My JBJ Nano Cube 28 LED - First reef tank

[sushi]

Here are some corals after the apocalypse. My chalices and hammer died. Zoas changed color.

[crabbysd]

What Happened?

[sushi]

I ripped out deep-rooted caulerpa from like 80% of the sand in my tank, billowing clouds of black/brown muck in the water, and poisoned my tank. Looking back, I should have just cut the leaves off and left the roots in the sand, or only pulled out 1 square inch of caulerpa a day.

[crabbysd]

I ripped out deep-rooted caulerpa from like 80% of the sand in my tank, billowing clouds of black/brown muck in the water, and poisoned my tank. Looking back, I should have just cut the leaves off and left the roots in the sand, or only pulled out 1 square inch of caulerpa a day.

Ug. I too like to think im smart. I also really like to prove myself wrong.

[sushi]

I think I am dumb but then I do a test to confirm it!

"Yep! I was right, I am dumb!"

[sushi]

[nanoreef1]

Updates???????

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[sushi]

I will take some pictures this week. But for a mental imagery preview, imagine all the nice corals died

[nanoreef1]

I will take some pictures this week. But for a mental imagery preview, imagine all the nice corals died

😟

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[sushi]

Ok I was being a little dramatic. My favia went from 2 mouths to 6, my echinata is growing like crazy, my stunner chalice doubled, but one frag of nice zoas died, and my polyp of ASD Hyper jubilee had 3 babies then all polyps died. Shrimp ate all my mushrooms except one, which shrivelled and died. Also all my xenia died, and my goniopora died.

[jetli1969]

LOL it's time to put the tank to rest. RIP!

[sushi]

LOL it's time to put the tank to rest. RIP!

Yep, it's done!! I'm just gonna dump it in the toilet!!

[crabbysd]

Did you ever upgrade the lights? Once I changed out of the cube everyting did a LOT better.

[sushi]

Did you ever upgrade the lights? Once I changed out of the cube everyting did a LOT better.

I change the lights, I wouldn't consider it an upgrade judging by how poorly the tank is doing. I think the lights are the missing factor, everything else seems great. I don't want to go topless because of evaporation, that's why I am keeping my hood, but I might research for some higher quality tried and tested DIY LED combinations that I can put into the hood myself.

[sushi]

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!