangs, in my opinion, that I can get away with in this system. This fish has been with me 2 years, taken from a previous system 1 year ago. He is displaying no behaviour different from housed in my former 100 gallon tank. He feeds very well, and has never had a touch of spot or other ailment / stresses. In very good health and always inquisitive.

I do heed your comments though, in general, Tangs are for larger systems. When he gets too big, or if there is any adverse problems, he will be rehoused with a friend.

Thanks for your comments, feedback always welcome.

Kev

[oakwell]

looks great

[Kev]

Oakwell, thanks for the comments. It is small compared with some, but small comes with many advantages, being much cheaper to stock with a full tank of living coral.

Kev

[Tangman]

Hi Kev. The tank looks good m8 that coral looks good as well, its amazing how a coral will grow in one tank and not another.:) Eric

[Kev]

Hi Eric

"That" coral is a stunner, and has done really well in there. The only things that are not growing fast are the LPS, although they are growing and healthy. I could start adding calc etc, but being a lazy reefer, this is not an option.

My motto is keep it simple, if its difficult I won't do it.

Kev

[Spirit 1]

Hi Kev
Just finding my way around came across your amazing cube looks fantastic. Bob

[Kev]

Many thanks for your kind comments Bob.

Guess what, no sump.:D

Kev

[Spirit 1]

Hi Kev
I think i will go without the sump for now, as they say keep it simple stupid (kiss) so thats what i intend to do. Bob

[Kev]

keep it simple, I like that.

Check the options Bob, thats all I would say.

Kev

[Tetley]

Hi Kev,

Great tank - a real credit to you.

ATB

Ian

[Kev]

Cheers for the comments Ian.:)

Kev

[moorish]

hi kev,tank looks great soft corals look brilliant.i wish i could keep some in mine but my big blue ring angel quite enjoys picking at them.derek

[callum_parsons]

nice tank kev,
i really like the aquascaping and your corals look fantastic and in the peek of health.
good work mate

[Kev]

Callum / Moorish

Thanks for the comments.

Kev

[moorish]

tank looks really nice,corals growing really well.derek

[Kev]

Thanks for that. It is doing very well. All very healthy.

[frankie]

evening kev, you will have to excuse my ignorance trying to find my way round site, not very good at present!! the tank is cool. just setting up nano reef myself complete beginner, inspiration to me.:)

[Kev]

No worries, and welcome to the forum Frankie.

Thanks for your comments mate.

Just ordered a small 24 gallon nano myself yesterday, not getting rid of the Chromis, just thought I would have another setup, which I think will concentrate on LPS.

Again, thanks for your comments, and get posting.:)

Will be good to see some shots of your nano when up and running!

There are some pretty good nano owners on this forum too.

[DC110770]

Not much I cn say what has not already been said!

Fantastic looking tank, so clean and healthy looking!

[Kev]

Thanks for that. Still looks the same as then, just that the corals are now much thicker!:D

[boshank23]

WOW i really like that chromis, really looks the poodles!

[Kev]

Thanks Bobshank. looks very much the same now except the corals are much much bigger!

[Tangman]

Thanks Bobshank. looks very much the same now except the corals are much much bigger!
Hi Kev i have one word to say to you. SCISSORS, :D Eric

[Kev]

LOL. I waited for that one. Eric, if your saw this little 30 gallon tank now, you would understand why I would not entertain getting scissors in there at the moment. The corals have just grown so close together it looks so natural imo.

Scissors - NO:D

[Tangman]

LOL. I waited for that one. Eric, if your saw this little 30 gallon tank now, you would understand why I would not entertain getting scissors in there at the moment. The corals have just grown so close together it looks so natural imo.

Scissors - NO:D
Only joking m8 i know what you mean it looks stunning, are you getting ready for the Nano and choosen what your putting in it:D Eric

[Kev]

The Nano has arrived Eric. Sat in a box in the hallway. May have a look tonight.

I am in a dilema with what to do. Seahorses or concentrate on LPS?

Whatever I choose, it should be fun!

[lasgringo]

get it opened kev,u know u wanna:D

[Kev]

I know. Just got to pack kids off to bed. Two parcels, got a stand too!:D

[aero]

your tank is stunning:D :D

[Kev]

cheers mate!:D

[wakeyblue]

kev please accept apology mate i thought i had commented onthis thread already but i hadnt stunning tank mate great set up :)

get that new one set up and get some pics on here lol

[Kev]

No worries mate. Cheers, next project almost ready to go!

Just realised, I have topped 2000 posts, blimey!

[wakeyblue]

you are the post master

takes a bow

[Kev]

lol, as if.....:D

[TerraC]

we need more piccys!! :D

[Kev]

I will see what I can do in the next day or so, but it all looks the same, just the corals being much more dense!

[jonie]

Looking good mate :D,whats happening with the new piccys?

[Kev]

Hi Jonie

I am just bone idle. I will get some upto date pics done in the next week or so, although the only change is that the softies are bigger / thicker.:)

[boshank23]

yeah but its all good saying they are bigger but we have very poor imaginations and need to see these things with our own eyes :)

[Kev]

lol. I will get some piccies. Bout time I took some shots with my new camera anyway. Maybe tomorrow if I can kill my apathy!:D

[kevo66]

Cracking Chromis that mate, looks really clean and healthy!

[Kev]

Cheers for that Kev.:)

[moorish]

your softies seem to be sprouting like weeds kev you will have to get pruned back a bit.derek

[angel1]

nice tank.:)

LILYANN:p

[Kev]

Ok. Here's a pic taken 10 minutes after lights on thismorning.

[kevo66]

fantastic Kev. I take it you have that stream on a controller and turned down abit??

[Kev]

No. It belts away non stop 24 hours per day.:D

[kevo66]

No. It belts away non stop 24 hours per day.:D

bloody hell. What model is it?

[Tetley]

Hi Kev,

It just gets better and better. :)

How is the Nano project?

ATB

[Kev]

Cheers Ian.

The nano is still empty. Decided to go back to Skye next week for some scrambling / hill walking, on me tod.

So the nano will have to wait a few more weeks.

No rush though.

The Chromis is getting better, the corals are now on top of one another, and it looks good. Still not at the point where I will start fragging them though.

Doing a 5 gallon water change today, the first for a few months.

[Tom2006]

Are you keeping it now then Kev? Still looks great!

[Kev]

Hi Tom

Nope, reluctantly, its got to go!

[Tetley]

Hi Tom

Nope, reluctantly, its got to go!

You have PM

ATB

[dollydip]

shame it has to go kev a cracking tank and lovely healthy looking corals you have done well mate

[stevieh]

yep it's a shame kev lovely tank

[Kev]

Well, its gone now, all stripped down!:mad:

Ah well, here's to the new piece of ocean!!!!!:)

Onwards!

[Tangman]

Yes and i am sure it will be as good if not better than the Chromis, its already looking good and its only been setup a couple of weeks. Twiggy:D

[Kev]

Lol. I keep turning round to look at the tank. Just a space in the room now. Old habits die hard.:D