JustinRHadley
Member
Hi, I'm new here and thought I'd start a post with updates on my 24 gallon nano cube.
Recap
I've had the tank for maybe 6 or 7 years, most of which it was a healthy running system. In the last year I was busy with work mostly and lost interest in the tank. The Compact fluorescents were in dire need of a changing, not to mention one of the fans was completely out and the other hummed loudly. I lost pretty much all of my coral except a few heads of frogspawn and mushroom coral.
Round 2
I started with a good cleaning of the tank and everything. I replaced the bulbs and fans. While the clear plastic cover was removed I used a headlight restoration kit I had laying around to make the yellow faded plastic clear once again. With the fresh water and light my clownfish and damsel started looking healthy again, along with the coral that survived. Now that the tank has been running for a Month, I tested the water and it was okay. I have now added a few frags, a few more pounds of rock, and a clean up crew to it. Hoping to get this thing looking good again!
Here is a picture after the deep clean
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Here are pictures of it after I rearranged the rock tonight (still a little cloudy and the corals are still closed). Also these pictures are with the new bulbs.
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I will post a picture tomorrow afternoon after the corals open up.
Recap
I've had the tank for maybe 6 or 7 years, most of which it was a healthy running system. In the last year I was busy with work mostly and lost interest in the tank. The Compact fluorescents were in dire need of a changing, not to mention one of the fans was completely out and the other hummed loudly. I lost pretty much all of my coral except a few heads of frogspawn and mushroom coral.
Round 2
I started with a good cleaning of the tank and everything. I replaced the bulbs and fans. While the clear plastic cover was removed I used a headlight restoration kit I had laying around to make the yellow faded plastic clear once again. With the fresh water and light my clownfish and damsel started looking healthy again, along with the coral that survived. Now that the tank has been running for a Month, I tested the water and it was okay. I have now added a few frags, a few more pounds of rock, and a clean up crew to it. Hoping to get this thing looking good again!
Here is a picture after the deep clean
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Here are pictures of it after I rearranged the rock tonight (still a little cloudy and the corals are still closed). Also these pictures are with the new bulbs.
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I will post a picture tomorrow afternoon after the corals open up.