Nanocube with Mods

[Puffy]

i got a nanocube, its not running yet, i'm building a stand for it, and i'm going to do 3 mods to it! 1)Ok, first i'm changing out the pump to a mini jet 606......2)then i'm going to block off the intake plates and make it a little overflow but dont know how, need help.........3)I am cutting out a section of the hood behind the lights above the wet/dry part, and makin that a fuge :) ok, well its going to be a FOWLR and some easy to keep mushrooms and some painters brush plant stuff..... i'm going to have like 5-10 magrita snails and 2 black and white false perculas. i'm going to by rock from our very own Liverocks.com caz i've heard great things from them and they have low prices for very high qulity rock!! i'm going to get like 15 or 20lbs from them, depending what u guys think i should get........i'm buying 30lbs of Agramax sand...and a ebo jagar 50watt heater! I'm going to have some algae in the fuge. Ok my questions are does this look good?? I have some stuff i need to ask about too...is it ok to feed Formula one small pellets as the staple with like dead zooplanton as a treat and for the shrooms and stuff?? is that agaraMilk stuff really good, or do i not need it?? for the light for the fuge i'm getting a Azoo Galaxy light....this should work fine...is there anything else i need to know about?? I got a master liquid test kit :x and some IO salt...with the lights on there 24watt PC 50/50 can i keep anything else without haveing to dose?? anyways tahnx!!! oh and how many inchs of sand will i want in my fuge in the back??

[nanoman123]

the dead zooplankton is good for shrooms, but DTs are better. anyway, sounds good! :o

[Puffy]

sweet, do u know how to do those mods?? thanx dude oh and what bout the agramilk?? do i need it, will it help any??

[nanoman123]

sorry i cant help you with the mods and ive never heard of agaromilk :( .

im very sorry and i hope you can find help from someone else

[Puffy]

thanx dude, the link for it is http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=6209&Ne=40000&R=11281&Nao=54&N=2004+113008 what ya think?? is it a POS crock lie??

[MikeS]

agaromilk....hmmm....

personally, I've never been a big fan of all-in-one "magic potions" like that...esp. with claims like "no danger of overdosing". Well, if you can't overdose it, than my guess is it probably doesn't have enough calcium, magnesium, or any of the other advertised ingredients to be of much use to your aquarium in the first place!

Mike

[Puffy]

haha yea, well what will i need to get then?? i mean calcium shouldn't be depleated to much, but i'm gettin LR from lr.com and everyone knows that has such much algae on it that the calcium goes down really bad lol hmm, i need to test for calium and what else??

[blackangler]

mag, ph and alk. i would use kalk or kent liquid calcium. and i would have a 1.5 inch sand bed in the tank and 3 inches in the fuge.

[MikeS]

well, calcium and alkalinity will need to be tested....

I'd recommend kalkwasser....but be careful, keep a real close eye on your pH levels in that small of a tank while using kalk. I'd imagine it may take a little bit of trial and error to get the proper kalk mix ratio correct. Start with very small amounts of kalk vs. makeup water, and work your way up, keeping a close eye on pH, Ca, Alk, ect.

Mike

[Puffy]

will do will the fish get affected if calcium levels aint correct?

[MikeS]

fish do not suffer much from low calcium levels. The coralline growth on your LR, as well as snails, bivalves, ect will however suffer from low calcium levels.

Mike

[Puffy]

oh ok thanx